Artist

Roger Mertin

born Bridgeport, CT 1942
Born
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
Active in
  • Rochester, New York, United States
Biography

Currently lives in Rochester, New York. Since 1980 he has been associate professor of art at the University of Rochester. Mertin received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1974 and National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1976 and 1978. Solo exhibitions of his work include 1984: Rochester, Hartnett Gallery of the University of Rochester, and Roger Mertin: 15 October–30 November, 1985, Robert B. Menschel Photography, Syracuse University, New York (both in 1985).

Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992)

Works by this artist (5 items)

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Roger Mertin, Route #20, New York, 1974, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.962, ©1974, Roger Mertin
Route #20, New York
Artist
Date1974
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Image Not Available
Children’s Tree, Indian River Shores, Florida
Artist
Date1988
chromogenic print
Not on view
Roger Mertin, View; Looking Northeast, Ellis Island, 1988, chromogenic print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1989.51.2, © 1988, Roger Mertin
View; Looking Northeast, Ellis Island
Artist
Date1988
chromogenic print
Not on view
Roger Mertin, Liberty Island, Centennial Observation, 1986, chromogenic print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1989.51.1, © 1986. Roger Mertin
Liberty Island, Centennial Observation
Artist
Date1986
chromogenic print
Not on view