EDUCATION
MFA, Photography,
San Francisco Art Institute 1973
BA, Political Science, University of California 1968 PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS
California College of Arts
Professor of Art 1989 - present
Chair- Photography Department 1993-1999 San Francisco Art Institute
Instructor of Photography 1978-1988 Headlands Center for the Arts
Board of Trustees 1992 -1998 AWARDS
| 2000 | Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship |
| | United States State Department: International Arts and Lectures Grant |
| | Flintridge Foundation Artist’s Fellowship |
| 1999 | Gerbode Foundation |
| 1997 | Society of Environmental Graphic Design - Award of Merit |
| 1996 | Haas Foundation - Creative Work Fund Award |
| | Marin Arts Council, Artist Fellowship |
| 1992 | National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship |
| 1991 | Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award |
| 1989 | Fleishhaker Foundation Eureka Fellowship |
| 1988 | Englehard Fellowship, ICA Boston |
| 1986 | National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship |
| | Marin Arts Council, Artists Fellowship |
| 1983 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1980 | National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship |
| 1978 | California Arts Council, Special Projects (with Mike Mandel) |
| 1977 | National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship |
| 1976 | National Endowment for the Arts, Art in Public Places with (Mike Mandel) |
PUBLICATIONS
| Published Books |
| 2004 | The Valley, Scalo Verlag |
| 1992 | Pictures From Home, Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York |
| 1989 | Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden Gate. University of New Mexico Press (collaboration with Miles DeCoster, Mark Klett, Mike Mandel and Paul Metcalf) |
| 1977 | Evidence. (collaboration with Mike Mandel), self published |
| 1974 | How to Read Music in One Evening (collaboration with Mike Mandel) |
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| Anthologies, Catalogues, Portfolios |
| 2005 | Kennedy Marla, Looking at Los Angeles D.A.P. |
| 2004 | Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990 Museum of Modern Art |
| 2003 | Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass |
| | Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art. Seattle Art Museum |
| 2002 | Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum and Prestel Verlag |
| | Lehmann, Ulrich. Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography. ICA Boston, and Hadje Cantz |
| | Hingston, Thomas PORN? Vision On, London |
| 2001 | Aletti, Vince et al. The Book of 101 Books, PPP Editions and Roth Horowitz |
| | Neri, Louise. Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity In AmericanPhotography, The White Cube, London, England |
| | Sandbye, Mette. Mindsmaerker, Raevens Sorte Bibliotek |
| 2000 | American Treasures of the Corcoran Museum of Art, Abbeville Press |
| | Druckery,Timothy. Immodest Gazes. La Fundacio La Caiza, Barcelona |
| | Made in California; Image and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| | Kemp, Arnold. Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF |
| | Kabat, Nora. Beyond Boundries: Contemporary Photography in California. Friends of Photography |
| 1998 | Hirsch, Marianne. Familial Gaze. Harvard University Press |
| | Phillips, Sandra. Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence. Chronicle Books |
| | George, Alice Rose. Hope Photographs, Thames and Hudson |
| 1997 | Rugoff, Ralph. Scene of the Crime, MIT Press |
| | Sussler, Betsey. Speak Art, The Best of Bomb Magazine Interviews. G + B Arts International |
| | "What remains After Things Fall Apart" Blind Spot (#Ten) |
| 1995 | Home is Where University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC |
| | Making of a Modern Museum, SF Museum of Modern Art |
| | A Century of American Photography, The Hallmark Collection, Abrams |
| 1994 | Brown, Carol. "Who’s Looking at the Family?" Barbican Art Gallery, (London 1992) |
| 1993 | Heyman, Abigal. Flesh and Blood. The Picture Project NY |
| | Geibert, Ron. Parents. Dayton Art Institute/Wright State University |
| 1991 | Galassi, Peter. The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort. The Museum of Modern Art |
| | Bamburger, Tom. Blood Relatives. The Milwaukee Art Museum |
| 1989 | Kismaric, Susan. California Photography: Re - Making Make Believe. The Museum of Modern Art |
| 1987 | Grundberg, Andy and Kathleen Gauss. Photography and Art: Interactions since 1946. New York: Abbeville Press |
| 1985 | Irmas, Deborah. Signs of the Times: Some Recurring Motifs in 20th Century Photography. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| 1984 | Katzman, Lousie. Photography in California: 1945 through 1975. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| 1981 | Thomas, Lew and Peter D’Agostino eds. Still Photography: The Problematic Model. San Francisco: NFS Press |
ONE PERSON AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
| 2005 | Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne Switzerland |
| | Photographers’ Gallery, London England |
| | Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp Belgium |
| 2004 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| | Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln Germany |
| | The Apartment, Athens, Greece |
| | Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco |
| | Janet Borden Gallery, New York |
| 2003 | Isabella Brancolini Art Contemporane Gallery, Florence Italy |
| | Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco |
| 2002 | Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| | Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France |
| 2001 | Janet Borden Gallery, New York |
| 2000 | Galerie MK, Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
| 1996 | Queens Museum, New York |
| 1995 | Scottsdale Center for the Arts - Scottsdale Arizona |
| 1994 | Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC |
| 1993 | Chicago Cultural Arts Center |
| | Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh PA |
| | San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art |
| | Janet Borden Gallery, New York |
| 1992 | Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| | San Jose Museum of Art |
| 1990 | The Exploratorium, San Francisco, ca |
| 1989 | Janet Borden Gallery, New York |
| | Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (with Mike Mandel and Mark Klett) |
| 1987 | Rhode Island School of Design |
| 1983 | University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA * |
| | Film In The Cities, St Paul, MN |
| 1982 | Portland School of Art, ME |
| | University of Colorado Art Gallery |
| 1981 | Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| | Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 1979 | Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art * |
| 1978 | Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University |
| | Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art * |
| 1977 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art * |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
| 2006 | Berlin Bienalle |
| 2005 | Girls in Film, Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, New York |
| | About Face, Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
| | Culture and Continuity The Jewish Museum, New York |
| 2004 | Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| | Inside Out: Portraits From the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art |
| | Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, BC |
| 2003 | Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass |
| | Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art. Seattle Art Museum |
| | TV CINEMA VIDEO, Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln Germany |
| | Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Mass |
| | Turning Corners, University Art Museum, Berkeley |
| 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 |
| | House Broken, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco |
| 2001 | Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity In American Photography, White Cube, London, England and the Prague City Gallery |
| | Picturing Media: Modern Photographs from the Collections, The Metropolitan Museum NY |
| | Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art, SF Museum of Modern Art |
| 2000 | The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery |
| | Immodest Gazes. La Fundacio La Caiza, 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 Boundaries: 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 Photography, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vasser |
| 1999 | Modern Starts/PEOPLE The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| | The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Florida |
| | Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art |
| | Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco |
| | 25/25 Southern Exposures, San Francisco |
| 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, San Francisco |
| | Photography as a Reflection of Time, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. |
| | Picturing Modernity, Aspects From the Permanent Collection, SF Museum of Modern Art |
| 1995 | AlterEgo Amsterdam Center for the Arts, Holland |
| | La Matuere, L ‘Ombre, La Fiction Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris |
| | Moving the Message: Activism and Art, San Francisco Camerawork Gallery |
| | Death and the Family Presentation House Gallery, Vancover B.C. Canada |
| | Photography Stephan Wirtz Gallery , San Francisco |
| | Home is Where Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC |
| | We Look and See University Art Museum - Berkeley, California |
| | Inaugural Exhibition San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| | Spirit of Play Union Station, New York City |
| 1994 | Whose Looking at the Family, Barbicon Art Gallery, London, England |
| | Gesture and Pose, The Museum of Modern Art |
| | Nature and Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| 1992 | “Dismantling The Myth of the Family," Betty Rymer Gallery / The Art Institute of Chicago |
| | “Parents”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University |
| | “This Sporting Life”, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia (Traveling Exhibition) |
| 1991 | “The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Traveling Exhibition) |
| | “Prints , Drawings, Photographs: a Summer Selection" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| | "Photography as Idea: Conceptual Photography of the 60's and 70's” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| | "Blood Relatives," Milwaukee Art Museum |
| | “Imaging the Family: Photographs by Tina Barney, Lorie Novak, and Larry Sultan," List Art Center Brown University, RI |
| 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 |
| 1989 | "California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe", The Museum of Modern Art, NY
(Traveling Exhibition) |
| | Real Life Fictions: Photographs of Bill Dane, John Harding and Larry Sultan", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| 1988 | "Nature and Culture, “ The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA |
| | "Collaborations," Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation |
| | "Cross Currents/Cross Country," SF Camerawork/ Photographic Resource Center |
| | "The Swimmers," Burden Gallery, New York (Catalogue) |
| 1987 | "Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum |
| 1985 | "American Images 1945-1985. Barbican Art Gallery, London England |
| | "Playing it Again: Strategies of Appropriation", Santa Fe Center of Contemporary Art, (Traveling 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 |
| | “New Color Photography,”The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| | "The Swimmers,”Pace Mcgill Gallery, New York |
| 1984 | "Photography in California: 1945-1975,” The San Francisco Museum Of Modern
Art, (Traveling Exhibition) |
| | "The Collection of Sam Wagstaff," International Center of Photography, NY |
| 1982 | "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 |
PUBLIC COLLECTION
Art Institute of Chicago
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris France
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon AZ
Canadian Center for Art and Architecture
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vasser College
Foundation Peter Stuyvesant
Frods Regional D'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ca
The Jewish Museum, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The List Art Center, Brown University, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art
New Mexico State University Art Gallery
The Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The State of Washington
University of California Art Museum, Berkeley
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Conn.
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
| 2004 | DeCarlo, Tessa, Star Maps, San Fernando Valley Style New York Times May 23, 2004 |
| 2003 | Baker, Ken. Larry Sultan, Art News. June 2003 |
| | Helfand, Glen. Gallery Walk San Francisco, Art on Paper, May 2003 |
| | Levine, Karen, Larry Sultan at Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Tema Celeste, May 2003 |
| 2002 | Bellel, Zeva, Home Movies Dutch July 2002 |
| | Cooper, Bernard. Adult Pictures, Los Angeles Magazine, March 2002 |
| | Guerrin,Michel. Larry Sultan, collectionneur de memoire Le Monde July 17, 2002 |
| | Wolinski, Natacha. Larry Sultan: L’Amerique en eaux Troubles , Beau Arts Magazine July 2002 |
| 2001 | Johnson, Ken. Larry Sultan “The Valley” New York Times October 5 2001 |
| | Portfolio “Days of Their Lives” British GQ June 2001 |
| 2000 | Aletti, Vince. Show of Shows, The Village Voice July 25 2000 |
| | Sultan, Larry, The Parallel Universe The New York Times Magazine November 12, 2000 |
| 1999 | Love Thy Neighbors, ARENA (Portfolio) September 1999 |
| | Portfolio Hommes Vogue International Spring 1999 |
| | Portfolio Spin, September 1999 |
| 1998 | Preview, The American Lawn, Artforum, May 1998 |
| | Graves, Donna . Site - People in Real Life Suburbia, Sculpture April Vol 17 |
| | What’s Left After things Fall Apart Portfolio Blind Spot # 10 |
| | Recent Projects - People in Real life Public Art Review |
| 1997 | Brunson, Jamie People in Real Life. Art Issues, November/December 1997 |
| 1996 | Goldberg, Vicki The Sanpshot, History’s Modest Helper, New York Times June 16 |
| 1995 | The Sailor who Fell from Grace Portfolio Blind Spot # 5 Summer 1995 |
| | Howell, George, “Larry Sultan: Pictures From Home” Art Papers May & June |
| | Mader, D.H., “Family Values” Perspektief Holland Spring 1995 |
| | Ostrom,Mary Anne , Controversy over Public Art, San Jose Mercury News 11/11/95 |
| | Sweeny,Camille, Portriat of the American Child, New York Times Magazine 10/8/95 |
| | Art and Design, London, England Photography in the Visual Arts A and D 9/95 |
| 1994 | Walters, Guy, “Theories of Relativity” The London Times Magazine May 21 |
| | Kelly, Jeff, "Review" Artforum December |
| | Gefter Philip, “Word for Word / Life Stories: Of Death, Danger, Hope and Love” The New York Times August 7 |
| | Clifton, Leigh Ann, “Marin Project ignites a Furor” Artweek, September 22 |
| | Woodward, Richard “A Jewish Family:From Brooklyn to New York”, ARTnews 1/94 |
| 1993 | Aletti, Vince, “Family Viewing”, Village Voice July 6 |
| | Bonetti, David, “Public Crisis, Private Successes”, San Francisco Examiner, 3/24 |
| | Hagen, Charles , “Art in Review - Larry Sultan”, The New York Times July 2 |
| | Collins, Michael Pictures from Home Creative Camera London January 1993 |
| | Moser, Charlotte, “Larry Sultan, Pictures from Home”, Artweek Vol 23, #1 |
| | Porges, Maria “San Francisco Fax”, Art Issues March 1993 |
| | Read, Micheal, “Family Values” ReView, Friends of Photography Winter 1993 |
| | Vienne, Veronique, “Seen Through the Eyes of a Child”, |
| | Tanner, Marsha, “Poolside Manners” ARTnews, Vol 92 #8 October 1993 |
| 1992 | Gardener, Paul, “The French Guy in Goggles”, ARTnews, March |
| | Heller, Karen, “Of Human Bonding”, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, |
| | “Family Album”, Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 20 |
| | Tanner, Marcia, All in the Family San Francisco Chronicle Datebook 12/13/93 |
| 1991 | McDermott, Alice, “Dark Domestic Visions”, New York Times October 13, 1991 |
| | Plagens, Peter, “A House is not as Home“, Newsweek, Oct. 21 |
| | Russler, John, “Something New Under the Met Sun”, New York Times, July 1 |
| 1990 | Liu, Catherine. "Interview With Larry Sultan", Bomb Magazine, Spring 1990 |
| | Gross, Terry “Interview" on Fresh Air PBS |
| 1989 | "The Worlds Greatest Photographs 1980-1990" Life Magazine |
| | Grundberg, Andy. "Further Developments in the California State of Mind," New York Times, July 23, 1989 |
| | Muchnic, Suzanne. "Remarking Make-Believe in California." Los Angeles Times July 21 |
| | Lufkin, Liz. "Exposed Realities" San Francisco Cronicle May 14, 1989 |
| | Photography, The New Yorker July 17, 1989 |
| 1988 | Brown, Betty Ann. "Joining Together in Strength." Artweek, 19:39 November 11 |
| | Dubin, Zan. "Waking U.S. Up to a New Rising Sun." Los Angeles Times , October 16, 1988 |
| 1987 | Sultan, Larry. "Reflections on a Home Movie" Aperture #103, 1985 |
| | Richards, Paul. "Remembraces of Families Past," Washington Post May 25, |
| | Glowen, Ron, "Art and Advertising", Center of Contemporary Art Folio |
| 1983 | Fisher, Hal. Artforum , vol.22 no.1 September 1983 |
| 1982 | Sobieszek, Robert. "Color as Form" Camera Arts, vol.2 no.5, September |
| 1981 | Au, Anita. "Interview with Larry Sultan", PhotoArt Magazine (Hong Kong) |
| 1980 | Livingston, Kathryn."Larry Sultan", American Photographer, vol.5, no.2 August, 1980 |
| 1979 | Eliot, David. "Evidence", Chicago Sun Times, November 18, 1979 |
| | " Evidence", Journal of Visual Anthropology ,Temple University, January 1979 |
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