Greer, Joshua Dudley

BiographyJoshua Dudley Greer makes photographs that interrogate landscape and infrastructure as cultural indicators of America’s economic, social, and environmental circumstances. He brings awareness to the in-between spaces of the locations he travels to through studied observation of symmetry, gesture, and color. The images in the MoCP permanent collection are from Greer’s series Somewhere Along the Line (2017). Between 2011 and 2017, Greer drove over 100,000 miles and photographed the vast network of superhighways and interstates throughout the United States. He captured the anomalies of these streamlined, uniform systems, centering moments of humanity, humor, and naturalistic beauty.

Joshua Dudley Greer received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2002) and an MFA from the University of Georgia (2009). His photographs have been in many publications including Smithsonian Magazine, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Somewhere Along the Line (2017) was published as a book in 2019. Greer’s work has been featured in exhibitions by Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; and various others. His work is in the permanent collections of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; New York Public Library; and the Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado. Greer has been a professor of photography at Georgia State University since 2018.