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Larry Sultan

(American, 1946–2009)

Larry Sultan

Tasha's Third Film, from the series The Valley, 1998

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Larry Sultan

Boxers, Mission Hills, from the series The Valley, 1999

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Larry Sultan

Business Page from the series Pictures from Home, 1985

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Biography

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

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, DÃ¼sseldorf, 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)

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

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

Larry Sultan

(American, 1946–2009)

Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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