S. Billie Mandle is an artist from Northern California whose photographs bridge the scientific and the sacred. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Light Work, Yaddo, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a research grant from the University of California Los Angeles Archives. Her books include Reconciliation (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), Stellar Skytron (Dust Collective, 2020), Circumference (Dust Collective, 2024), and Asunder (TBW, forthcoming 2025). She was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award and the Prix Pictet and her photographs are held in several public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Mandle is an Associate Professor of Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, having previously taught at Hampshire College. She has an MFA from MassArt and a BA in biology from Williams College. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
billie.mandle @ gmail.com
Representation
Recent/Past
Talk with Dust Collective at MassMoca
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