Larry Cwik

Artist/photographer, with more than 100 exhibits, including more than 20 solo shows, since 1983. Works in the Portland Art Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, Bank of America, Levi Strauss and Company, and other collections. Notable projects to date include: Thaw, A Changing Arctic; Totem Series; The Visitor, Walking 1000 Miles through Mexico; Asia 2011; Morocco; and Industrial Districts.

Recipient of Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Foundation Career Opportunity Grant, 2022; Regional Arts and Culture Commission Grant, 2015; Tacoma Art Museum Northwest Biennial Honorable Mention Award, 1991; Portland Photographers Grant, 1988

Self-taught, with classes at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland Community College, and elsewhere.

The Visitor, Walking 1000 Miles through Mexico, a 40-Year Retrospective, Multnomah Art Center Gallery, Portland, Oregon (solo exhibit); Asia 2011, Gallery Homeland, Portland, 2012 (two-artist exhibit); Totems, Steven Goldman Gallery, Art Institute of Portland, 2012 (solo exhibit); Gallery 500, Portland, 2004 (solo exhibit); Galeria H20, Barcelona, 1992 (solo exhibit); Totems, Galeria 57, Madrid, 2001 (solo exhibit); Totems, Rose Center for the Arts, Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington, 2011 (solo exhibit); Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, 1987 (two-artist exhibit); Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 1990; Doors, Angst Gallery, Vancouver, Washington, 2012; Introductions, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, 1990; Oregon's 20th Century through Photography, Portland Art Museum, Portland, 2001; Recent Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland, 2010; ArtConneKt International Exhibit, Oriel Bach Gallery, Mumbles, Swansea, United Kingdom, 2012; "Second International Contemporary Art Exhibit," Gallery Systema, Osaka, Japan, 2012; Art Takes Times Square, New York, 2012; Shanghai Art Gallery, China, 1986.