CV
Leah Sobsey
Represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC
ljsobsey@uncg.edu
leah@leahsobsey.com
LEA-studios.com
visualhistorycollaborative.com
Full Professor of Art
Photography Area Coordinator
Gatewood Gallery Director (XXXX-XXXX)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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2026
Forthcoming – Horace Williams House, Click Photography Festival, The Blue of Distance, Cyanotype Exhibition, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2026
Forthcoming – Traywick Contemporary, This Earthen Door, Berkeley, CA, May 2026
Forthcoming – Staniar Gallery, This Earthen Door and The Blue of Distance, Cyanotype Exhibition, Washington and Lee University, April 2026
Forthcoming – AIPAD with Rick Wester Fine Art at The Park Avenue Armory, This Earthen Door, NYC, NY, April 2026
Galerie IIX, This Earthen Door, Los Angeles, CA, January – April 2026
2025
Plant Science Initiative, Artist in Residence, Rooted in Light, NC State University, November 2025
The Gregg Museum, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, The Blue of Distance, Raleigh, NC, September 2025 –
Emily Dickinson International Society Wenshen Conference, This Earthen Door – Dickinson and Ecologies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2025
Brandywine Museum of Art, This Earthen Door, Chadds Ford, PA, May 2025 – October 2025
Rick Wester Fine Art, This Earthen Door, Herbarium & Chromotaxia, NYC, May 2025
AIPAD Solo Booth, with Rick Wester Fine Art, This Earthen Door, NYC, April 2025
2024
North Carolina Museum of Art, Collections, permanent collection of works on display, Raleigh, NC, May 1, 2024 – September 1, 2024
Harvard Museum of Natural History, In search of Thoreau’s Flowers; An Exploration of Change and Los, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 14, 2022 – May 30, 2024
The Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Gardens, This Earthen Door, St. Louis, MO, November 1, 2023 – March 2024
2023
Photofairs NYC, with Rick Wester Fine Art Gallery, This Earthen Door, NYC, September 8, 2023 – September 11, 2023
Greensboro Project Space (GPS), whose eyes I have, with Linda Belans and Adam Sobsey, Greensboro, NC, February 14, 2023 – March 4, 2023
2022
Harvard Museum of Natural History, In search of Thoreau’s Flowers; An Exploration of Change and Loss, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2022 Through May 2024
2021
Duke Raleigh Hospital, Swarm, exhibition and installation acquired by Duke Raleigh Hospital for permanent installation, Raleigh, NC, 2021 –
Southeast Museum of Photography, Tintypes: A Community Portrait, Daytona Beach, FL, August 2021
21C Museum Hotel, Instagram takeover, Digital artist check in Durham, NC, April 23rd, 2021
2019
Pink Dog Gallery, Time, Memory, Lineage, Asheville, NC, April 5, 2019 – May 4 -2019
Raleigh Convention Center, The Swarm, permanent installation, Raleigh, NC, installed September 29, 2019
International Center for Photography, Collections, New York, NY, April 18, 2019
2018
Greenhill Gallery, Community Foundation of Greensboro, Curated by Elizabeth Harry, Greensboro, NC
Center for Fine Arts Photography, Curated by Hamidah Glasgow, Fort Collins, CO
Cassilhaus, Tintypes: A Community Portrait, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2018
Triangle Community Foundation, Tintypes: A Community Portrait, Durham, NC, August 1, 2018 – February 15, 2019
2017
Praxis Gallery, The Portrait, Minneapolis, MN
Anchorlight, Tintypes: A Community Portrait, Raleigh, NC
The Photography Show, AIPAD, New York, NY
2016
21C Museum Hotel, Collections, Durham, NC
Rayko Photo Gallery, Collections, San Francisco, CA
Carrack Modern Art, The Accidental Self, Durham, NC
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2026
The Cummer Museum, Art in Bloom, Jacksonville, FL, February 13 – September 13, 2026
Chateau des Joncherets, with Verite Fine Art, This Earthen Door, France, January 2026
Traywick Contemporary, Here and Now, Berkeley, CA, January 2026
2025
Moss Gallery, Curated by Jocelyn Lee, The Haunted, Exhibition companion to The Haunted – Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England, Portland, ME, October 17 – November 29, 2025
Candela Gallery, Science Girl Party, September 2025
Daegu Arts Gallery Center, 10th Daegu Photo Biennale, Gallery 10, The Pulse of Life,featuring This Earthen Door, Daegu, South Korea, September 18 – November 16, 2025
House of Shinsegae, Datz Press, and Imogen Cunningham Exhibition, Seoul, Korea, August 8 – October 8, 2025
The Blue Room, Women of Datz, showing This Earthen Door, Rockland, ME, August 1, 2025
Candela Gallery, Unbound 14, This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium, Book, Richmond, VA, July 2025
Moss Gallery, This Earthen Door, Portland, ME, July 2025
Seoul International Book Fair, This Earthen Door, Seoul, Korea, June 18 – June 22, 2025
Datz Press, One For the Books, This Earthen Door, Seoul, Korea, Curated by Sangyon Joo, April 18 – July 31, 2025
Emily Dickinson International Society Wenshen Conference, This Earthen Door – Dickinson and Ecologies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2025
Filter Photo, This Earthen Door, Summer 2025
2024
Rick Wester Fine Art, FusionFlareHeat, NYC, NY, November 7, 2024 – December 21, 2024
Paris Photo, with Datz Press, This Earthen Door, Paris, France, November 7, 2024 – November 10, 2024
Horace Williams House, Home and Away, Chapel Hill, NC, October 6, 2024 – November 24, 2024
Huntington Art Museum, Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of our Climate Crisis, Pasadena, CA, September 14, 2024 – January 6, 2025
Center for Photographic Art, 8x10 Exhibition, Carmel, CA, September 12, 2024 – October 1, 2024
The Block Gallery, Anything but Still: The Echoing Green, Raleigh, NC, September 11, 2024 – November 23, 2024
D’ark Room Gallery, New Insights Into Artist’s Books, Seoul, South Korea, August 2024
San Francisco Art Book Fair, Datz Press, This Earthen Door, San Francisco, CA, July 18, 2024 – July 21, 2024
Rick Wester Fine Art, Invincible Summer, NYC, NY, January 6, 2024 – February 10, 2024
2023
Frank Gallery, Frank in Focus, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2, 2023 – October 30, 2023
Center for Photographic Art, 8x10 Exhibition, Carmel, CA, September 7, 2023 – September 26, 2023
Candela Gallery, Unbound 12, Richmond, VA, July 2023 – August 2023
Pop Box Gallery, UpstART Gallery, Durham, NC, June 2, 2023 – July 1, 2023
2022
Greensboro Project Space (GPS), The Accidental Self, with Linda Belans and Adam Sobsey, Greensboro, NC, 2022
Center for Photographic Art, 8x10 Exhibition, Carmel, CA, 2022
Cassilhaus, Visage: Face with a View, Curated by Frank Konhaus from the Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC, February 13, 2022 – May 8, 2022
Atrium, Hambidge Auction Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, August 27, 2022 – September 10, 2022
2021
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Art on Paper, Curated by Emily Stamey, Greensboro, NC, 2021
New York Center for Photography, Primary Colors, Juror: Ann Jastrab, NYC, NY, 2021
The Umstead Gallery, Branching Out, With Artsuite – Curated by Marjorie Hodges, Cary, NC, May 15, 2021 – August 15, 2021
Horace Williams House, The Committee, Chapel Hill, NC, 2021
Diverseworks, Luck of the Draw, Houston, TX, 2021
Artsuite, Artsuite Holiday Exhibit, Raleigh, NC, December 5, 2021
Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (CAM), Themes of Wood, Raleigh, NC, March 20, 2021 – August 20, 2021
New York Center for Photographic Art, Selections, NYC, NY, February 21, 2021 – March 12, 2021
2020
Oneoneone Gallery, Threshold, Chapel Hill, NC, August 2020 – December 2020
Center for Photographic Art, Winter Blues: Contemporary Cyanotypes, Curated by Ann Jastrab, Chapel Hill, NC, February 28, 2020 – June 5, 2020
In partnership with For Freedoms, The Lawn Sign Project, MLK Memorial Park, Raleigh, NC, 2019 – 2020
2019
In partnership with For Freedoms, The Lawn Sign Project, MLK Memorial Park, Raleigh, NC, 2019 – 2022
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Faculty Biennial, Greensboro, NC, 2019
Credit Suisse, New Collections, Raleigh, NC, 2019
Credit Suisse, Nest, Raleigh, NC, May 2019
Kitab International Book Festival/Exhibition, Collections, Delhi, India, September 2019
The Library Project Gallery, After the Landscape, Dublin, Ireland, May 29, 2019 – June 4, 2019
Houston Community Foundation, Living Legacy, Houston, TX, March 4, 2019 – March 4, 2022
2018
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Gallery, Abstraction, Selected by Juror Paula Tongrarelli – Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA, November 29, 2018 – June 13, 2019
Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Swarm, Curated by Meggin Hicklin, Blacksburg, VA, October 1, 2018 – December 28, 2018
The Nasher Museum of Art, Across County Lines, Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont, Curated by Marshall Price, Durham, NC, October 19, 2018 – February 10, 2019
The Carrack Modern Art, Anti-Nostalgia, Curated by Elin O’Hara Slavick, Durham, NC, October 4, 2018 – October 24, 2018
City of Durham, NC Public Art Project/Installation, The Fence Project, Durham, NC, August 1, 2018 – January 29, 2019
Bloc2, The Wild, Curated by Stacy Bloom Rexrode, Raleigh, NC, July 1, 2018 – February 20, 2019
Greensboro Community Foundation, Nest, Greensboro, NC, March 2019 – June 2019
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2024
This Earthen Door | A collaborative photographic project about Emily Dickinson and her herbarium/garden with artist Amanda Marchand. Book and museum installation.
2020 - 2022
LEA Wearable Art Project, with Collaborators Emily Meinke and Ann Schroth
Ongoing – Harvard Museum of Natural, Thoreau’s Woods
Harvard University, with Emily Meineke – Harvard Researcher, Marsha Gordon – Film-maker, Robin Vuchnich – Graphic Designer
2019
Ongoing – For Freedoms Project, created by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman | For Freedoms is an artist-run platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artist in the United States.
2017
Click! Photography Festival, PIC grant award, with Tim Telkamp | Created tintypes in a mobile unit to bring community together.
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2027
Forthcoming – The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Plant Humanities by Maura C. Flannery, featuring work from In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers
Bloomsbury Publishing, 20272026
Forthcoming – Conjecturing a Climate: Reading Dickinson at the End of the World
University of Virginia Press, 20262025
The Haunted – Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England
Speedwell Press, 20252024
This Earthen Door, with Amanda Marchand
Datz Press Summer, 2024
This Earthen Door, a collaborative photography project between Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, reinterprets Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, a press plant sampler made as a teenager. A renowned and beloved American poet, Dickinson was better known as a gardener during her lifetime. Using digital film and the anthotype printing process, the artists have reimagined the original herbarium (housed by Harvard University) in the language of our time. First Edition, 100 copies, 2024, 21 x 27 cm, 128 pages, Hardcover, Swiss binding, ISBN 978-89-97605-62-0
https://www.store.datzpress.kr/publications/2024-this-earthen-doorIn Search of Thoreau’s Flowers
Arnoldia Magazine, Special Issue, Collections, Extinction, Abundance, VOL 81-2, 2024, Harvard University,
https://arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/collections-extinction-abundance2019
Nest, Terms of Surrender, His Golden Messenger
CD Cover Art for Internationally Distributed CD, 20192018
Collections
The Royal Society Publishing, Biological Collections for Understanding Biodiversity in The Anthropocene, Volume 374, Issue 1763, London, UK, November 19, 20182016
Collections, Leah Sobsey
Daylight Books, 128-page monograph of photographs and installations created from specimens from the collections of the US National Park Service Museums, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and North Carolina State University Insect Museum, 20162014
Bull City Summer
Daylight Books, collaborative photography and writing project documenting a season at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Artists include: Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Alec Soth, Hiroshi Watanabe, Jeff Whetstone, and Hank Willis Thomas, 2014 -
2023
Frankfurter Allgemeine, “ART FAIR THE ARMORY SHOW: This is how history is continued in New York,” September 2023
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunstmarkt/the-armory-show-in-new-york-hier-wird-geschichte-fortgeschrieben-19160847.html2016
Amateur Photographer, Leah Sobsey: capturing collections from America’s national parks, July 15, 2016
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/technique/interviews/leah-sobsey-capturing-collections-americas-national-parks-800222014
Fisheye, no. 6, pp. 8-9, 33-34, May 14, 2014
L’oeil de la photographie, Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ball Park, April 14, 2014
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2014/04/14/article/24657/bull-city-summer-a-season-at-the-ball-park/ -
2026
Harper’s Magazine, Findings: This Earthen Door, February issue, 2026
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/02/findings-february-2026-rafil-kroll-zaidi/2025
Herbarium World, The Blue of Distance, December 2025
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/botany-and-art-thoreau/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Arts & Culture, How poison ivy from a Chester County nature preserve ended up on the walls of a museum, By Julia Shipley, For the Inquirer, August 16, 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/arts/brandywine-museum-conservancy-plant- art-exhibit-20250816.htmlNC Plant Sciences Initiative, Education News, Plants in Focus, By Dee Shore, August 13, 2025
https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/news/plants-in-focus/The Flora Journal, International, ‘This Earthen Door’: reviving Emily Dickinson’s botanical vision through art and science, By Julia Shipley, For the Inquirer, August 11, 2025
https://theflorajournal.international/2025/08/11/this-earthen-door-reviving-emily-dickinsons-botanical-vision-through-art-and-science/Washington Post, Op-ed feature, We re-created a 200-year-old garden. This is what we learned., August 5, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/art-plants- emily-dickinson-preservation/Collector Daily, “Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey, Herbarium & Chromotaxia: Selections from This Earthen Door opens @Rick Wester”, by Loring Knoblauch, June 13, 2025
https://collectordaily.com/amanda-marchand-leah-sobsey-herbarium-chromotaxia-selections-from-this-earthen-door-rick-wester/What Will You Remember, “A New York Minute: What Makes It Great?”, By Elin Spring, June 11, 2025
https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/new-york-city-photography-exhibits-at-robert-mann-yancey-richardson-rick-wester-howard-greenberg-metropolitan-museum-of-art/ArtDaily, Brandywine presents “This Earthen Door: Nature as Muse and Material”, May 24, 2025
https://artdaily.com/news/182203/Brandywine-presents--This-Earthen-Door--Nature-as-Muse-and-Material-Fine Books & Collections, Photo-Based Work Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s Garden on View, April 9, 2025
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/photo-based-work-inspired-emily-dickinsons-garden-viewArtDaily, “Amanda MARCHAND & Leah SOBSEY:Herbarium & Chromotaxia: Selections from This Earthen Door opens at Rick Wester Fine Art”, April 19, 2025
https://artdaily.com/news/180842/This-Earthen-Door--Amanda-Marchand-and-Leah-Sobsey-exhibit-at-Rick-Wester-Fine-ArtF-Stop Magazine, Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey @ Rick Wester Fine Art, March 4, 2025
https://www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2025/amanda-marchand-and-leah-sobsey-rick-wester-fine-art/New Jersey Lifestyle Magazine, Spring 2025, “Lifestyle Art: POETRY IN BLOOM”, By Michael Cagno, February 18, 2025
https://issuu.com/njlifestylemag/docs/nj_lifestyle_magazine_spring_2025/46The Eye of Photography, Rick Wester Fine Art: Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey: Herbarium & Chromotaxia: Selections from This Earthen Door, 2025
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/rick-wester-fine-art-amanda-marchand-leah-sobsey-this-earthen-door/2024
LENSCRATCH, Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey: Art + Science Competition First Place Winners, by Linda Alterwitz, December 16, 2024
https://lenscratch.com/2024/12/amanda-marchand-and-leah-sobsey-art-science-competition-first-place-winners/photo-eye, “This Earthen Door: Reviewed,” by Cheryl Van Hooven, October 28, 2024
https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/10/this-earthen-door-reviewed-by-cheryl.htmlLENSCRATCH, Leah Sobsey and Amanda Marchand: This Earthen Door, October 21, 2024, Review by Smithson, A.
https://lenscratch.com/2024/10/leah-sobsey-and-amanda-marchand-this-earthen-door/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_10_4_2023_17_28_COPY_01)&mc_cid=a0a7a301ee&mc_eid=8b9b0201f6LensCulture, This Earthen Door – Sublime Anthotypes, Preserved Plants & Poetry,Review by Janelle Lynch, October 2024
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/amanda-marchand-and-leah-sobsey-this-earthen-door-sublime-anthotypes-preserved-plants-poetryMarginalian, The Science and Poetry of Anthotypes: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium, by Maria Popova, January 2024
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/09/this-earthen-door-anthotype/Arnoldia, Collections, Extinction, Abundance, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, VOL 80-2, 2024
https://arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/colletions-extinction-abundance2023
Saint Louis Community News, December 2, 2023
Saint Louis Post, Exhibit at MoBot shows photographs made entirely from plants, by Daniel Neman, November 10, 2023
https://www.stltoday.com/life-entertainment/local/exhibit-at-mobot-shows-photographs-made-entirely-from-plants/article_34af55fe-7823-11ee-b2b2-4b14c311d43c.htmlARTnews, Q&A with Photofairs Founder Scott Gray, by Karen K. Ho, September 2023
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/interview-photofairs-founder-scott-gray-1234678515/What Will You Remember, Inspiration at Photofairs NYC, by Elin Spring, September 2023
https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/inspiration-at-photofairs-new-york/Fine Books & Collections Magazine, Autumn 2023
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/autumn-2023White Hot Magazine, April 2025: “The Best Art in the World,” Photofairs 2023 Triumphantly Debuts in New York, by J. Scott Orr, September 2023
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/triumphant-debut-in-new-york/5963NC Literary Review, 2023
2022
Thoreau’s Flowers, 2022 - Present
https://thoreausflowers.comThe Boston Globe, June 2022
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/29/arts/search-thoreaus-flowers-examines-famous-author-citizen-scientist/Harvard Gazette, Thoreau’s flowers shine light on climate change, by Bethany Carland-Adams, HMSC Communications, May 24, 2022
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/thoreau-floral-collection-inspires-new-exhibition/2021
Duke Raleigh Hospital, August 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4TQQxJL6j0Duke Forest Journal, Artist Leah Sobsey Finds Inspiration and Documents Natural History in the Forest, September 13, 2021
https://dukeforest.duke.edu/2021/09/13/artist-leah-sobsey-finds-inspiration-and-creates-natural-history-in-the-forest/Walter Magazine, The Whirl: Branching Out, June 2021
https://waltermagazine.com/events/the-whirl-branching-out/2020
Stir World International Magazine, UV Light Connect Between Art of Photography and Science of Robots, Review of Swarm by Bhullar, D., August 26, 2020
https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-uv-light-connect-between-art-of-photography-and-science-of-robotsLENSCRATCH, Winter Blues: Contemporary Cyanotypes at the Center for Photographic Art, March 14, 2020, Review by Smithson, A.
http://lenscratch.com/202/03/winter-blues-contemporary-cyanotypes-at-the-center-for-photographic-art/Don’t Take Pictures (Magazine), Winter Blues: Contemporary Cyanotypes, Review by Kiernan, K., March 25, 2020
https://www.donttakepicture.comCarmel Pine Cone (Newspaper), Winter Blues, Review by Counts, C., March 13, 2020
http://pineconearchive.fileburstcdn.com/200313PCA.pdf2019
The Mountain Express (Newspaper), Pink Dog Creative launches “Time, Memory and Lineage” April 5, Press Release, February 20, 2019
https://mountainx.com/blogwire/pink-dog-creative-launches-time-memory-and-lineage-april-5/2018
The Phoblographer, Leah Sobsey and Time Telkamp on Creating Tintype Community Portraits, Review by Asto, J., October 23, 2018
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/10/23/leah-sobsey-and-tim-telkamp-on-creative-tintype-community-portraits/The Roanoke Star (Newspaper), From Insects to Birds, Planes to Drones, Swarms are The Subject of Moss Arts Center’s Newest Exhibitions, Review of Swarm, October 17, 2018
http://theroanokestar.com/2018/10/17/from-insects-to-birds-planes-to-drones-swarms-are-the-subject-of-moss-arts-centers-newest-exhibitions/Virginia Tech Daily, From Insects to Birds, Planes to Drones, Swarms are The Subject of Moss Arts Center’s Newest Exhibitions, Review of Swarm by Bland, S., October 15, 2018
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2018/10/mac-swarmexhibition.html? fbclid=IwAR0fmT8B8dmQYCTvNfcipIOvp5eA_k-oJ3fWaoLk-29mqXsNKr8PEcji9b8LensCulture, Tintypes: A Community Portrait, Review, 2018
2017
LENSCRATCH, Leah Sobsey: The States Project: North Carolina, by Angela Frank Wells, November 17, 2017
http://lenscratch.com/2017/11/leah-sobsey-the-states-project-north-carolina/The Carolinian, Professor Spotlight: Leah Sobsey, by Curtis Hoffman, October 4, 2017
https://carolinianuncg.com/2017/10/04/professor-spotlight-leah-sobsey/2016
Audubon, Why National Parks Are Actually Secret Museums, by Sabrina Imbler, August 3, 2016
http://audubon.org/news/why-national-parks-are-actually-secret-museumsCrave Online (now Mandatory), Photographer Leah Sobsey Discovers Life After Death, by Miss Rosen, August 21, 2016
https://www.mandatory.com/living/1022853-photographer-leah-sobsey-discovers-life-death/Slate, The Birds, Bones, and Other Beautiful Specimens in Museum and National Park Collections, By Jordan G. Teicher, September 16, 2016
https://slate.com/culture/2016/09/leah-sobsey-photographs-the-collections-of-national-park-museums-in-her-book-collections.htmlAll About Photo, Leah Sobsey: Collections: Birds Bones Butter, by Ann Jastrab, January 10, 2016
https://www.all-about-photo.com/photo-articles/photo-article.php?title=leah-sobsey&id=147Art Fix Daily, Leah Sobsey Photogaphs the Collections of America’s National Park Museums in New Book, March 29, 2016
http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6986-leah-sobsey-photographs-collections-of-americas-national-park-musHyperallergic, Photographs of the Birds and Bones in US National Park Collections, by Allison Meier, July 13, 2016
https://hyperallergic.com/304776/photographs-of-the-birds-and-bones-in-us-national-park-collections/Musée Magazine, Book Review: Leah Sobsey, “Collections: Birds, Bones and Butterflies,” June 17, 2016
https://museemagazine.com/culture/2016/6/16/book-review-leah-sobsey-collections-birds-bones-and-butterfliesPDN Blog, March 22, 2016
Daily Publishing (now Daylight Books), Leah Sobsey: Collections, Spring 2016 Book Release, July 2016
https://daylightbooks.org/blogs/news/leah-sobsey-collectionsWalter Magazine, Striking: Bull City Summer comes to Raleigh, by Miss Rosen, August 21, 2016
https://waltermagazine.com/art-and-culture/striking-bull-city-summer-comes-to-raleigh/2014
The New Yorker, Photo Booth (Blog), Sam Stephenson’s Bull City Summer, by Jackson Krule, August 13, 2014
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/sam-stephensons-bull-city-summerMother Jones, “Bull City Summer”: Incredible Photos From a Year Embedded With a Minor League Club, by Ian Gordon, August 31, 2014
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/08/bull-city-summer-minor-league-baseball/The Paris Review, Bull City Redux, by Nicole Rudick, March 20, 2014
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/03/20/bull-city-redux/Slate, Capturing the Quiet Beauty of Baseball, by Jordan G. Teicher, March 4, 2014
https://slate.com/culture/2014/03/bull-city-summer-documents-a-season-at-the-ballpark-with-the-durham-bulls-photos.html2013
The Paris Review, When Winning Is Everything, by Adam Sobsey, July 24, 2013
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/07/24/when-winning-is-everything/ -
2022
Sample-Studios Podcast, Shadow Forests Exhibition – Deep Time, Climate Change and the Life and Death of Forests, Cork, Ireland, 2022
Fox News, IOB Segment, November 4, 2022
Harvard Museum of Natural History, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Art + Science Conversation with Biologist Emily Meineke & Artists Robin Vuchnich & Leah Sobsey, April 6, 2022
2021
The Chris or Jenny Show, 2021
2020
The Wise Fool, International Podcast, September 15, 2020
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2025
Artist in Residence, Plant Science Initiative, NC State University, November 2025
Gregg Museum of Art, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, September 2025
2024
Winter Residency, Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC, 2024
2023
Winter Residency, Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC, 2023
2022
Virtual Residency, Ayatana’s Biophilium, Quebec, Canada, 2022
VCCA, Amherst, VA, 2022
Mother’s Milk, Newton, KS, 2022
Penland Schol of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC, 2022
2021
Dumbarton Oaks, Virtual Residency: Plant Humanities, A Harvard Affiliate, Washington, DC, June 14, 2021 – June 24, 2021
VCCA, Amherst, VA, 2021
Mother’s Milk, Newton, KS, postponed to Summer 2022 due to COVID
Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC, 2021
2020
Hambidge Center for Art and Science, Rabun, GA, 2020
Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC, 2020
2019
Hambidge Center for Art and Science, Rabun, GA, 2019
Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC, 2019
2018
Hewnoaks Artist Residency, with stipend, Lovell, Maine, 2018
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2025
UNCG Drif Award, awarded for: This Earthen Door – Dickinson and Ecologies, for the Emily Dickinson International Society Wenshen Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2025
2024
LENSCRATCH, first place winner of the ART and Science Award, December 2024
UNCG International Travel Fund grant to present at Paris Photo, France, November 2024
UNCG Kohler award for travel to present at Paris Photo, France, November 2024
UNCG Drif Award, awarded for: Presentation at Paris Photo, France, November 2024
UNCG URSCO Funding for CVPA Pollinator Garden/Lab/Eco Research, October 2024
Photo-eye, Best Books of 2024 Award, October 2024
2023
UNCG Drif Award, awarded for: travel to Korea for Datz This Earthen Door project, October 2023
UNCG URSCO Funding for CVPA Pollinator Garden/Lab/Eco Research, April 2023
2022
UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award, November 2022
UNCG URSCO Funding for CVPA Pollinator Garden/Lab/Eco Research, 2022
2021
UNCG Faculty First Award, 2021
UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award, 2021
Nominated for University Research Excellence Award, 2020
2020
UNCG Early Career Undergraduate Research Mentor, College of Visual and Performing Arts, 2020
UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award, 2020
2019
Melon Fund Award, 2019
UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award, 2019
2018
UNCG Diversity Initiatives Grant, 2018
UNCG Kohler Award, 2018
UNCG Globally Engaged Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award, 2018
UNCG CVPA Dean’s Research/Creative Initiative Funds Award, 2018
Triangle Community Jury Award with Honoraria, Durham, NC, 2018
Society for Photographic Education Conference Presenter, Penland, NC, 2018
UNCG New Faculty Research Grant, 2018
CVPA Diversity Initiatives Mini-Grant, 2018
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2023
Portfolio Reviewer, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, April 2023
2022
Portfolio Reviewer/Juror, Click! Photography Festival, Durham, NC, October 2022
2021
Juror, NC Arts Council, Eastern NC Artist Support Grant, reviewed work by over 100 artists for the 10,000, virtual due to COVID, NC, 2021
Judge, NC Arts Council Grant Award, Eastern North Carolina Region, November 17, 2021 – Present
Judge, Click! Photography Festival, NC, October 15, 2021 – Present
Portfolio Reviewer, Click! Photography Festival, International Review, virtual due to COVID, Durham, NC, May 2021
2020
Portfolio Reviewer, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 2020, rescheduled due to COVID
Portfolio Reviewer, Click! Photography Festival, International Review, Alternative Process, virtual due to COVID, Durham, NC, October 2020
2018
Judge, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, April 14, 2018 – Present
2017
Juror, Durham Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant, Durham, NC, 2017
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2025
Curator, Gatewood Galley, 2025 BFA Senior Exhibition, May 2, 2025 – May 9, 2025
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Where Things Land, Nicole Santiago, March 25, 2025, April 21, 2025
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, 'hinter,land, Sherill Roland, January 27, 2025 – March 7, 2025
2024
Curator, Horrace Williams Gallery, Gadisse Lee, November 2024
Curator, Horrace Williams Gallery, Paula Damasceno, January 2024
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, An Island for an Exiled, Paul Damasceno, December 9, 2024 – December 22, 2024, January 6, 2025 – January 22, 2025
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, blue, Heather Evans Smith, October 18, 2024 – December 3, 2024
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, How Do You Know If Fish Are Happy, Jan-Ru Wan, September 5, 2024 – October 8, 2024
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, 2024 BFA Senior Exhibition, April 25, 2024 – May 3, 2024
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Interwoven Narratives: Caul and Response, Sachi Rome & Tokie Rome-Taylor, March 20, 2024 – April 20, 2024
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, I Remember, Elizabeth Stone, February 7, 2024 – March 15, 2024
Curator, Cassilhaus Exhibition, ATE, With ART 487 Class, From the Cassilhaus Collection, November 3, 2023 – January 31, 2024
2023
Curator, Cassilhaus Exhibition, ATE, With ART 487 Class, From the Cassilhaus Collection, November 3, 2023 – January 31, 2024
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Greetings From Williamsburg, Brian Kreydatus, October 2, 2023 – October 27, 2023
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Not A Drill, Sarah Sudhoff, August 21, 2023 – September 24, 2023
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, 2023 BFA Senior Exhibition, April 28, 2023 – May 5, 2023
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, The Rock In The Storm, Dawn Surratt, March 2, 2023 – March 29, 2023
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Both Things Are True, William Paul Thomas, January 26, 2023 – February 26, 2023
Committee Member, Curator, Juror, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC, January 2023 – Present
2022
Curator, Horrace Williams House, in partnership with Click! Photography Festival, Kennedi Carter: Notes From a Rodeo: Ridin’ Sucka Free Revisited, Kennedi Carter, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, BFA Exhibition, 2022
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Careworn/Carefree, Kaylan Buteyn, October 1, 2022 – October 26, 2022
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Remains, Jim Lee, April 4, 2022 – April 26, 2022
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Ritual Remix, Donté K. Hayes – Falk Visiting Artist, March 1, 2022, March 28, 2022
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, 20 Years Near UNCG, Stoel Burrowes, February 2022
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Sequels, Adam Carlin, performances by Caitlyn Schrader and K.T. Williams, January 2022
2021
Curator, Horace Williams House, Heather Evans Smith Exhibition, Heather Evans Smith, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2021
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Standing on Love (A Component of Serving Life: Revisioning Justice), with Hidden Voices, November 1, 2021 – December 1, 2021
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Andrew Havenhand, Andrew Havenhand, October 1, 2021 – October 28, 2021
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Kennedi Carter: Ridin’ Sucka Free, Kennedi Carter, September 3, 2021 – September 22, 2021
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Flora[Fem]Fauna, Jenny Eggleston, Kiki Farish, Holly Fischer, Stacy Bloom Rexrode, April 5, 2021 – May 10, 2021
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Time Pieces, Mark Dixon, March 6, 2021 – March 24, 2021
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, Anthony Patterson, Anthony Patterson, February 1, 2021 – February 24, 2021
2019
Curator, For Freedoms Exhibition, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Curator, PhotoIreland Photography Festival, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland, 2019
Curator, Horace Williams Gallery Exhibition, Growing Together, Marthana Yater, Chapel Hill, NC, 2019
2018
Curator, Horace Williams Gallery Exhibition, Titus Brooks Heagins, Chapel Hill, NC, 2018
Curator, Horace Williams Gallery, Songs of the South!, Titus Brooks Heagins, Chapel Hill, NC, October 7, 2018 – November 25, 2018
Curator, Horace Williams House Exhibition, Jim Lee, Chapel Hill, NC, 2018
Curator, GPS, 485 Exhibition, Greensboro, NC, 2018
Curator, For Freedoms Exhibition, Greensboro, NC, 2018
2017
Curator, GPS, 485 Exhibition, Greensboro, NC, 2017
Curator, Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 2017
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2026
Forthcoming – The Emily Dickinson Museum, This Earthen Door, Amherst, MA, Summer 2026
Forthcoming – The Boston Athenaeum, This Earthen Door, Boston, MA, June 2026
Forthcoming – Traywick Contemporary, This Earthen Door, Berkeley, CA, May 2026
Forthcoming – Washington and Lee University, Artist Talk, Stanair Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, May 2026
Forthcoming – Duke Gardens, This Earthen Door, Durham, NC, February 2026
Galerie XII, This Earthen Door in Conversation with Karla Neilsen – Curator at the Huntington Museum, CA, January 31, 2026
2025
Daegu Arts Gallery Center, 10th Daegu Photo Biennale, This Earthen Door, Book Talk and Signing, Daegu, South Korea, September 19, 2025
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, Artist Talk, Raleigh, NC, September 10, 2025
AIPAD Talks: Depth of Field, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk with Amanda Marchand, in Conversation with Rick Wester (Virtual), September 10, 2025
Brandywine Museum of Art, This Earthen Door: Nature as Muse and Material, Artist Talk, Chadds Ford, PA, May 20, 2025 [Virtual Program] and August 28, 2025 [Gallery Talk]
Rick Wester Fine Art, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk, NYC, NY, May 17, 2025
PhotoAlliance, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk, San Francisco, CA, May 4, 2025
AIPAD, with Rick Wester Fine Art, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk, NYC, NY, April 26, 2025
Emily Dickinson International Society Wenshen Conference, This Earthen Door – Dickinson and Ecologies, Artist Talk and Workshop, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2025
Society for Photographic Education Conference, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk and Workshop, Reno, NV, March 8, 2025
2024
Paris Photo, The Eyes Talk, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk, Grand Palais, Paris, France, November 2024
International Center for Photography, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk, New York, NY, October 2024
The Huntington Museum, Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Climate Change, Shapiro Center Webinar: Nineteenth-Century Nature and Contemporary Photography, Artist Talk, Pasadena, CA, October 2024
Weatherspoon Art Museum, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk and Book Signing, Greensboro, NC, September 2024
San Francisco Art Book Fair, This Earthen Door, Book Signing and Book Launch of This Earthen Door, San Francisco, CA, July 2024
Center for Photographic Art, Artist Talk, Carmel, CA, June 2024
Halide Project, Light Talk with Leah Sobsey (Virtual), Artist Talk, Chicago, IL, June 2024
D’ark Room Museum, with Datz, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk, Seoul, South Korea, May 2024
2023
PhotoFairs, This Earthen Door, Artist Talk, Paris, France, September 2023
Ayatana’s Biophilium, Collections, Virtual Artist Talk, Quebec, Canada, September 2023
EDIS Conference (Emily Dickinson International Symposium), Clasps Hemispheres and Home, Artist Talk, with Amanda Marchand, Marta McDowell and Peter Grima, Amherst, MA, July 2023
The Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, Artist Talk, with Amanda Marchand, Marta Werner and Jen Bervin, The New School, NYC, NY, June 2023
St Botolph Club, Harvard University, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, Artist Talk, Boston, MA, May 2023
Medium Photography Festival, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, Artist Talk, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA, April 2023
2022
Harvard University, Museum of Natural History, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, Artist Presentation and Panel Discussion, Cambridge, MA, November 2022
Duke University, Artist Talk, Durham, NC, October 2022
Harvard University, Artist Talk, Cambridge, MA, April 2022
East Carolina University, Artist Talk, NC, April 2022
2021
Virginia Military Institute, Artist Talk, virtual due to COVID, Lexington, VA, 2021
Washington and Lee University, Artist Talk, The Cyanotype, Cyanotype Lecture, virtual due to COVID, Lexington, VA, May 4, 2021
2020
The Center for Photographic Art, Collections, Artist Talk, virtual due to COVID, Carmel, CA, April 14, 2020
2018
Click! Photography Festival, Artist Talk, Durham, NC, 2018
The Fence, Artist Talk, Durham, NC, 2018
The Center for Fine Art Photogaphy, Artist Talk, Fort Collins, CO, 2018
Moss Arts Center, Artist Talk, Virginia Tech, VA, 2018
2017
Durham Arts Council, The Fence, Artist Talk, Durham, NC, 2017
The University of Alabama, Artist Talk, Durham, NC, 2017
Association of International Photography Art Dealers, Artist Talk and Book Signing, NYC, NY, 2017
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2026
Forthcoming – Maine Media Workshops, Camden, Maine, July 2026
2025
Plant Sciences Institute, Workshop, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, November 2025
Gregg Museum of Art, Workshop, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, September 2025
Brandywine Museum of Art, This Earthen Door, Anthotype Workshop, Chadds Ford, PA, August 2025
Penland School of Craft, Anthotype Workshop, Spruce Pine, NC, May 2025
2024
Datz Museum, Plant-Based Anthotype Workshop, Seoul, South Korea, May 11, 2024 – May 12, 2024
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cyanotype Workshop, Boston, MA, April 2024
2023
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Cyanotype Workshop, Durham, NC, September 2023
The Nasher Museum of Art, The Spirit of the Land at Duke Gardens, Community Cyanotype Workshop, Duke University Gardens, Durham, NC, March 2023
2019
Led Workshop, for Students during Creative Futures, UNCG, Greensboro, NC, February 2019 – Present
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2023
Dumbarton Oaks, invited to participate in conference and create special edition of the Harvard Arnold Arboretum Arnoldia Magazine on issues related to climate change and species loss, Washington, DC, and Oak Springs, VA, March and September 2023
SPESE Conference, Portfolio Review and Presenter, East Carolina University, NC, April 2023
2022
Conference Attendance, Southern Futures Conference, UNC Chapel Hill Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, NC, May 10, 2022
Conference Attendance, Society for Photographic Education Conference, SPE, Denver, CO, March 2023
2018
Society for Photographic Education, Regional Conference, Cyanotype Photogram Mural Workshop, Conference Presenter, Penland, NC, September 29, 2018
2017
University of Copenhagen, Collections, at the Unleashing and Confronting Stories of Bildung: Remediation of Cultural-Natural Heritage, Conference Presenter, Copenhagen, December 4 – 5, 2017
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2025
Brandywine Museum of Art, Site-Specific Commissions (This Earthen Door), Chadds Ford, PA, 2025
Gregg Museum, Site-Specific Commissions (In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers), Raleigh, NC, 2025
2020
For Freedoms Lawn Sign Project, MLK Memorial Gardens, Raleigh, NC, 2020, rescheduled due to COVID
2019
For Freedoms Lawn Sign Project, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
The Raleigh Convention Center – City of Raleigh, The Swarm, Raleigh, NC, 2019
2013 – 2014
Bull City Summer, Durham, NC
2011 – 2016
Rose Community Foundation, Visual History Project, with Lynn Bregman Blass, Denver, CO
Habitat for Humanity Durham 25th Anniversary, with Lynn Bregman Blass, Durham, NC
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Huntington Library, Huntington Museum, Duke/Raleigh Hospital, The Hunt Institute Carnegie Melon, North Carolina Museum of Art, City of Raleigh – Convention Center, Credit Suisse, Cassilhaus Collection, Duke University Hospital, Fidelity Investments, Rose Community Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Town of Chapel Hill, Bill Gates – Microsoft Collection, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport College Collection, San Francisco Art Institute, Duke University Medical Archives, Grand Canyon National Park, Collect of the Atlantic, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Andersen Horticultural Library, University of Minnesota Libraries | Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Wilson Library, Botanical Library MN, Binghampton University Library, Illinois State University, New York University, Pratt Institute Libraries, Rochester Institute of Technology, Smith College Libraries, Stanford University Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tufts University, University of Kansas, SFMOMA Library
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MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
BA, Anthropology; Minor, Studio Art, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC