Katy Grannan

Katy Grannan is an American photographer and filmmaker based in San Francisco, California. She is best known for her large-scale photographs of people in their environments, often in suburban or rural settings.

Grannan was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1969. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and her MFA from Yale University School of Art. After graduating from Yale, she moved to San Francisco and began working as a freelance photographer for magazines such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

In 2004, Grannan began working on her first major photographic series, "The Believers," which focused on the lives of people living in rural California towns. This series was exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and later published as a book by Aperture Foundation. In 2008, she released her second book "Model American" which featured portraits of people living in Los Angeles.

Grannan has also worked on several film projects including "The Nine" (2009) and "Boulevard" (2014). Her work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums around the world including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York City, and The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Grannan's work has been featured in publications such as Time Magazine, Vogue Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Magazine, W Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. She has also received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University (2009), an Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography (2010), and a Lucie Award for Achievement in Fine Art Photography (2011).