Gary Cawood received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Auburn University in 1970, and after service as a VISTA in the Pittsburgh Architect’s Workshop, began a serious study of photography in 1972. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from East Tennessee State University in 1976. He has taught at the University of Delaware, Louisiana Tech University and is Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Cawood’s photographs have been widely exhibited throughout the United States, including over sixty solos and approximately one hundred two-person and group shows. He has received Visual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Arkansas Arts Council. His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Amon Carter Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Selected Exhibitions
- CameraWork Gallery (solo), Scranton, PA, 2018
- Big Rock (solo), Laman Library Gallery, North Little Rock, AR, 2018
- Delta National Small Prints Exhibition 2017, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro
- Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction. New Orleans Museum of Art, 2016
- National Juried Art Competition, South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado. 2016
Best of Show and Purchase Prize
- Loft Gallery (solo), Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock, 2015-16
- 58h Annual Delta Exhibition (regional competitive), Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 2015
- Moraine Valley Community College (solo), Palos Hills, IL, 2014
- Charno Gallery (solo), Kansas City, MO, 2014
- Illinois Central College (solo), East Peoria, 2013-14
- Viewpoint (solo), Sacramento, CA, 2013
- Morris Graves Museum of Art (solo), Eureka, CA, 2013
- Southern Light Gallery (solo), Amarillo College, TX, 2012
- CameraWork Gallery (solo), Scranton, PA, 2011-12
- Fred P. Giles Gallery (solo), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, 2011
- Artspace Gallery (solo), College of Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, 2011
- Associations (invitational), Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011
- Artspace (solo), Richmond, VA, 2010
- Merced Multicultural Center (solo), Merced, CA, 2010
- Photowork ’10 (national competitive), Barrett Art Center, Puughkeepsie, NY, 2010
- SMaLL (national competitive), Cordon-Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010
- Hannah Davis Gallery (solo), Memphis, 2009
- Austin College (two-person), Sherman TX, 2009
- Material Afterlife (invitational), Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, 2009
- Magic Silver (national competitive), Murray State University, Murray, KY, 2008
- 50th Delta Exhibition (regional competitive), Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 2007
- Soho Photo National Competitive, New York, NY, 2007
- Photospiva (national competitive), Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO, 2007
- Masterworks of American Portraiture, Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, TX, 2007
- Photo Narratives (invitational), Cazenovia College Gallery, Cazenovia, NY, 2006
- Gallery 1401 (solo), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2005
- Aquinas College Gallery (solo), Grand Rapids, MI, 2004
- 46th Annual Delta Exhibition (regional competitive), Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 2003
- A4 Gallery (solo), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 2002
- New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art (two-person), New Harmony, IN, 2002
- The Watchman’s Room (solo), Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, 2002
- Brooks Perspectives (eight works included), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 2001
- Night Patrol (solo), Stevenson Union Gallery, Southern Oregon University, 2000
- Hass Gallery (solo), Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, 2000
- Rosewood Gallery (solo), Kettering, OH, January 2000
- 1708 Gallery (solo), Richmond, Virginia, November 1999
- School of Art Gallery (three-person), Munson William Proctor Institute, Utica, NY,1998
- Level 3 Gallery (solo), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX,1998
- Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (solo), Grand Rapids, MI, 1997
- SRO Gallery (solo), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1997
- Still Pictures (solo), Mala Galerie Sporitelny V Kladne, Kladno, Czech Republic, 1996
- Recollection (solo), Photography Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 1995-96
- Obstacles (solo), Gallery of Photography, Eastern Washington State University, Cheney, 1994
- Gary Cawood/Recent Works (solo), Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, 1994
- Apollo in Silver: Photography in the Minimalist Era (invitational), Iowa State, Ames, 1994
- Gary Cawood/Photographs (solo), Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, 1993
- Photo National (national competitive), Zoeller Gallery, Penn State (also traveled), 1993
- Current Works (national competitive), Kansas City Artists Coalition, 1989 (also 1988)
- U. S. Biennial II (national competitive), The University of Oklahoma Museum, Norman, 1988
- Magic Silver ‘88 (national competitive), Northern Iowa University, Cedar Rapids,1988 (also 79)
- Photospiva (national competitive), Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO. 1993 (also 1992, 89, 88, 87, 86)
- The Photos of Gary Cawood (solo), Books and Books Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, 1991
- Obstacles (solo), The Gallery, The University of Georgia, Athens, 1990
- Photographs by Gary Cawood (solo), Memphis Center for Contemporary Art, 1990
- Recent Acquisitions: Photography, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC,1989
- Robert May Gallery (solo), University of Kentucky, 1987
- Living Things (solo exhibition of book proposal), The Washington (DC) Project for the Arts, 1986
- 1986 New Orleans Triennial (ten works included), New Orleans Museum of Art
- Photo Opportunity ‘85 (national competitive), Blatant Image Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985
- Louisiana Major Works (invitational), Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, 1984
- A Century of Vision: Louisiana Photography 1884-1984, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans
- The Portable Sign Series (solo), Cleveland Photo Workshop, Cleveland Heights, OH, 1982
- Dean Dablow and Gary Cawood, Project Art Center, Cambridge, MA,1982
- Tom Patton / Gary Cawood: A Matter of Style, Sioux City Art Center, IA,1982
- In Praise of Architecture (invitational), Gallery North, Setauket, Long Island, NY, 1981
- Southern Eye, Southern Mind (regional competitive), Memphis Academy of Art, 1981
- Contemporary Art Center (solo), New Orleans, 1979
- Works on Paper: Southwest 1978 (curated Weston Neaf), Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
- Sarah Reynolds Gallery (solo), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1977