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
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
2004 Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professorship, Emporia State University
2002 Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman Book Award
2002 Governor's Artist Award for 2002, State of Kansas
1999 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Research and Creativity
1998 Hasselblad/Kodak Educator's Showcase Award
1996 Two-Dimensional Artist Fellowship, Kansas Arts Commission
1991 Photography Fellowship, Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts
Selected Publications
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
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Consolidated Natural Gas Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, Missouri
Indosuez Capital Banque, New York City
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Oklahoma University Art Museum, Norman, Oklahoma
PaineWebber Landscape Collection, New York, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KansasE-mail: lschwarm@emporia.edu
