Born in Berkeley, California, and raised in the suburb of Walnut Creek, Mimi Plumb received her Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986. She has been a lecturer in photography at San Jose State University for the past 25 years. She has also taught photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and for eight years at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Over the years, Mimi has explored a wide range of subjects, from the United Farmworkers and their efforts to become unionized, to a recurring theme of photographing women and girls. A series of portraits of women and girls is in progress. Dark days, photographs from the mid-1980s, depicts the aftermath of human and natural cataclysms in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Southwestern desert. Mimi has also spent many years passionately riding and photographing horses.
Mimi has received grants and fellowships from the California Arts Council (1989-90), the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography (1985-86), the Marin Arts Council (1999-2000), and was a finalist for the Eureka Fellowship in 2007. In 2011, she received an Alameda County Purchase Award. Her photographs are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Over the years, Mimi has explored a wide range of subjects, from the United Farmworkers and their efforts to become unionized, to a recurring theme of photographing women and girls. A series of portraits of women and girls is in progress. Dark days, photographs from the mid-1980s, depicts the aftermath of human and natural cataclysms in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Southwestern desert. Mimi has also spent many years passionately riding and photographing horses.
Mimi has received grants and fellowships from the California Arts Council (1989-90), the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography (1985-86), the Marin Arts Council (1999-2000), and was a finalist for the Eureka Fellowship in 2007. In 2011, she received an Alameda County Purchase Award. Her photographs are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery.