Alec Soth

The amazing visual artist Alec Soth is an award-winning photographer, known for his large-scale American projects that focus on “the off-beat side of” modern America. He has published a number of photography books, including Sleeping by the Mississippi, Songbook, and I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating. In 2008 he stablished Little Brown Mushroom (LBM), a small experimental arts institution located in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 2010 set up a publishing house under the same name. In 2021 he received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.

Born and raised in Minnsesota, Soth grew up with a love for photography and later attended the Sarah Lawrence College in New York. After graduating, he began to travel around the Mississippi photographing landscapes and making portraits. His first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was self-published in 2004, and since then he has gone on to photograph different parts of the United States.

Soth had his first solo exhibition in New York in 2006 with his Niagara project. Since then he has been exhibited across the United States, as well as in Milan, Moscow, London, Helsinki, Vienna, and Japan. His work is also held in a number of collections, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Soth regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, posting pictures and comments about his creative life. He also has a dedicated YouTube channel, Alec Soth, and an official website, alecsoth.com.