Bev Grant (b. 1942)

Bev Grant (b. 1942) is a labor and social activist, feminist, singer-songwriter, photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. From 1967 to 1972 she was a member of NY Newsreel and worked closely with the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Party, and the Women’s Liberation Movement. In 1967, she was a founder of NY Radical Women and in 1968 of W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell). Beginning July 2017, Bev Grant began scanning images from photo negatives she shot in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Bev Grant has had solo exhibits at OSMOS in New York City (2018), the Old Stone House in Brooklyn (2022), the Cooley Gallery at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (2022), the American Labor Museum in Haledon, New Jersey (2022), and an exhibit at the Block Museum at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois (2024). She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including recently at the New York Historical Society, the Museum for the City of New York, the Draiflessen Collection in Mettingen, Germany, and at The Bunker in the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody in West Palm Beach, FL. A monograph of Bev’s photographs titled, Bev Grant Photography: 1968-1972, was published by OSMOS Books in 2021. Her images have appeared in numerous books and publications, including The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and The New York Times. She is the subject of a newly released documentary called, “Bev Grant – A Lifetime of Liberation by Agitator Index”, which received first place in short documentaries at the 2025 Workers Unite Film Festival.

An esteemed and award-winning musician, Grant was the 2017 Joe Hill Award winner from the Labor Heritage Foundation for her cultural work, the 2017 winner of the ASCAP Foundation’s Jay Gorney award for her song “We Were There” about women’s labor history, a 2022 Pathmakers for Peace award from Brooklyn for Peace, and most recently a 2025 recipient of the Clara Lemlich award honoring unsung, life-long activists.

Bev has two daughters, four grandchildren and one great grandchild and has lived in the same apartment in Brooklyn for 48 years.

Bev Grant: Photography 1968–1972 | OSMOS Books

bevgrantphotography.com