Ann McQueen

BIO

Ann McQueen is a life-long photographer, largely self-taught and deeply studied in visual culture and the history of art. 

Her professional career in photography began with the launch of McQueenStudio in 1977. In addition to freelance work for corporate and nonprofit clients, McQueen assisted artists at Polaroid’s renowned 20x24 studio; using Polaroid materials, she produced the studio-based Morning Light and Jumping Naked series, which have been widely exhibited, collected and published. McQueen has also produced and exhibited an extensive body of diary/documentary photography from the streets and rooms of Boston, China, Turkey and Italy.  

In the late 1980s, McQueen transitioned from commercial photography to philanthropy. She held a fellowship in arts administration at the National Endowment for the Arts and coordinated grants and research at the Worcester Art Museum, which supported her third trip to China and exhibited the resulting work.  

In the early 1990s, she consulted on several grantmaking projects at the Boston Foundation before accepting their full time post as program officer in arts/culture and the urban environment in 1997. In 2010 she returned to consulting, focusing on foundations and nonprofits as McQueen Philanthropic and simultaneously revived McQueenStudio as an umbrella for her self-directed photography. Since her 2018 move to Cape Cod, Ann McQueen has continued to consult with select clients but is largely devoted to her artistic practice as a fine arts photographer.