UPCOMING:

Work included in Jocelyn Lee’s project The Haunted: A multi-photographer publication with related exhibitions and programming. Book Launch at the Portland Museum of Art, October 30, 2025.

Visiting Artist and Solo Exhibition at the University of Delaware Recitation Gallery, Newark Delaware
April 6th – May 1st, 2026

Two-Person Collaborative Exhibition with partner Tonee Harbert Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
July 22 – August 29, 2026

You can see more of her work at @shoshannahwhite and shoshannahwhite.com

Shoshannah White is an interdisciplinary photographer currently based in New Mexico. Her photographic work often spans painting, sculpture and public art installation. Shoshannah’s research-based, non linear approach has led her to various sites to create projects focused on natural phenomena and ecological systems. Works exist as objects for exhibition, editorial content and installation pieces. Shoshannah is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, George Eastman House, Maine Jewish Museum and the Roswell Museum. Her work has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, MIT’s Climate-X, and Scientific American’s online edition. Shoshannah has completed artist residencies in the United States, Canada and Norway, and has been a visiting artist at academic institutions including Dickinson College, Harvard University’s Research Forest and Hercules Dome Ice Core Conference. Her work is represented by Corey Daniels Gallery in Maine, Richard Levy Gallery in New Mexico and she has work available in Canada at Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Mass Balance is a multi-part project which has grown out of a decade-long inquiry into ice, geologic time and invisible worlds. The work pairs photogram (cameraless) prints of ice core samples with lens-based photographs of rapidly shifting Arctic environments.

Ice core samples drilled by scientists in Greenland, North America and Antarctica have been transported to Colorado’s National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility, where I’ve set up a darkroom in the freezer and made prints directly from these ancient blocks of ice.

Volcanic ash, silt, air bubbles are locked in the layers while invisible information, frozen thousands to millions of years ago was recorded season by season, year by year. This ice is like a time machine to another world and allows scientists to piece together stories from prehistoric times – it’s a container of information, held in place by temperature.

The prints of ice core samples are interspersed with images made in close proximity to sites of radical transformation. In 2024, I joined a team of scientists in Alaska at the location of a newly formed lake resulting from permafrost melt – one with the highest known methane emissions in the Arctic. As they collected atmospheric samples, I photographed in areas where methane bubbles up from life frozen eons ago, trees fall as soils change and mud rises from lake surfaces in volcano-like formation.

The project’s title, Mass Balance is borrowed from a scientific term describing the equilibrium between accumulated precipitation and its loss due to melt, runoff, or evaporation. While informed by science, this work is intuitive and non-linear. To hold a piece of ice four million years old or follow methane bubbles winding to the surface of a glass-flat lake is a way to look more carefully and develop a subjective and psychological relationship with the environment. Pairing landscape photographs with cameraless impressions of ice core samples, the process is more a meditation on ideas of impermanence, the shape-shifting nature of water and is a material way to consider deep time and our relationship to it.

Thank you to the U.S. National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility for ice core sampling assistance and curation.