Larry Schwarm
Professor of Photography
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M.F.A. University of Kansas
1988-present: Professor of Art, Photography, Emporia State University
Selected Exhibitions
2011 Present Tense, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2011 The Kansas Farm, Wichita Art Museum
2011 Art of Adornment: Artists Embellish the Body, Wichita Art Museum
2010 George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
2010 Hopey, Changey Things, Bemis Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska
2010 River City Biennale: Wichita, Kansas
2010 Early Work-Late Work: Photographs of the Land, Center Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
2009 Larry Schwarm: Greensburg after the storm, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
2009 Human Nature, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2009 SEDUCED: The Relevance of Landscape in the 21st Century, Guilford Art Center, Connecticut
2009 Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2009 THE 50 STATES PROJECT: http://www.50statesproject.net/index.php
2008 Larry Schwarm: Greensburg after the Strom, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
2008 Destruction & Renewal, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Fine Arts, K.C.
2007 Aftermath, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Larry Schwarm, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Inaugural exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum
2005 Rites of Renewal, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2004 Larry Schwarm: On Fire, Robert Koch Gallery,San Francisco, California
2004 Terrestrial Forces, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
2004 American Landscapes: Four Views, Stephen Cohen Gallery, LA, CA
2003 Photographs from On Fire, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2003 Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 Larry Schwarm, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2003 The Land Through a Lens: Highlights of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Harn Museum of Art at Florida University
2001 Larry Schwarm: Photographs, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
2000 American Photography: The Hallmark Collection, Nelson- Akins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Prairie Fires, Sheldon Gallery of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
1996 Larry Schwarm: Recent Work, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1996 Prairie Fires, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1992 Between Home and Heaven, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
1991 Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Awards
2010 Received U.S. Government license to travel and photograph in Cuba
2005 Elected to Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society
2004 Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professorship Award, Emporia State University
2002 Received Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman Book Award and Prize
Named Governor’s Artist for 2002, State of Kansas
1999 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Annual Award for Research and Creativity
1998 Hasselblad / Kodak Educator’s Showcase Award, (equipment & supplies)
1996 Two-Dimensional Artist Fellowship, Kansas Arts Commission
1991 Photography Fellowship, Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for Arts
Selected Publications
2011 Audubon Magazine, Cover and inside photographs
2010 Cover for Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy – English and Spanish editions
2009 Art In American magazine, October
2008 Visions of Paradise, National Geographic Books
2006 Work reviewed in ArtNews magazine
2004 Harper's Magazine, cover photo, February issue
2004 Terrestrial Forces, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts
2000 Cover Photo for Good Friday, by Phillip Heldrick
1999 An American Century of Photography, Abrams Publishing
1997 Harper's Magazine, April 1997
1996 Blind Spot, Magazine, Winter 96/97
1994 Blue Sky #9, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1992 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American
Landscape Photography, National Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1983 An Open Land, Art Institute of Chicago and Apeiron Press
Work in Selected Permanent Collections
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
LACMA (Los Angeles Museum of Art)
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
Nerman Museum of Art, Johnson County Community College, Olathe, Kansas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Hallmark Collection)
National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon
Pritzker Collection, University of Chicago
Oklahoma University Art Museum, Norman, Oklahoma
SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
American Century, Kansas City, Missouri
Board of Trade, Kansas City, Missouri
Bolen Enterprises, New York City
Cessna Aircraft, Wichita, Kansas
Consolidated Natural Gas Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Corporate Reality Services, Long Island City, New York
Cinetel Productions, Vancouver, British Columbia
Dillon’s Corporate Headquarters, Hutchinson, Kansas
Emprise Bank, Wichita, Kansas
H & R Block Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas Health Foundation, Wichita
Paramount “Double Jeopardy” Film Productions, New Orleans, Louisiana
Federal Reserve Board, Kansas City, Missouri
Feingold & Associates Architecture, Kansas City, Missouri
Government Employees’ Hospital Association, Kansas City, Missouri
Indosuez Capital Banque, New York City
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Kansas City, Missouri
PaineWebber Landscape Collection (by John Szarkowski), New York, New York
Prairie Capital Management, Prairie Village, Kansas
Sonnenschein, Nath, & Rosenthal Law Firm, Kansas City, Missouri
Sprint International, Shawnee Mission, Kansas
Trammell Crow Company, Overland Park, Kansas
E-mail:lschwarm@emporia.edu