Photography Council’s Lunchtime Talk: Nancy Floyd

Free to the public. People are welcome to bring their lunch.

Nancy Floyd will discuss a few of the projects she’s produced over the past 45 years including an installation about her brother who was killed in Vietnam, a 43+ year ongoing self-portrait series, and her latest project, For the Love of Trees.

Nancy Floyd uses photography, video, and mixed-media to address the ways in which lens-based media can connect deeply with experience and memory. Much of her work addresses the passage of time, representations of women, and the aging female body. More recently she’s begun a wide-ranging exploration of trees and the people who care for and study them. 

Floyd has received numerous awards including a 2024 Victoria & Albert Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.  In 2024 her tree work was featured in Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Art Beat series and in 2021, her 39-year self-portrait series, Weathering Time, was published by the International Center of Photography and GOST books.  Floyd’s artwork is in the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Salem, OR), the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ), the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL), and in numerous private collections.

Floyd is an Emerita Professor in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta and lives with her husband and cat in Bend.  They share their yard with a 140-foot Ponderosa pine.

The Lunchtime Talk series is a presentation of the Portland Art Museum’s
Photography Council.