Odette england
May - june 2022

Odette England is an artist and writer who uses photography, archives and text to explore themes of home, homesickness, the female body, unpaid reproductive labor, land, and ritual.

Her work has been exhibited in more than 100 museums, galleries and art spaces worldwide and is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Light Work, RISCA Fellowship, Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund Grant, Rauschenberg Publication Grant, Puffin Foundation Grant, Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship, Firecracker Photographic Grant, Film Photo Award, Anonymous Was a Woman, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and CENTER Project Launch Award.

Her books include Dairy Character published by Saint Lucy Books, Past Paper Present Marks published by Radius Books, and Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph published by Schilt Publishing.