Rosalind Fox Solomon

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Rosalind Fox Solomon was born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1930 and currently lives in New York City. She examines relationships and survival through portraits and ritual. The deep connection between her acquaintance with rejection, struggle and sorrow is evident in her imagery and poetry. She has worked extensively in the American South and in New York; Ancash, Peru and Kolkata, India. Solomon’s photographs are in the collections of over 50 museums and her work has been shown in nearly 30 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions. John Szarkowski chose 50 of her pictures for MoMA’s permanent collection, followed by her solo MoMA exhibition, “Rosalind Solomon, Ritual”. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Society of Indian Studies. Her books include Chapalingas and Polish Shadow (Steidl); THEM and Got to Go (MACK).