Sant Khalsa

Sant Khalsa (b. Sheila Roth, January 3, 1953, New York, New York) is an artist, educator and activist whose artworks develop from her inquiry into the nature of place and complex environmental and societal issues. Her photographs, mixed media and installation works have been widely shown internationally in more than 175 exhibitions and are acquired by museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art and UCR...See more

Sant Khalsa (b. Sheila Roth, January 3, 1953, New York, New York) is an artist, educator and activist whose artworks develop from her inquiry into the nature of place and complex environmental and societal issues. Her photographs, mixed media and installation works have been widely shown internationally in more than 175 exhibitions and are acquired by museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art and UCR/California Museum of Photography. Khalsa is a recipient of fellowships, awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Council for the Humanities, Center for Photographic Art in Carmel and others. In March 2012, she was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Society for Photographic Education Insight Award for her significant contributions to the field of photography. Her artworks are published in books including Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment (Skira/Rizzoli, 2011), Seismic Shift: Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944 - 1984 (University of California, Riverside 2011), Backyard Oasis (Prestel USA, 2012), Art in Action: Nature, Creativity and Our Collective Future (Earth Aware Editions, 2007), H2O 04: Celebrating Water (Fotofest, 2004) and The Altered Landscape (University of Nevada Press, 1999). Articles and critical reviews regarding her artworks can be found in Art in America, Artforum, Art Ltd., Afterimage, Artillery, American Photo, Exposure, European Photography, KCET Artbound, ArtScene, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Palm Springs Life Art+Culture, LA Weekly, PDN/Photo District News and among others. Khalsa is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino, where she has taught since 1988, served as Art Department Chair (2003-2012) and was a founding faculty of the Water Resources Institute. She lives and works in Joshua Tree, California. View her artworks at http: //www.santkhalsa.com. See less