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.

JERRY UELSMANN

MY VISUAL QUEST

IS DRIVEN BY A

DESIRE

TO CREATE A

UNIVERSE CAPABLE

OF SUPPORTING

FEELINGS AND IDEAS.

JERRY UELSMANN

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