Larry W. Schwarm .....x..Emporia State University Department of Art
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDivision of Art
Wichita, Kansas 67218 xx.xxxKing Hall, Box 4015
phone: 316.681.9964 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .X .X..XxEmporia, Kansas 66801
phone: 913.671.2646 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx....... xxxxphone: 620.341.5690
lschwarm@emporia.edu
EDUCATION:
B.F.A. Design/Sculpture, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas
M.F.A. Design/Photography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
1988- Professor of Art, Emporia State University
1982-88 Advertising/commercial photographer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: (complete list available on request)
One Person:
2008 Larry Schwarm: Greensburg after the storm, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Devastation/Renewal, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
2007
Aftermath: Larry Schwarm & Debbie Fleming Caffery, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Larry Schwarm, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Rites of Renewal, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 Larry Schwarm: On Fire, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
2003 Photographs from On Fire, Rare Book Library, Duke University, Durham, N. C
2001 Larry Schwarm: Photographs, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
1999 Prairie Fires, Sheldon Gallery of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
1996 Larry Schwarm, Recent Work, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
xxxxxxPrairie Fires, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1994 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregom
1993 Austin-Peay University, Clarksville, Tennessee
1992 Tulsa Photography Collective, Tulsa, Oklahoma
xxxxxxMulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
xxxxxxWichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
1991 Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
xxxxxxMissouri Western University, Saint Joseph, Missouri
xxxGroup:
2007 Opening Exhibition, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
2006 Inaugural permanent collection exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum (3 images)
2005 The Big Picture: Contemporary Large-Scale Photography, Sonoma (California) State University
41° North/90° West: Contemporary Landscape, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
X8: Photography, Gensler Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 Terrestrial Forces, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
American Landscapes: Four Views, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Memory, Salina Arts Center, Salina, Kansas
2003 Recent acquisitions in contemporary photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Roots of Renewal, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Museum of Florida
International University, Miami
2002 Dan Kirchhefer & Larry Schwarm, Thornhill Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Group Photo Show: From Classic to Now, Gallery Karl Oskar, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 Midwestern Photographers Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
2000 American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Collection, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Jubilee Exhibition, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
1998 New Acquisitions, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
A Century of Western Landscape Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1997 Midlands Invitational, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Salina Art Center, Juried Exhibition, (Marla Prather, Juror Award) Salina, Kansas
1996 City Stories, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, University of Iowa Museum of Art
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1994 Kansas Chooses Kansas III, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
Prairie: Images and Words, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
1993 Land & Its Uses: Works from the Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansa
1992 Between Home and Heaven, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxalso traveled to: Cleveland Museum of Art, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxNew Orleans Museum of Art, New York State Museum, & Carnegie Museum of Art
1991 Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1984 Exposed and Developed, NEA Grant Recipients, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1983 An Open Land, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois (traveled to 13 additional venues in the U.S.)
SELECTED BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS: (complete list available on request)
2007 Photography in the Digital Age by Robert Hersch, Focal Press (cover and two photos)
2006 Work reviewed in ArtNews magazine, April issue
Cover photo for American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets, Oberlin College Press
Art & Antiques magazine, work featured in article
Cover photo for SONY/DMG classical music CD
2005 Orion magazine, cover photo, January-February 2005
New Letters Literary Magazine, Cover photo and inside portfolio
41° North/90° West: Contemporary Landscape, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
2004 Terrestrial Forces, Florida State University Museum of fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
Harper’s Magazine, cover photo, February 2004
Duke Magazine, Durham, North Carolina (article about, with 6 photos
2003 On Fire: Larry Schwarm, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Doubletake Magazine, Boston, Massachusetts
Adbusters Magazine, Vancouver, Canada
PDN (Photo District News) Magazine, October issue
2000 Cover Photo for Good Friday, by Philip Heldrick
1999 An American Century of Photography, Abrams Publishing
Harper’s Magazine, Cover photo, January 2000
Jubilee Exhibition Catalogue, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
1998 Cover photo for Cities of the Plains, a novel by Cormac McCarthy, Knopf Pub.
Hasselblad / Kodak Educator Award (National Advertisement)
1997 Harper’s Magazine, April 1997
1996 Blind Spot Magazine, Winter 96/97,
1994 Blue Sky #9, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1993 And Time Began, Cover & illustrations, by Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Lone Oak Press.
Prairie Fires, co-authored by Jim Hoy, English, & Elmer Finck, biology, E.S.U. Press
1992 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography,
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1984 Exposed and Developed, Smithsonian Institution Press
1983 An Open Land, Art Institute of Chicago and Apeiron Press.
1979 Creative Camera Collections Five, Coo Press, London, England.
1978 Twelve Photographers, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri
1977 Kansas Album, Kansas Bankers Association and Addison House Press
1975 No Mountains in the Way, NEA, University of Kansas Press
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS:
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
WORK IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
American Art Museum. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Hallmark Collection)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oklahoma University Art Museum, Norman, Oklahoma
SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
