Terri Garland

Terri Garland is an artist who specializes in documenting the social fabric of the American South. She also makes artist books, occasional assemblages, and frequent messes.

As a graduate student, Garland began an examination of white supremacist culture that spanned twenty years, photographing individuals within the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, American Nazi Party and the Christian Identity Movement.

For the past decade, she has divided her time between Louisiana and Mississippi. A film-in-progress , Louisiana, Purchased, builds upon her still project of the same name that is a visual study of the ways in which we depend upon and demand, continuous supplies of fossil fuels and the resultant damage and ongoing destruction to communities throughout Louisiana.

Her photographs are included in the collections of Sir Elton John, The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, The Art Institute of Chicago, The di Rosa Preserve in Napa, California, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Saint Elizabeth College in Morristown, New Jersey, the Bibliotech Nationale, Paris, France and Special Collections at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Among her awards are a WESTAF/NEA Fellowship, a Silicon Valley Arts Council Grant, a ...

MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute 1990
BFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute 1987

Small Works, South x Southeast Photo Gallery, Molena, GA, 2019
Holocaust Exhibition, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA , 2018
Faculty Exhibition, San Jose City College, San Jose, CA, 2018
The Ray Ashley Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, 2017
Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA, 2016
Well Read: Visual Explorations of the Book, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA,
Odd Volumes, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2014
New Orleans in Photographs, Multi Media Museum House of Photography, Moscow, Russia, 2014
Davis Orton Gallery Editions, 2014
Currents 2013, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2013-2014
Fin, Fur, Feather, Foliage, Slow Exposures, Concord, GA, 2013
Dialoging with Sacred Texts, Manresa Gallery, San Francisco, 2013
Musings, PCNW, Seattle,WA, 2013
50th Annual Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, 2013
Photo I.D., Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, 2013
Louisiana Purchase, 2nd National Biennial, Louisiana Tech U.School of Art,
The Art of Photography Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, 2012
Oddworks, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA, 2012
Petroleum Paradox, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY, 2012
Chain Letter, Shoshana W...