S. Billie Mandle is originally from Northern California and currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is an associate professor of photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Through her work, she engages with themes of faith, place, chance, and the interplay between the seen and unseen. Her subjects have included Catholic confessionals, Emily Dickinson’s bedroom, gardens at communal homes, and burned forests in California. She has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and a grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. Her books include Circumference (Dust Collective, 2024) and Reconciliation (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), and her work has been published in Aperture, Cabinet, and Blind Magazine, among others. Mandle’s work is held in several public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Addison Gallery of American Art; Boston Athenaeum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Getty Library; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Library. She holds a BA in biology from Williams College and an MFA from MassArt.

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