Born 1970

Zoe Strauss is a photographer of the social landscape. She produces ambitious, large-scale public projects, notably her annual May 1st exhibition under I-95, in which hundreds of photographs of the surrounding community are marshaled to activate a two-block area. She just completed the fourth year of this ongoing ten-year project, which is free and open to the public. Strauss has had her work included in exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Arcadia University Art Gallery, and the Indianapolis Installation Festival. She has served as a Leeway Foundation Advisory Committee member, and a teaching artist at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. She was the subject of a feature article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work is included in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.