ExhibitionsBlazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb
Future Exhibition

Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb

February 6 – May 10, 2026

Over the last fifty years, photographer Mimi Plumb has expertly and poignantly captured the evolution of the Western U.S. landscape and the lives of those within it. In her first solo museum exhibition, the High will present three of her major bodies of work, featuring more than one hundred photographs captured in and around San Francisco and across the American West. Collectively, they contemplate how changes in geopolitics, the economy and the environment have shaped the anxieties of American life from the 1970s to today.

After it debuts at the High, the exhibition will travel to three more venues: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.), the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

Boys and Tires, Sears Point

Mimi Plumb (American, born 1953), Boys and Tires, Sears Point, 1976, pigmented inkjet print, Gift of Lucas Foglia, 2025.87. © Mimi Plumb.

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Truckee Canal

Mimi Plumb (American, born 1953), Truckee Canal, 1985, gelatin silver print, Gift of Lucas Foglia, 2025.94. © Mimi Plumb.

This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Premier Exhibition Series Sponsor 

Major Exhibition Series Supporters

Sarah and Jim Kennedy

Premier Exhibition Series Supporters

Benefactor Exhibition Series Supporters

Robin and Hilton Howell

Ambassador Exhibition Series Supporters

Mrs. Harriet H. Warren

Contributing Exhibition Series Supporters 

Farideh and Al Azadi
Mary and Neil Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Jones
Megan and Garrett Langley
Margot and Danny McCaul
Wade A. Rakes II and Nicholas Miller

Generous support is also provided by  

Alfred and Adele Davis Exhibition Endowment Fund, Anne Cox Chambers Exhibition Fund, Barbara Stewart Exhibition Fund, Dorothy Smith Hopkins Exhibition Endowment Fund, Eleanor McDonald Storza Exhibition Endowment Fund, The Fay and Barrett Howell Exhibition Fund, Forward Arts Foundation Exhibition Endowment Fund, Helen S. Lanier Endowment Fund, John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Exhibition Endowment Fund, Katherine Murphy Riley Special Exhibition Endowment Fund, Margaretta Taylor Exhibition Fund, RJR Nabisco Exhibition Endowment Fund, and USI Insurance Services.