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Solo Exhibitions
2017
Susan Worsham: Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington,Va.
By the Grace of God, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, Va
2013
Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Va,
2012
Bittersweet/Bloodwork, Light Work, Syracuse, NY,
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Attractions#2018: French Cultural Center, Freiburg, Mulhouse Biennial of Photography
Photographs Take Time, Pictures from the Chrysler Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
New Southern Photography: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, S.C.
Again See, Zhongshan Museum of Art, China
2017
Stories from Home, National Museum of Art, Cluj, Romania
2016
Land Inhabited and Works of Baldwin Lee, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Relative Distance, Keliy Anderson- Staley & Susan Worsham, Kontek Systems, Click! Triangle Photography Festival, Durham,N.C.
Southern Icons A-Z, Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Pike County, Georgia
Third Documentary Photography Days, Istanbul/Turkey
Facing South, Contemporary Southern Photography, Work Program Architects, Norfolk, Va
2015
Tracing The American South, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Female Gaze: A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, Haverford College
2014
The Ones We Love, Camden Image Gallery, London
2013
Seeing Beyond the Ordinary: Susan Worsham, By The Grace of God ,Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Making Pictures of People, Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Southern Memories 3 : Fin Fur Feather Foliage, Slow Exposures Photography Festival
2011
LOOK3 Festival Of The Photograph, featured artist Shots / Works
Nine Visions, Danville Museum, Danville, Virginia
American Life, Lishui Photography Festival, curated by Melanie McWhorter, Lishui, China
100 Portraits, New York Photo Festival
100 Portraits, Australian Centre For Photography
PDN's 30 2011: PDN's choice of photographers to watch, Ring Cube Gallery,Tokyo, Japan
2010
Virginia Celebrates Women In The Arts, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol Va. Emerging Photographers Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York
Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship Group Show
Project Basho Onward 10, juror, Debbie Fleming Caffery
Red, The Center For Fine Art Photography, Colorado
Portrait As Allegory, Umbrage Gallery, New, York
Southern Gothic, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Portrait Revealed, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
The Appalachian Photographer's Project Inaugural Exhibition, Reece Museum, Tennessee
100 Portraits/ 100 Photographers, curated by Andy Adams and Larissa Leclair, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2009
Forever Hold Your Peace, New Orleans Photo Alliance, juror, Sylvia Plachy
TPS 18: The International Competition, traveling exhibit
Nymphoto Presents, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York
12 12 Gallery, National Juried Photography Exhibition, selected by Julian Cox
Big Bangs Small Bucks 2, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Awards And Honors
Photographic Center Northwest, 13th Members Juried Show, 2nd place, 2008
Santa Fe Prize For Photography Nomination, 2009
Texas Photographic Society, TPS 18: The International Competition: first place, 2009
Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist, (2009)
Blurb Photography Book Now, International Competition, First Runner Up, Fine Art Category,
Light Work Artist in Residence 2010
Too Much Chocolate / Kodak Film Grant
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, runner up 2010
Baum Award nomination 2010
Photo District News “PDN 30” Top 30 Emerging Photographers, 2011
Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers, 2011
Oxford American “100 Under 100, The New Superstars Of Southern Art”
Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2012
The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund recipient, 2013
Publications
Contact Sheet Number 168: Susan Worsham – Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Contact Sheet, The Light Work Annual 2011 forward written by Elijah Gowin
2017
Susan Worsham: Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington,Va.
By the Grace of God, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, Va
2013
Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Va,
2012
Bittersweet/Bloodwork, Light Work, Syracuse, NY,
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Attractions#2018: French Cultural Center, Freiburg, Mulhouse Biennial of Photography
Photographs Take Time, Pictures from the Chrysler Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
New Southern Photography: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, S.C.
Again See, Zhongshan Museum of Art, China
2017
Stories from Home, National Museum of Art, Cluj, Romania
2016
Land Inhabited and Works of Baldwin Lee, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Relative Distance, Keliy Anderson- Staley & Susan Worsham, Kontek Systems, Click! Triangle Photography Festival, Durham,N.C.
Southern Icons A-Z, Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Pike County, Georgia
Third Documentary Photography Days, Istanbul/Turkey
Facing South, Contemporary Southern Photography, Work Program Architects, Norfolk, Va
2015
Tracing The American South, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Female Gaze: A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, Haverford College
2014
The Ones We Love, Camden Image Gallery, London
2013
Seeing Beyond the Ordinary: Susan Worsham, By The Grace of God ,Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Making Pictures of People, Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Southern Memories 3 : Fin Fur Feather Foliage, Slow Exposures Photography Festival
2011
LOOK3 Festival Of The Photograph, featured artist Shots / Works
Nine Visions, Danville Museum, Danville, Virginia
American Life, Lishui Photography Festival, curated by Melanie McWhorter, Lishui, China
100 Portraits, New York Photo Festival
100 Portraits, Australian Centre For Photography
PDN's 30 2011: PDN's choice of photographers to watch, Ring Cube Gallery,Tokyo, Japan
2010
Virginia Celebrates Women In The Arts, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol Va. Emerging Photographers Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York
Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship Group Show
Project Basho Onward 10, juror, Debbie Fleming Caffery
Red, The Center For Fine Art Photography, Colorado
Portrait As Allegory, Umbrage Gallery, New, York
Southern Gothic, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Portrait Revealed, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
The Appalachian Photographer's Project Inaugural Exhibition, Reece Museum, Tennessee
100 Portraits/ 100 Photographers, curated by Andy Adams and Larissa Leclair, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2009
Forever Hold Your Peace, New Orleans Photo Alliance, juror, Sylvia Plachy
TPS 18: The International Competition, traveling exhibit
Nymphoto Presents, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York
12 12 Gallery, National Juried Photography Exhibition, selected by Julian Cox
Big Bangs Small Bucks 2, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Awards And Honors
Photographic Center Northwest, 13th Members Juried Show, 2nd place, 2008
Santa Fe Prize For Photography Nomination, 2009
Texas Photographic Society, TPS 18: The International Competition: first place, 2009
Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist, (2009)
Blurb Photography Book Now, International Competition, First Runner Up, Fine Art Category,
Light Work Artist in Residence 2010
Too Much Chocolate / Kodak Film Grant
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, runner up 2010
Baum Award nomination 2010
Photo District News “PDN 30” Top 30 Emerging Photographers, 2011
Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers, 2011
Oxford American “100 Under 100, The New Superstars Of Southern Art”
Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2012
The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund recipient, 2013
Publications
Contact Sheet Number 168: Susan Worsham – Bittersweet/Bloodwork
Contact Sheet, The Light Work Annual 2011 forward written by Elijah Gowin
