Exhibitions

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 “Transit of Light”, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 “Toward the Invisible”, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY
2017 “Early Skulls”, Taka Ishii Gallery, New York, NY
2017 “Selected Skulls and Abstractions”, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, UK
2012 “Signs Half Seen,” Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, NY
2011 “Seen/Unseen,” Artspace at Untitled, Oklahoma City, OK
2009 “Lynn Stern: Photographs 1978-2008,” Museo Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón, Valladolid, Spain
2007 “Veiled Still Lifes,” Mitchell-Innes ∧ and Nash, New York, NY
2006 “Recent Work,” QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, New York, NY
2002 “Lynn Stern: Photographs from Ten Series,” Staller Center For the Arts, State University of New York, Stony Brook
2001 “Lynn Stern,” Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2001 “Lynn Stern: Work on Paper,” Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “Animus,” Debs ∧ Co., New York, NY
1998 “Recent Work,” Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, NY
1995 “Whiteness,” Gallery BAI, New York, NY
1993 “Lynn Stern: Black and White Photographs,” Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 “Recent Works,” SCP Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1988 “Unveilings,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 "Summer 2023," Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 "The Eloquence of the Visual,"Seoul, South Korea
2022 "The Eloquence of the Visual," Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Mortality,” American University, Washington, DC cancelled by COVID; catalog available
2019 “Texture”, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
2019 "Introducing works by Lynn Stern" Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 “Color of Light: Fifteen Years of Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
2016 “Sensuous and Pensive: At Odds and Overlapping,” Booth Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography, Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Collection,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2006 “Walpole’s Leap: 8 Modern Garden Perceptions,” Lobby Gallery 499 Park Ave., New York, NY
2005 “Group Show,” Alva Gallery, New London, CT
2005 ““Women’s Work,” Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA
2002 “What’s New: Recent Photography Acquisitions,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2001 “Group Show,” Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “S. Sidney Kahn (1937-1999) Mementi Mori,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1999 “Group Show,” Alva Gallery, New London, CT
1997 “Group Show,” Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, NY
1992 “Traditions in the American Landscape,” Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 “40 Women Photographers,” Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989 “Flowers,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
1985 “Invitational,” Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
1984 “Space Through A Glass Eye: 8 Photographers,” Central State University, Edmond, OK
1980 “4th Annual Small Works Invitational,” New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bloomingdale Properties, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Christian Keesee Collection, Oklahoma City, OK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, LA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museo Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón, Valladolid, Spain
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
The Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Lewitt Collection, Chester, CT

MONOGRAPHS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Skull (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2017); essay by Donald Kuspit
Frozen Mystery: Lynn Stern Photographs 1978-2008; Exhibition Catalogue (Fundacion Cristobal Gabarron/Center for Creative Photography, 2009); essays by Donald Kuspit, Britt Salvesen, Lynn Stern, George Stolz.
Veiled Still Lifes; Exhibition Catalogue (New York: Queensborough, Community College, 2006); essay by Nancy E Green, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Animus   (Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2000)); essay by Donald Kuspit
Dispossession (New York: Aperture, 1995); essay by Donald Kuspit: “Highly Commended Book,” 1995 Ernst Haas Awards
Unveilings (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1988); essays by Paul Caponigro and Diane Wakoski

EDITING

Photographic INsight ; Co-editor, 1990-1993

SYMPOSIA

“A Wordless Dialogue with Art,” KIAF Seoul / Frieze Seoul, South Korea, 2022 Panelists: Hazem Taha Hussein, Fré Ilgen, Kim Taek Sang, Lynn Stern
Organizer/Moderator, “Perceptual/Conceptual: How Do We Experience Art?” private residence, New York, 2016 Panelists: April Gornik, Donald Kuspit, Irving Sandler, Lynn Stern.
Organizer/Moderator, “Examining Postmodernism,” Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1991 Panelists: Martin S. Bergmann, A.D. Coleman, Todd Gitlin, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Shelley Rice, Lynn Stern.

TEACHING

Scholar in Residence, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, OK, 1991

ARCHIVE

The Lynn Stern Archive is located at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ