Larry Cook

About the Artist

Larry Cook received his MFA from George Washington University in 2013. A 2017 Trawick Prize Winner, a 2016 Sondheim finalist and former Hamiltonian Fellow (2013-2015), he has been included in various group shows including Faculty at Rush Arts Gallery (New York, NY 2018) Black Man in a Black World at Galerie Myrtis (Baltimore, MD, 2017) and It Takes A Nation at Katzen Arts center (Washington, DC, 2016). Cook has also had solo presentations at Hamiltonian Gallery (2015), (e)merge art fair (2014), Stamp Gallery (2014) and Pleasant Plains Workshop (2013). ln 2014, he had a large-scale public artwork on view as part of Ceremonies of Dark Men, part of the 5 X 5 Project Public Art, curated by A.M. Weaver and organized by the DC Commission on the Arts. ln 2017, Cook had a series of videos screened at the National Gallery of Art. A native of Landover, MD, Larry has taught Photography at The George Washington University, American University, George Mason University and is currently a professor and coordinator of photography at Howard University.