Sally Gall            statement | biography | links + press

born Washington, DC, 1956

EDUCATION

1978 BFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 KMR Arts, Washington Depot, CT
2008 "Crawl", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2007 "Blossoms", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2005 "A Survey: 1980-2005", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia

2003
"Subterranea", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
"Subterranea", Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
"Subterranea", Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Subterranea", Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington, DC
"Subterranea", Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Subterranea", Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2001 Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

2000
"Into Darkness", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999
Hope Pingree Gallery, Easthampton, NY
Vicki Bassetti Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington, DC

1998 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1996
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
Town Hall, Montalcino, Italy

1995
"Water's Edge", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Univesity of Califorina at Long Beach, CA
G.Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL

1994 Museum of Photography, Charleroi, Belguim

1993 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

1992
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991
Univesity of Califorina at Long Beach, CA
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1990 Lieberman & Saul, New York, NY

1989 Lieberman & Saul, New York, NY

1988
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1987 Lieberman & Saul, New York, NY

1984 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

1983 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

1981 Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 The Nature of Landscape / The Nature of Photography, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY

2007
Contemporary Photography and the Garden-Deceits and Fantasies, Hudson River Museum, NY

2006
Paper Trails: A Century of Women's Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Cornell University, Ithica, NY
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, (traveling exhibition)
Garden as Paradise in Contemporary Art, Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, NY
Contemporary Photography and the Garden, Middlebury College Art Museum, VT
The Parrish Art Museum, Southamptom, NY
Columbia Museum of Art, SC

2005 Tacoma Art Museum, WA

2003 By The Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

2000
Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Nudes, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1999 Humidity, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

1998 Formication, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1996
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Figure and Landscape Revisited: Nine Contemporary Photographers, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

1995
Water, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
Blind Spot, Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, Dallas, TX
The Landscape, New York University, New York, NY

1993
Great Women in Photography, Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC
Picturing Paradise: Art and the Rainforest, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, GA Curated by Walter Hopps

1992
Focus on Photography: 1980-1990, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA

1991
Reveries and Wanderings, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Gallery, New York, NY Curated by Linda Marchisotto
Aqua Puro: Images of Water in Contemporary Art, Home Box Office Gallery, New York, NY
Light in the Darkness, Lintas, New York, NY

1989
The New Expeditionary Photographers, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988 Around The World in 80 Days, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986
Swimmers, Burden Gallery, Aperature, NY (travelling exhibition)
The Texas Landscape, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1985
Contemporary Photographers: The Presence of the Sublime, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Women of the American West, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

1983
Printed by Women: A National Exhibition of Photos and Prints, Philadelphia, PA
Film and Photo, Santa Fe Center for Photography, NM

1981
The New Photography, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Texas Photo Sampler, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
SECA Invitational, San Francisco Museum, CA

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

Lopate, Phillip, "Sally Gall: Crawl", Aperture, no. 196, Fall 2009
The New Yorker, June 23, 2008
Chelsea Now, "Blossoms", Volume One, Issue 29, April 6-12, 2007
The New Yorker, April 9, 2007
Princethal, Nancy, Art in America, December 2005
Sheets, Hilarie M., Artnews, November 2005

"Picturing Eden", edited by Deborah Klockho, and published by George Eastman House and Steidl

Padon, Thomas, "Deceits & Fantasies: Comtemporary Photography and the Garden", New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2004

Johnson, Patricia C., "Complex views of the world help draw unique parallels," Houston Chronicle, April 12, 2004

Yenelouis, Berbard, "Sally Gall, Subterranea," BOMB Summer 2003

"Nether-Netherland", New York Magazine, February 17, 2003

"Sally Gall: Subterranea" The Art Newspaper, February 2003
Gall, Sally, Subterranea, Umbrage Editions, 2003

"Sally Gall," Hasselblad Forum, No3 2002, Issue 38

Robinson, Joan Seeman, "Entering the Underworld," SPOT Fall2000 /Winter 2001

Goldberg, Vicki, "How Worshipers, Too, Can Denature Nature," The New York Times, September 8, 2000

Budick, Ariella, "Shifting Landscapes," Newsday, August 20, 2000
Subterranean Style, New York Magazine, May 1, 2000

Reader's Digest, August 2000

The New Yorker, May 8, 2000

The New York Times, July 25, 1999

Aletti, Vince, Village Voice, April 28, 1998

New York Magazine, April 20, 1998

The New Yorker, May 11, 1998

Jones, Peter, "We've Got Gall," Sky, Delta Airlines, March 1996

Gall, Sally, The Water's Edge, Chronicle Books, 1995

"Sally Gall & April Gornik Dialogue", Bomb, Summer 1993

Spring, Justin, Artforum, March 1993

Hagen, Charles, The New York Times, 1993

Stretch, Bonnie Barrett, Art News, Reviews, March 1993

Jones, Peter, "High Times and Misdemeanors", Aperture, Fall 1991

Jones, Peter," Hot Photographers", Connoisseur, Novemeber, 1990

Hagen, Charles, Artforum, November 1987

Tucker, Anne, "Lone Star Statement", American Photographer, May 1987

Borhan, Pierre, "Danger D'Amour", Cliches, Oct. 1986

Messer, William, "Houston Photo Fest", European Photography, July 1986

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

1999 Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy

1997 Moonhole Residency, Englehard Foundation and Institute for Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA

1989-1988 MacDowell Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1986 Cultural Arts Council, Grants to Artists, Houston, TX

1983 Individual Artist's Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts

1982 Clare Hoyt Degoyler Memorial Fund, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX

COLLECTIONS

The Addison Gallery, Andover, MA
AGFA Corporation
Axium Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, New York, NY
Dow Jones, New York, NY
GTE Realty Corporation
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Morgan Guarantee, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LO
The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Sun Bank, Orange Park, FL
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, NY
Willis Corroon Corporation, Nashville, TN