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Born in Havana, Cuba, 1948.
Education
1981
MFA, Yale University School of Art (New Haven, CT)
1977
BA, Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004
"About Time"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"A Kind of Paradise"; Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London England
"Vision Revealed"; Frost Art Museum , Florida International
University, Miami FL
2003
Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Ontario
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
"New Work," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye," George Eastman House,
Rochester, NY
"Camera Obscura", Shine Gallery, London, UK
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Union College, Mandeville Gallery
Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
2001
"Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye," Bayly Art Museum of the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
"Abelardo Morell," St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
Shine Gallery, London, England
2000
"The Universe Next Door," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye", The St. Louis Art Museum
LeHigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
"University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM
"Staged and Manipulated: Photographic Fictions from St. Louis
Collections," The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
"Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye," Limonaia di Villa Strozzi,
Florence, Italy
"Alice in Wonderland," Locus Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
1999
"Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye", Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo
"Abelardo Morell," Fahey Klein Gallery
"Abelardo Morell," Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1998
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago "Abelardo Morell and the
Camera Eye", Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego Bonni Benrubi
Gallery, New York, NY "Face to Face", Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, Boston "Abelardo Morell Photographs: Pictured Pages",
Cleveland Museum of Art DeCordava Museum of Art
1996
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
"Looking at Books," Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA)
Robert Klein Gallery (Boston, MA)
Jan Abrams Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta, GA)
1994
Bonni Benrubi Gallery (New York, NY)
1993
The National Arts Club (New York, NY)
1989
Becker Gallery, Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
1988
North Gallery (Boston, MA
Midtown "Y" Gallery (New York, NY)
1983
Westbrook College (Portland, ME)
1976
Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Fourth Street Gallery (New York, NY)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
"Taken with Time - A Camera Obscura Project"; The Print Center,
Philadelphia, PA
2005
Thessaloniki Museum of Art, Greece
"Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism" ; Norton Museum
of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
"Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism" ; Chicago
Cultural Art Center, Chicago, IL
2004
"57 on 57th Street", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
"Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art: Selections
from the Julia J. Norell"; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
DC
"Photographs: Recent Acquisitions"; Fisher Landau Center for
Art, Long Island City, NY
"Island Nations: New Art From Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora"; The Museum of Art, the Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, RI
"Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism" ; The George
Eastman House International Museum of Photography , Rochester,
NY
"Arti & Architettura 1900-2000," Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
"Uncharted Territory"; Julie Saul Galley, New York, NY
"OUTSIDE/IN" Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Washington, DC
"Light Bound: Photographers Regard the Book," Minneapolis Institute
of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
"Books as Visual Object", Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2003
"The Pyramids", Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"Undomesticated Interiors", Smith College Museum, Northampton,
MA
"The Alphabet As Art," University of Massachusetts, Lowell,
MA
"Cuba on the Verge," International Center of Photography, New
York, NY
"Photographing Undomesticated Interiors," Smith College Museum
of Art, Northampton, MA
"Enchanted Evening", Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
"Twilight", Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
"Celebrating Central Park 1953-2003" Hirschl & Adler Galleries,
New York, NY
"Contemporary Photographs and Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection,"
Colby College Museum of Art, ME
"Histories of Photography", Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,
Vassar College, New York
"Defining Moments, Two Centuries of Photography" Ackland Art
Museum, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill
"In Your Face", Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
"Growing Up", Montclair Art Museum, NJ
"Prima Facie", Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2002
"Paris Photo 2002", Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France
"What were you Thinking? 15 Years of Photographs", Catherine
Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Contemporary Prints and Photographs from the Bruce Brown Collection,"
Colby College Museum of Art
"Dry plate to Digital: The Hallmark Collection" ; Denver Museum
of Art, Denver, CO
"Into the Woods", Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
"Through the Looking Glass", Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago,
IL
"Visions from America", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
"Sitelines: Art on Main", Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, Andover, MA
"Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,"
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland
"What's New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography", Whitney Museum
of American Art, NYC
2001
"Paris Photo 2001", Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France
"Can You Believe Your Eyes?" Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg,
MA
"Voyages (per) Formed," Photographic Resource Center, Boston
University
"The Crafted Image: Nineteenth Century Techniques in Contemporary
Photography," Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
"Pin: Whole", University of Essex, Colchester, UK
"Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,"
Orlando Museum of Fine Art, Orlando, FL
"Photograph + Monograph," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NY
"Still Light," Beadleston Gallery, NY
"City: Prints and Photographs," Brooke Alexander, NY
"La Luz," National Hispanic Cultural Center, NM
2000
"Open Ends - Architecture Hot and Cold," The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY
"Latin American Artists-Photographers from the Lehigh University
Galleries Collection," El Muso del Barrio, New York, NY
"Paris Photo 2000", Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France
"One Man's Eye- Photographs from the Collection of Alan Siegel,"
Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
"Bill Barrette-Sculptures and Abelardo Morell-Photographs,"
Jaffe-Fiede and Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH
"Summer Reading," The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Photography Against Itself: Contemporary Photographs from the
Museum,' Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottsville,
VA
"Insights: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art," Whitney Museum
of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
"New York Now 2000," The Museum of the City of New York, New
York
"Hope Photographs,' Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
"Expanded Visions," Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego,
CA
"Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England: Recent Acquisitions,"
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
"Representing the Intangible," Photographic Resource Center,
Boston, MA
"American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic
Collection," The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
"Personae: Portraits from the Collection," The Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
"Breathless! Photography and Time," Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, England
"American Photographs Part 3: 1968-1999,"James Danziger Gallery,
New York, NY
"20twenty," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Picturing Modernity: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"Visions of Childhood," Soho Triad Fine Arts, New York
"Summer Reading," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
"Autour de L'insolite," Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography," New Jersey Center
for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
"Collectors Collect Contemporary, 1990-99," The Institute o
f Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
"The Boston Public Library's Boston Photographer's Project,"
The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
"An American Century of Photography: The Hallmark Photographic
Collection," The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
"Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary
Interaction," Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
"Future-Present: Photographs of Children from the Reader's Digest
Collection," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT
"A Collective Vision: Gifts to the Photographs Collection,"
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
"Waterproof," Belem Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
"Photography in Maine: 1840 - 2000," The Center for Maine Contemporary
Art
1998
"Paraphotography", Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
"Latino", National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
"Waterproof", Parque EXPO'98, Lisbon, Portugal
"Make it Real", Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art,
Boston, MA
"Make it Real", Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,VA
"Make it Real" Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1997
"Some Things", Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach,
Florida
"Tokyo Biennial" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Make it Real" Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
"The Heart Doesn't Break, It Stretches", Sarah Morthland Gallery,
New York, NY
"Family and Friends" Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago,
Il
"Backyards" Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
"Process on Paper : Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum of
Art, Brooklyn, New York
"Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures X1" Fraenkel
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"American Voices" "Hope Photographs", The National Arts Club,
New York, NY
"Making It Real", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT
1997
"Masterworks from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art", Ho-Am
Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1996
"Fine Artists Books", Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
"Legacy Of Light: Master Photographs from The Cleveland Museum
of Art", The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
"Anxious Libraries," Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
"Blind Spot: The First Four Years," Paolo Baldacci Gallery,
New York, NY
"Through the Lens: Selections from the Permanent Collection,"
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
"Light, Time, Focus, " Museum. of Contemporary Photography (Chicago,
IL)
"New in the Nineties," Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY)
Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR)
"Winter Blindspot," Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York, NY)
"This is a Set Up: Fab Photo/Fictions," Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
1995
"Spaces for the Self: The Symbolic Imagery of Place," Museum
of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL)
"Degrees of Abstractions: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe,"
Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
"The Photographic Condition," San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art (San Francisco, CA)
Warren Street Gallery (Hudson, NY)
"Cintas Fellows," Southeast Museum of Photography (Daytona,
FL)
"An American Century of Photography," International Center of
Photography/Hallmark Photographic Collection (New York, NY)
"Cuba: La Isla Posible," Centre de Cultura Contemporania de
Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
1994
"New Photographry 10," Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
"American Voices," Fotofest (Houston, TX)
"Ottmar Hörl, Abelardo Morell, Shirin Neshat, David Shaw," Haines
Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
"The Reckless Moment," Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
"Targeting Images, Objects and Ideas," Museum of Contemporary
Photography (Chicago, IL)
"Recent Acquisitions," The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York,
NY)
"Around the House," Frumkin/Adams Gallery (New York, NY)
Zelda Cheatle Gallery (London, England)
"New England Photographers," Danforth Mus. of Art (Framingham,
MA)
"Meaning at the Crossroads," Bowdoin Museum of Art (Brunswick,
ME)
1993
"Contemporary American Photography," Jingshan Tushguan (Guangzhou,
China)
"Photographs by Cintas Fellows," Florida International University
Art Museum (Miami, FL)
"In Camera," Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
"Photography: Close-up/Still Life," Museum of Fine Arts (Boston,
MA)
"Photo National," Zoller Gallery (Penn State University, PA)
"Fabulas del Mundo Visible," Instituto Chileno Norte Americano,
(Santiago, Chile)
1992
"Fables of the Visible World," Huntington Gallery (Boston, MA)
The Berkshire Museum of Art (Pittsfield, MA)
"More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 From the Collection,"
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
"New England Photographers," Danforth Mus. of Art, Framingham,
MA)
1991
"Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort," Museum of Modern
Art, (New York, NY)
1990
Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN)
Selected Collections
Ackland Art Museum/University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, NC
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Sprint Corporate Art Collection, Overland Park, KS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, ME)
Brandeis University Rose Art Museum (Waltham, MA)
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)
Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA)
Fisher Landau Center for Art (Long Island City, NY)
Florida International University Art Museum (Miami, FL)
Fort Lauderdale Art Museum (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Foundation Cartier, (Paris ,France)
Hallmark Photographic Collection (Kansas City, MO)
Houston Museum of Fine Art (Houston, TX)
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
(Rochester, NY)
Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)
Lehigh University Art Galleries (Bethlehem, PA)
List Visual Arts Center, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA)
Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)
Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ)
Museum of Art (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL)
Museum of Fine Art (Houston, TX)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, CA)
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)
New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA)
New York Public Library (New York, NY)
Northwestern University Center for the Humanities (Chicago,
IL)
Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, (Philadelphia, PA)
Philip Morris Inc. (New York, NY)
The Progressive Corporation (Mayfield Village, OH)
Reader's Digest Corporation, (Pleasantville, NY)
St. Louis Art Museum, (St. Louis, MO)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA)
University of Virginia, Bayly Art Museum (Charlottsville, VA)
The University of Akron, Emily H. Davis Gallery (Akron, OH)
Victoria & Albert Museum, (London, England)
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)
Yale University Art Gallery, (New Haven, CT)
Monographs
Retrospective Photographs: Abelardo Morell;
Introduction by Richard Woodward, TF Editores, Spain, 2004
Camera Obscura: Photographs by Abelardo Morell; Introduction
by Luc Sante, Bulfinch Press, 2004
Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell;
Essay by Andy Grundberg; Exhibition Catalog, Florida International
University, 2003
A Book of Books; Ableardo Morell, Preface by Nicholson Baker,
Bulfinch Press, 2002
A Camera in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell; "Photographers
at Work" Series, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995
Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner Museum, Abelardo Morell;
Introduction by Jill S. Medvedow, 1998
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Caroll, Photographs
by Abelardo Morell, Introduction by Leonard S. Marcus, Dutton
Books, 1998
Selected Publications
"Abelardo Morell", Photo Pictorial Magazine,
Hong Kong, China, Issue #470, September 2004
Picture Perfect; Edited by Stephanie Hoppen, Jaqui Small Editions,
2004
Light Bound: A Love Affaire Between Books and Light: Essays
by Christian A. Peterson & Simon Anderson, Sara Ranchouse Publishing,
2004
"Curators" Camera Arts, September 2004
New York Magazine, June 14, 2004
"From Rail to Ruin"; OP-ED, Kenneth T. Jackson, New York Times,
Sunday November 2, 2003
Cuba on the Verge; Introduction by William Kennedy, Bulfinch
Press, 2003
Spirit of Family: Al and Tipper Gore, Henry Holt Publishers,
2002
Making It Real, (catalogue) Independent Curators Incorporated,
New York, 1996. Introduction by Luc Sante and essay by guest
curator Vik Muniz
Aperture (Issue141), "Cuba: Image and Imagination", Fall, 1995
Feels Like Home, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995
An American Century of Photography: From Dryplate to Digital,
The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Keith F. Davis, Hallmark
Cards, Inc. and Harry N. Abrams, 1995
MoMA, Magazine of the Museum of Modern Art, "New Photography
10," essay by Sheryl Conkelton, No. 18, Fall-winter, 1994.
In Camera (brochure), Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico,
Santa Fe, NM., 1993. Essay by Eugenia Parry Janis.
Photography by Cintas Fellows (catalogue) Florida International
University Art Museum, Miami, FL, 1993. Essay by Manuel E. Gonzalez.
Photo National (catalogue), Zoller Gallery, Penn State University,
1993.
Photography 1992 Exhibition (catalogue), Berkshire Museum of
Art, Pittsfield.
Fables of the Visible World (catalogue), Huntington Gallery,
Boston, MA, 1992.
More Than One Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1992.
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (catalogue), Museum
of Modern Art, New York 1991.
Contemporary American Art from the Philip Morris Collection
(catalogue), Knoxville Museum of Art 1990.
20th Century Photographs from the Collection of the Bowdoin
College Museum of Art (catalogue), University of Southern Maine,
1988
Reviews
"Abelardo Morell: About Time", The New Yorker,
November 29th 2004
Caroline Cunningham, "Time and Motion Studies," House & Garden,
November, 2004: 92
New York Magazine, Art Listing, October 18, 2004
Art in America, 'Photography: Focus on Cuba' by Edward Leffingwell,
November 2003
Artforum : Reviews: Abelardo Morell, September Singer, Mark.
"Talk of the Town: 2003
Andy Grunberg, " A Book of Books; Photography" New York Times
Book Review, December 6, 2002
"Big Picture," The New Yorker, Oct. 7, 1996
Baker, Kenneth. "Introduction to a Whole Lot of Art", San Francisco
Chronicle, July 23, 1996
Lloyd, Ann Wilson. "Abelardo Morell at the Boston Athaneum,"
Art in America, May 1996
Woodward, Richard B., "View with a Room," Mirabella, October,
1994: 86
Hagen, Charles, Untitled review in The New York Times, August
5, 1994
Kohen, Helen, "Photos Are Linked by Cuban Heritage," The Miami
Herald , October 30, 1993: 5G
Hagen, Charles, "Uncommon Photographs of Common Objects," The
New York Times, June 25, 1993: 24
Aletti, Vince, "Photography Voice Choices," The Village Voice,
June 29, 1993
Coleman, A.D., "Letter from New York No. 45, " Photo Metro,
Vol. II, Issue 3, September, 1993: 29
Wise, Kelly, "Cross References Are Plentiful in Fables of the
Visible World," The Boston Globe, October 10, 1992
Beem, Edgar Allen, "The Pursuit of Profoundly Simple Ideas,"
Maine Times, January 27, 1989: 15
Aletti, Vince, Untitled review in the Village Voice, October
18, 1988: 45
Wise, Kelly, "Abe Morell's Fresh Look at Childhood, " The Boston
Globe, November 1, 1988: 26
Beem, Edgar Allen, "A History of Our Most Democratic Art Form,
in 70 Prints, " Maine Times, January 9, 1987
Haggerty, Gerald, " Abe Morell: Photographs," Art New England,
Vol. III, No. 8. October 1982
Awards
1995
New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1995
St. Botolph's Club Foundation Award
1993-94
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1992-93
Cintas Foundation Fellowship
Residencies
1997
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
1995
The Boston Athaneum, Boston, MA
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