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Larry Sultan
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American
, 1946–2009)
Larry Sultan
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Biography
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Timeline
1946
Born in Brooklyn, NY
1968
BA, Political Science, University of California
1973
MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
1976
National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places (with Mike Mandel)
1977
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
1978 - 1988
Instructor of Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, California
1978
California Arts Council, Special Projects (with Mike Mandel)
1980
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
1983
Guggenheim Fellowship
1986
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
Marin Arts Council, Artists Fellowship
1988
Englehard Fellowship, ICA Boston
1989 - 2009
Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts
1989
Fleishhaker Foundation Eureka Fellowship
1991
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
1992
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
1993 - 1999
Chair- Photography Department at the California College of Arts and Crafts
1996
Haas Foundation - Creative Work Fund Award
Marin Arts Council, Artist Fellowship
1997
Society of Environmental Graphic Design - Award of Merit
1999
Gerbode Foundation - Faculty Development Grant
2000
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (Residency in Italy)
United States State Department: International Arts and Lectures Grant
Flintridge Foundation Artist’s Fellowship
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship
2009
Died in Greenbrae, CA
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Exhibitions
2013
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (solo) (planned)
2012
Under the big black sun – Californian art 1974-1981, MOCA at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011
WUNDER. Kunst, Wissenschaft und Religion vom 4. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
CUT, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Here, Pier 24, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hyper Real – Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
The Lucid Evidence. Fotografie aus der Sammlung des MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010
Larry Sultan, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
The View from Here, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco California, USA
Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008], Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
The Art of Collaboration with Bottega Veneta
The Valley, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany (solo)
Homeland, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
The Art of Caring, New Orleans Museum of Art
Art Film / Art Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Into the Sunset: Photography’s image of the American of West, Museum Modern Art, NY
2009
Royal Botanical Gardens (with Mike Mandel) PhotoEspaña 09, Madrid, Spain
2008 - 2009
Seeing Double (with Lothar Baumgarten, Victor Burgin, Anthony McCall, Mike Mandel, Mark Thompson), Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2008
Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, MIssissippi Museum of Art, Jackson Mississippi
Darkside, FotoMuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes - Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, Minnesota
TThis Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A - Huntington Library – Los Angeles, California
Variable Capital - Bluecoat Art Centre - Liverpool, England
Southern Exposure: Southern California Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
DDas Kapital - Blue Chips & Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
The Valley, Domus Artium 002, Salamanca, Spain (solo)
The Valley, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (solo)
Currents in Photography, CCAS - Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, CA
2007
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum, CA
Around the House, Alexandre Pallazzon Ltd., London, UK (solo)
The Valley, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta (solo)
BAT CampusGalerie, Bayreuth, Germany (solo)
Click double click. Het documentaire moment, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany (solo)
4th berlin biennial for contemporary art: Of Mice and Men , KW Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V., Berlin, Germany
2006
So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Click Double Click - Das dokumentarische Moment, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2005
Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
The Photographers'Gallery, London, GB (solo)
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
2004
San Francisco MoMA (solo)
2003
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, NRW- Forum Kultur und Wissenschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
House Broken, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Franscisco
2002
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art
Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, Fotomuseum Wintertur, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2001
Janet Borden Gallery, New York (solo)
Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity In American Photography, The White Cube, London, England and the Prague City Gallery
Picturing Media: Modern Photographs from the Collections, The Metropolitan Museum NY
Points of Departure: Connecting mit Contemporary Art, SF Museum of Modern Art Color, Janet Borden Gallery, New York
Galerie MK, Rotterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2000
The Persistance of Photogaphy in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery
Immodest Gazes, La Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
The Path of Resistance; Protest Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Made in California, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art
Beyond Boundries: Contemporary Photography in California, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
American Treasures from the Corcoran Gallery, The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Making light: Wit and Humor in Photogtraphy, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vasser College
Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanet Collection, San Jose Museum of Art Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 25/25 Southern Exposure, San Francisco
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Florida
1999
Modern Starts/PEOPLE, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998
Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York
Matrix: 20 Years, University Art Museum, Berkeley CA
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Centre Canadien D’Architecture, UnderExposed Stockholm Metro Stations - Stockholm, Sweden
1997
HOPE, The National Arts Club - New York City
Marin Arts Awards Exhibition - Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael
Friends and Family, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
1996
The Familial Gaze, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
To Keep Her Countenance, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Illustrious History 1871 -Present, John Berggruen Gallery, SF
Photography as a Reflection of Time, Corcoran Gallery, Washington
Queens Museum, New York (solo)
Home is Where, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Photography, Stephan Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
AlterEgo, Amsterdam Center for the Arts, Netherlands
Rhode Island School of Design - Photography gallery (solo)
1995
Scottsdale Center for the Arts - Scottsdale Arizona (solo)
1994
Whose Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London GB
Gesture and Pose, The Museum of Modern Art
Nature and Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC (solo)
1993
Chicago Cultural Arts Center (solo)
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (solo)
Janet Borden Gallery, New York (solo)
1992
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
San Jose Museum of Art (solo)
Dismantling The Myth of the Family, Betty Rymer Gallery / The Art Institute of Chicago
Parents, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton Ohio
The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (travelling exhibition)
Imaging the Family: Photographs by Tina Barney, Lorie Novak, and Larry Sultan, List Art Center Brown University, RI
Blood Relatives, Milwaukee Art Museum
Photography as Idea: Conceptual Photography of the 60's and 70's, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1991
Prints, Drawings, Photographs: a Summer Selection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1990
Recent Collaborations, Northlight Gallery Tempe, Arizona
Re: Memory, The Work of Lorie Novak, George Kruse, Larry Sultan and Anne Turyn, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1989
Janet Borden Gallery, New York (solo)
California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe, The Museum of Modern Art, NY (travelling exhibition)
Real Life Fictions: Photographs of Bill Dane, John Harding and Larry Sultan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Nature and Culture, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
1988
Collaborations, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation
The Swimmers, Janet Burden Gallery, New York (Catalogue )
1987
Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum
Rhode Island School of Design (solo)
The Swimmers, Pace Mcgill Gallery, New York
New Color Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
American Images 1945-1985. Barbican Art Gallery, London England Playing it Again: Strategies of Appropriation, Santa Fe Center of Contemporary Art, travelling exhibition
Family as Subject Matter in Contemporary Art, Washington Project for the arts Art and Advertising, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Les Immateriaux, Musee National D'Art Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Signs of the Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1984
Photography in California: 1945-1975, The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, (travelling exhibition)
The Collection of Sam Wagstaff, International Center of Photography, NY
1983
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (solo)
1982
University of Colorado Art Gallery (solo)
Portland School of Art, ME (solo)
20th Century Photography From the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (Catalogue)
Beyond Color, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
A Few French Gestures, Paris Bienale XIIeme, Paris, France
1981
Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (solo)
1979
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (solo)
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (solo)
1978
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (solo)
1977
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (solo)
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Public Collections
FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Canadian Center for Architecture
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon Az
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris France
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
The State of Washington
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ca
San Jose Museum of Art, San Cose, CA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
The Whitney Museum of American Art New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The List Art Center, Brown University, Boston
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Conn.
University of California Art Museum, Berkeley
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
The Jewish Museum, New York
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Literature
2012
Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, ed. by Thomas Zander, Walther König, 2012
2010
Larry Sultan. Katherine Avenue, ed. by Thomas Zander/Veit Görner/Martin Germann, Steidl: Göttingen, 2010
2004
The Valley, Scalo Velag, Zürich
1992
Pictures From Home, Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York
1989
Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden gate University of New Mexico Press (in collaboration with Miles DeCoster, Mark Klett, Mike Mandel and Paul Metcalf)
1977
Evidence, (in collaboration with Mike Mandel) self published
