Leah Sobsey is an award-winning artist and Associate Professor of Photography at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her multidisciplinary photographic practice reaches into the fields of science, design, and installation. Specializing in plant-based printing techniques, her experimental photo-based work explores the natural world through archives and taxonomies.

Recent solo exhibitions include This Earthen Door at the Brandywine Museum of Art, AIPAD NY 2025 and 2026, Rick Wester Fine Art NY, Galerie XII Los Angeles, The Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St Louis, The Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Gregg Museum and group shows at The Cummer Museum, Chateau Des Jon Cheretes, France, Paris Photo with Datz Press, the Huntington Museum CA, and Datz Press Seoul Korea. in the Fall of 2025, Sobsey was appointed as the inaugural artist in residence at the Plant Science Initiative at North Carolina State University where she collaborated with researchers to create three site specific pieces that marry groundbreaking plant research and art. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include, Traywick Contemporary Berkeley, CA, Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee, AIPAD NY with Rick Wester Fine Art.

Her monographs include This Earthen Door- Datz Press, 2024. Collections: Birds Bones and Butterflies, 2016, and Bull City Summer, 2013.

Sobsey has exhibited internationally, and her photographs and books are held in private and public collections across the US, including the Brandywine Museum of Art, the Huntington Library, The Getty Research Institute, The Hunt Botanical Library, Harvard University’s Houghton Library, North Carolina Museum of Art, Credit Suisse, Cassilhaus Collection, Duke University Hospital, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft Collection and many more. She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Virginia Center for the Arts, Dumbarton Oaks, Penland, The National Park system, Hambidge, and Habla Mexico.

Her work has been published and featured in Artnews, New Yorker.com, the Paris Review Daily, Slate.com, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Harper’s Magazine, Hyperallergic.com, The Telegraph, The Marginalian, Audubon, Lenscratch, and Lensculture.

This Earthen Door is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC.