S. Billie Mandle creates images that distill attention. Her projects engage with themes of contingency, paradox, and faith through subjects such as Catholic confessionals, Emily Dickinson’s bedroom, and burned forests in California.
She has exhibited widely, including at the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA), the Hyères Photography Festival (France), and Garden (Los Angeles, CA). Her projects have been supported by a NYFA Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and a grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and her work has been featured in publications such as Aperture, Cabinet, and Wired. In 2020 her monograph, Reconciliation, was published by Kehrer Verlag and an artist book, Stellar Skytron, was published by Dust Collective. Her work is held in several public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Getty library, and LACMA library. She received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in biology from Williams College. She lives in Massachusetts where she is an Associate Professor of Photography at MassArt.
billie.mandle @ gmail.com
Recent/Past
Interview with J. Sybylla Smith
Interview with Saint Agnes Studio
Reconciliation reviewed in Lenscratch
Stellar Skytron reviewed in Collector Daily
Blue Ground at Garden Los Angeles
Reconciliation reviewed PhotoBook Journal
Blind Magazine on Reconciliation
F-Stop review of Reconciliation
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography
Reconciliation in Cabinet with essay by George Prochnik
Aperture essay by Robin Kelsey
Representation