Larry Schwarm

Selected Exhibitions (complete list available on request)

One Person

• 2018 Larry Schwarm: Kansas Farmers, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
• 2018 Kansas Land: Farm Photography, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
• 2016 No Mountains in the Way (with James Enyeart & Terry Evans), Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC
• 2014 Larry Schwarm: Fire, University of North Carolina, Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, N.C.
• 2010 George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
• 2010 Early Work – Late Work: Photographs of the Land, Center Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
• 2009 Larry Schwarm: Greensburg after the storm, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
• 2008 Larry Schwarm: Greensburg after the storm, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
• 2008 Devastation/Renewal, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
• 2007 Aftermath: Larry Schwarm & Debbie Fleming Caffery, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
• 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
• 2001 Larry Schwarm: Photographs, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
• 1999 Prairie Fires, Sheldon Gallery of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
• 1996 Larry Schwarm, Recent Work, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
• 1996 Prairie Fires, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• 1994 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
• 1993 Austin-Peay University, Clarksville, Tennessee
• 1992 Tulsa Photography Collective, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1992 Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
• 1992 Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
• 1991 Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

Group

• 2024 Earth - Water - Light, Sioux City Arts Center, Iowa
• 2024 Throughlines, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon
• 2024 Prairies on Paper: Rural Life in Kansas through the Eyes of Printmakers and Photographers, Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
• 2023 Making Room: Familiar Art, New Stories, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
• 2020-21 MAGNETIC WEST: The Enduring Allure of the American West, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
• 2020 MAGNETIC WEST: The Enduring Allure of the American West, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
• 2020 Finding Meaning: The Power and Possibility of Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum UNC, Greensboro, NC
• 1920 MAGNETIC WEST: The Enduring Allure of the American West, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
• 2019-20 WHERE? A Brief History of Photography through Landscape, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
• 2018 Not an Ostrich: And other images from America's Library, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
• 2015 New Arrivals, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
• 2015 Fire Season, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2015 Heat, SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, California
• 2015 Catalyst: Leaving a Lasting Impression, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
• 2015 Drift and Drag: Reflections on Water, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
• 2014 Art in Embassies, American Embassy in Vienna, Austria
• 2014 Paducah School of Art & Design National Photography Invitational, Paducah, Kentucky
• 2012 Work from the Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• 2012 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, N.C.
• 2011 The Art of Adornment: Artists Embellish the Body, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
• 2010 Hopey Changey Things, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
• 2010 River City Biennale: Wichita, Kansas
• 2009 Time/Frame, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
• 2009 Human Nature, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
• 2009 Seduced: The relevance of landscape in the 20th century, Guilforn Art Center, Guilford, Connecticut
• 2008 The Night Sky, Harvard University Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
• 2008 Sense of Place, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• 2007 Opening Exhibition, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
• 2006 Inaugural permanent collection exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum
• 2005 The Big Picture: Contemporary Large-Scale Photography, Sonoma (California) State University
• 2005 41° North/90° West: Contemporary Landscape, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
• 2005 X8: Photography, Gensler Gallery, San Francisco, California
• 2004 Terrestrial Forces, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
• 2004 American Landscapes: Four Views, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• 2004 Memory, Salina Arts Center, Salina, Kansas
• 2003 Recent acquisitions in contemporary photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2003 Roots of Renewal, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
• 2003 The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Museum of Florida
• 2002 Dan Kirchhefer & Larry Schwarm, Thornhill Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
• 2000 American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Collection, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• 1999 Jubilee Exhibition, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
• 1998 New Acquisitions, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• 1998 A Century of Western Landscape Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
• 1997 Midlands Invitational, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
• 1997 Salina Art Center, Juried Exhibition, (Marla Prather, Juror Award) Salina, Kansas
• 1996 City Stories, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• 1996 Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, University of Iowa Museum of Art
• 1996 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
• 1994 Kansas Chooses Kansas III, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
• 1994 Prairie: Images and Words, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 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
• 1991 Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
• 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.)
• 1975 No Mountains in the Way, National Endowment for the Arts Project with James Enyeart and Terry Evans

Selected books & Publications (complete list available on request)

• 2020-21 MAGNETIC WEST: The Enduring Allure of the American West, Figge Art Museum
• 2023 Crave, Covet, Collect, with Sondra Langel
• 2020 Washington Post newspaper, The Town that Built Back Green, October 23, 2020
• 2018 Larry Schwarm: Kansas Farmers, University of Kansas Press
• 2018 Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club, with Sondra Langel
• 2017 Modern Farmer magazine, September issue, A Kernal of Truth: Why Biofuels May not be Better
• 2016 Wichita Artists in Their Studios, with Sondra Langel
• 2015 PDN magazine, March Issue
• 2011 Cover for Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy
• 2011 Exploring Color Photography, by Robert Hersch, Focal Pres
• 2010 Cover for Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy – English and Spanish editions
• 2009 Visions of Paradise, National Geographic book on landscape photographs, November 2008
• 2009 Art in American magazine, October 2008
• 2007 Photography in the Digital Age by Robert Hersch, Focal Press (cover and two photos)
• 2006 Work reviewed in ArtNews magazine, April issue
• 2006 Cover photo for American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets, Oberlin College Press
• 2006 Art & Antiques magazine, work featured in article
• 2006 Cover photo for SONY/DMG classical music CD
• 2005 Orion magazine, cover photo, January-February 2005
• 2005 New Letters Literary Magazine, Cover photo and inside portfolio
• 2005 41° North/90° West: Contemporary Landscape, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
• 2004 Terrestrial Forces, Florida State University Museum of fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
• 2004 Harper's Magazine, cover photo, February 2004
• 2004 Duke Magazine, Durham, North Carolina (article about, with 6 photos
• 2003 On Fire: Larry Schwarm, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
• 2003 The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• 2003 Doubletake Magazine, Boston, Massachusetts
• 2003 Adbusters Magazine, Vancouver, Canada
• 2003 PDN (Photo District News) Magazine, October issue
• 2000 Cover Photo for Good Friday, by Philip Heldrick
• 1999 An American Century of Photography, Abrams Publishing
• 1999 Harper's Magazine, Cover photo, January 2000
• 1998 Cover photo for Cities of the Plains, a novel by Cormac McCarthy, Knopf Pub.
• 1998 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.
• 1999 Prairie Fires, co-authored by Jim Hoy, English, & Elmer Finck, biology, E.S.U. Press
• 1992 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography,
• 1992 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

• 2010 Received US Government License to travel and photograph in Cuba (fall & spring)
• 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

• 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
• Federal Reserve Board, Kansas City, Missouri
• Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
• Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
• Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
• Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
• Library of Congress, Washington, DC
• LACMA (Los Angeles Museum of Art
• Middleburg College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
• Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (Hallmark Collection)
• Nerman Museum of Art, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City
• Oklahoma University Art Museum, Norman, Oklahoma
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon
• SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
• Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
• Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
• Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
• Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
• Weatherspoon Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina
• Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas