We are proud to announce that Mimi Plumb’s work is being included in the exhibition Personal and Political: Women Photographers, 1965-1985 at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on view September 13, 2019 – November 28, 2021 as part of the museum’s larger initiative Women Take the Floor honoring women artists. Plumb’s work is included alongside the work of Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz, and Diane Arbus among others.

Link to museum exhibition page

Born in Berkeley, and raised in the suburb of Walnut Creek, Mimi Plumb received her Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986. She has taught photography nationally and regionally, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford University, and San Jose State University. Over the years, Mimi Plumb has explored a wide range of subjects, from her suburban roots in The White Sky to the United Farmworkers as they organized for union elections in the fields. Other series, Landfall and The Golden City, photographs from the 1980s, picture an American dystopia.

Mimi Plumb’s photographs are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Pier 24 Photography; the Deutsche Börse Foundation; the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Her various projects have received grants and fellowships from the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship (2017), the California Humanities (2015), the California Arts Council (1989-90), the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography (1985-86), and the Marin Arts Council (1999-2000).  In 2022 Mimi Plumb was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.