Eve Sonneman
Horse Passing
Horse Passing. From Twenty Works.

Photographer and painter

“Eve Sonneman is a photist. Her medium is light, as in lightness of being, radiance, speed, clarity and warmth.”

David Cohen, from his essay on the artist

Photographs, Sonnegrams, paintings and watercolors.

Twenty worksAll series

On view and upcoming

October 9, 2026 – February 7, 2027

Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan

High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Traveling from the Princeton University Art Museum, where the exhibition opened the museum's new building in April 2026. Eve's Observations: 1/4 Mile in the Sky series is included, with Considerations, 1976, a Cibachrome diptych and a gift of Patricia & Franklin S. Kolodny. The accompanying catalogue, with an essay by Brendan Fay, situates Eve's work within the history of the medium. After the Addison Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.

Then: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, March 13 – July 21, 2027

Exhibition catalogue, Princeton University Press, 2026
Exhibition catalogue, Princeton University Press, 2026
On view now

To See and Be Seen: American Women Photographers After the 1960s

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Exhibition page

A special feature presenting pictures by nineteen women photographers who examined society and explored questions of memory and identity, often working against the conventions that historically advantaged men. Eve's diptych photographs are included.

Recent

December 12, 2025 – May 31, 2026

Photography from The Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss

The Menil Collection, Houston

Curated by Wendy Watriss, co-founder of FotoFest, in celebration of the biennial's fortieth anniversary. Eve's work was included among the Menil's photographic holdings.

November 28, 2025 – May 3, 2026

Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Curated by Maggie Finch, this survey of more than eighty women photographers included Eve's work alongside Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Lee Miller. A film of Real Time played at the entrance of the exhibition. Real Time is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.

Full exhibition history and CV

19 Watercolors, book cover

Publication

19 Watercolors

A book of recent watercolors, published by F Magazine, Houston, October 2022.

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Representation

  • Nohra Haime GalleryNew York
  • NH GaleriaCartagena de Indias, Colombia
  • Cirrus GalleryLos Angeles
  • A Gallery for Fine PhotographyNew Orleans
  • Brill GalleryNorth Adams, Massachusetts
  • Cartier FoundationParis

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