Larry Merrill Resume

Solo Exhibitions

Memorial Art Gallery of University of Rochester, Wards of Time, Photographs of Antiquities, 2018

Vermont Center for Photography, Larry Merrill Trees, online exhibition, 2013

Nazareth College Art Gallery, Tree as Photograph, Pittsford, NY, 2013

George Eastman Museum, Larry Merrill, Looking at Trees, Rochester, NY, 2011

Gallery 291, Larry Merrill, Photographs of Trees, San Francisco, CA, 2011

Davison Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, In Plain Sight, Rochester, NY, 2009

Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Pedestrian Photographs, NY, 2008

Yale Global Fellows Institute, World Bank Photographs, New Haven, CT, 2006

ARTECO Institute Gallery, Photographs of Bhutan, Cumberland, MD, 2006

The World Bank, Photographs: Bhutan, Haiti, Peru, Senegal, Washington, DC, 2001

H.F. Manes Gallery, Larry Merrill, New York Photographs, New York, NY, 1984

George Eastman Museum, Larry Merrill, Photographs of New York, Rochester, NY, 1983

George Frederick Gallery, Larry Merrill, Photographs, Rochester, NY, 1983

Peter M. David Gallery, Larry Merrill Photographs, Minneapolis, MN, 1979

Group Exhibitions

European Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, 2014

Blue Sky Gallery, The Optical, Portland, Oregon, 2013

Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Trees and Other Ramifications, Ithaca, NY, 2011

Federal Reserve Bank, New Acquisitions, 2009-2011, Washington , DC, 2011

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1989

Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York, 1987

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, 1984

Sioux City Art Center, Contemporary Color, Sioux City Iowa, 1984

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Color Photographs from the Permanent Collection, 1982

Minnesota Museum of Art, Our Land/Our People, St. Paul, MN, 1982

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, MN.

Collections*

Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Brooklyn College Art Library, Brooklyn, NY

Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson Art Library, Chicago, IL

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, DC

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

The Getty Museum, General Library Collections, Santa Monica, CA

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Onassis Library for Hellenic & Roman Art, NY

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Museum of the City of New York, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

New York Historical Society, NY

New York Public Library, Special Collections, NY

San Antonio Museum of Art Library, San Antonio, TX

Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

The World Bank, Washington, DC

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

*A portrait of Philip Guston is in the artist files:
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
The National Gallery of Art, DC
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Philip Guston Foundation, West Hurley, NY

Books

An Accumulation of Silence, Photographs of ancient Greek & Roman statuary by Larry Merrill,
With Poems by Kathleen Wakefield, Essay by Archie Rand, 2021

Pedestrian Photographs/Larry Merrill, Essays by Wendell Berry and Marjorie Searl,
University of Rochester Press, NY, 2008

Articles

Afterimage online: Journal of Cultural Criticism, Larry Merrill, Tree as Photograph, December, 2013

Podcast, George Eastman House, public lecture, Looking at Trees, 2011

Federal Reserve Board Art Collection, Acquisitions, 2009-2011, Washington, DC, 2011

City Newspaper, Rochester, NY, “Larry Merrill/Pedestrian Photographs,” January, 2008

Parnassus, Poetry in Review, New York, December, 2007

City Newspaper, Rochester, NY, “Gritty, Glorious Life in the City,” December, 2006

The Bardian, Bard College, NY “From Bard to Bhutan and Back,” 2001

The World Bank, Washington, DC, numerous publications, 1999-2003

Photo Metro, “Photography in Rochester,” 1987

Making of a Collection: Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Aperture, 1985

Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, 1984

EXPOSURE, Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Spring, 1983

Minnesota Museum of Arts, Our Land/Our People, exhibition catalog, 1982

Photographic Activities

Juror, Jacob Javits Fellowships in the Arts, US Department of Education, 2010

Residency Award, Jentel Foundation, Banner, Wyoming, 2010

Photographer for The World Bank, Washington, DC, Bhutan, Haiti, Peru, Senegal, 1999-2001

Guest Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, The Camera and the Photograph, 1981