Margaret Stratton has received five National Endowment for the Arts Awards in Photography, Installation and New Genres. Additional awards include Seattle Arts Commission "Public Works" Award, Best New Film/Video from the Canadian Film Board, and Directors Award from the Black Maria Film Festival, Los Angeles. Stratton’s work has been exhibited at: Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York; New York University, New York; Smithsonian Institution and Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Berlin Film Festival; San Francisco Camerawork; and the Henry Gallery, Seattle. Collections include: Library of Congress, Washington, DC; New York Historical Society, New York; Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle; Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Art Institute; and Ellis Island Museum, New York. Publications include: The Living and the Dead: The Neapolitan Cult of the Skull, University of Chicago Press (2010); Detained In Purgatory: America’s Abandoned Prisons, Light Work #110, Syracuse, New York (2000); Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photography (2002); Lesbian Art In America, Rizzoli Press (2000); Art, Document, Market, Science: Photography’s Multiple Roles, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (1998); and Reframings: New Feminist Photographies, Temple University Press, Philadelphia (1996).