Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY

On View October 19th, 2023 – November 9th, 2023.

Opening Reception: Saturday October 21st, 2023. 3-5pm

A selection of pictures from my project “Pictures on the Ground: in the Territory of Van Gogh and Monet” will be on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York, NY.

New Ground: In the Terrain of Van Gogh and Monet

Individual Shows

2023

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY | New Ground: In the Terrain of Van Gogh and Monet

Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY | Abelardo Morell: Playing

Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA | Abelardo Morell: In the Footsteps of Van Gogh

Foto Relevance, Houston, TX | Abelardo Morell: Liminal Spaces

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT | The Unique Perspective of Abelardo Morell

2022

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ | Abelardo Morell: Projecting Italy

2021

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA | Abelardo Morell: Projecting Italy

2020

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY | Changing Lanes

2019

Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA | One Wall, One Work

2018

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA | After Monet

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY | Flowers for Lisa II

Poultry House Gallery, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA | In the Brick Dwelling

2017

Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | After Constable

The Concord Museum, Concord, MA | Walden: Four Views

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY | Flowers for Lisa

Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | After Constable

2016

Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London, England | Abelardo Morell: Through the Looking Glass

Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV | Walter Gropius Master Artist Series Presents Abelardo Morell

2015

Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, ME | Abelardo Morell: A Mind of Winter

2014

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY | Abelardo Morell: Some Recent Pictures

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA | Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA | Tent Camera Obscura

2013

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angelos, CA | Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door

Stephen Daiter Museum, Chicago, IL | From the Ground Up

Galerie Edwynn Houk, Zurich, Switzerland | Abelardo Morell

Danforth Art, Framingham, MA | Island of Rota

Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | Outside In

2012

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY | Rock Paper Scissors

Pasadena City College Art Museum, Pasadena, CA | Abelardo Morell

2010

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY | Groundwork

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY | The Universe Next Door

709 Penn Avenue Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

2009

Michel Soskine Gallery, Madrid, Spain | Abelardo Morell: Recent Works

Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China | Abelardo Morell

Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire, England | Abelardo Morell: Through the Camera’s Eye

Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX | The Universe Next Door

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Vision Revealed

Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA | Continental Drift

2008

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA | Pictures In Pictures

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY | Pictures In Pictures

Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy | When In Rome: Photographs by Abelardo Morell

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT | Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell

2007

Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico | Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morel

Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell

Danziger Projects | Abelardo Morell – Camera Obscuras

Instituto de America, Granada, Spain | Abelardo Morell

Instituto Jovellanos, Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Gijon, Spain | Abelardo Morell

Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA | A Room with A View: The Photography of Abelardo Morell

Sala de la Comunidad de Murcia, Murcia, SpainAbelardo Morell

University of New England, Portland, Maine | The Photographs of Abelardo Morell

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY | Furthermore: Recent work by Abelardo Morell

Diputación de Málaga, Málaga, Spain | Abelardo Morell

Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain | Abelardo Morell

Museum de Arte Moderno, Sao Paulo, Brazil | Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell

Museum Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile | Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell

National Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC

2006

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | A View With a Room: Abelardo Morell’s Camera Obscura Photographs

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA | Abelardo Morell : New Photographs

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA | The Book of Books: Year of the Book

Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain | Abelardo Morell

Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

2004

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, New York | About Time

Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, England

Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL

2003

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2002

Bonni Benrubi, New York, NY

Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL | Through the Looking Glass

Kenyon College Olin Gallery of Art, Gambier, OH | Spectral Images

2001

Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia at Charlottsville, Charlottsville, VA | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (January 26 – March 25, 2001)

Shine Gallery, London, England | Camera Obscura

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (April – June, 2001)

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (September 29, 2001 – February 3, 2002)

Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX | Abelardo Morell

2000

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY | The Universe Next Door (October 19 – December 2, 2000)

Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Florence, Italy | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (July 30 – August 31, 2000)

Lehigh University Art Galleries, Musem Operation, Bethlehem, PA | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (June 14 – August 13, 2000)

Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO | Alice in Wonderland

The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye

University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (October 17 – December 10, 2000)

1999

Bassetti Fine Arts Photographs, New Orleans, LA | Abelardo Morell

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Abelardo Morell

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye

1998

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA | Face to Face

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA | Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (mid-career traveling retrospective)

1996

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995

The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA

Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

1994

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

1993

National Arts Club, New York, NY

1989

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

1988

Midtown “Y” Gallery, New York, NY

North Gallery, Boston, MA

Group Shows

2024

The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA | A Long Arc: Photography and the American South Since 1845

2023

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA | Creative Spaces: The Photographer’s Studio as Inspiration

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL | Flora Imaginaria: The Flower in Contemporary Photography

Currier Museum, Manchester, NH | Seeing is Not Believing

de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA | Ansel Adams in Our Time

DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL | Life Cycles

2022

UMass Dartmouth Star Store Gallery, New Bedford, MA | Two of a Kind, Abelardo Morell and Anthony Fisher

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA | “The Stillness of Things”

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY | Ways of Unseeing

Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore University, Saratoga Springs, NY | Parallax: Framing the Cosmos

2021

Louis Kahn Estonia Foundation(LKEF), Estonia | From Island to Island: A Homage to Louis Kahn

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA | Object Lesson

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO | The Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play

Saint Louis Art Museum, St.Louis, MO | Architectural Photography from the Collection, 1850-2000

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA | Picturing the South: 25 Years

2020

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR | Ansel Adams in Our Time

2018

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | Ansel Adams in Our Time

Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA | Lived Space: Humans and Architecture

Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland | The Beauty of Lines

The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA | People and Places: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | (un)expected families

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO | New Territory: Landscape Photography Today

2017

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY | This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT | Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope

2016

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH | Urban Landscapes: Manchester and the Modern American City

The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK | The Camera Exposed

2012

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME | Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project

Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA | A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley 1972-2012

Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA | Photography from the Museum Collection

FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA | International Orange

2011

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Science of Sight: Alternative Photography

Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Cliché-Verre in the Digital Age

The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY | Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY | Process

Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY | Of Weeds and Wildness: Nature in Black and White

2010

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | The More Things Change

Mineapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MO | Embarassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealt

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | Incognito: the Hidden Self-Portrait/ Summer Group Show

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO | Focus on Photography: Recent Acquisitions

2009

Brandywine River Museum, Chadd’s Ford, PA | Alice in Pictureland: Illustrations of Lewis Carroll’s Classic Tales

Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK | A Gallerist’s Choice

Danziger Projects, New York, NY | Location

La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy | Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900

Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada | Transformation AGO

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | A Mind at Play

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH | Family Album: The Karl and Bertl Arnstein Print Collection

Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY | A Matter of Time

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brusnwick, ME | You Can’t See This: Photography at the Limits of Visibility

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA | Presumeed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children

LP II Art Exhibition Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | ING Real Photography Award Exibition

Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany | Fragile Beauty – Glass in Art

Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA | Selections ‘08

2007

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | The Other Side of Light: Shadows from the Photography Collection

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA | Summer Reading

Kunstmuseum Celle mit Sammlung Robert Simon, Celle, Germany | Love of Light

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Phillips de Pury & Co, New York, NY | NY-C Photo Exhibition

Addison Gallery of American Art | In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography

Berheimer, Munich, Germany | Fine Old Masters

Centre Pompidou, Paris France | Peintres de la vie Moderne

Galerie Negulesco, Munich, Germany | 19 on 19

Michel SoskineInc., Madrid, Spain | 7 Photographers: Peter Beard/Laurence Demaison/ Michiko Kon/Abelardo Morell/Tomoko/Sawada/Hiroshi Sugimoto

Novena Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA | Taken With Time – A Camera Obscura Project

Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT | Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscape Photography

Venice Biennale of Architecture | 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, C on Cities

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA | New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography

2005

Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, NY | Still Life and Stilled Lives – A Group Exhibition

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA | A History of Photograph

The Detroit Institute of Arts | Beyond Big: Oversized Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Fisher Landau Center for Art | Photographs: Recent Acquisitions

Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | Twice-Told Tales: Photographs and Their Stories from Alumni Collections

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel | Beauty and the Book

Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | wordplay

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | Reinstallation of the Collection

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Several Artists Consider Books

Steven Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada | Bibliotheca – A Group Exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | Overhead/Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | On View: Photographing the Museum

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell

George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY | Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism

Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH | Quiet Contrast: Recent Acquisitions of Photography

Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists & Cartographers

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN | Light Bound

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | Reinstallation of the Collection

Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY | Outside/In

RISD Museum, Providence, RI | Island Nations: New work from Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

2003

Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL | Book Light

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | Visions and Revisions: Art on Paper Since 1960

Colby College Museum of Art, ME | Contemporary Photographs and Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY | Histories of Photography

Hirchl & Adler Gallery, New York, NY | Celebrating Central Park 1853-2003

International Center of Photography, New York, NY | Cuba on the Verge

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ | Growing Up: Childhood in American and Native American Art

Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Albany, NY | Prima Facie, (October 18, 2003 – December 5, 2003)

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA | Undomesticated Interiors

University Gallery, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA | The Alphabet as Art, (November 12 – December 10, 2003)

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | Twilight

2002

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA | Sitelines: Art on Main

Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL | In Your Face

Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France | Paris Photo 2002

Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL | What Were You Thinking? 15 Years of Photographs

Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY | Into the Woods

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM | Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (June 28- September 22, 2002)

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA | Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (November 2, 2002 – January 26, 2003)

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA | Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Shine Gallery, London, UK | Camera Obscura

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | Visions from America

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography

2001

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | The Object as Subject: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

Beadleston Gallery, New York, NY | Still Light

Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY | Photograph and Monograph

Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA | The Crafted Image: Nineteenth Century Techniques in Contemporary Photography

Brooke Alexander, New York, NY | City: Prints and Photographs

Caroussel de Louvre, Paris, France | Paris Photo 2001

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA | Water: Photographs from the Permanent Collection (June 9 – September 3, 2001)

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA | Can You Believe Your Eyes?

National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM | La Luz

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL | Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (December 23, 2000 – February 18, 2001)

Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA | Voyages (per) Formed

The University of Essex Art Gallery, Essex, England | The Pin Whole

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography (May 26-September 16, 2001)

2000

Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottsville, VA | Photography Against Itself: Contemporary Photographs from the Museum

Beadleston Gallery, New York, NY | Still Light (December 6-21,2000)

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA | Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England: Recent Acquisitions

El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX | Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Travelling exhibition September 16-November 12, 2000)

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY | Latin American Artists-Photographers- from the Lehigh University Galleries’ Collection

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Pougkeepsie, NY | Summer Reading

Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY | One Man’s Eye – Photographs in the Collection of Alan Siegel

Jaffe-Fiede & Strauss Galleries, Darmouth College, Hanover, NH | Bill Barrette – Sculptures and Abelardo Morell – Photographs (November 7- December 10, 2000)

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY | Hope Photographs

The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY | New York Now 2000

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL | Personae: Portraits from the Collection

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | Open Ends – Architecture Hot and Cold (Sept 28,2000 – Jan 2, 2001)

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA | Expanded Visions

The Nelson – Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO | American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA | Representing the Intangible

The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO | Staged and Manipulated: Photographic Fictions from St. Louis Collections

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England | Breathless! Photography and Time

Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT | Insights: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art (May 26 – August 23, 2000)

1999

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT | Future-Present: Photographs of Children from the Reader’s Digest Collection

Belem Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal | Waterproof

The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA | The Boston Public Library’s Boston Photographer’s Project

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interaction

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA | 20Twenty

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-99

James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY | American Photographs Part 3: 1968-1999

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Autour de L’insolite

The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | A Collective Vision: Gifts to the Photographs Collection

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ | Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC | An American Century of Photography: The Hallmark Photographic Collection (traveling exhibition)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | Picturing Modernity: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

Soho Triad Fine Arts, New York, NY | Visions of Childhood

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | Summer Reading

1998

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA | 1998 DeCordova Annual Exhibition

Generous Miracles Gallery, New York, NY | Cuba On

Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg,VA | Paraphotography

Rye Arts Center Gallery, Rye, NY | Through the Lens: Time, Space and Matter

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT | Then and Now and Later: Art Since 1945 at Yale

1997

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT | Making It Real (traveling exhibition)

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY | Process on Paper: Recent Acquisitions

Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL | Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art’s Contemporary Cuban Collection

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA | Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XI

Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea | Master works of Photography From The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Karen McCready Contemporary Art, New York, NY | Oceans & Galaxies

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL | Family and Friends

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA | Measuring Time: Selections from the Permanent Collection

The National Arts Club, New York, NY | Hope Photographs

The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY | Past Cuba:Identity and Identification in Cuban-American Art

Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY | Backyards

Smithsonian Institution International Gallery, Washington, DC | American Voices (traveling exhibition)

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL | Some Things

Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY | The Heart Doesn’t Break, It Stretches

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan | Tokyo Biennial

1996

Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC | Fine Artists Books

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from The Cleveland Museum of Art

Dorothy User Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University,

Bowling Green, OH | This is a Set Up: Fab Photo/Fictions

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY | Through the Lens: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY | New in the Nineties

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL | Light. Time. Focus: Uta Barth, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Abelardo Morell

Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY | Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years

The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA | Anxious Libraries

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | Winter Blind Spot

1995

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | Degrees of Abstractions: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | Cuba: La Isla Posible

International Center of Photography, New York, NY | An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital

Hallmark Photography Collection (traveling exhibition)

Megan Fox Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | Inaugural Exhibition

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL | Spaces for the Self: The Symbolic Imagery of Place

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | The Photographic Condition

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL | Photography by Cintas Fellows

Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY

1994

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | The Reckless Moment

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME | Meaning at the Crossroads: The Portrait in Photography

Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA | New England Photographers ’94

FotoFest, Houston, TX | American Voices

Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY | Around the House

Hanes Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | Selections from the Permanent Collection

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL | Targeting Images, Objects and Ideas

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | New Photography 10

Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England | Americana

1993

Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, FL | Photography by Cintas Fellows

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | Photography: Close-up/Still Life

The Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM | In Camera

1992

The Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield, MA

Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA | New England Photographers ’92

Huntington Gallery, Boston, MA | Fables of the Visible World

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 From the Collection

1991

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort

1990

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN | Contemporary Art From the Philip Morris Collection

Monographs

Tent-Camera, Nazraeli Press, 2017

Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door, Art Institute of Chicago, 2013 | Essays by Elizabeth Siegel, Brett Abbott, and Paul Martineau

Abelardo Morell, Phaidon Press , 2006 | Introduction by Richard Woodward

Camera Obscura, Bulfinch Press, 2004 | Introduction by Luc Sante

A Book of Books, Bulfinch Press, 2002 | Foreword by Nicholson Baker

Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (Retrospective Exhibition Catalog), Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 1999 | Essay by Diana Gaston

A Camera in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell , Smithsonian Institution Press, Photographers at Work series, Washington, D.C., 1995 | Interview by Richard B.Woodward

Selected Publications

A Long Arc: Photography and the American South | Aperture, 2023

The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media, Yale University Press, 2023

Wild Visions, Wilderness as Image and Idea | Yale University Press, 2022

Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson | Aperture, 2022

Flora Photographica: The Flower in Contemporary Photography | Thames and Hudson, 2022

Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom | Phaidon 2021

Photo Work: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice | Aperture, 2019

Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation | Pier 24, 2019

The Photographer in the Garden | Aperture, 2018

New Territory: Landscape Photography Today | Denver Art Museum, 2018

Artists in Exile, Expressions of Loss and Hope | Yale University Press, 2017

Art Can Help, by Robert Adams | Yale University Press, 2017

Seeing Things: Kid’s Guide to Looking at Photographs, by Joel Meyerowitz | Aperture, New York, 2016

Picturing America’s National Parks, by Jamie M. Allen. George Eastman Museum/Aperture | New York, 2016

Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph, by Geoffrey Batchen | Prestel, New York, 2016

The Miracle of Analogy: or The History of Photography, Part I, by Kaja Silverman | Stanford University Press, 2015

Photography at Moma, 1960-Now, Edited by Quentin Bajac | Moma, New York, 2015

Architecture in Photographs, by Gordon Baldwin | Getty, Los Angeles, 2013

In The Company of Artists, Edited by Pieranna Cavalchini and Tiffany York | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2013

New York: A Photographer’s City, Edited by Marla Hamburg Kennedy | Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. New York, 2011

The New York Times Magazine Photographs | Aperture, New York, 2011

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Edited by Dana Miller | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2011

The Island of Rota. Photographs by Abelardo Morell. Design by Ted Muehling. Introduction by Oliver Sacks | Library Council, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2010.

Mirada interior: Centenario de Parque Florido sede de la Fundacion Lazaro Galdiano, Text by Rosa Oliveres | Fondacion Lazaro Galdiano, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2009

Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, Text by Sarah Hermanson Meister | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009

MFA Highlights: Photography, Text by Anne Havinga, Karen Haas, Nancy Keeler | MFA Press, Boston, MA, 2008

The Yale Review, (Volume 96, No. 3) Outside In and Upside Down – The Art of Abelardo Morell | by Bonnie Costello. Blackwell Publishing, Boston, MA and Oxford, UK, 2008

Black and White Photography, (Issue No. 85) Portfolio, Essay by Beth Wicks, London, UK, 2008

Chinese Photography, (Issue No. 15) From Abroad – The American Wisdom Within a Stone’s Throw (essay) and The Unfamiliar in the Familiar (interview), by Xu Tingting, Beijing, China, 2008

Blind Spot, (Issue No. 32) A Tribute, New York, NY, 2006

Art + Auction (Volume IV No.4) Electric Company: Power 2006, New York, NY, 2006

C International Photo Magazine (Issue 3) Ivory press, London, UK, 2006

Exit (Issue 23) : Lecroes y lecturas, Readers and readings, 2006 | The Library of Water, an Essay by Ivan de la Nuez

Taken with Time, The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2006

Family: Photographers Photograph Their Families, Edited by Sophie Spencer-Wood, preface by Henri Peretz, notes by Margaret Walters | Phaidon Press, 2005

Things As They Are, By Mary Panzer, Afterword by Christian Caujolle | World Press Photo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005

Bookforum “Critical Condition. Reading, Writing and Reviewing: An Old-Schooler Looks Back” | Spring 2004, Volume 11, Issue1: 8, 10.

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Brookman, Philip, et. al. Foreward by Bill Clinton. | Corcoran Museum of Art Common Ground exhibition catalog. Merrell, New York, New York, 2004.

The Museum: Conditions & Spaces, Edited by Andrea N. Douglas, Ph.D | University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, 2004: 26-27

PDN – Photo Annual 2003, Best Photo Books: A Book of Books | May, 2003: 69, 102

Cuba on the Verge, Bulfinch Press, 2003

Blink. 100 Photographers. 010 Curators. 010 Writers., Phaidon Press Inc., New York, NY, 2002: 252-255, 416

Spirit of Family, Gore, Al and Tipper. Henry Holt Publishers, New York, NY, 2002

A Thousand Hounds – The Presence of Dogs in the History of Photography, Taschen USA, 2000 | Edited by Raymond W. Merritt and Miles Barth

One Man’s Eye – Photographs in the Collection of Alan Siegel, Harry N. Abrams. New York, 2000

Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT, 2000

NEST -A Quartely of Interiors, Summer 2000

Aperture (issue # 158) Photography and Time, Winter 2000

Seizing the Light- A History of Photography, Robert Hirsch | McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000

Photography-from 1939 to Today, Photographs-George Eastman House, Rochester, NY | Taschen Publishers: Koln, 1999 | Editors:Therese Mulligan and David Wooters | Authors:William S. Johnson, Mark Rice and Carla Williams

American Photographs 1900/2000, Assouline, New York, 1999 | Introduction by James Danziger

20Twenty, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1999

An American Century of Photography, From Dry Plate to Digital, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged | The Hallmark Photographic Collection, with Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1999 | Essay by Keith F. Davis

Future – Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children From the Reader’s Digest Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1999 | Essay by Anne Higonnet

Waterproof, Parque Expo 98 S.A., Belem Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, 1999 | Essay by Jorge Calado

Paris Photo: Constructed Views, Photography And Architecture, Le Carrousel Du Louvre – Paris, France, 1998 | Essay by Francois Quintin

Photography’s Multiple Roles, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1998 | Essays by Denise Miller, Eugenia Parry, F. David Peat, Naomi Rosenblum & Rod | Slemmons D.A.P., New York, 1998

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated with photographs by Abelardo Morell, Introduction by Leonard S. Marcus. | Dutton Children’s Books, New York, 1998

Hope Photographs, Edited by Alice Rose George and Lee Marks | Thames and Hudson, New York, 1998

Abelardo Morell /Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1998 | Essays by Charles Simic and Jennifer Gross. Introduction by Jill S. Medvedow

The 1998 DeCordova Annual Exhibition (catalog), The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1998 | Rachel Rosenfield Lafo and Nick Capasso

DoubleTake, Vol.4, No 3. Durham, NC, Summer 1998

Breaking Barriers (catalog), Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1998 | Essay by Dr. Carol Damian, exhibition curated by Jorge H. Santis

Paraphotography (catalog), Mair Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA 1998 | Essay by Charles Hagen

The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine, Vol. 38 no.4, April, 1998

Abelardo Morell Photographs:Pictured Pages, Cleveland Museum of Art | Essay by Tom E. Hinson, 1998

DoubleTake, Vol.4, No.2, Durham, NC, Spring 1998

Graphis Fine Art Photography 2, Graphis Inc, New York, NY, 1997

160 Years of Photography: Masterworks from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (Catalog) Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.1997

Some Things (catalog), Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL, 1997 | Essay by Alison Nordstrom

Catalog of Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH, 1997

Making It Real (catalog), Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, 1996 | Introduction by Luc Sante | Essay by guest curator Vik Muniz

Aperture (Issue 141), Cuba: Image and Imagination, Fall, 1995

Cuba: La Isla Posible (catalog), Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 1995

Blind Spot (Issue 5), Spring/Summer, 1995, New York, NY

An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection | Keith F. Davis, Harry N. Abrams Books, New York, NY, 1995

FotoFest ’94 (catalog), The Fifth International Festival of Photography, 1994 | Essay by Ricardo Viera

MoMA, Magazine of the Museum of Modern Art (Issue 18) Fall/Winter, New York, NY, “New Photography 10,” | Sheryl Conkelton, 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 (catalog), Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, FL, 1993 | Essay by Manuel E. Gonzalez

Photography 1992 Exhibition (catalog), Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield, MA, 1992 | Introduction by John Szarkowski

More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 from the Collection(brochure), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1991 | Essay by Peter Galassi

Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (catalog), Peter Galassi, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1991

Films

Shadow of the House. Feature length documentary film by Allie Humenuk. Made over the course of seven years, the film explores Abelardo Morell’s daily working life a working artist and father.

Room with a View. Short film about making the Times Square camera obscura picture for City Arts. Produced and directed by Howard Silver for

WNET/Thirteen, New York. Program # 411 (Air date 1/29/98)