Gerald Slota
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 and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles. He is known for a deconstructed style of working with his own or found photographs and drawing, cutting, and transforming the images.
Gerald Slota
- Name
- Gerald Slota
- Known for
- Photography and photo-based art, installation art, conceptual photo art
- Born
- 1965
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- artist · photographer
- Fields
- photography
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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 and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles. 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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Biography
His first book, Gerald Slota: Story with Joyce Carole Oates and Chuck Mobley was selected as one of the New York Times "Top Ten Photo Books of 2012". Slota's works have been included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Norton Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, and as a billboard with the 2018 Los Angeles Billboard Creative Show 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.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Gerald Slota • Known for — Photography and photo-based art, installation art, conceptual photo art • Website — https: www.geraldslota.com
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
• 2018 • AFTER, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York • 2013 • STORY, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York • STORY, Castell Photography, Asheville, North Carolina • 2012 • STORY, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA • HOME. SWEET. HOME., Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA • 2010 • HOME. SWEET. HOME. Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York • URBANIA, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ • 2008 • URBANIA, Quality Pictures and Contemporary Art, Portland, OR • 2007 • FOUND, Hasted/Hunt Gallery, New York • 2006 • FOUND, Project Space, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY • 2005 • FOUND, Langhans Galerie, Prague, CZ • 2004 • FABLE, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA • 2003 • FABLE, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York • 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
Commissioned works
• New York Magazine, The Haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey Artwork by Gerald Slota 2018 • Vice, Exorcism. Photographs by Gerald Slota and Tim Freccia. The Photo Issue 2013. • New Yorker, A Mistake by Awhile Sharma, Photograph by Gerald Slota. • New Yorker, The Itch by Atul Gawnde, Photograph by Gerald Slota. • New York Times Magazine, The Bipolar Puzzle by Jennifer Egan, Photographs by Gerald Slota. • The New York Times, Maybe Just Drunk Enough to Remember by John Eligon, Photograph by Gerald Slota. • The New York Times, In a Eulogy, Finding A Person by Sandeep Jauihar, Photograph by Gerald Slota. • The New York Times, Is Hysteria Real? by Erika Kinetz, Photograph by Gerald Slota. • The New York Times, Nurses Step Up Efforts Against Attacks by David Tuller Photograph by Gerald Slota. • New York Magazine, The Mother Smotherer by Sam Anderson Photograph by Gerald Slota. • Washington Post. Cracked by Ruben Castaneda, Photograph by Gerald Slota.
Critical and academic texts
• Artforum Donald Kuspit on Gerald Slota, March 2019 • Photograph Magazine, "Gerald Slota; AFTER" by Jean Dykstra Jan/Feb 2019 • The New Yorker, "Telling Stories: The Art of Gerald Slota" by Siobhan Bohnacker. • The New York Times, "Gerald Slota's Photos Paired With Neil LaBute's Words" by Elaine Louie. • Aperture, "Because the Darkness Feeds My Soul" with Neil LaBute 2009. • New York Observer, "The Darkroom: Neil LaBute Follows a Cruel Art Collaboration With a New Play" by Ricardo Bilton. • Los Angeles Times, "Neil LaBute tries his hand at an art show" by David Ng and Lisa Fung. • Palm Beach Daily News, "Imaging Eden: How photographers shaped way we see the Everglades" by Jan Sjostrom. • HyperAllergenic, "Looking Beyond the Myths of the Everglades" by Laura C. Mallonnee. • "The Photographer's Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas" Edited by Jason Fulford, Published by Aperture, 2014. • "The Unseen Eye Photographs from the Unconscious" by W.M. Hunt, Published by Aperture, 2011. • "American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection" Published by the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Museum, 2000. • "Criticizing Photographs" Fifth Edition, Terry Barrett, Published by McGraw Hill. • Ricco Maresca In The Company of Two Vivid Imaginations. • The New York Times, "Once Upon A Time 200 Years Later" by Siobhan Bohnacker. • The 3200, NYC, Portfolio, Issue 1. • Blow Photography Magazine, "True" Ireland, Issue 1. • Bomb Magazine, Portfolio, by Betsy Sussler, Spring 2007. • George Eastman House Catalogue, Found, by Alison Nordstrom, 2007. • Fotograf #6, "Found" exhibit review by Dagmar Cujanova, 2005. • Prague Post, "Ghosts of the Past," review by Mimi Rogers, 2005. • Fotograph Magazin, "Gerald Slota: Found" by Dagmar Cujano. • Art in America, Review by Jean Dykstra. 2004. • Photography in New York: Cover and About the Cover by Jean Dykstra. 2003. • Art News, "The New Visionaries" by Barbara Pollack. 2003. • Photography Now, Journal fur Fotografie und Videokunst, "Ordinary Madness" 2003. • SF Camerawork, "Everyman: A Search for the Male Form" by Nora Kabat. Vol. 29, No.1, Spring/Summer. • The New York Times, "Amid Fragmentation, Hints of Narrative" by Barry Schwabsky, 1997 • The Record, "Picasso with a Camera" by Mary Jane Fine, September 24, 1996 • The New York Observer, "Gerald Slota's Residue of Tales; It's Not Art Brut, It's Art" by A.D. Coleman, January 15, 1996.
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- “Gerald Slota”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q53702288: Gerald Slota
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Awards and honors
• Society for Photographic Education Speaker November 2018 • Mid-Atlantic Grant: New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship – 2001, 2009 • Polaroid 20 x 24 Studio – Summer 1997 • MacDowell Colony – Summer 1997
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Gerald Slota – Ricco Maresca Gallery. www.riccomaresca.com. September 2025.
- 2.Gerald Slota - Artists - Robert Berman Gallery. www.robertbermangallery.com.
- 3.Oates, Joyce Carol. Gerald Slota: Story. SF Camerawork Publications. 2012. 978-0984303854.
- 4.Top 10 Photo Books of 2012. The New York Times. 24 December 2012.
- 5.Whitney Museum Gerald Slota Acquisition.
- 6.Los Angeles County Museum of Art Gerald Slota Acquisition.
- 7.Norton Museum Gerald Slota Acquisition.
- 8.George Eastman Museum Gerald Slota Acquisition.
- 9.The Billboard Creative on Instagram: GeraldSlota at Western and Santa Monica Blvd. Instagram.
- 10.The Billboard Creative.
- 11.Kuspit, Donald. Donald Kuspit on Gerald Slota. Artforum. 57. 7. March 2019.
- 12.Gerald Slota: After at Ricco/Maresca Gallery. Photograph Magazine. 2019-02-11.
- 13.Telling Stories: The Art of Gerald Slota. The New Yorker.
- 14.Louie, Elaine. Gerald Slota's Photos Paired With Neil La Bute's Words. The New York Times. 20 October 2010.
- 15.Because The Darkness Feeds My Soul. Aperture. 196.
- 16.Neil Labute Follows a Cruel Art Collaboration. New York Observer.
- 17.Neil LaBute tries his hand at an art show. LA Times Blogs – Culture Monster. January 9, 2012.
- 18.Imaging Eden: How photographers shaped way we see the Everglades. palmbeachdailynews.
- 19.Looking Beyond the Myths of the Everglades. Hyperallergic. April 2, 2015.
- 20.Fulford, Jason. The photographer's playbook : 307 assignments and ideas. Aperture. 2014. 9781597112475.
- 21.Hunt, William M. The unseen eye : photographs from the unconscious. Aperture. 2011. 9781597111935.
- 22.Tankōsha. Amerika shashin no seiki : Poraroido Korekushon = American perspectives : photographs from the Polaroid Collection. 2000. 447301763X.
- 23.Barnett, Terry. Criticizing Photographs. McGraw-Hill Education. 2011. 978-0073526539.
- 24.In the Company of Two Vivid Imaginations - Ricco Maresca Gallery. www.riccomaresca.com.
- 25.Bohnacker, Siobhán. Once Upon a Time, 200 Years Later, in Pictures. The 6th Floor Blog. December 29, 2012.
- 26.issue 01 // staged – blowphoto magazine. blowphoto magazine.
- 27.Portfolio by Gerald Slota. bombmagazine.org. April 2007.
- 28.gerald slota: found Fotograf Magazine. fotografmagazine.cz.
- 29.Schwabsky, Barry. Art Review; Amid Fragmentation, Hints of Narrative. The New York Times. October 5, 1997. 0362-4331.
- 30.Future Exhibitions: Gerald Slota - After. Ricco Maresca Gallery.
- 31.Velazquez, Erika. Noteworthy Works: Gerald Slota in Collaboration with Neil Labute. Noteworthy Works. November 8, 2010.
- 32.Story: Gerald Slota An Opening Reception Event. www.facebook.com.
- 33.HOME.SWEET.HOME. robertbermangallery.com.
- 34.Gerald Slota/Neil Labute Home.Sweet.Home Ricco Maresca Gallery. www.riccomaresca.com.
- 35.Preview – The Gallery Guide – Previews – Urbania: Gerald Slota, Christopher Rose, David Isenhour. preview-art.com. September 2025.
- 36.Photography in Portland: July 2008. That's A Negative. June 25, 2008.
- 37.Exhibition Found - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. photography-now.com.
- 38.Exhibition Found - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. photography-now.com.
- 39.Gerald Slota (Langhans). www.langhans.cz.
- 40.New York Magazine. The Haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.
- 41.Exorcism. Vice. 2013.
- 42.A Mistake. The New Yorker.
- 43.The Itch. The New Yorker.
- 44.Egan, Jennifer. The Bipolar Puzzle – What Does it Mean to be a Manic-Depressive Child?. The New York Times. September 12, 2008. 0362-4331.
- 45.Jauhar, Sandeep. In a Eulogy, Finding a Person, Not a Patient. The New York Times. October 27, 2008. 0362-4331.
- 46.Tuller, David. Nurses Step Up Efforts to Protect Against Workplace Assaults. The New York Times. July 8, 2008. 0362-4331.
- 47.The Mother Smotherer. NYMag.com. 4 October 2007.
- 48.SPE National.
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