Gerald Slota

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Gerald Slota
Nationality American
Known for Photography and photo-based art, installation art, conceptual photo art
Website www.geraldslota.com

Gerald Slota (born 1965) is an American artist and photographer who has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally. Slota is represented by the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City [1] and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles. [2] He is known for a deconstructed style of working with his own or found photographs and drawing, cutting, and transforming the images.

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His first book, Gerald Slota: Story [3] with Joyce Carole Oates and Chuck Mobley was selected as one of the New York Times "Top Ten Photo Books of 2012". [4]

Slota's works have been included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [5] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), [6] the Norton Museum of Art, [7] the George Eastman Museum, [8] and as a billboard [9] with the 2018 Los Angeles Billboard Creative Show [10] and in numerous private collections. He has been commissioned to create original editorial artwork by many national and international publications including the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Aperture, Vice, and Stern.

Critical and academic texts

Selected solo exhibitions

2018
AFTER, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York [30]
2013
STORY, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York [31]
STORY, Castell Photography, Asheville, North Carolina [32]
2012
STORY, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
HOME. SWEET. HOME., Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA [33]
2010
HOME. SWEET. HOME. Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York [34]
URBANIA, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
2008
URBANIA, Quality Pictures and Contemporary Art, Portland, OR [35] [36]
2007
FOUND,, Hasted/Hunt Gallery, New York [37]
2006
FOUND, Project Space, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY [38]
2005
FOUND, Langhans Galerie, Prague, CZ [39]
2004
FABLE, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
FABLE, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York [1]
2000
GONE, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
1999
CRACKED, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998
SMASHED, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
1997
ORDINARY MADNESS, Allan P. Kirby Arts Center Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ
1996
TRUE, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

Commissioned works

Awards and honors

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