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Sant Khalsa
USA Honorable Mention Nature Professional "Ancient Forest" Fallen trees in Northern Arizona from 225 million years ago Sant Khalsa is a photo-based artist and activist whose work develops from a mindful inquiry into complex environmental and societal issues. Her artworks are internationally exhibited and published, as well as collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, UCR California Museum of Photography, and National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, among others. She was honored with the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Legacy Award (2023-24). Her artworks are published in many books including two monograph, Sant Khalsa: Crystal Clear || Western Waters (Minor Matters, 2022) and Sant Khalsa: Prana - Life with Trees (Griffith Moon, 2019) and compilations including Wild Visions: Imaging and Imagining the American Wilderness (Yale University Press, 2022), Photography and Environmental Activism (Routledge, 2022), Embodied Forest (ecoartspace, 2021), In the Sunshine of Neglect (Inlandia Institute, 2018), and Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment (Skira/Rizzoli, 2011). She is curator of the Getty supported PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees at MOAH Lancaster (Sept - Dec 2024) and co-editor of the book of the same title. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino, and lives in Joshua Tree. |
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