BIRTHPLACE

Brooklyn, New York, 1941

EDUCATION

Private study with Lisette Model

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Larry Fink, Robert Mann Gallery, NY

2019
Liberty and Hoofbeats, Planches Contact 2019, Deauville, France
Unbridled Curiosity, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2018
DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Phildelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2017
The Polarities, Fotoleggendo, Rome, Italy
Somewhere There’s Music, Cushing Gallery, Newport Museum of Art, Newport, Rhode Island
The Beats and The Vanities, Armani/Silos, Milan, Italy

2016
Larry Fink: An American Life, (retrospective), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama City, Panama
Boxing, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland

2015
The Beats, Savignano Immagini Festival, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
The Vanities, Savignano Immagini Festival, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
The Beats, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville,Virginia
The Beats, Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
Body and Soul, (retrospective, traveling), Museo de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
The Beats, Feroz Gallery, Bonn, Germany

2014
Portraits of the Soul, Fowler Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The Beats, Paris Photo (with Feroz Gallery), Paris, France
The Beats, Fotografia Festival, Rome, Italy
The Beats, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands
Body and Soul, (retrospective, traveling), Cicus, Seville, Spain

2013
Body and Soul, (retrospective, traveling), Pablo Gargallo Museum, Zaragoza, Spain
The Vanities, Municipal Exhibition Hall of San Benito, Valladolid, Spain
Body and Soul, (retrospective, traveling), Museum of Contemporary Art Gas Natural Fenosa, A Coruna, Spain
Work in Progress: The Family, Santa Bannon/Fine Art, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
In the Moment, Invision Photo Festival, The Fowler Gallery, Lehigh Valley Charter School for the Arts, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

2012
Body and Soul, (retrospective, traveling) Andalucian Center of Photography, Almeria, Spain
Larry Fink: The Vanities, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Somewhere There’s Music, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales

2011
The Vanities, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Runway/The Vanities, Mercantile Home, Easton, Pennsylvania, (included an exhibition of work as well as photographs printed on various consumer goods)
Beautiful People, Box Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium
The Beatniks, Contact Festival, Toronto, Canada
Attraction & Desire : Restrospective, Sheldon Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
The Vanities: Photographs of Hollywood parties 2000-2009, LACMA, Los Angeles, Californina
The Vanities & Partial Retrospective, Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2010
Larry Fink. Fotografias, Complejo Teatral, United States Embassy of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentia

2009
Every Moment Counts, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens, Greece
Sense of Sound, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania

2008
The Democrats, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, New York
Diminishing Returns, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2007
Photographs by Larry Fink from the Portfolio ‘Making Out’ 1957-1980, The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Riverdale, New York
Larry Fink and George Grosz, Heckscher Museum, Long Island, New York
Somewhere There’s Music, Galleria Forni, Milan, Italy
Somewhere There’s Music, Museo Alinari, Florence, Italy
Logging, The Olympic Peninsula, Lorenzelli Arte Gallery, Milan, Italy

2006
Larry Fink: Somewhere There’s Music, Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
Somewhere There’s Music, Museum of Modern Art, Ville della Rose, Bologna, Italy

2005
Under the Surface, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Diminishing Returns, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Larry Fink: Photographs, Camerawork, Berlin, Germany

2004
The Forbidden Pictures, A Political Tableau, powerHouse Gallery, New York, New York
Larry Fink: Social Graces, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, New York
The Forbidden Pictures, A Political Tableau, DuBois Gallery, Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

2003
Marvin Cone Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

2002
Runway: Photographs by Larry Fink, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
Time Circles: Past and Present, SK Josefsberg Studio, Portland, Oregon

2001
Larry Fink, Photographs 1957-2001, (retrospective), Vu Gallery, Paris, France
Social Graces, Yancey Richarson Gallery, NYC
Social Graces, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Runway, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania
Runway: Photographs by Larry Fink, The Schoolhouse Center, The Driskel Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2000
Runway: Photographs by Larry Fink, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
Theater Without a Plot: Runway, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
Runway: Theater Without a Plot, Runway, Revolution Gallery, New York, New York
Theater Without a Plot, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1999
Runway, Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1998-1999
Traveling Show (retrospective), Gap, Evry, and Tourcoing, France

1998
Larry Fink: Noble Evenings and Other Social Graces (retrospective), Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Portuguese Center for Photography, Porto, Portugal

1997
Boxing, Schmidt / Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Power, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York
Boxing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Boxing, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
Larry Fink: Fish and Wine, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Musee de la Photographie (retrospective), Charleroi, Belgium

1995
Boxers, Brokers, and Society in America (retrospective), Photo Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
Porto, Portugal

1994
Larry Fink: The Social Contract (retrospective), Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland

1993
Outtakes Off the Mainland, Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Les Rencontres de Photographie (retrospective), Arles, France
Boxers, Gallery Forum, Tarragona, Spain
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, New York

1992
Vigo, Spain

1989
Larry Fink: A Mid-Career Retrospective, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
Gallery Foto, Oslo, Norway

1988
Wall Street After October 19, 1987, Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, California

1987
American Cultural Embassy (retrospective), Bruxelles, Belgium

1986
Larry Fink: A Mid-Career Retrospective, Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Santa Barbara Contemporary ArtsForum, Santa Barbara, California

1985
Burden Gallery, New York, New York
Social Graces, Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris, France
Gallery Forum, Tarragona, Spain

1984
Sander Gallery, New York, New York

1983
Self Portraits and Other Recent Images, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York, New York
Werkstatt fur Photographie der VHS Kruezberg, Berlin, Germany

1982
Larry Fink: Photographs, Folkwag Museum, Essen, Germany

1981
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
Kunst Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany

1980
Work Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Larry Fink, Light Gallery, New York, New York

1979
Larry Fink, Steichen Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Sanders Gallery, Washington, DC
Larry Fink, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, California
Galerie Breiting, Berlin, Germany

1978
Larry Fink Photographs, Sanders Gallery, Washington, DC
Larry Fink, Ralph Wilson Gallery Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1977
Art for a Summer Evening, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Yale University, New Haven, Conneticut
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona

1976
Photographs by Larry Fink, Community Darkroom Gallery, LIGHT WORK, Syracuse University, Syracus, New York
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

1975
Laurence Fink: Photographs, Midtown Gallery, New York, New York

1973
Yale University School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Conneticut

1960
Photography by Laurence Fink, Rudoplh Gallery Annex, Woodstock, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Fink/Winogrand, John Brady Print Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Responding to What is Alive Before You: The Photography of Levinstein and Fink, West Gallery, University of Delaware

2017
Omnibus Circus (Festival), Milan, Italy
Synapses: Threads for Thought, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
Partisan Views and Public Opinion: Engaged Photography in and Beyond the Twentieth Century, Zimmerman Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Family, The Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Street Smart: Photographs of New York 1945-1980, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut

2016
The Rebellious Image, Kreuzberg’s “Werkstatt für Photographie“ and the Young Folkwang Scene in the 1980s, Folkwag Museum, Essen, Germany
Forty Phenomenal Photos: Photographic Treasures from the SAMA Permanent Collection, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto, Loretto, Pennsylvania
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, New York
Stare, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Allentown X7: Photographic Exploration, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
The Photobook Exhibition (Opening the Sky), Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
Overgrowth, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
The Instant as Image: Moments of Action in Photography from the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843-Present, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

2015
Harlem: Life in Pictures, Ilon Gallery, Harlem, New York
Revisiting South Bethlehem, Dubois Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Click! Triangle Photography Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Photobook Exhibition (The Beats), Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
Terminal: On Mortality and Beauty, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington
In Focus, J.Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
In-Sight Photograph Project, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont

2014
Philadelphia Photographers: 1975 to 1985, Santa Bannon Fine Art, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
On Stage: Recent Acquisitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Artificial Light: Flash Photography in the Twentieth Century, Philadelphia Musem of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Unbound 3! , Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
From Art to Zoo: Exploring Animal Natures, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

2013
if I can’t dance to it, its not my revolution, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Act/Natural, Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia

2012
Three Story House, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Photos and Posters, Grand Circle Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Parting Gifts, Commonwealth Gallery, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

2011
Philippe Vermes, Portraits of Photographers and their Photographs, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France
Sight of Sound: Larry Fink and William Gottlieb, 1940s-1990s, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Sight of Sound: Larry Fink and William Gottlieb, 1940s-1990s, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

2010
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture-1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

2009
Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander, Vancover Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2008
There to Here, Then and Now: Favorites from 25 years at the Willams Center Gallery, Willams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

2007
Road to Freedom, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
There to Here, Then and Now: Favorites from 25 years at the Williams Center Gallery, Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
Lisette Model and Her Successors, Aperture Gallery, New York, New York
That 70’s Show: New York City in the 1970s, powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York
The Show on Vegas, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, 1972-1996, New York Public Library, New York, New York
Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts

2006
New York at Night: Photographs from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Disco Years: A powerHouse Retrospective, powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York
Relationships: a Ten Year Bond-Works Selected from CPW’s Permanent Print Collection,
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York
Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

2005
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Photography as Fine Art, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Made in the Shade, Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York, New York
Mannheim, Germany

2004
projectBLUE GALLERY, Easton, Pennsylvania

2003
New York: Capital of Photography, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
A City Seen: Photographs from the George Gund Foundation Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Gifts from the CMA Friends of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Open Lens Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Street Level: A Century of New York Street Photography, Singer Gallery, Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, Colorado
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Musee de L’Elyseie, Lausanne, Switzerland

2002
Constellation-Celebrating 25 Years, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York
A City Seen, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Life of the City, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The Bonfoey Company, Cleveland, Ohio
The Jewish Museum, New York, New York

2001
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York
Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England

2000
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Party Pictures!: From Studio 54 to Cannes 2000, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, New York

1999
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1998-1999
Traveling show, Tokoyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan

1998
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Larry Miller Gallery, New York, New York

1997
All You Can Eat, Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, New York
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1995
Portrait of Our Time, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan

1994
One Hundred Years of Street Photography, Wright State University Art Galleries, Creative Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio
National Institute of Photography in the Netherlands, The Netherlands

1993
Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania

1992
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
From the Inside: Shelby Lee Adams and Larry Fink, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1991
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania
How She Looks, Stanley Wise Gallery, New York, New York

1989
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Photographs, Plaza Gallery at the College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York, New York

1988
Mothers and Daughters, The New York State Museum, Albany, New York

1987
Light Gallery, New York, New York
Model/Arbus/Fink, First Bank St. Paul Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota

1986
Three American Photographers, University Gallery at Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Isreal

1985
Semana Internacional de la Fotografia, Guadelajara, Mexico
Fotosymposium, Milan, Italy
Dubois Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Allentown Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
Self Portrait: The Photographer’s Persona 1840-1985 (NEA Twentieth Anniversary), Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1984
Frank Horvat/Larry Fink: Fashion and Animals, Sander Gallery, New York, New York
Lower Manhattan: A Community in Transition, Federal Hall National Memorial, New York, New York
American Social Documents: Photographs by Larry Fink, Jim Goldberg, and Barbara Norfleet, The Friends Gallery, Carmel, California

1983
Allentown Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania

1981
Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1979-1980
American Images, Bell System traveling show and book

1979
Allentown Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania

1978
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Mirros and Windows: American Photographs since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Light Gallery, New York, New York
Prakapas Gallery, New York, New York
UCLA, Los Angeles, California

1976
1976 Guggenheim Photographers, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, California

1975
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Coming of Age in America, Midtown Y Gallery, New York, New York

1973
The Jew in New York, Midtown Y Gallery, New York, New York

1972
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

1971
Joan Snyder, Paintings; Laurence Fink, Photographs, Paley-Lowe Inc, New York, New York

1970
Photographs: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
MIT Gallery of Creative Photography, Boston, Massachusetts