Snow near Greensburg, Kansas

• Photographer
  Larry Schwarm, United States

This image was made on Christmas evening, looking across a field near my parents home in
western Kansas.

Awards SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: complete list available on request)

One Person exhibitions:
2014 University of North Carolina, Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2010 George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
River City Biennale: Wichita, Kansas
Early Work – Late Work: Photographs of the Land, Center Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
2009 Larry Schwarm: Greensburg after the storm, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
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, 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.
Larry Schwarm, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 Larry Schwarm: Photographs, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
Larry Schwarm: Photographs, Trish Higgins Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
Tattoos, The Human Canvas, Emporia Arts Center, Emporia, Kansas
1999 Prairie Fires, Sheldon Gallery of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
1998 Two Minds/One Heart-Work From the Same House, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas
1997 Work From Three Continents, Sabbatical Exhibition, Emporia Arts Center
1996 Larry Schwarm, Recent Work, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Prairie Fires, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1995 Prairie Fires, In Situ Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
1994 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Image Point Gallery, Springfield, Missouri
1993 Austin-Peay University, Clarksville, Tennessee
1992 Tulsa Photography Collective, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
1991 Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Missouri Western University, Saint Joseph, Missouri



Group Exhibitions:
2015 Catalyst: Leaving a Lasting Impression, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Drift and Drag: Reflections on Water, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kaansas
2014 Art in Embassies, American Embassy in Vienna, Austria

2013 A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsoniam American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Paducah School of Art & Design National Photography Invitational, Paducah, Kentucky

Kansas Burns, Sabitini Gallery, Topeka, Kansas
2012 Work from the Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Politics as Symbol/Symbol as Politics, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas 

2011 Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill NC
The Art of Adornment: Artists Embellish the Body, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas

2010 Hopey Changey Things, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
River City Biennale: Wichita, Kansas
2009 Time/Frame, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

Human Nature, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas

Seduced: The relevance of landscape in the 20th century, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, Connecticut
2009 Human Nature, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
SEDUCED: The Relevance of Landscape in the 21st Century, The Guilford Art Center, Connecticut
Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
THE 50 STATES PROJECT: http://www.50statesproject.net/index.php
2008 The Night Sky, Harvard University Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2007 Grand Opening Exhibition, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
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 The Land Through a Lens: Highlights of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Harn Museum of Art
at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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 Visions of the Prairie: The Great Plains at the Dawn of the Millennium, Sheldon Memorial Gallery of Art,
Lincoln, Nebraska
American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Collection, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Five Directors’ Exhibition, CityArts Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
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
1995 Prairie: Image and Word, Salina Arts Center
1994 Kansas Chooses Kansas III, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
Prairie: Images and Words, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Staging Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
1993 Land & Its Uses: Works from the Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
1992 Between Home and Heaven, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
also traveled to: Cleveland Museum of Art, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts,
New Orleans Museum of Art, New York State Museum, & Carnegie Museum of Art
1992 M-AAA Award Winning Photographers, Art Saint Louis Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
Current Works-‘92, Leedy-Volkus Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1989 Gallery of Department of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Salina Arts Center, (Bret Waller - Juror Award), Salina, Kansas
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 PULICATIONS: (complete list available on request)

2009 Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University
2009 Visions of Paradise, National Geographic Books
New Letters. UMKC, cover and eight inside photos
2008 Art In American magazine, October
2007 Audubon Magazine, full-page photograph, March-April edition
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, Keith Davis, 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
1976 Kansas Album, Kansas Bankers Association and Addison House Press
1975 No Mountains in the Way, NEA, University of Kansas Press

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, 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:

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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
Nerman Museum of Art, Johnson County Community College, Olathe, Kansas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Hallmark Collection)
National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pritzker Collection, University of Chicago
Oklahoma University Art Museum, Norman, Oklahoma
SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas