American, 1934 - present
Born in Detroit on June 11,1934, Jerry Uelsmann received his B.F.A. degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 and his M.S. and MFA at Indiana University in 1960. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960 ("my first job offer"). He became a graduate research professor of art at the university in 1974, and is now retired from teaching. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, with his wife, the artist Maggie Taylor.
Uelsmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a founding member of The Society of Photographic Education and a fom1er trustee of the Friends of Photography. UeIsmann's work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad over the past forty years. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modem Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the Samuel P. Ham Museum in Gainesville, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, and the Museum of Photography in Seoul, Korea.
EDUCATION
1957
Rochester Institute of Technology, B.F.A.
1960
Indiana University M.S. and M.F.A.
1974
Indiana University, Graduate Research Professor of Art
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
National Endowment for the Arts
1972
University of Florida Faculty Development Grant
1971
Guggenheim Fellowship
1967
Fellow, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The American Center for Culture, Prague, Czech Republic
Amerika Haus, Vienna, Austria
Center for Photograohy as an Art Form, Bombay, India
American Cultural Center, Paris France
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Cheekwood Fine Art Center, Nashville, TN
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Cultural Center of the USA, Istanbul, Turkey
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Norton Museum of Art, West palm Beach, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
Baltimore Museum of Art
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris France
Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Cheekwood Fine Art Center, Nashville TN
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Chyrsler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gallery of Modern art of the National Galleries of Scotland
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musée Reattu, Aries, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine arts, St. Petersburg, FL
MOMA, New York, NY
Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
National Galleries of Scotland
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New York University, New York, NY
Nicephore Niepce Museum, Chalon, France
Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Royal Photographic Society, London, England
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainsville, FL
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Japan
UCLA Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Louisville Photographic Archives, Louisville, KY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
MONOGRAPHS
Maggie and Jerry, The Works of Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, Museum of Photography, Seoul (Hanmi Pharm, Co. Ltd., 2007)
Uelsmann, Other Realities (Bulfinch Press, 2005)
Referencing Art (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003)
Approaching the Shadow (Tucson, AZ: Nazreali Press, 2000)
Museum Studies (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1999)
Uelsmann/Yosemite (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996)
Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992)
Uelsmann: Process and Perception (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1985)
Jerry N. Uelsmann-Twenty-five Years: A Retrospective (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1982)
Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photography from 1975-79 (Chicago: Columbia College, 1980)
Jerry Uelsmann, Silver Meditations (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1975)
Jerry N. Uelsmann (Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1970)
Eight Photographs: Jerry N. Uelsmann (Doubleday & Company, New York, NY, 1970)
Born in Detroit on June 11,1934, Jerry Uelsmann received his B.F.A. degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 and his M.S. and MFA at Indiana University in 1960. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960 ("my first job offer"). He became a graduate research professor of art at the university in 1974, and is now retired from teaching. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, with his wife, the artist Maggie Taylor.
Uelsmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a founding member of The Society of Photographic Education and a fom1er trustee of the Friends of Photography. UeIsmann's work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad over the past forty years. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modem Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the Samuel P. Ham Museum in Gainesville, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, and the Museum of Photography in Seoul, Korea.
EDUCATION
1957
Rochester Institute of Technology, B.F.A.
1960
Indiana University M.S. and M.F.A.
1974
Indiana University, Graduate Research Professor of Art
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
National Endowment for the Arts
1972
University of Florida Faculty Development Grant
1971
Guggenheim Fellowship
1967
Fellow, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The American Center for Culture, Prague, Czech Republic
Amerika Haus, Vienna, Austria
Center for Photograohy as an Art Form, Bombay, India
American Cultural Center, Paris France
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Cheekwood Fine Art Center, Nashville, TN
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Cultural Center of the USA, Istanbul, Turkey
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Norton Museum of Art, West palm Beach, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
Baltimore Museum of Art
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris France
Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Cheekwood Fine Art Center, Nashville TN
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Chyrsler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gallery of Modern art of the National Galleries of Scotland
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musée Reattu, Aries, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine arts, St. Petersburg, FL
MOMA, New York, NY
Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
National Galleries of Scotland
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New York University, New York, NY
Nicephore Niepce Museum, Chalon, France
Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Royal Photographic Society, London, England
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainsville, FL
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Japan
UCLA Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Louisville Photographic Archives, Louisville, KY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
MONOGRAPHS
Maggie and Jerry, The Works of Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, Museum of Photography, Seoul (Hanmi Pharm, Co. Ltd., 2007)
Uelsmann, Other Realities (Bulfinch Press, 2005)
Referencing Art (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003)
Approaching the Shadow (Tucson, AZ: Nazreali Press, 2000)
Museum Studies (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1999)
Uelsmann/Yosemite (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996)
Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992)
Uelsmann: Process and Perception (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1985)
Jerry N. Uelsmann-Twenty-five Years: A Retrospective (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1982)
Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photography from 1975-79 (Chicago: Columbia College, 1980)
Jerry Uelsmann, Silver Meditations (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1975)
Jerry N. Uelsmann (Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1970)
Eight Photographs: Jerry N. Uelsmann (Doubleday & Company, New York, NY, 1970)