Nat Ward

Nat Ward lives and works in Queens, NY. His most recent book, Big Throat, was published by +KGP in 2020. Ward’s photographic work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has had features on his photographic work published in Aperture, Interview, Collector Daily, Photobook Journal, Photography & Culture, C4, The British Journal of Photography, Unseen, Vogue, Vice, and Juxtapoz. He has exhibited photographic and text based installations at Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York Live Arts, Hampshire College, and The Jewish Museum. Ward has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Yaddo, The Cooper Union Professional Development Fund, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and The Sharpe-Wallentas Studio Program. His poetry and critical writing have appeared in publications from Wendy’s Subway, 1080Press, The Brooklyn Review, and Beautiful Days Press. In 2024, a selection of Ward’s poems will appear alongside photographs by Sara J. Winson and Aaron Canapie in Shades of Eleanor, published by Push Pull Editions. Ward holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College.