Biography

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, 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

Small Works on Paper (competitive traveling exhibition in Arkansas), 2021, Purchase Prize
Black Box (solo), Focus Gallery, Wingate Center for Art + Design, Little Rock, 2020
Earth Work (solo), CameraWork Gallery, Scranton, PA, 2018
Big Rock (solo), Laman Library Gallery, North Little Rock, AR, 2018
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition 2017, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR
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
Earth Work (solo), Loft Gallery, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock, 2015-16
58h Annual Delta Exhibition (regional competitive), Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 2015
Excavation (solo), Robert F. Decaprio Art Gallery, Palos Hills, IL, 2014
Excavation (solo), Charno Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2014
Excavation (solo), Illinois Central College, East Peoria, 2013-14
Excavation (solo), Viewpoint, Sacramento, CA, 2013
Excavation (solo), Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA, 2013
Excavation (solo), Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, TX, 2012
Excavation (solo), CameraWork Gallery, Scranton, PA, 2011-12
Excavation (solo), Fred P. Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, 2011
Excavation (solo), Artspace Gallery, 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, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2010
SMaLL (national competitive), Cordon-Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010
Hannah Davis Gallery (solo), Memphis, TN, 2009
Gary Cawood & René West: Vestiges, Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, 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
Night Patrol (solo), Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
Gary Cawood: Photography (solo), Aquinas College Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, 2004
46th Annual Delta Exhibition (regional competitive), Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 2003
Night Patrol (solo), A4 Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 2002
Gary Cawood & Tom Stio, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN, 2002
The Watchman’s Room (solo), Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, 2002
Brooks Perspectives (eight works included), Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, 2001
Night Patrol (solo), Stevenson Union Gallery, Southern Oregon University, 2000
Still Pictures (solo), Hass Gallery, Bloomsburg University, PA, 2000
Gary Cawood/Anne Spenny, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH, 2000
Still Pictures (solo), 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 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
Public Display (solo), Urban Institute for Contemporary Art,, 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, MD, 1993
Photo National (national competitive), Zoeller Gallery, Penn State University (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 ’93 (national competitive), Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO, (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
Obstacles (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
The Portable Sign Series (solo), Photoworks, Richmond, VA, 1982
Gary Cawood & Diane Hingle-Olivio, Photo Exchange II, New Orleans, LA 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
Photographic Illusion (national competitive), Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 1981
The Afterimage (adjunct solo), Dallas, TX 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