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Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962.
He received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1977 and an MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art in 1981. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin College.
He has received a number of awards and grants, which include a Cintas grant in 1992, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994, and a Rappaport Prize in 2006.
His work has been collected and shown in many galleries, institutions and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York, The Chicago Art Institute, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Princeton University Art Museum and over forty other museums in the United States and abroad. He is represented by Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY.
His publications include a photographic illustration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1998) by Dutton Children's Books, A Camera in a Room (1995) by Smithsonian Press, A Book of Books (2002), a publication of Morell's photographs of books, introduced by Nicholson Baker and published by Bulfinch Press. Bulfinch Press has also published, Camera Obscura (2004), featuring sixty of Morell's camera obscura photographs and introduced by Luc Sante. Most recently, Phaidon Press released Abelardo Morell (2005), a retrospective work featuring 105 photographs and introduced by Richard Woodward.
Recently, filmmaker Allie Humenuk has completed a film entitled Shadow of the House, an in-depth documentary about Morell's work and experience as an artist. The film...premiered at the Boston 2007 Independent Film Festival....
The FrostArt Museum in Miami has organized a traveling exhibition of the show Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell, beginning in May, 2006 and showing in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Mexico. A large retrospective traveling exhibition organized by Tf Editores in Madrid of Morell's work premiered in Malaga, June 2006....
Morell is a professor of art at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA....More information on his publications, upcoming exhibitions, articles and representation can be viewed at www.abelardomorell.net.*
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David and the Earl of Arundel, Gardner Museum (1998)
Joan and Sir William Butts, M.D., Gardner Museum (1998)
Mimi and Painted Woman, Gardner Museum (1998)
Tim and Rembrandt, Gardner Museum (1998)
Two Gardens, Gardner Museum (1998)
Rhinehart-Inness, Yale University Art Gallery (2008)
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"Artist! Artist!," the audience shouts:
The Artist, Abelardo Morell
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