EDUCATION

1973 MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute

1968 BA, Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2009 Elected Member, Board of Trustees, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1989 - 2009 Distinguished Professor of Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

1993 - 1999 Chair Photography Department, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

1978 - 1988 Instructor of Photography, San Francisco Art Institute

1992 - 1998 Board of Trustees, Headlands Center for the Arts

 

AWARDS

2000

Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship

United States State Department: International Arts and Lectures Grant

Flintridge Foundation Artist's Fellowship

1999

Gerbode Foundation

1997

Society of Environmental Graphic Design - Award of Merit

1996

Haas Foundation / Creative Work Fund Award

Marin Arts Council / Artist Fellowship

1992

National Endowment for the Arts / Photography Fellowship

1991

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award

1989

Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship

1988

Englehard Fellowship / ICA  Boston

1986

National Endowment for the Arts / Photography Fellowship

Marin Arts Council / Artists Fellowship

1983

Guggenheim Fellowship

1980

National Endowment for the Arts / Photography Fellowship

1978

California Arts Council / Special Projects (with Mike Mandel)

1977

National Endowment for the Arts / Photography Fellowship (with Mike Mandel)

1976

National Endowment for the Arts / Art in Public Places with (Mike Mandel)

 

PUBLISHED BOOKS

2014

Larry Sultan: Here and Home
Prestel USA

2012

Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / D.A.P.

2010

Katherine Avenue

Steidl

2004

The Valley

Scalo Verlag

1992

Pictures From Home

Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York

1989

Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden Gate

University of New Mexico Press (collaboration with Miles DeCoster, Mark Klett, Mike Mandel and Paul Metcalf)

1977

Evidence

self-published (collaboration with Mike Mandel)

1974

How to Read Music in One Evening

self-published (collaboration with Mike Mandel)

 

ONE PERSON AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS

2014

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: California

Stephen Wirtz Gallery: San Francisco, California

2012

Amon Carter Museum of American Art: Fort Worth, Texas

2010

Kestnergesellschaft: Hannover, Germany, Katherine Avenue

2009

Galerie Thomas Zander: Köln, Germany

Royal Botanical Gardens: Madrid, Spain

Kunstverein: Bremerhaven, Germany

2007

Domus Atrium O2: Salamanca, Spain

Museum of Contemporary Photography: Chicago, Illinois

Alexandre Pollazzon Gallery: London, England

2006

Campus Galerie: University of Bayreuth, Germany

Jackson Fine Art: Atlanta, Georgia 

2005

Musée de l'Elysée: Lausanne Switzerland

Maes & Matthys Gallery: Antwerp Belgium

Photographers Gallery: Vassar College Art Gallery, London, England

2004

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: California

Galerie Thomas Zander: Köln, Germany

The Apartment: Athens, Greece

Stephen Wirtz Gallery: San Francisco, California

Janet Borden Gallery: New York, New York

Center For Creative Photography: Tucson, Arizona

2003

Isabella Brancolini Art Contemporane Gallery: Florence Italy

Stephen Wirtz Gallery: San Francisco

2002

Reflex Modern Art: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Recontres d'Arles: Arles, France

Gallery of Photography: Dublin, Ireland

2001

Janet Borden Gallery: New York, New York

2000

Galerie MK: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1996

Queens Museum: New York, New York

1995

Scottsdale Center for the Arts: Scottsdale, Arizona

1994

Corcoran Museum of Art: Washington DC

1993

Chicago Cultural Arts Center: Chicago, Illinois

Janet Borden Gallery: New York, New York

Manchester Craftsman Guild: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: California

1992

Stephen Wirtz Gallery: San Francisco, California

San Jose Museum of Art: California

1990

The Exploratorium: San Francisco, California

1989

Janet Borden Gallery: New York, New York

Headlands Center for the Arts: Sausalito, California

1987

Rhode Island School of Design: Providence, Road Island

1983

University Art Museum: Berkeley, California

Film In The Cities: St Paul, Minnesota

1982

Portland School of Art: Portland, Maine

University of Colorado Art Gallery: Boulder, Colorado

1981

Light Gallery: Los Angeles, California

Blue Sky Gallery: Portland, Oregon

1979

Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art: Illinois

1978

Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art: California

1977

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: California

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

PARIS PHOTO: Galerie Thomas Zander, France

2013

PROXIMITIES: WHAT TIME IS IT THERE: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California

PARIS PHOTO: Galerie Thomas Zander, France

ART BASEL: Galerie Thomas Zander, Switzerland

PARIS PHOTO LA: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, California

2012

SILVER CURTAIN: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California

ABOUT FACE: Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE: The New Museum, New York, New York

BACKYARD OASIS: THE SWIMMING POOL IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PHOTOGRAPHY, 1945-1982: Palm Springs Art Museum, California

PARIS PHOTO: Galerie Thomas Zander, France

ART BASEL: Galerie Thomas Zander, Switzerland

2011

CUT: Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln Germany

HERE: Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California

IDYLL: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California

UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN: CALIFORNIA ART 1974 - 1981: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California

WUNDER: Kunst, Wissenschaft und Religion, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2010

LA REVANCHE DE L'ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE: Centre de la Photographie Genève, Switzerland

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR: Winterthur, Switzerland

2009

INTO THE SUNSET: PHOTOGRAPHY'S IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN OF WEST: Museum Modern Art, New York, New York

ART BASEL: Art Film - Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

SEEING DOUBLE:  Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

THE ART OF CARING:  New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana               

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Camerawork, California

2008

DARKSIDE: FotoMuseum Winterthur, Switzerland 

WORLDS AWAY: NEW SUBURBAN LANDSCAPES: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE:  BODY AND LANDSCAPE IN L.A. PHOTOGRAPHS: The Huntington Library Museum, Pasadena, California; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ART FROM THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

SEEING OURSELVES: MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson Mississippi

WORKING MEN: Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland

2007

DAS KAPITAL - BLUE CHIPS & MASTERPIECES: Museum of Modern Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

2006

FULL HOUSE, VIEWS OF THE WHITNEY COLLECTION AT 75: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

OF MICE AND MEN: 4Th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany

CLICK DOUBLE CLICK: THE DOCUMENTARY FACTOR: Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

SO THE STORY GOES:  PHOTOGRAPHS BY TINA BARNEY, PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA, NAN GOLDIN, SALLY MANN AND LARRY SULTAN: Art Institute of Chicago, IllinoisCOMPLICIT: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ART AND MASS CULTURE: University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia

CULTURE AND CONTINUITY: Jewish Museum: New York

DREAMING CALIFORNIA: RUTH-MARION BARUCH, BILL OWENS, AND LARRY SULTAN:

MIDDLE GROUND: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: RUTH-MARION BARUCH, BILL OWENS, AND LARRY SULTAN: Berkeley Art Museum, California

SAFE:  Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York

SUBURBAN ESCAPE: THE ART OF CALIFORNIA SPRAWL: San Jose Museum of Art, California

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ART FROM THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: California

GIRLS ON FILM: Zwiner and Wirth Gallery: New York

ROSE SÉLAVY: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California

THE BIG PICTURE: CONTEMPORARY LARGE-SCALE PHOTOGRAPHY: University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, California

ABOUT FACE: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

2004

FASHION AND FICTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1990:Museum of Modern Art: New York, New York

INSIDE OUT: PORTRAITS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

2003

BAJA TO VANCOUVER: THE WEST COAST IN CONTEMPORARY ART: Traveling exhibition through 2004: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California;

Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

THE GRAY AREA: Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California

FAMILY TIES: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

TV CINEMA VIDEO: Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany

UNDOMESTICATED INTERIORS: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

TURNING CORNERS: University Art Museum: Berkeley, California

AT WORK: THE ART OF CALIFORNIA LABOR: Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, California

2002

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea

VISIONS FROM AMERICA: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: New York, New York

CHIC CLICKS: CREATIVITY AND COMMERCE IN CONTEMPORARY FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY: Fotomuseum Winterhur, Switzerland

HOUSE BROKEN: Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, California

2001

SETTINGS AND PLAYERS: THEATRICAL AMBIGUITY IN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: White Cube: London, England; Prague City Gallery: Czech Republic

PICTURING MEDIA: MODERN PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTIONS: The Metropolitan Museum, New York, New York

POINTS OF DEPARTURE: CONNECTION WITH CONTEMPORARY ART: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

THE PERSISTENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICAN PORTRAITURE: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

COLOR: Janet Borden Gallery, New York, New York

2000

THE PERPETUAL WELL: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM: traveling exhibition through 2001: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art,

University of Florida at Gainesville; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska in Lincoln; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York; Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia

THE PERSISTENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICAN PORTRAITURE: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

IMMODEST GAZES: La Fundacio La Caiza: Barcelona, Spain

THE PATH OF RESISTANCE: PROTEST ART IN THE 20TH CENTURY: Museum of Modern Art: New York, New York

CAPTURING LIGHT: MASTERPIECES OF CALIFORNIA PHOTOGRAPHY, 1850-2000: Oakland Museum of California

MADE IN CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, California

BEYOND BOUNDARIES: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY IN CALIFORNIA: traveling exhibition organized by Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California;

other venues: University Art Museum, California State University: Long Beach, California; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum: Santa Barbara, California;

American Treasures from the Corcoran Gallery: The Corcoran Gallery of Art: Washington, DC

MAKING LIGHT: WIT AND HUMOR IN PHOTOGRAPHY: Leham Leob Art Center, Vassar College, New York

1999

MODERN STARTS/PEOPLE: The Museum of Modern Art: New York, New York

THE AMERICAN LAWN: SURFACE OF EVERYDAY LIFE: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: San Jose Museum of Art, California

BAY AREA NOW 2: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California

25/25: Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California

CALIFORNIA CLASSICS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: traveling exhibition in Japan:

Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Fukui City Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

FATHERS AND SONS: PARTS Photographic Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1998

POLICE PICTURES: THE PHOTOGRAPH AS EVIDENCE: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Grey Art Gallery, New York

MATRIX: 20 YEARS: Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archives, California

THE AMERICAN LAWN: SURFACE OF EVERYDAY LIFE: Centre Canadian D'Architecture: Canada

UNDEREXPOSED: Stockholm Metro Stations, Sweden

CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES: AN URBAN/RURAL DIALOGUE: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California

1997

PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE: A Public Art Project @ Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton, California

POLICE PICTURES: THE PHOTOGRAPH AS EVIDENCE: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

HOPE: The National Arts Club: New York, New York

MARIN ARTS AWARDS EXHIBITION: Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael, California

FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

SCENE OF THE CRIME: Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

1996

THE FAMILIAL GAZE: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

TO KEEP HER COUNTENANCE: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California

ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY 1871 - PRESENT: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California

PHOTOGRAPHY AS A REFLECTION OF TIME: Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.

PICTURING MODERNITY, ASPECTS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

1995

ALTER EGO: Amsterdam Center for the Arts, The Netherlands

LA MATUERE L'OMBRE, LA FICTION: Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France

MOVING THE MESSAGE: ACTIVISM AND ART: San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, California

DEATH AND THE FAMILY: Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

HOME IS WHERE: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina

WE LOOK AND SEE: University Art Museum, Berkeley, California

INAUGURAL EXHIBITION: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

SPIRIT OF PLAY: Union Station: New York, New York

A SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY GALLERY ARTISTS: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California

1994

WHOSE LOOKING AT THE FAMILY: Barbicon Art Gallery, London, England

GESTURE AND POSE: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

NATURE AND CULTURE: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

BIG SHOTS/LITTLE SHOTS: Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, California

1992

DISMANTLING THE MYTH OF THE FAMILY: Betty Rymer Gallery atThe Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

PARENTS: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia (Traveling Exhibition)

1991

THE PLEASURES AND TERRORS OF DOMESTIC COMFORT: The Museum of Modern Art: New York, New York (Traveling Exhibition)

PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS: A SUMMER SELECTION: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

PHOTOGRAPHY AS IDEA: CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE 60'S AND 70'S: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

BLOOD RELATIVES: Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

1991

IMAGING THE FAMILY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY TINA BARNEY, LORIE NOVAK AND LARRY SULTAN: List Art Venter, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

GROUP SHOW: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California

1990

RECENT COLLABORATIONS: Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Arizona

RE: MEMORY, THE WORK OF LORIE NOVAK, GEORGE KRUSE, LARRY SULTAN AND ANNE TURYN: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

1989

CALIFORNIA PHOTOGRAPHY: REMAKING MAKE-BELIEVE: The Museum of Modern Art: New York, New York (Traveling Exhibition)

REAL LIFE FICTION: PHOTOGRAPHS OF BILL DANE, JOHN HARDING AND LARRY SULTAN: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

1988

NATURE AND CULTURE: The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California

COLLABORATIONS: Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation

CROSS CURRENTS/CROSS COUNTRY: SF Camerawork/Photographic Resource Center, San Francisco, California

THE SWIMMERS: Burden Gallery, New York, New York

SUBURBAN VISIONS, MIDDLE-CLASS DREAMS: Muckenthaler Community Center,  Los Angeles, California

1987

PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART: INTERACTIONS SINCE 1946: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Florida

1985

AMERICAN IMAGES 1945-1985: Barbican Art Gallery, London, England

PLAYING IT AGAIN; STRATEGIES OF APPROPRIATION: Santa Fe Center of Contemporary Art, New Mexico (Traveling Exhibition)

FAMILY AS SUBJECT MATTER IN CONTEMPORARY ART: Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC

ART AND ADVERTISING: Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington

LES IMMATERIAUX: Musee National D'Art Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1985

SIGNS OF THE TIMES: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

NEW COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY: Museum of Modern Art: New York, New York

THE SWIMMERS: Pace McGill Gallery: New York, New York

1984

PHOTOGRAPHY IN CALIFORNIA: 1945-1975: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (Traveling Exhibition)

THE COLLECTION OF SAM WAGSTAFF: International Center of Photography, New York, New York

1982

20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

BEYOND COLOR: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

A FEW FRENCH GESTURES: Paris Biennale Xlleme, France

ANTHOLOGIES, CATALOGS AND PORTFOLIOS                

2009

Respini, Eva- Into the Sunset: Photography's image of the American WestMuseum of Modern Art, NY 

2008

Bohn-Spector, Claudia and Watts, Jennifer - This Side of Paradise:  Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs,  Merrell

Blauvelt, Andrew   Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape - Walker Art Center

2006

Bright, Susan Art-Photography Now, Aperture, New York

Weski, Thomas ClickDoubleClick: The Documentary Factor, Walther König, Köln, Gemany

Busard, Katherine So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann and Larry Sultan, Yale University Press

La Salle Bank - One of a Kind: Portraits from the La Salle Bank Photography Collection

2005

Kennedy, Marla Hamburg and Stiller, Ben. Looking at Los Angeles, Metropolis Books, New York

2004

Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990, Museum of Modern Art

Cotton, Charlotte The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson LTD, London

2003

Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass

Habitacion 2, Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, Spain

Baja To Vancouver: The West Coast and the Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum

2002

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art,

Whitney Museum and Prestel Verlag

Lehmann, Ulrich. Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion, Photography ICA Boston, and Hadje Cantz

Hingston, Thomas, Vision On, London

Johnstone, Mark; Aboud-Holzman, Leslie. Epicenter: San Francisco: Bay Area Art Now, Chronicle Books

2001

Aletti, Vince et al. The Book of 11 Books, PPP Editions and Roth Horowitz

Neri, Louise. Setting and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity In American Photography, The White Cube, London, England

Sandbye, Mette. Mindsmaerker, Tavens Sorte Bibliotek

 

2000

American Treasures of Corcoran Museum of Art, Abbeville Pre

Druckery, Timothy. Immodest Gazes, La Foundation La Caiza, Barcelona

Made in California; Image and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Kemp, Arnold. Bay Area Now II, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Kabat, Nora. Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, Friends of Photography

1999

California Classics: Highlights from the Collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, exhibition catalogue. APT International Inc., pp.107-109

Kimball, Cathy. Into the 21st Century, Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art

1998

Hirsch, Marianne. Familial Gaze, Harvard University Press

Phillips, Sandra. Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence, Chronicle Books, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

George, Alice Rose/ Hope Photographs, Thames and Hudson

1997

Rugoff, Ralph. Scene of the Crime, MIT Press

Sussler, Betsey. Speak Art, The best of Bomb Magazine Interviews G+B Arts International

Blind Spot, #Ten, What Remains After Things Fall Apart

1995

Home is Where, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina

Making of a Modern Museum, SF Museum of Modern Art

A Century of American Photography, the Hallmark Collection, Abrams

Geiber, Ron. Parent, Dayton Art Institute/Wright State University

Heyman, Abigail. Flesh and Blood, The Picture Project, New York

1994

Brown, Carol. Who's Looking at the Family? Barbican Art Gallery, London

1991

Bamburger, Tom. Blood Relatives, The Milwaukee Art Museum

Galassi, Peter. The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The museum of Modern Art

1989

Kismaric, Susan. California Photography: Re-Marking Make Believe, The Museum of Modern Art

1988

Tucker, Ann. Cross Currents/Çross Country San Francisco Camerawork and Boston Photographic Resource Center

1987

Grundberg, Andy and Kathleen Gauss. Photography and Art: interactions since 1946, New York: Abbeville Press

1985

Irmas, Deborah. Signs of the Times: Some Recurring Motifs in 20th Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1984

Katzman, Louise. Photography in California: 1945 through 1975, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1981

Thomas, Lew and Peter D'Agostino eds. Still Photography: The Problematic Model, San Francisco: NFS Press

ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

2004

Baker, Kenneth. Mysterious photos make us wonder if seeing is believing, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, June 26

Buckner, Clark. Larry Sultan: The Valley, Stretcher.org, July 29

DeCarlo, Tessa. Star Maps, San Fernando Valley Style New York Times May 23

Helfand, Glen. Larry Sultan: The Valley Review, Artforum, September, p.276

Jarrell, Joe. Picturing the Naked Truth, San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, p.18

2003

Baker, Ken. Larry Sultan Art News June

Helfand, Glen. Gallery Walk San Francisco Art on Paper May

Levine, Karen, Larry Sultan at Stephen Wirtz Gallery Tema Celeste May

2002

Bellel, Zeva. Home Movies Dutch July

Cooper, Bernard.  Adult Pictures Los Angeles Magazine March

Guerrin, Michel.  Larry Sultan, collectionneur de memoire Le Monde July 17

Wolinski, Natacha. Larry Sultan: L'Amerique en eaux Troubles Beau Arts Magazine July

2001

Johnson, Ken. Larry Sultan The Valley New York Times October 5 2001

Portfolio. Days of Their Lives British GQ June

2000

Aletti, Vince. Show of Shows The Village Voice July 25

Sultan, Larry. The Parallel Universe The New York Times Magazine November 12
The Art of Boredom
, The New York Times Magazine, April 9, pp. 74-76
Flintridge Announces Award Winners
, Artweek, May, p. 2

Lozano, Amparo. Viaje a un mundo interior, Fotografica, April, pp. 10-13

1999

Sunset Porno and the Seamy, Steamy Suburbs. A Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes in Everyday L.A. Vogue Hommes
International Mode, Spring/Summer, pp.130-144
Portfolio. Love Thy Neighbors ARENA September
Portfolio. Hommes Vogue International Spring
Portfolio. Spin September

1998

Preview, The American Lawn Artforum May

Graves, Donna. Site - People in Real Life Suburbia Sculpture April Vol 17 pp. 18-19

Portfolio. What's Left After things Fall Apart Blind Spot #10

Recent Projects - People in Real life Public Art Review

1997

Brunson, Jamie. People in Real Life Art Issues November/December

Thym, Jolene. A Perfect Exhibit for an Imperfect world, Valley Herald, August 9

1996

Goldberg, Vicki. The Sanpshot, History's Modest Helper New York Times June 16

1995

Portfolio. The Sailor who Fell from Grace Blind Spot #5

Howell, George. Larry Sultan:  Pictures From Home Art Papers   May & June

Mader, D.H. Family Values Perspektief Holland: Spring no. 49

Ostrom, Mary Anne. Controversy over Public Art San Jose Mercury News November 11

Sweeny, Camille. Portrait of the American Child New York Times Magazine October 8

England Photography in the Visual Arts A and D Art and Design, London September

Patterson, Tom. Thought-Provoking Exhibit Examines Meaning of Home, Winston-Salem Journal, September 17

Rinehart, Bettie. Mom-and-Pop Art, New Times, June 9, 1995, pp. 65-66

Dicker, Kiana. Larry Sultan's Pictures From Home, Blast, May/June 1995

Vroege, Bas, & Herst, Deanna. The Autobiographie Realism in Recent Photography and Media Art, Perspektief Quarterly Photography Magazine, No. 49
Larry Sultan: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace
, Blind Spot Issue #5

1994

Walters, Guy. Theories of Relativity The London Times Magazine May 21

Kelly, Jeff. Review Artforum December

Gefter Philip. Word for Word / Life Stories:  Of Death, Danger, Hope and Love The New York Times August 7

Clifton, Leigh Ann. Marin Project ignites a Furor Artweek September 22

Woodward, Richard. A Jewish Family: From Brooklyn to New York ARTnews January

1994

Schultz, Suzy. Family Pictures Tell a Multitude of Stories, Chicago Sun Times, October 9

Thall, Larry. Larry Sultan's Photos Raise an Old Question: Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Chicago Tribune, October 7

Pincus, Robert L. Portrait of the Home Folks:Poignant Family Essay," The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 13

1993

Aletti, Vince. Family Viewing Village Voice July 6

Bonetti, David. Public Crisis, Private Successes San Francisco Examiner March 24

Hagen, Charles. Art in Review - Larry Sultan The New York Times July 2

Tanner, Marcia. A Hunger for Each Other's Stories, Camerawork, vol. 20 no. 2 Fall/Winter

Collins, Michael. Pictures from Home Creative Camera London January

Moser, Charlotte. Larry Sultan, Pictures from Home Artweek Vol 23. #1

Porges, Maria. San Francisco Fax Art Issues March

Read, Michael. Family Values Review: Friends of Photography Winter

1993

Vienne, Veronique, Seen Through the Eyes of a Child
Tanner, Marsha. Poolside Manners ARTnews Vol. 92, #8 October

White, Robin. Larry Sultan, Artweek, January 7

1992

Gardener, Paul. The French Guy in Goggles ARTnews March

Heller, Karen. Of Human Bonding Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
Portfolio. Family Album Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 20
Tanner, Marcia. All In the Family: Photographer Larry Sultan Stays Close to Home in Search For Truth, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, December 13

1991

McDermott, Alice. Dark Domestic Visions New York Times October 13

Plagens, Peter. A House is not as Home Newsweek October 21

Russler, John. Something New Under the Met Sun New York Times July 1

1990

Liu, Catherine. Interview With Larry Sultan Bomb Magazine Spring

Gross, Terry Interview on Fresh Air NPR

1988

The Worlds Greatest Photographs 1980-1990 Life Magazines
Grundberg, Andy. Further Developments in the California State of Mind New York Times, July 23
Muchnic, Suzanne. Remarking Make-Believe in California Los Angeles Times July 21
Lufkin, Liz. Exposed Realities San Francisco Chronicle May 14
Photography The New Yorker July 17
Brown, Betty Ann. Joining Together in Strength Artweek November 11
Dubin, Zan. Waking U.S. Up to a New Rising Sun Los Angeles Times October 16

1986

Sultan, Larry. Reflections on a Home Movie Aperture #103

1985

Richards, Paul. Remembrances of Families Past Washington Post May 25

Glowen, Ron. Art and Advertising Center of Contemporary Art Folio June

1983

Fisher, Hal. Artforum Vol.22, #l September

1982

Sobieszek, Robert. Color as Form Camera Arts Vol.2, #5 September

1981

Au, Anita. Interview with Larry Sultan PhotoArt Magazine Hong Kong

Johnstone, Mark. Conveying the Intangible, Artweek, May 2

1980

Livingston, Kathryn. Larry Sultan American Photographer Vol.5, #2 August

1979

Eliot, David. Evidence Chicago Sun Times November 18

Evidence Journal of Visual Anthropology Temple University: January

1978

Sculley, Julia. Seeing Pictures, Modern Photography April

Davis, Douglas. Harvard's Challenging Evidence, Newsweek, May 8

Coleman, Alan. Is it Time to Stop Believing Photographs?, Camera 35 October

1977

Thomas, Lew. Photography and Ideology, Art Contemporary Vol. 8

Thornton, Gene. New York Joys - A Prague Disgrace, New York Times December 25

Thornton, Gene. Evidence, Artnews November

Lifson, Ben. Modern Dreams, Village Voice September 11

Heinecken, Robert. Open and Shut Case, Afterimage May

Gross, Fred. Evidence, Photograph July

Barndse, Henri Man. Evidence, Exposure December

1975

Czarnski, Joe. Replaced, The Structure of Myth, Artweek November 15

Desmarais, Charles. Junk Jazz, Afterimage April

1974

Murray, Joan. Immersion, Artweek November 16

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago

The Baltimore Museum of Art

Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

Canadian Center for Art and Architecture, Toronto Canada

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Arizona

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, California

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, Massachussetts

Fondation A Stichting, Brussels

Foundation Peter Stuyvesant, The Netherlands

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York

Frods Regional D'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

The Getty, Los Angeles, California

The Jewish Museum, New York

JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York

The List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Texas

New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico

The Oakland Museum of California

FotoMuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tate Modern, London, England

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut