Brooke White, MFA

Professor of Art

A native of Hampstead, NH, Brooke White lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she is Professor of Art and Area Head of Imaging Arts in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Mississippi. The intersection of place, memory, and time dominates my artistic investigations. I employ a range of photographic approaches including experimental, documentary, portraiture, and video, to investigate topics surrounding, family and loss, identity and nature, motherhood and art. My work explores the landscape as both a private and public space, reflecting both the internal and external forces that impact our identity and connection to place. White’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA and the Mamia Bretesche Gallery, Marseilles & Paris, France. She has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Bangalore, India and her work has been published in Give and Take: Motherhood and the Creative Process, Aint Bad Magazine, Southern Cultures UNC Press, Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photographs from the Do Good Collection, and the Oxford American.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Landscape, nature, motherhood, creative practice