MONOGRAPHS
Jerry N. Uelsmann (Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1970)
Eight Photographs: Jerry Uelsmann (Doubleday & Company, New York, NY, 1970)
Jerry Uelsmann, Silver Meditations (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, 1975)
Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photography from 1975-79 (Chicago: Columbia College, 1980)
Jerry N. Uelsmann - Twenty-five Years: A Retrospective (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1982
Uelsmann: Process and Perception (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,1985)
Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992)
Uelsmann/Yosemite (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996)
Museum Studies (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1999)
Approaching the Shadow (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000)
Referencing Art (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The American Center for Culture, Prague, Czech Republic
Amerika Haus, Vienna, Austria
Center for Photography as an Art Form, Bombay, India
A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA
American Cultural Center, Paris, France
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Cheekwood Fine art Center, Nashville, TN
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX
Cultural Center of the USA, Istanbul, Turkey
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Halstead Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago, IL
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
Photographer’s Gallery, South Yarra, Australia
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA
Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
Baltimore Museum of Art
Biblioteque National, Paris, France
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Cheekwood Fine Art Center, Nashville, TN
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museim, Denver, CO
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gallery of Modern Art of the National Galleries of Scotland
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musée Reattu, Arles, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
New York University, New York, NY
Nicephore Niepce Museum, Chalon, France
Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Royal Photographic Society, London, England
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
UCLA Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
University of Louisville Photographic Archives, Louisville, KY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1972
University of Florida Faculty Development Grant, 1971
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967
Fellow, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
The visually plausible but philosophically impossible situations presented in Jerry Uelsmann’s photographs contradict the essential information we have come to expect from photographs. By subverting the currency of literal fact, Uelsmann releases us from the constraints of photography’s mimetic function. No longer burdened by representation, we naturally return to our internal, nonlinear faculties of thought and feeling to savor the inexpressible resonance of his enigmatic visions. Vague, despite their sharpness and fine detail, and ambiguous despite our recognition of their constituent elements, his photographic montages are like dreams that slip past our perceptual defenses triggering a response but never quite revealing their meaning.
Jerry N. Uelsmann Bio
Born in Detroit on June 11,1934, Jerry Uelsmann received his B.F.A. degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 and his M.S. and M.F.A. at Indiana University in 1960. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960 ("my first job offer"). He became a graduate research professor of art at the university in 1974, and is now retired from teaching. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.