TERRY EVANS
b. 1944, Kansas City
EDUCATION
BFA, Painting, University of Kansas
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Knox College, 2001
Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Kansas, 2016
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Ancient Prairies, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2020 Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville , Florida, Terry Evans: Stories of the Prairies
2019 The Inhabited Prairie, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2014 Meet Me at the Trinity: Photographs by Terry Evans, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Fractured: North Dakota’s Oil Boom, text by Elizabeth Farnsworth, Nevada Museum of Art, NV
2013 Fractured: North Dakota’s Oil Boom, text by Elizabeth Farnsworth, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
Heartland Retrospective, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
2012 Heartland Retrospective, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Matfield Green, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KA
2009 A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas Steel, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Revealing Chicago, Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 Exploring the Collection: Photographs of Terry Evans, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
2006 Chicago’s Backyards, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica
2005 Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait, Millennium Park, Chicago 2003 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
2002 From Prairie to Field, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Tales from the Prairie, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2001 In Place of Prairie, Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2000 Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago
In Place of Prairie, Kansas City Public Library
1999 In Place of Prairie, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
1998 In Place of Prairie, Art Institute of Chicago
Prairie Stories, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland Matfield Green, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago
1993 Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth
1990 Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
1989 Salina Art Center, Kansas
1984 Bethel College, Newton, Kansas
1982 Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
1980 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 1979 Colorado Mountain College, Leadville
1974 University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Devour the Land-War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970, Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums, curated by Makeda Best
2021 Love in the Time of the Anthropocene, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
2021 Time and Place: Water, Sky, Land, Curated by Anne Tucker, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
2019 The Power of Place, Spencer Museum of Art
A River Runs Through It, Museum of Nebraska Art
2018 Big Botany, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
View Finder: Leisure and Landscape in the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Chicago, IL
Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Gallery
2017 Other Romances, curated by Em Rooney, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Tracing Dirty Energy, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Picturing the Prairie, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
No Mountains in the Way, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
2013 Climate of Uncertainty, DePaul Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
A Democracy of Images, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN
2012 The Altered Landscapes, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
American in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
2011 Beautiful Vagabonds, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY Masterworks, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Texas
Winged Shadows, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Eye Wonder: Photography From the Bank of America Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington D.C.
2010 Proof, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans, Robert Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA
2008 Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006 Eyes
on Collections, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History
2005 Otherworlds, Sofa Gallery, Indiana University National Academy of Science, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence Homage to the Flint Hills, traveling exhibition
On View: Photographing the Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Off the Wall: A Rotation of Gallery Artists, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
2003 In Response to Place Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana New to View, Art Institute of Chicago Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
2002 Masterworks of American Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX Photographers and Writers, etc., Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Visions of America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2001 In Response to Place, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Akron Museum of Art, Ohio; Center of Creative Photography, Tucson
2000 Indivisible, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
All Terrain, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
This is North America/Is this N.A.?, University of Rhode Island Chicago in the Year 2000, Chicago
Cultural Center
The Landscape we Make, Evanston Art Center, Illinois
The Inhabited Prairie, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland
Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison
Indivisible, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago (Traveling) Chicago in the Year 2000, Field Museum of Natural History, ChicagoCrossing the Line, Photography Reconsidered, Art Institute of Chicago Visions of Prairie, Center for Great Planes Study, Lincoln
Water in The West, Humboldt State University, California
1999 As Far as the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art Altered Landscapes, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
1998 Contemporary Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York Land Used, Carlton College, MN 1997 Recent Acquisitions, Art Institute of Chicago
1996 Western Waters, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Plain Pictures, University of Iowa Museum of Art
Midwestern Landscapes, Columbia College, Chicago
1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln Philbrook Museum, Tulsa
1993 Water in the West, University of Colorado, Boulder
Reinterpreting the Land, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1992 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1991 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, Massachusetts College of Art
The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, University of Nevada Water in the West, Salina Art Center, Kansas
1990 Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS. Faculty Show Emporia State University, Emporia, KS. Ten Photographers
1988 Sandzen Gallery, Lindsborg KS. Faculty Show
1987 Skyborne: Aerial Photography, North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota 1985 Winners, Mid-America Arts Alliance (traveling)
1984 Exposed and Developed, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.
1983 An Open Land, Art Institute of Chicago
1978 Mid-American Photograph: A Contemporary Document, Mid-America Arts Alliance (traveling)
MONOGRAPHS
2013 Prairie Stories, Radius Books
2012 Heartland: The Photography of Terry Evans
2005 Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait, Harry N. Abrams, New York
2002 From Prairie to Field: Photographs by Terry Evans, Field Museum Catalogue
1998 Disarming the Prairie, Johns Hopkins Press, 50 color photographs. Essay by Tony Hiss
The Inhabited Prairie, University Press of Kansas, essay by Donald Worster
1986 Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky, University Press of Kansas
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2011 Altered Landscapes Earth Now
2010 On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans
2007 To Fly
2003 Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art The View from Here, Heartland Project Series catalogue
The Land Through a Lens, Smithsonian American Art Collection
2002 From Prairie to Field: Photography by Terry Evans, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History
Visions of America: Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene, Whitney Museum of
American Art
1996 Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art catalogue Plain Pictures, University of Iowa Museum catalogue
1993 Ansel Adams, New Light, The Friends of Photography
1992 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary Landscape Photography,
Smithsonian National Museum of Art
1989 Terry Evans, Foreign and Familiar: Portrait Photographs, Salina Art Center
1983 An Open Land: Photographs of the Midwest, 1952-1982,
Spencer Museum, University of Kansas 1978
Self-Portrayal, Friends of Photography, California
PERIODICALS
2011 Issues in Science and Technology (Fall Issue) 2003 Sierra Magazine, May-June
2002 The New Yorker
1993 Double Take, Spring
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2006 Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship
1996 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1995 Joliet Arsenal, Openlands Project, Chicago
1983 Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979 Prairie Roots/Human Roots, Kansas Committee for the Humanities
1974 No Mountains in the Way, National Endowment for the Arts
1973 Kansas in Transition, Kansas Committee for the Humanities
LECTURES
Amon Carter Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Canal Corridor Association
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago Cultural Center
Columbia College
Chicago Federal Reserve of Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
Goshen College, Indiana
The High Museum, Atlanta
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Kansas Land Trust
The Land Institute
LaSalle Bank Photography Collection
Lewis and Clark College
Miami Dade College
Minnesota Center for Photography
Museum of Contemporary Photography
National Museum of American Art
National Museum of Natural History
Openlands Project
Regional Society of Photographic Educators, Omaha
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Savannah College of Art and Design
Sioux City Art Center
Spencer Museum of Art, U. of KS
Sun Valley Center for the Arts
University of Kansas Department of Design University of North Carolina
COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City
Kansas Wesleyan University Gallery, Salina, KS
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LaSalle National Bank, Chicago
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
Paine Webber Photography Collection, New York
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Japan
Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York