1983 Olympus Gallery; London
1987 Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University; Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania
1990 Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona
1991 Comptoir de la photographie; Paris, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Fran-
cisco, California
1992 University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution; Washington, D.C.
Akron Art Museum; Akron, Ohio
Selected Group Exhibitions
1954 Second Southeastern Salon of Photography; 1954 Inter-
national Exhibition; Orlando, Florida
Seventh Hartford International Exhibition of Photo-
graphy; Wadsworth Athenaeum; Hartford, Connecticut
1955 Seattle International Exhibition of Photography; Seat-
tle Art Museum; Seattle, Washington
1956 Creative Photography; University of Kentucky; Lex-
ington, Kentucky
1958 Coke Collection; Indiana University; Bloomington,
Indiana
1959 Photographer’s Choice; Indiana University; Blooming-
ton, Indiana
Sense of Abstraction; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1960 Fotografie della Nuova Generazione; Milan, Italy
1961 Six Photographers; University of Illinois; Urbana,
Illinois
1962 Photography U.S.; deCordova Museum; Lincoln,
Massachusetts
1963 Photography 63/An International Exhibition; George
Eastman House; Rochester, New York
1964 30 Photographers; State University of New York at
Buffalo, New York
1966 American Photography: The Sixties; Sheldon Memor-
ial Art Gallery; University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
Nebraska
1967 Photography International; San Jose State College; San
Jose, California
Photography in the Twentieth Century; traveling exhi-
bition by George Eastman House for National Gallery
of Canada
1968 Contemporary Photographs;UniversityofCaliforniaat
Los Angeles, California
Five Photographers; University of Nebraska; Lincoln,
Nebraska
Photography 1968; Morlan Gallery, Transylvania Col-
lege; Lexington, Kentucky
1969 Light; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts
The Camera and the Human Fac ̧ade; Smithsonian
Institution; Washington, D.C.
1972 The Multiple Image; Creative Photography Gallery,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge,
Massachusetts
1976 Local Light: Photographs Made in Kentucky; Center
for Photographic Studies, Louisville; and traveled to
University of Kentucky, Lexington; and other venues
in Kentucky
1977 Contemporary South; United States Information
Agency; toured Far East and Europe
1978 I Shall Save One Land Unvisited: Eleven Southern
Photographers; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington,
D.C. and Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Blacksburg,
Virginia and traveling
1979 Photographic Surrealism; New Gallery of Contempor-
ary Art; Cleveland (now Cleveland Center for Contem-
porary Art). Traveled to Dayton Art Institute; Dayton,
Ohio and Brooklyn Museum of Art; Brooklyn, New York
1984 La photographie cre ́ative: Les collections de photogra-
phies contemporaines de la Bibliothe`que Nationale; Bib-
liothe`que nationale de Paris, France
1986 Facets of Modernism; San Francisco Museum of Mod-
ern Art; San Francisco, California
Staging the Self: Self Portrait Photography; National
Portrait Gallery; London, England
1987 Modern Photography and Beyond; National Museum
of Modern Art; Kyoto, Japan.
1988 Vanishing Presence; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis,
Minnesota and traveling to Winnipeg Art Gallery;
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Detroit Institute of
Arts, Detroit, Michigan; High Museum of Art at Geor-
gia Pacific Center; Atlanta, Georgia; Herbert F. John-
son Museum of Art, Cornell University; Ithaca, New
York; and VirginiaMuseum of Fine Arts; Richmond,
Virginia
Southern Visions; San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; San Francisco, California
The Lexington Camera Club 1939–1972; University of
Kentucky Art Museum; LexingtonSelected Works
Untitled (Georgetown Series: four children), c. 1955–1956
Light #3 (Light on Water), 1959
Untitled (Boy holding flag and doll), 1959
Untitled (Child as Bird), c. 1960
Untitled (Zen Twig), 1960
Untitled (Interior with two boys), 1961
Romance (N.) From Ambrose Bierce #3, 1962
Madonna, 1964
Untitled (Red River Gorge #21: fog on stream), c. 1967–1971
Untitled (Motion-Sound: garden path with vortex), c. 1968–1972
Untitled (Girl atop woman), c. 1970–1972
Lucybelle Crater and Close Friend Lucybelle Crater in the
Garden Arbor, 1971Further Reading
Beardmore, Susan, and A.D. Coleman.True Stories and
PhotoFictions. Cardiff, Wales: Ffotogallery, 1987.
Berry, Wendell, with photographs by Ralph Eugene Meat-
yard.The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Ken-
tucky’s Red River Gorge. Lexington, Kentucky:
University of Kentucky 1971. Reprinted by North
Press, Berkeley, California, with a new foreword and
revised text by Wendell Berry, 1991.
Coke, Van Deren.Ralph Eugene Meatyard: A Retrospec-
tive, Normal: Illinois State University, 1976.
Greene, Jonathan, ed.Ralph Eugene Meatyard. With works
by Arnold Gassan and Wendell Berry. Lexington, Ken-
tucky: Gnomon Press, 1970.
Meatyard, Ralph Eugene.Father Louie: Photographs of
Thomas Merton by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. New
York: Timken Publishers, 1991.MEATYARD, RALPH EUGENE