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

2004
“About Time”; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Shine Gallery, 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 of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
“Abelardo Morell,” St. Paul’s 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)


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


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, Ableardo 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