Born
1948 Havana, Cuba

Education
1981 MFA, Yale University School of Art (New Haven, CT)
1977 BA, Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)

Employment
Professor of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 “Abelardo Morell”, Instituto Jovellanos, Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Gijon, Spain
“Abelardo Morell”, Salas de la Comunidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
“Abelardo Morell”, Instituto de America, Santa Fe, Granada, Spain
“Vision Revealed”, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
“Vision Revealed”, Central Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Solo Exhibition, Diputacion de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
“Vision Revealed”, Museum Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
“Abelardo Morell”, Michel Soskine Inc, Madrid, Spain
“New Work”, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
2005 Gallery 339, Philadelphia
“A View with a Room: Abelardo Morell”, The Art Institute of Chicago,Chicago, IL
“Abelardo Morell”, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2004 “About Time”, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
“A Kind of Paradise”, Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, England
“Vision Revealed”, Frost Art Museum , Florida International University, Miami FL
2003 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Ontario
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 “New Work”, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
“Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye”, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
“Camera Obscura”, Shine Gallery, London, UK
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Union College, Mandeville Gallery
Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
2001“Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye”, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
“Abelardo Morell”, St. Paul¹s School, Concord, NH
Shine Gallery, London, England
2000 “The Universe Next Door”, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
“Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye”, The St. Louis Art Museum
LeHigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
“Staged and Manipulated: Photographic Fictions from St. Louis Collections,”
The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
“Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye”, Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Florence, Italy
“Alice in Wonderland”, Locus Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
1999 “Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye”, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo
“Abelardo Morell”, Fahey Klein Gallery
“Abelardo Morell”, Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1998 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
“Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye”, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
“Face to Face”, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
“Abelardo Morell Photographs: Pictured Pages”, Cleveland Museum of Art
DeCordava Museum of Art
1996 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995“Looking at Books”, Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA)
Robert Klein Gallery (Boston, MA)
Jan Abrams Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta, GA)
1994 Bonni Benrubi Gallery (New York, NY)
1993 The National Arts Club (New York, NY)
1989 Becker Gallery, Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
1988 North Gallery (Boston, MA
Midtown “Y” Gallery (New York, NY)
1983 Westbrook College (Portland, ME)
1976 Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Fourth Street Gallery (New York, NY)

Selected Collections
Ackland Art Museum/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Sprint Corporate Art Collection, Overland Park, KS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, ME)
Brandeis University Rose Art Museum (Waltham, MA)
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)
Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA)
Fisher Landau Center for Art (Long Island City, NY)
Florida International University Art Museum (Miami, FL)
Fort Lauderdale Art Museum (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Foundation Cartier, (Paris ,France)
Hallmark Photographic Collection (Kansas City, MO)
Houston Museum of Fine Art (Houston, TX)
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (Rochester, NY)
Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)
Lehigh University Art Galleries (Bethlehem, PA)
List Visual Arts Center, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)
Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ)
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL)
Museum of Fine Art (Houston, TX)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, CA)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA)
New York Public Library (New York, NY)
Northwestern University Center for the Humanities (Chicago, IL)
Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, (Philadelphia, PA)
Philip Morris Inc. (New York, NY)
The Progressive Corporation (Mayfield Village, OH)
Reader¹s Digest Corporation, (Pleasantville, NY)
St. Louis Art Museum, (St. Louis, MO)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
University of Virginia, Bayly Art Museum (Charlottsville, VA)
The University of Akron, Emily H. Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
Victoria & Albert Museum, (London, England)
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)
Yale University Art Gallery, (New Haven, CT)

Monographs
Retrospective Photographs:Abelardo Morell, Introduction by Richard Woodward, TF Editores, Spain, 2004

Camera Obscura:Photographs by Abelardo Morell, Introduction by Luc Sante,
Bulfinch Press, 2004

Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell, Essay by Andy Grundberg;

Exhibition Catalog, Florida International University, 2003

A Book of Books, Abelardo Morell, Preface by Nicholson Baker, Bulfinch Press, 2002

A Camera in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell, Photographers at Work Series, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995

Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner Museum, Abelardo Morell, Introduction by Jill S. Medvedow, 1998

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll, Photographs by Abelardo Morell, Introduction by Leonard S. Marcus, Dutton Books, 1998

Awards
1995 New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1995 St. Botolph's Club Foundation Award
1993-94 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1992-93 Cintas Foundation Fellowship

Residencies
1997 The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
1995 The Boston Athaneum, Boston, MA