sheri lynn behr

Sheri Lynn Behr is a photographer and visual artist currently based in New York City, with an interest in perception, photography without permission, and the ever-present electronic screens through which we view the world. Her project on surveillance and privacy, BeSeeingYou, was exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography and released as a self-published photo book, selected by Elizabeth Avedon as one of the Best Photography Books of 2018. She was invited to participate in A Yellow Rose Project, a photographic collaboration of over a hundred women photographers in response to the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

Behr’s work was exhibited at the Amon Carter Museum of Art, MIT Museum, Center for Creative Photography, Musée McCord, and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, among others. Her photographs have appeared in publications world-wide, including Harper’s Magazine, People’s Photography (China), Orta Format (Turkey), Toy Camera (Spain), and The Boston Globe. She received a Fellowship in Photography from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, a grant from the Puffin Foundation, and, most recently, a New York City Artist Corps Grant in 2021.

And back in the day, she used to shoot rock-and-roll. And Polaroids.