Greta Pratt

Greta Pratt is a photographer and author whose work explores ideas surrounding American myth, place, and identity. Pratt is the author of four books, In Search of the Corn Queen (Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, 1995), Using History (Steidl, 2005), The Wavers (Blue Sky Books, 2014), and Nineteen Lincolns (Peanut Press, 2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally at Smithsonian American Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Park Avenue Armory, Beirut Art Center, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Mattress Factory Museum, among others. Public collections include of Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Chrysler Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Pratt was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize along and the Anonymous was a Woman award, also, she was a recipient of a New Jersey State Artist Fellowship. Her photographs have been featured in Art in America, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harpers, along with numerous books and catalogs. Pratt is a 2024 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.