American, b. 1969
Resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and teaches photography at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
He received his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.

• SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

  • • Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, England): Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi. Fall (2004)
    • Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco, CA): Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi. Two-person exhibition with Larry Sultan. Summer (2004)
    • Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN): Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi. Summer (2004)
    • Yossi Milo Gallery (New York, NY): Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi. March 12-April 24 (2004)
    • Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL): Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi. October (2003).
    • Weitman Gallery of Photography (Washington University, St. Louis, MO): Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi. October (2003).
    • Central Lakes College Gallery (St. Cloud, MN): Exhibited photographs from the series Portraits (From Here to There), March (2001).
    • Minnesota Center for Photography (formerly Parts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN): Two-person exhibition of portraits with Joel Sternfeld, June (1998).
    • Icebox Gallery (Minneapolis, MN): Photographs from the At the Bar series, (1995-96).
    • Minneapolis Photographer's Gallery (Minneapolis, MN): Two-person exhibition of photographs from the series, The Middle Night, (1993).

• SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • • Sao Paulo Biennial (Sao Paulo, Brazil), September 25 to December 19, 2004
    • Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran, Iran), Group Photography Exhibition, Date TBA
    • John Stinson Fine Arts (New Orleans, LA), Picturing Bill - Portraits of William Eggleston, October, 2003
    • Alice Austen House Museum (Staten Island, NY), Summer Life, August, 2003.
    • Gallery T (Minneapolis, MN), Dog Days, August, 2003.
    • Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Group Exhibition, January, 2003.
    • Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Photographs from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, exhibited as part of the 2001-2002 Jerome Fellowship exhibition, November, 2002.
    • Carleton College Art Gallery (Northfield, MN), Campus as Place, Photographing Carleton, February 2002
    • Weinstein Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Group Exhibition , January, 2002.
    • Katherine Nash Gallery (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN), Exhibited photographs from the series Portraits (From Here to There), as part of the McKnight Fellows Exhibition, September 2000. (This exhibition also traveled to Winona State Universtiy in November, and Bemidji State University in December.)

• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • • The New York Times, "Touching All Bases At the Biennial", March 12, 2004, Kimmelman, Michael.
    • The Village Voice, Voice Choices, March 10-16, 2004, Aletti, Vince.
    • The Village Voice, Voice Choices, Fall Arts Preview, September 10-16, 2003, Aletti, Vince.
    • City Pages, "One of the Great Ones," September 10, 2003, Fallon, Michael.
    • Museum of Contemporary Photography publication, "Alec Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi," October, 2003, Irvine, Karen.
    • Photo District News, "Alec Soth wins Santa Fe Prize," August, 2003, DeFoore, Jay.
    • Santa Fe Center for Photography, 2003 Award Winners Publication, Cover and 7 color photographs by Alec Soth. (inserted into Camera Arts Magazine, August/September 2003)
    • Vantage Points: Campus as Place, 2002, photographs by Alec Soth, Beth Dow, Chris Faust, Cover image and 12 color plates by Alec Soth, Carleton College Press, Northfield, Minnesota.
    • Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Fellow Travelers, Six Photographers," Sept. 15, 2000, Abbe, Mary.
    • Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Photo Exhibits display spiritual musings," June 19, 1998, Abbe, Mary.
    • Linked to the Future: Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1997, 6 b/w plates by Alec Soth, Towery Publishing, Inc. Memphis, TN.

• FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES

  • • Santa Fe Prize for Photography, 2003.
    • MCAD / Jerome Fellowship, 2001.
    • Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, 2001.
    • Jerome Travel and Study Grant, 2001.
    • McKnight Photography Fellowship recipient, 1999.

• COLLECTIONS

  • • Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
    • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
    • LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
    • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
    • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
    • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
    • Odged Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
    • Carleton College, Northfield, MN
    • North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND