Bio:
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the recipient of several major fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations
and was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Soth s photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions,
including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials.
His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004; his follow up, NIAGARA, was also published by Steidl and released in 2006. Soth is represented
by Gagosian Gallery in New York, Weinstein Gallery
in Minneapolis and is an associate photographer with Magnum Photos. In 2005 Alec Soth participated in CEPA Gallery s Art Works Residency Program while working on the photogrpahy for NIAGARA.
