Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan (July 13, 1946 – December 13, 2009) was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco 1989 to 2009. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, part of Los Angeles, California, where his parents moved when he was an infant. in San Francisco.

Life and work He started his career in the 1970s as a conceptual photographer. whose role was to question societal expectations of gender and aging.

He was married to Katherine Sultan, also known as Kelly Sultan. 1986: Photographer’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts 1990: Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship 1991: Biennial Award, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 1992: Photographer’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions 2012–2013: Larry Sultan's Homeland: American Story, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, October 2012 – January 2013. 2014–2015: Larry Sultan: Here and Home, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, November 2014 – May 2015; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, October 2015 - January 2016. 2014–2015: Larry Sultan, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, March-May 2015.

Group exhibitions 1989: Real Fictions: Recent Color Photographs by Bill Dane, John Harding and Larry Sultan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With Bill Dane and John Harding, curated by Sandra S. Phillips. 2011–2012: Here, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA, May 2011 – January 2012. 2012–2013: About Face, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA, May 2012 – April 2013. 2014–2015 Secondhand, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA, August 2014 – May 2015.

Collections Sultan's work is held in the following permanent collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 33 prints (as of January 2021) Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City Tate Modern, London Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City