BIOGRAPHY
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.
Uelsmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a founding member of The Society of Photographic Education and a former trustee of the Friends of Photography. Uelsmann’s work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad over the past thirty years. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.
CURRICULUM VITAE
THE CAMERA IS ESSENTIALLY A LICENSE TO
EXPLORE.
JERRY UELSMANN
DECISIVE
MOMENTS
MAY ALSO OCCUR WITHIN THE ENTIRE PROCESS.
JERRY UELSMANN
ULTIMATELY,
MY HOPE IS TO
AMAZE
MYSELF.
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MY VISUAL QUEST
IS DRIVEN BY A
DESIRE
TO CREATE A
UNIVERSE CAPABLE
OF SUPPORTING
FEELINGS AND IDEAS.
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I BELIEVE THAT
THE WORLD
EXISTS in
US AS MUCH AS
IT DOES
AROUND US.
JERRY UELSMANN
SELF DOUBT
IS PART OF
THE CREATIVE
PROMISE.
JERRY UELSMANN