Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse (b.1980, Ireland) lives and works in New York City. He is a recipient of the seventh Prix Pictet, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shifting Foundation Grant, the Yale Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Frankfurt Biennial B3 Award, a grant from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and has received a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship.

Mosse represented Ireland at the 55th Venice Art Biennale. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally at venues including the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Hamburger Kunsthalle; MIT Boston; MMK Frankfurt; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Nasher Museum of Duke University; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and others.

Mosse has published six books. His latest monograph, The Castle, published by MACK, was selected by Teju Cole as one of the New York Times Magazine top ten Photobooks of 2018. Mosse earned an MFA in Photography from Yale University, a PG Dip in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London, an MRes in Cultural Studies from the London Consortium, and a First-Class BA Honours degree in English Literature from King’s College London.

Portrait of Richard Mosse by photographer Sherrie Hui