Leah Sobsey is an image maker, Associate Professor of Photography, curator and director of the
Gatewood Gallery at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Sobsey’s multidisciplinary
photographic practice reaches into science, design, installation and textile. Her photo-based
work explores the natural world through archives and taxonomies with an experimental and
materials-based approach to photography.
This Earthen Door had its world debut at PHOTOFAIRS NYC, Fall 2023. Sobsey’s recent
collaborative exhibition, In Search Of Thoreau’s Flowers, at The Harvard Museum of Natural
History, documents species loss through Henry David Thoreau’s herbarium. Her work on plant
loss is included in a forthcoming show at the Huntington Museum in California, Fall 2024. Her
books include Collections: Birds Bones and Butterflies (2016) and Bull City Summer (2013), This
Earthen Door (forthcoming Datz Press, 2024).
Sobsey has exhibited internationally, and her work is held in private and public collections
across the US, including North Carolina Museum of Art, Credit Suisse, Cassilhaus Collection,
Duke University Hospital, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft Collection, and Grand Canyon
National Park. She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Virginia
Center for the Arts, Dumbarton Oaks, Penland, The National Park system, Hambidge, Habla
Mexico. Her images have appeared in Artnews, New Yorker.com, the Paris Review Daily,
Slate.com, Hyperallergic.com, The Telegraph, Audubon and many more. Her work is
represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC.
