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.
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