Born
1947 Los Angeles
Education
1966-67 East Los Angeles College
Military
1967-9 United States Army
1968 Vietnam
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Rena Bransten a Gallery, Ten Pictures, San Francisco, CA
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Pictures for L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2002 Seattle Art Museum, Picture to Picture, Seattle, WA
Galerie Polaris, Pictures for L.A., Paris, France
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Pictures for L.A., New York, NY
2001 Laguna Art Museum, Pictures for Oakland, Laguna, CA
Galerie Polaris, After LA, Paris, France
California College of Arts and Crafts, Pictures for Oakland, Oakland, CA
2000 Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Pictures for Rome, Beverly Hills, CA
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Pictures for Rome, New York, NY
1999 Galerie Polaris, City Point – Rome, Paris, France
1998 Dan Bernier Gallery, The 70’s, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Galerie POLARIS, Shooting Sites, Paris, France
Craig Krull Gallery, The City, Santa Monica, CA
Centre National de la Photographie, Landscapes for the Homeless, Paris, France
1996 Musee de l’Elysee, Landscapes for the Homeless, Lausanne, Switzerland
1995 Craig Krull Gallery, In Another World, Santa Monica, CA
The Sprengel Museum, Landscapes for the Homeless, Hanover, Germany
1993 Turner/Krull Gallery, Landscapes for the Homeless, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Turner/Krull Gallery, Shooting Sites, Los Angeles, CA
1990 The Opsis Foundation, Landscapes for the Homeless, New York, NY
1985 Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, AZ
Burden Gallery, Rodeo Drive, New York, NY
1984 Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1982 California Museum of Photography, Public Use Areas, Riverside, CA
1979 University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
1978 The Federal Building, Art in Public Places, Los Angeles, CA
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Max Protech Gallery, Washington, DC
1976 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Nation’s Capital in Photographs, Washington, DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3:
Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2001 Oakland Museum of California, Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 – 2000, Oakland, CA
Lawing Gallery, Streetwise, Houston, TX
Eyre/Moore Gallery, Other People’s Lives, Seattle, WA
Ansel Adams Center for Photography, California Invitational, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Flight Patterns, Los Angeles, CA
Reina Sofia Museum, Documents and Beyond, Madrid, Spain
2000 Venezia-Marghera, Identification of a Landscape, Venice, Italy
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Beyond Boundaries:
Contemporary Photography in California, Long Beach, CA
1999 Hasselblad Center, Goteberg, Sweden
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, COLA Awards Show, Los Angeles, CA
Franco Riccardo Artivisive, two person show with Jack Risely, Naples, Italy
1998 Armory Center for the Arts, Radical Past, Pasadena, CA
1997 Museo dArte Moderna de Contemporania di Trento e Rovereto, TRASH: When Waste Materials Become Art, Italy
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Scene of the Crime, Los Angeles, CA
1996 University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: A Photographic Survey, Long Beach, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco, CA
Fotomusuem Winterthur, Herkunft?, Winterthur, Switzerland
1995 The Parrish Art Museum, Street Engagements: Social Landscape Photography of the Sixties, South Hampton, NY
1994 Long Beach Museum of Art, Love in the Ruins: Art and Inspiration of LA,Long Beach, CA
1993 Fotografie Biennale III, Wasteland: Landscape Form Now On, Rotterdam, Holland
1992 National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA;
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York State Museum, Albany, NY,
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
1991 The Seagram Gallery, The City Life of Flora and Fauna, New York, NY
Gail Severn Gallery, From the West, Sun Valley, ID
Mark Masuoka Gallery, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
1989 Oakland Museum, Picturing California, Oakland, CA
Tratt Gallery, Photographic Abstraction, Washington, DC
1989 Seagram Gallery, Women and Men: Photographs from the Seagram Collection, New York, NY
1988 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Washington, DC
1987 Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, Masters of the Street: Part Three, San Diego, CA
The Everson Museum of Art, Photography over the 70s and 80s, Syracuse, NY
Oakland Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Oakland, CA
1984 National Museum of American Art, Exposed and Developed: American Photography in the 1970s. Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Texas Photographic Society, Social Commentary and Photography, Austin, TX
1982 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA Slices of Time: California Landscapes, 1860-1880, 1960-1980
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Facets of the Collection: Urban America, San Francisco, CA
1980 The Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: A Photographic Survey, Long Beach, CA
Seattle Art Museum: Photography and the City, Seattle, WA
1979 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, Santa Barbara, CA
Security Pacific National Bank, Photographic Directions: LA 1979, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 100+ Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, Unposed Portrait, New York, NY
California State College, Photography 77, Bakersfield, CA
1976 Mount St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, LA Six, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1974 University of Kansas Museum of Art, Language of Light: A Survey of Photography of the Collection, Lawrence, KS
Biblioteque Nationale, Eight Young Photographers, Paris, France
Jack Glenn Gallery, Photography 1/ Recent Photographs by 7 Artists, Corona Del Mar, CA
1973 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 24 from LA, San Francisco, CA
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1972 The Oakland Museum, West of the Rockies: George Eastman House Symposium, Oakland, CA
1971 University of California, Davis, CA; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA;
The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, The Crowded Vacancy (with Lewis Baltz and Terry Wild)
1970 University of California; Davis, CA, Oakland Museum; Oakland, CA, Pasadena Art Museum; Pasadena, CA, California Photographers
1969 Fiesta de los Barrios, Los Angeles, CA
Awards
1998-9 Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
COLA Individual Award, City of Los Angeles
1998 Higashikawaw Prize, Japan
1995 DG Bank-Forderpreis Fotografie Award, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1993 Charles Pratt Memorial Award
1989 Artist in Residence, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY
1986 Artist in Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
1983 Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979 Artist in Residence, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975 Artist in Residence, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1972 Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
Guest Lectures
2002 Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
1997 The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1995 The Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1989 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1986 University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
1985 University of Texas, Austin, TX
Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
1984 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1983 California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
1979 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Seattle Photography Council, Seattle, WA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1978 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
1973 University of the Redlands, Redlands, CA
1972 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Collections
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Du Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Fonds Départmental d’ Art Contemporain de Bobigny, France
Fonds National d’ Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Grunwald Collection, University of California at Los Angeles, CA
The Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Higashikawa Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Norton Simon Museum, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Seagram Collection, New York, NY
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY