Charles Lovell is a photographer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Over the past 30 years, he has pursued fine art photography working at art museums and galleries across the United States. His work focuses on documenting religious and cultural practices in Mexico and the American Southwest. He has had over 20 solo exhibitions of his work and been included in over 45 group exhibitions. Lovell received his MFA in photography from Central Washington University and has received various awards and honors for his photography.

1. Charles M. Lovell 4116 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70115
charleslovellart@gmail.com cell (575) 770-0095 home (504) 309-2640
Website: charleslovell.com
Condensed Bio:
During the past thirty years while working professionally at art museums and
galleries in Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Washington
states, I have continued my pursuit of creative work in fine art photography. After
a residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy in 2007, I transitioned
from film practice using large and small format photography producing silver
gelatin and cibachrome prints, to the use of digital media that I now use
exclusively.
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
MFA in photography with minor in art history, Central Washington University,
Ellensburg, Washington, major professor James Sahlstrand, 1984.
BS in photography with minor in journalism, East Texas State University,
Commerce, Texas, major professor James Newberry, 1981.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Included in over twenty-three solo exhibitions from 1980 to present.
Charles Lovell Photographs: New Orleans Unseen, Selected satellite exhibition
of Prospect.3 +, New Orleans, juried by Franklin Sirmans LACMA and Prospect.3
curatorial staff, Gallerie Campanille, New Orleans, 2014-2015.
Mexico Te Quiero, Photographic Exhibition by Charles Lovell, 25 Years of
Photography, Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico In New Orleans, 2014.
Trinity: Photographs By Charles M. Lovell, Salon Moorelock, New Orleans,
curated by Alexis Stahl, 2013-2015.
Charles M. Lovell Photography, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, New Mexico,
2007.
Art and Faith In Mexico, Glenn Cutter Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2001.

2. Gray Areas, Elliot University Center Gallery, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, North Carolina, 1995.
Charles Lovell Photographs: Paradox In Black and White, Sala de Arte,
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, B.C., Mexico, 1994.
Sin Fronteras: Photographs of Mexico and the Southwest, Gallery Milepost Nine,
Arizona Western College, Yuma, Arizona, 1993.
Rock Art Portfolio, Brevard College Art Gallery, Brevard, North Carolina, 1993.
Charles Lovell Photographs, Stevens Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1992.
Spirits of The Rock, Mendenhall Gallery, East Carolina University, 1992.
Angst, Minds Eye Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, 1985.
Through Open Eyes, Washington Commission for the Humanities Grant,
traveling exhibition, 1983.
Goddard Center For Visual and Performing Arts, Ardmore, Oklahoma, 1983.
Nickle Art Museum, the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1983.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Included in over forty-five group exhibitions from 1980 to present.
Re-Purposeful Delights, curated by D. Lammie Hanson, Asheʼ Cultural Art
Center, New Orleans, 2016.
Culta A La Muerte, Day of the Dead Exhibition, three-person exhibition at
Mexican Consulate Gallery of New Orleans, 2015.
Catalyst, curated by Alan Rothschild, Jr., New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery,
2015.
Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, juried by Brooke Davis
Anderson, Executive Director of Prospect New Orleans, 2015.
Reverb: Past, Present, and Future, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans,
curated by Isolde Brielmaier, Director of the Contemporary Art Initiative, New
York, 2015.

3. Contemporary Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls, The George and
Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, curated by Kim Vaz-DeVille
and Ron Bechet, New Orleans, 2015.
Purchase Award Exhibition, Art Council of New Orleans, 2015.
Bombay Sapphire Exhibition, curated by Cameron Shaw, Contemporary Art
Center, New Orleans, 2014.
Nola Now II, juried exhibition at Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, juror
Don Marshall, Executive Director of New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation,
2012.
Art Chaud, DuMois Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010.
Crossroads and Connections II, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington
University, Ellensburg, Washington, image featured on e-vite, 2010.
Pinturas De Fe, seven photographs included in this national travelling exhibition
between 2004 and 2008 organized by the Museum of New Mexicoʼs TREX. The
show travelled to the William King Regional Arts Center, Abington, Virginia; the
Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey; the Lauren Rogers Art Museum,
Laurel, Mississippi; Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; the
Indianapolis Art Center, Indiana; and the Hearst Art Gallery, St. Maryʼs College of
California, Morgana, California.
International Juried Show, New Jersey Center For the Visual Arts, Summit, New
Jersey, Juror, Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2004.
El Favor de los Santos: The Retablo Collection of New Mexico State University,
international traveling exhibition funded by the Rockefeller Foundation included
12 of my large-scale photographs. The exhibition toured from 1999 to 2003 to the
Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City; Museo del Amparo, Pueblo, Mexico; Museo de
Arte y Historia Mexicana, Monterrey, Mexico; San Jose Museum of Art,
California; Mexican Fine Art Cultural Museum, Chicago; the Lowe Art Museum,
Miami; the Las Vegas Art Museum, Nevada; the National Hispanic Cultural
Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Museum of the Palace of the Governors,
Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Museo de las Americas, Madrid, Spain; and Casa
Museo de Colon in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands.
New Photography In The Collection, Missoula Museum of Art, Montana, 2000.
Entre Lineas II, international art competition sponsored by the Ford Foundation at
the Museum of Arte INBA, Juarez, Mexico, 1997.

4. Biennial Faculty Exhibition, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New
Mexico, 1996.
First Triennial Merrymoor Winnett Photography Exhibition, Greenhill Center For
North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina, Invitational curated by Henry
Link, 1995.
Fourteenth North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition, Meredith College,
Raleigh, North Carolina, juror, Cynthia Stevens, Associate Curator of
Photographs, Eckstrom Library, the University of Kentucky, 1994.
Charles Lovell and Martha Vaughn: Photographs and Monoprints, St. Johnʼs
Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, curated by Anne Brennan, 1994.
Thirteenth North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition, Frankie G. Weems
Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, juror, Jeff L. Rosenheim,
Curator of Photography the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.
Chances In Time: Random Operations in Film, New College of California Gallery,
Cinematheque, San Francisco, California. Invitational exhibition included the
works of Man Ray, Bruce Conner and others. Curated by Robert Irwin, 1985.
National Aperture ʼ85, Associated Artists Gallery, Winston Salem, North Carolina,
National Juried Exhibition, Juror, Cornell Capa.
Obsession/Compulsion, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, National Juried Exhibition, 1985.
A Little Erotic ʼ85, Pinnacle Gallery, Rochester, New York, National Juried
Exhibition, 1985.
Positive-Negative, Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee state University, Johnson
City, Tennessee, National Juried Exhibition, Juror, Jack Cowart, Curator of 20th
Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.
Il Cabo Frio International Print Biennial, Cabo Frio, Brazil and Rio De Janeiro,
Sao Paulo and eleven sites in Brazil, 1985.
The Magic Silver Show, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray
Kentucky, National Juried Exhibition, 1984.
Photography ʼ83, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, Northwest Juried
Exhibition, Rod Slemmons, Curator of Photography, Seattle Art Museum, 1983.

5. Society For Photographic Education (SPE) Northwest Touring Show, Western
Washington University, Cheney, Washington, 1981.
Selected Collections
Arts Council of New Orleans, Public Art Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana
Archives of Texas A&M-Commerce
Cabo Frio International Print Biennial, Brazil
El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
Historic New Orleans Collection
Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, Texas
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, Montana
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation, Louisiana
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Sarah Spurgeon Art Gallery, Ellensburg, Washington
Visual Arts Gallery, Pensacola, Florida
Publications
Vaz-Deville, Kim, Contemporary Artists Respond To The New Orleans Baby
Dolls, exhibition brochure, The George and Leah McKenna Museum of African
Art, Xavier University, April 2015.
Frida Kahlo: Face To Face by Judy Chicago, New York, New York: Prestel
Publishing, reproduction of color photograph from Mexico, 2010.
Element of Art, Biological, Global and Interdisciplinary by Cynthia Bickley-Green,
Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall Hunt Publishing, reproduction of photograph, 2010.
Art and Faith in Mexico: The Nineteenth Century Retablo Tradition, 350-page
book published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico
now in second printing includes 12 of my color photographs of religious practices
in Mexico, 1999.
Entre Lineas II, book published in Spanish and English in conjunction with the
international art competition sponsored by the Ford Foundation at the Museum of
Arte y Historia, Juarez, Mexico, published in Coyoacan, Mexico, D.F. by Disem S.
A., my illustrations and biography on pp. 144 and 145, 1997.
Photographs by Charles Lovell: Paradox In Black and White, exhibition brochure,
University Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, B. C., Mexico, 1994.

6. Pensacola National Portrait Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, Pensacola, Florida,
exhibition catalog, reproduction on page 3, 1984.
New Photographics ʼ84, Sarah Spurgeon Art Gallery, Central Washington
University, Ellensburg, Washington, author of catalogue introduction, 1984.
Dallas Art III, exhibition brochure for Dallas City Hall, Texas, my photograph from
England on page p. 29, 1980.
Reviews, Articles, and Interviews
Cameron Shaw, Rendering Hell and High Water, The New York Times, Sunday
Arts& Leisure, pp. 1 and 15. Review of Reverb, Past, Present and Future
exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans and two other New
Orleans exhibitions on Katrina 10 year anniversary.
Reverb, Past, Present and Future Review with illustration photograph, Young
Men Olympian, Jr., Whitney White Linen Night, by Doug McCash, Nola.com/The
New Orleans Times Picayune, July 16, 2015
D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit, New Orleans, Louisiana, Review, Contemporary
Artists respond to New Orleans Baby Dolls, exhibition at the McKenna Museum
of African Art, April 6, 2015.
Artvoices Magazine, Spring 2014, feature article Charles M. Lovell, Terrence
Sanders, editor, p. 71.
D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 29, 2014, p.45 review
of exhibitions Photographer is a Thief and Mexico Te Quiero.
New Orleans Times Picayune, Steve Forster Review, Nola Now II, Contemporary
Art Center,
Making a Few Stops on Hargett Street, Chuck Twardy, The News and Observer,
Raleigh, North Carolina, Dec. 4, pp. 3 and 5, 1992.
Listed in Whoʼs Who in America, 44th
and 45th
editions.
Best of College Photography Award, Honorable Mention, Photographerʼs Forum
Magazine, Santa Barbara, California, 1984.
Photographer Saves Moments, The Daily Record, Ellensburg, Washington, Oct.
26, page 3., 1982.

7. Lectures
The Art Of Procession, visual presentation for Tulane University History
Department's Global Gulf South II Conference, New Orleans, 2013.
Charles Lovell Photographs: Paradox in Black and White, Gallery talk, solo
exhibition at the Sala de Arte, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California,
Mexicali, B.C., Mexico, 1994.
Lecture, New Photography, American Society of Appraisers, Seattle,
Washington, 1986.
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
Artist In residence, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, 2015
Received travel award from French Consulate of New Orleans for museum
research and photography in Paris, Alsace, and Lyon, France for two weeks in
2012.
Artist in Residence, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, 2006-7.
History of the Lower Colorado River Photography Contest, Best of Show Award
Black and White, Cultural Council of Yuma, Arizona, 1989.
Award of Excellence, American Federation of Arts, for Ten Years After,
publication of Yuma Art Center, Arizona, 1989.
East Texas State University International Photography Competition, Commerce,
Texas, honorable mention, 1985.
Pensacola National Portrait Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, Pensacola, Florida,
Purchase Award, 1984.
Parkersburg 1984 Juried Art Exhibition, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg,
Virginia, national juried exhibition, received first place award for black and white,
1984.
Photographers Forum Magazine, The Best of College Photography issue,
honorable mention, 1984.
Photographer Saves Moments, The Daily Record, Ellensburg, Washington, Oct.
26. p. 3, 1982.

8. REFERENCES
Anne Dunlop
Herald Professor of Fine Art
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia
phone: int+ 61 (0)3 8344 9948
anne.dunlop@unimelb.edu.au
Brooke Davis Anderson
Executive Director
Prospect New Orleans/U.S. Biennial
2578 Broadway, Suite 178
New York, New York 10025
646-715-8126
brooke@prospectneworleans.org
Cameron Shaw
Executive Director and Founder
Pelican Bomb
1612 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113
504-252-0136
cameron@pelicanbomb.com