SCOTT OFFEN

Boston, MA

scott.offen@gmail.com


BOOKS

Grace – SCOTT OFFEN (2025)

Published by L’Artiere Edizioni, Bologna, Italy

Design by Teresa Piardi | Text by Laura McPhee

Size of the book: 22,5 x 29cm | 72 pages

Tritone printing , hardcover, swiss binding

First Edition: 750 copies

ISBN: 979-12-809781-41

Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026 The Author Book Shortlist

SOLO SHOWS

Grace, The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts – Upcoming, October 2026

Grace, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA – December 8,2025 – February 12, 2026

Grace, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA – August-December, 2025

Grace, co-presented by The Curator Lab and Benrubi Gallery; curated by Rachel Smith and Anne-Brigitte Sirois, New York, NY – 2025

Grace, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA – 2021

Disorder, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA – 2016

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

We are Family, L’Artiere Book Shop, Art City Bologna — February, 2026

Untitled 2025, APASD, Los Angeles, CA – January, 2026

Filling the Frame, Juried by Dallas Crow, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT – January, 2026

2025

International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' (First Place), L.A. Photo Curator – Online

Gathering Place: A Family Album, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

On The Shelf 2025 Juried by Tim Carpenter, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL

FISH DON’T SLEEP, 5th Annual MassArt Graduate Alumni Exhibition, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA

2024

Heirloom Convoy, 4th Annual MassArt Graduate Alumni Exhibition, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA

Lonely among Us, MassArt MFA Photography 2024 Thesis Exhibition, Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

Emergence: MFA 2024 Thesis Exhibition, MassArt’s Doran Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA

MassArt 2024 MFA Thesis, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA

MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

Winter Solstice, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

2023 MassArt All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2022 MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2021

Five to Watch, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA

The Art Of Storytelling, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

Vacant No More, Brown Family House Gallery, Brookline, MA

2020

Juried Members Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

Undergraduate Photography Now, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA

Student Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA

2018 Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Exhibition, Boston City Hall Boston, MA

2017

Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Exhibition, Boston City Hall Boston, MA

Post-Bac Thesis Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA


AWARDS

2026 Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026 Photo Book Awards, The Author Book Shortlist

2025 LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2025, Jurors’ Pick, Selected by Rachel Barker,Co-Founder and Director Stanley/Barker Publishers

2025 International Juried Exhibition Curated by Cig Harvey, Honorable Mention

2024 Graduate Thesis Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

2021 Critical Mass 200, Photolucida

2021 Chico Hot Springs Juried Portfolio Review

2020 Chico Hot Springs Juried Portfolio Review

2020 Senior Class Speaker, MassArt Photography Department

2020 Purchase Prize Griffin Museum of Photography


PUBLICATIONS

2026

Cheryle St. Onge & Scott Offen on Intimate Collaboration and Photographing the Personal — PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Photography Podcast

Scott Offen: The Wife Who Went Over the Wall — BLIND Magazine

Grace by Scott Offen — Book Review by Robin Titchener

L’Artiere : Scott Offen : Grace — The Eye of Photography

Grace by Scott Offen — A Photobook Review by Matthew Poburyny

OPTICS Featured Artist in the Griffin Gallery at WinCAM Scott Offen, YouTube Podcast

Grace Book Review — Interview by Sophie Wright, Lensculture

Monochrome marvels: LensCulture’s best black-and-white photography – in pictures, The Guardian 

2025

Small Photobook Cult –– Interview for Gabriele Chiapparini’s YouTube Podcast

PhotoBook Journal

CanvasRebel Magazine

Winter Trees | What Will You RememberWhat Will You Remember

L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' (First Place)

Harper’s Bazaar

Lenscratch

What Will You Remember? — Best Photo Picks September 2025

Forbes

SKY ARTE

Monochrome Masters Vol.1

The Eye of Photography (Interview by Carole Schmitz)

Collater.al

The Eye of Photography

What Will You Remember?

Collector Daily

Grace, published by L’Artiere, book signing at AIPAD, NYC and Paris Photo, Paris, France

2021 Nowhere Diary (online feature – interview), www.nowherediary.com

2020 Fotofilmic JRNL 6 Fall 2020 Winners, selected by Guest Editor Emma Bowkett

2017

MassArt Photography

Dore Collective

Lens Culture

MassArt x SoWa

ARTIST TLAKS & BOOK SIGNINGS

Artist Panel & Book Signing with Kristen Joy Emack, Scott & Grace Offen, and Cheryle St. Onge, Palm Press Bookstore, Medford, MA – May 14,2026

Artist Talk & Book Signing, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA – December 10,2025

COLLECTIONS

The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA