Uta Barth (b. 1958) is a German-born American photographer whose work investigates perception, light and the act of looking. She earned her B.A. in 1982 from the University California, Davis, where she studied with photographer Lewis Baltz, and her M.F.A. in 1985 from UCLA. Rather than photographing conventional subjects, Barth draws attention to peripheral vision, shifting light and the often-overlooked spaces surrounding objects. Working with sequences of photographs, she explores how light, time and attention shape visual experience. Barth received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012 and has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2022, the J. Paul Getty Museum presented Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision, a major retrospective spanning four decades of her career. Her work is represented in major museum collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.