1996 Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard
Misrach; Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas and
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
1997 New Work (Heavenly Bodies); Fraenkel Gallery; San
Francisco, California
1999 Golden Gate Studies: The View from my Front Porch
1997–1999; Robert Mann Gallery; New York, New York
2000 Richard Misrach (Heavenly Bodies, Night Skies); Curt
Marcus; New York; and Michael Hue Williams; Lon-
don, England
2000 Cancer Alley; High Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia
2001 Richard Misrach; FIAC; Paris, France (Michael Hue-
Williams Gallery)
2002 Richard Misrach: Battleground Point; Robert Mann
Gallery; New York, New York
2003 Richard Misrach: On the Beach; Grant Selwyn Gallery;
Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibitions
1973 Places; San Francisco Art Institute; San Francisco,
California
1977 Night Landscape; Oakland Museum; Oakland, Cali-
fornia
1978 Mirrors and Windows; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1979 Beyond Color; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
San Francisco, California
1980 The Photographers’ Gallery; London, England
1981 Whitney Biennial; Whitney Museum of American Art;
New York, New York
1982 Flash; Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester,
New York
1985 American Images: American Photography from 184–
1980 ; Barbican Art Gallery; London , England
1987 American Independents: New Color; Museum of Contem-
porary Photography; Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
1989 Decade by Decade; Center for Creative Photography;
Tucson, Arizona
1990 Myth of the West; Henry Art Gallery; Seattle,
Washington
1991 Whitney Biennial; Whitney Museum of American Art;
New York, New York
1992 This Sporting Life, 187–1991; High Museum of Art;
Atlanta, Georgia
1993 Between Heaven and Home;NationalMuseumofAmer-
ican Art, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C.
1994 Landscape as Metaphor; Denver Art Museum; Denver,
Colorado
1995 Pulp Fact; The Photographers’ Gallery; London, England
1996 Perpetual Mirage: The Desert West in Photographic
Books and Prints; Whitney Museum of American Art;
New York, New York
1997 Scene of the Crime; UCLA at the Armand Hammer
Museum of Art and Cultural Center; Los Angeles, California
1999 More than Meets the Eye; Photographic Society; Ham-
burg, Germany
2000 100 al 2000: il Secolo della Fotoarte; Photology, Milan,
Italy
2001 In Response to Place; Corcoran Gallery of Art;
Washington, D.C.
2003 The Gray Area: Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photo-
graphy 1970s to Now; CCAC Wattis Institute for Con-
temporary Arts; San Francisco, California
Selected Works
Canto I: The Terrain, 1979–1984
Canto II: The Event I, 1981–1985
Canto III: The Flood, 1983–1985
Canto IV: The Fires, 1983–1985
Canto V: The War (Bravo 20), 1986
Canto VI: The Pit, 1987
Canto XI: The Playboys, 1990
Canto XII: The Clouds
Canto XV: The Salt Flats, 1999
Canto XVI: The Paintings, 1991–1995
Canto XVIII: The Skies, 1992–
Canto XXI:Heavenly Bodies, 1995–
Canto XXII: Night Clouds, 1994–
Golden Gate Studies: The View from my Front Porch, 1997–2000
Pictures from the South, 1998–2000
On the Beach, 2003
Further Reading
Berry, Jason. ‘‘Cancer Alley: the Poisoning of the American
South.’’Apertureno. 162 (Winter 2001).
Dyer, Geoff. ‘‘Photographs from ‘‘On the Beach: Richard
Misrach.’’Modern Painters17, no. 1, (Spring 2004).
Foster, Hal. ‘‘Death in America.’’ InOctober, The Second
Decade, 1986–1996. Boston: MIT Press, 1998.
Longmire, Stephen. ‘‘Back West: Reviewing American Land-
scape Photography.’’Afterimage25 (September 1997).
Misrach, Richard.Telegraph 3 A.M.: The Street People of
Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley. California: Cornucopia
Press, 1974.
Misrach, Richard.Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American
West. Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Misrach, Richard.Violent Legacies: Three Cantos. New
York: Aperture, 1992.
Misrach, Richard.Desert Cantos del desierto. Granada,
Spain: Diputacion de Granada, 1999.
Misrach, Richard.The Sky Book. Santa Fe, NM: Arena
Editions, 2000.
Misrach, Richard.In Response to Place. :Nature Conser-
vancy, 2001.
Misrach, Richard.Desert Cantos. Albuquerque, NM: Uni-
versity of New Mexico Press; Albuquerque, 1987.
Misrach, Richard.Pictures of Paintings. New York: Blind
Spot/Powerhouse Books, 2002.
Misrach, Richard.Richard Misrach: Golden Gate. Santa Fe,
NM: Arena Editions, 2001.
Odom, Michael. ‘‘Richard Misrach: Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston.’’Artforum International, 35 (February
1997).
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