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Larry W. Cook

Associate Professor & Coordinator of Photography

larry.cook1@Howard.edu
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Department/Office

  • Art Department

School/College

  • College of Fine Arts

Biography

Larry W. Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and archivist working across photography, video, and mixed media. Cook received his MFA from George Washington University and his B.A. in Photography from SUNY Plattsburgh. Cook has exhibited his work nationally at the Brooklyn Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1, and the National Portrait Gallery, and internationally at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in Germany and the Efie Gallery in Dubai. His work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museums, Baltimore Museum of Art, Light Work, and other institutions. Cook’s work has been published in the New York Times, Forbes, Frieze Magazine, NPR, Ebony Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Cook is a recipient of the 2024 Gordon Parks Fellowship. 

Education & Expertise

Education

Fine Arts

MFA
George Washington University

Photography

BA
Plattsburgh State University of New York

Expertise

Areas of Expertise

Photography

Academics

Academics

Undergraduate 

  • ARTP 050: Basic B&W Photography

  • ARTP 051: Intermediate Photography 

  • ARTP 085: Digital Photography 

  • ARTP 052: Image Narratives

  • ARTP 096: Documentary Photography

  • ARTP 057: Senior Photography

Graduate

  • ARTG 322: Studio Practice 

  • ARTG 233: Special Topics in Photography 

  • ARTG 321: Exhibition Practices

  • ARTG 235: Workshop in Photography

  • ARTG 320: Critical Practices in Photography 

Publications and Presentations

Publications and Presentations

Books 

Eshun, Ekow. Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2025.

Shabazz, Jamel. Jamel Shabazz: Albums. Edited by Michal Raz-Russo. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl and The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2022.

Brown, Jessica Bell, and Ryan N. Dennis, eds. A Movement in Every Direction: A Great Migration Critical Reader. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022.

Selected Exhibition Catalogs

Childs, Adrienne L., and Camille Brown, eds. Out of Many: Reframing an American Art
Collection. Washington, DC: The Phillips Collection, 2025.

Co-editor with Melanee C. Harvey. Wherever There Is Light: Philadelphia. Philadelphia: TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, 2024.

Naeem, Asma. The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2023.

Personal Structures: Reflections. Venice: European Cultural Centre, 2022.

Larry W. Cook. Essays by Makeda Best and Jasmin Basheer; conversation with Leslie M. Wilson. Berlin: Weiss Publications, 2020.

Moss, Dorothy. The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2019.

Journals  & Volumes

Martin, Allie. "The City Is the Club Is the City: Sonic Vignettes of a Gentrifying City." Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture 5, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 86–96.

Chloe Ming. "Review of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration." Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 10, no. 1 (Spring 2024)

Radial Survey, Vol. 3. Pittsburgh, PA: Silver Eye Center for Photography, 2023.

Harvey, Melanee. Contact Sheet 217: Light Work Annual 2022. New York: Light Work, 2022.