Abelardo Morell
View of the Manhattan Bridge
Pigment ink prints
76 x 101,5 cm
2010
Como funciona - Câmera obscura
Birth: 1948 Havana, Cuba
Education: 1981 MFA, Yale University School of Art (New Haven, CT)
1977 BA, Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
Employment: Professor of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA)
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010 "GROUNDWORK"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
"The Universe Next Door"; Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NYC
"Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland", 709 Penn Avenue Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
"Pingyao International Photography Festival", Pingyao, Shanxi Province, China
"Abelardo Morell: Recent Works"; Michael Soskine Gallery, Madrid, Spain
"Abelardo Morell Through the Camera`s Eye"; Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire, England
"Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door"; Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
2008 "PICTURESinPICTURES"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Behind the Scenes: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell";
The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven , CT
"Vision Revealed"; Central Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
"When in Rome"; Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
"The Magic Box of Abelardo Morell"; Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL
2007 "Abelardo Morell: Camera Obscuras: 1991-2006, Danziger Projects, New York, NY
"Abelardo Morell: A Room with a View", Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA
"Abelardo Morell"; Instituto Jovellanos, Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Gijon, Spain
"Abelardo Morell"; Salas de la Comunidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
"Abelardo Morell"; Instituto de America, Santa Fe, Granada, Spain
"Vision Revealed"; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 "Furthermore"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell"; Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo
"Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell"; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile
"Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell";
"Under the Influence: The Photographic Homage"; Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibition, Diputacion de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
"Vision Revealed"; Museum Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
"Abelardo Morell"; Michel Soskine Inc, Madrid, Spain
2005 Gallery 339, Philadelphia
"A View with a Room: Abelardo Morell"; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Abelardo Morell"; Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
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:
2010: "Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MO
"Incognito: the Hidden Self-Portrait" Yancey Richardson, NYC
"Focus on Photography: Recent Acquisitions" Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, MO
2009: "Globetrotting," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Alice in Pictureland: Illustrations of Lewis Carroll`s Classic Tales"; Brandywine
River Museum, Chadd`s Ford, PA
"Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art," Madrid,
Spain, Rovereto, Italy, Dublin, Ireland.
"Danziger Projects," New York, NY
2008 "Artist`s Choice": Vik Muniz, Rebus, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900", Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"The Allure of Italy"; The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
"The Linked Ring: The Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT
"Interiors," Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium
"Presumed Innocence: Pictures of Children" The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2007 "Seeing Things"; Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
"A New Reality: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art from the Arthur and Ann Goldstein Collection"; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
"Landscape: works from the AG Edwards Collection"; Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
"Die Liebe zum Licht"; Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2006 "Out of Darkness: The Contemporary Revival of Early Photography"; UCF Art Gallery, Orlando, Florida
"Taken with Time" The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
"19 ON 19"; Galerie Negulesco, Munich, Germany
"Lumiere, Transparence, Opacite; Acte II"; Nouveau Musee National De Monaco, Principality of Monaco
"The Office/ In and out of the Box"; Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City
"Die Liebe zum Licht"; Kunstmuseum, Celle, Celle, Germany
"Die Liebe zum Licht"; Staedtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
"Love of Light": International Contemporary Photography"; Celle Museum of Art, Germany
"Fine Old Masters" Bernheimer, Munich, Germany
"Fototeca de Cuba", Havana Cuba
"Hot Pics `06," Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York
"The Artist and the Book" Pelham Art Center, New York
"100 Great American Photographs"; Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
"Taken with Time - A Camera Obscura Project"; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2005 "Li-brar-y"; Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
"Adieu: A Farewell Exhibition"; Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, NY
"On View: Photographing the Museum"; Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
"Word Play"; Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
"Several Artists Consider Books"; Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Contemporary Group Show"; Michel Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
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, Chi-cago, IL
"Thousand Hounds", Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV
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 Di-aspora"; The Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, RI
"Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism"; The George Eastman House Inter-national 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, Minneapo-lis, MN
"Books as Visual Object", Columbia College, Chicago, IL
"Thousand Hounds", Keihan Gallery, Osaka, Japan
University of Maryland (at Baltimore), Baltimore, MD
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
"Thousand Hounds", Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Winnipeg Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Durham Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, NE
Seibu Department Store, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
2002 "Paris Photo 2002", Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France
"What Were You Thinking? 15 Years of Photographs", Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chi-cago, 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 De-sert 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
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL