Biography
Colleen Plumb makes photographs, videos, and public video projections investigating contradictory relationships people have with animals. Her focus for over two decades has been an inquiry into a society whose appetite for animals, whether in flesh or in reproduction, with admiration or obsession, is voracious.
Plumb's work is held in several permanent collections and has been widely exhibited, including the Portland Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts in Portland, Dina Mitrani Gallery in Miami, Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, the Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, and Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. She has written for the Center for Humans and Nature, an organization dedicated to exploring and promoting human responsibilities in relation to nature, and was a contributor to their book, City Creatures (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Her first photography monograph, Animals Are Outside Today was published by Radius Books in 2011. Plumb's work has appeared in LitHub, Psychology Today, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Village Voice, New York Times LENS, Time Lightbox, Oxford American, and Photo District News.
Plumb lives in Chicago and has taught photography and video at Columbia College Chicago since 1999.
Degrees
M.F.A., Photography Columbia College Chicago 2010