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Larry Sultan’s work blends documentary and staged photography creating images that playfully negotiate between reality and fantasy, domesticity and desire. Sultan’s renowned use of light and color add to an evident tenderness and generosity in his explorations of home, family and the fate of the American Dream. An influential mentor to generations of artists and recipient of numerous awards and grants and the subject of a Broadway play, Sultan’s work continues to be exhibited and published internationally. His work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Met, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate and the Centre Georges Pompidou, among many others. Born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York – died 2009 in Greenbrae, California.
Born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Died 2009 in Greenbrae, California, USA.
Professor of Art, California College of Arts and Crafts
Chair, Photography Department, California College of Arts and Crafts
Instructor of Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, California
M.F.A., Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
B.A., Political Science, University of California
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
Gerbode Foundation – Faculty Development Grant
Society of Environmental Graphic Design – Award of Merit
Haas Foundation – Creative Work Fund Award
Marin Arts Council, Artist Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
Fleishhaker Foundation Eureka Fellowship
Englehard Fellowship, ICA Boston
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
Marin Arts Council, Artists Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
California Arts Council, Special Projects (with Mike Mandel)
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places (with Mike Mandel)
Larry Sultan: Pictures From Home, SK Stiftung, Cologne, Germany
Larry Sultan: Pictures From Home, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA; Schloss Neuhardenberg bei Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA (with Mike Mandel), USA
Larry Sultan. Swimmers, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Larry Sultan. Here and Home, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Larry Sultan. Here and Home, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Larry Sultan, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Larry Sultan, SMAK – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Larry Sultan. Here and Home, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Larry Sultan, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Larry Sultan. Homeland, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Larry Sultan. The Valley, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Larry Sultan. Around the House, Alexandre Pallazzon Ltd., London, UK
Larry Sultan. The Valley, Domus Artium 002, Salamanca, Spain
Larry Sultan. The Valley, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
BAT Campus Galerie, Bayreuth, Germany
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
The Valley, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie MK, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Queens Museum, New York, NY, USA
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Chicago Cultural Arts Center, Chicago, IL, USA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, SanDiego, CA, USA
Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA
Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
Portland School of Art, Portland, OR, USA
University of Colorado, Art Gallery, Boulder, CO, USA
Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Jonathan Lethem’s Parallel Play: Contemporary Art and Art Writing, Benton Museum of Art Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
When Images Learned to Speak: Conceptualized Documentary Photography from Astrid Ullens, De Schooten Whettnall’s Collection, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
WHAT ARE WORDS WORTH?: The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Blick in die Zeit – Alter und Altern im photographischen Porträt, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, Berlin, Germany
Intimate Strangers, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hollywood, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany
FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
Essentials, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
American Photography, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Civilization: The Way We Live, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MUCEM), Marseille, France
LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Parallel Worlds, Art, Science & Fiction, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle, Germany
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Fuzzy Dark Spot, Video Art from Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Civilization: The Way We Live, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
In the Sunshine of Neglect, California Museum of Photography UCR Arts, Riverside, CA, USA
Always Greener: Seeing and Seeking Suburbia—Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, USA
No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Civilization: The Way We Live, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany and Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Constellations, Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA
Mike Mandel & Larry Sultan: Billboards & Newsroom, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, USA
Materials and Objects: Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel, Tate Modern, London, UK
I remember not remembering, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Berkeley Eye: Perspectives from the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA, USA
1000 m2 of Desire, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
California and the West, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Festival Photo Levallois, Levallois, France
Post-Portrait, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
(Mis)Understanding Photography. Werke und Manifeste, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Fotografie Total. Werke aus der Sammlung Sammlung des MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
PROXIMITIES: WHAT TIME IS IT THERE, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Under the Big Black Sun – Californian Art 1974-1981, MOCA at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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, Germany
The Lucid Evidence. Fotografie aus der Sammlung des MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
The View from Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles (1865-2008), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
Royal Botanical Gardens, PhotoEspaña 09, Madrid, Spain (with Mike Mandel)
Into the Sunset: Photography’s image of the American of West, Museum Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Art Film / Art Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
The Art of Caring, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Seeing Double, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, USA
Darkside, FotoMuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Worlds Away. New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A., Huntington Library, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Variable Capital, Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool, UK
Southern Exposure: Southern California Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA, USA
Currents in Photography, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, USA
Das Kapital. Blue Chips & Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann and Larry Sultan, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: Of Mice and Men, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V., Berlin, Germany
Click Double Click. Das dokumentarische Moment, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Click Double Click. Het documentaire moment, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
House Broken, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity In American Photography, The White Cube, London, UK and the Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Picturing Media: Modern Photographs from the Collections, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY, USA
Points of Departure: Connecting mit Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Color, Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Persistance of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Immodest Gazes, La Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
The Path of Resistance. Protest Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Made in California, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Beyond Boundries: Contemporary Photography in California, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
American Treasures from the Corcoran Gallery, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Making Light: Wit and Humor in Photography, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, NY, USA
Modern Starts / PEOPLE, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 25/25 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, USA
Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY, USA
Matrix: 20 Years, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Centre Canadien D’Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Under Exposed, Stockholm Metro Stations, Stockholm, Sweden
HOPE, The National Arts Club, New York, NY, USA
Marin Arts Awards Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, USA
Friends and Family, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Familial Gaze, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
To Keep Her Countenance, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Illustrious History 1871 – Present, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Photography as a Reflection of Time, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
AlterEgo, Center for the Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Photography, Stephan Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Home is Where, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, USA
Whose Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Gesture and Pose, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Nature and Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dismantling The Myth of the Family, Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Parents, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (travelling exhibition)
Prints, Drawings, Photographs: a Summer Selection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Photography as Idea: Conceptual Photography of the 60’s and 70’s, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Blood Relatives, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Imaging the Family: Photographs by Tina Barney, Lorie Novak, and Larry Sultan, MIT List Art Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Recent Collaborations, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ, USA
Re: Memory, The Work of Lorie Novak, George Kruse, Larry Sultan and Anne Turyn, Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe, Museum of Modern Art, New York (travelling exhibition)
Real Life Fictions: Photographs of Bill Dane, John Harding and Larry Sultan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Nature and Culture, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, USA
Collaborations, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Swimmers, Janet Burden Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
and Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
American Images 1945-1985, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Playing it Again: Strategies of Appropriation, Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico (travelling exhibition)
Family as Subject Matter in Contemporary Art, Washington
Project for the arts Art and Advertising, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA
Les Immateriaux, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Signs of the Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
New Color Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The Swimmers, Pace McGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Photography in California: 1945-1975, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (travelling exhibition)
The Collection of Sam Wagstaff, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
20th Century Photography From the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Beyond Color, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
A Few French Gestures, Paris Bienale XIIeme, Paris, France
Swimmers, MACK books, London
Pictures From Home, 2nd Edition, MACK Books, London
The Photographer in the Garden, Aperture, New York and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
Larry Sultan, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn and SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Larry Sultan. Here and Home, Prestel Publishing, New York
Thomas Zander (Ed.): Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany
Zander, Thomas / Görner, Veit / Germann, Martin (Ed.): Larry Sultan. Katherine Avenue, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
Larry Sultan. The Valley, Scalo Velag, Zurich, Switzerland
Larry Sultan. Pictures From Home, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York
Headlands. The Marin Coast at the Golden Gate, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New York (in collaboration with Miles DeCoster, Mark Klett, Mike Mandel and Paul Metcalf)
Mike Mandel / Larry Sultan. Evidence, self published
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, Arizona
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
List Art Center, Brown University, Boston, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Jewish Museum, New York
The State of Washington
University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
KMS Fine Art Group, Baar, Switzerland
Zander Galerie
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