Carl Austin Hyatt

Carl Austin Hyatt uses classical black-and-white photography to explore the intersection of the human and natural worlds in images charged with emotional and eloquent beauty. Hyatt revisits the landscapes of his world – rocks, shorelines, tides, horizons- knowing that perception is a living choice created anew in each encounter.

His photographs, such as the road-salt piles resembling ancient mountains and sacred pyramids, record a visceral response to the world and hint at the revelation of ineffable truths that transcend the literal. As he explains it, ” there are things we all know but dismiss because we doubt ourselves. This is our condition. It has taken me years to trust what I know.” Hyatt’s prints are in numerous permanent collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian Museum, the Currier Museum of Fine Arts and private collections across the United States, Europe and South America.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020 Awarded the 2020 Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant from The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
2020 Southern Vermont Arts Center,(SVAC) Manchester, Vt, “More Than Meets the Eye” Exhibition of Peru Prints
2019 The Discovery Center, Portsmouth, NH, “From Portsmouth to Peru: In Search of Anima Mundi,” October thru December.
2019 Cove Street Arts, Portland Me “Photographing Coastal Maine” Group show.
2018 Addison Museum of American Art, at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover MA, “Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photography from the Collection.”
2017 Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit Me, “Salt / Sea / Stone: The Photographs of Carl Austin Hyatt” First one-man museum exhibition, 5/17-6/17.
2015 Greenberg Editions, New York, NY. September, one man show- “Portsmouth Harbor Salt Pile Series: Monumental Prints.”
2015 The Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, NH. “Portsmouth Harbor Salt Pile Series: Monumental Prints,” Solo Exhibition.
2013 Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH. “Sacred Landscapes of Peru: The Photographs of Carl Austin Hyatt.”
2012 Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH. “A New Vision: Modernist Photography,” Group Exhibition, prints from the collection.
2011 Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg Ma, Exhibition of the “Jude Peterson Collection,” including a number of prints by Carl Austin Hyatt.
2008 Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), New York, NY: Represented by The Wach Gallery (Avon Lakes, OH) Every Year since 1995.
2007 New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH. “First Light”: One-man exhibition (with first published book: “Carl Austin Hyatt Photography”)
2006 Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover Ma: “75 Years of Collecting American Photography” Group Exhibition, prints by Carl Austin Hyatt included in the collection.
2006 The Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, NH. Solo Exhibition, “Carl Austin Hyatt, Photographer.”
2004 Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. Opening Exhibition and purchase of prints from Carl Austin Hyatt’s Peru expeditions.
1999 Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH. “Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier Collection.” Exhibition of platinum prints, the Salt Pile Series.
1998 Institute De Arte Fotographico, Lima, Peru. “Foreign Eyes” Exhibition and purchase of prints by Carl Austin Hyatt.
1995 The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover MA: “Industrial Evolution: Photographic Images and Ideas.” Exhibition and purchase of prints from the “Portsmouth Harbor Salt Pile Series.”
1993 Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH. “Salt Piles and Nudes.” Solo Exhibition.
1989 Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Solo exhibition - print room.
1987 Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. “New American Photographs,” Group Show.

NOTABLE COLLECTIONS

The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA.
The Manfred Heiting Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough NH
Phillips Exeter Academy, The Poets Collection, Exeter, NH
Steven Spielberg Collection
Represented in collections in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia