Education

1982 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - BA Fine Arts (Painting)

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - BA Mass Communications (Photojournalism)

 

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2025   Photolucida 2025 Critical Mass Top 50

2023   Professional Development Artists Grant, Arts Council Hillsborough County

2018   Professional Development Artists Grant, Arts Council Hillsborough County

2018   Creative Capital Professional Development Program, Winter Park, FL

2014   Creative Capital Professional Development Program, Tampa, FL

2009   Artist Enhancement Grant, Arts Council Hillsborough County

2008   Florida Individual Artist Fellowship

2006   Florida Artist Enhancement Grant

2005   Photographer Laureate, City of Tampa

2002   Florida Individual Artist Fellowship

1999   Featured artist for Polaroid Corporation “Test” Online

1998   Florida Individual Artist Fellowship

1995   Emerging Artist Grant, Tampa-Hillsborough Arts Council

1990   Emerging Artist Grant, Tampa-Hillsborough Arts Council

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Selected Collections and Commissions

Polaroid International, Boston, MA

Progressive Corporate Art, Mayfield Village, OH

Graham Nash, Nash Editions/Crosby, Stills & Nash

The Pinhole Resource, San Lorenzo, NM

PharMerica, Inc., Tampa, FL

Holland and Knight Law Firm, Tampa, FL

City of Orlando, Florida, Artists Collection, FL

Coopers & Lybrand, Tampa, FL

Arthur Anderson, Tampa, FL

First Fidelity Investments, Tampa, FL

Hillsborough County Commission, County Building, Tampa, FL

Chamber of Commerce, Tampa, FL

South Trust Bank, Orlando, FL

Thermal Ceramics, Augusta, GA

Orlando County Commission, Orlando, FL

Amsouth Bank, Tampa, FL

TECO Reality, Tampa, FL

Tampa Bay Business Committee of the Arts 2004

Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA

Frank Konhaus, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC

Rick Mears, 4-time Indianapolis 500 Champion, Jupiter, FL

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Museum Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL 

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art

Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art 

Palace of the Governors, New Mexico

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Selected Exhibition Record

2026  Where Leaves Remember, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL

2025  Tall Tales, curated by Greg Banks and Addison Brown. The barn located at Split Oak

           Farm, Zebulon, GA

2025  The SlowExposures Juried Exhibition, jurors Amanda Smith, Erin Dunn, Zebulon, GA

2025  Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2024  The Paula Tognarelli Collection, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine

2024  Words and Pictures, Center for Fine Art Photography - online exhibition (Aline Smithson)

2023  The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art Technology, Fundación Barrié in La

            Coruña, Spain 

2023   PhotoNola Review Exhibition, Photographic Gallery, San Miquel de Allende, Mexico

2023   29th Annual Online Members Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Art

2023   Hold Up Half the Sky Photographs by Women, Dallas Center for Photography

            Center Forward 2023 Online Exhibition, Fort Collins, CO. (Charles Guice)

2023   Small Things Considered, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach

2023   Beyond the Horizon, from the Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC

2022   Hambidge Creative Residency Program, exhibit Manmade Cloud, Rabun Gap, GA

2022   The Curated Fridge 2022 exhibit (Aline Smithson)

2022   Playback Theatre, Arts on Douglas, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL 

2022   N.Y. Photo Curator-Personal Cosmologies

2021   Rebecca Sexton Larson, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC (solo)

2021   How to Build a Manmade Cloud, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL (solo)

2021   30 over 50 |In Context, Ctr. for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. (Arnika Dawkins)

2020   Picture in Picture, from the Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC  (Frank Konhaus)

2020   Photoville, Fence Installation Sarasota, FL

2020   THE ALTERED IMAGE Women Telling Stories Combining  Photography with Mixed       

            Media, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL

2020   Unbound9 Invitational, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA  (Gordon Stettinius)

2020   41st Annual Paper in Particular, Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia College, MO  (Scott

            McMahon)

2020   International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA (Paula

            Tognarelli) 

2019   A Certain Uncertainty from the Cassilhaus Collection, Horce Williams House, Chapel 

            Hill, NC (Lori Vrba and Tama Hochbaum)

2019   Idioms: Photographs by Rebecca Sexton Larson, Florida School of the Arts, (solo)

2019   The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology McCord Museum, 

            Montreal

2019    New Blood:  Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, NC (Frank  and Ellen

            Konhaus)

2019    Southeast Center for Photography, SE Center Open, Greenville, SC (Richard Tuschman)

2018   City of Tampa Photographer Laureates, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa,

2017   Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art (formerly the Polk Museum of Art),

            Permanent Collection Exhibition, Lakeland, FL

2017   Skyway A Contemporary Collaboration, Tampa Museum of Art  

2017   Light Sensitive 2015: Celebrating Images from the Darkroom Art Intersection, AZ  (Ann                Jastrab)

2017   Poetics of Light, National Media Museum, United Kingdom

2017   The Polaroid Project, Curated by William Ewing, Barbara Hitchcock, Gary  Van Zante,

            Deborah G. Douglas, and Rebekka Reuter.  Venues include the Amon Carter Museum     

            of American  Art, Ft. Worth, TX, WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna, C/O Berlin,

            Berlin, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2016   Remnants, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR (Kaden Kratzer and Nadezda

            Nikolova)  

2016   Unmanned: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art

2016   Unbound5 Invitational Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA  (Gordon Stettinius)

2016   Altered Narratives: 19th Century Techniques Merge with 21 Century Visions, City Gallery              at Waterfront  Park, Charleston, SC

2015   Three Person exhibition (Jonah Calinawan, Karen Hymer, and Rebecca Sexton Larson),  

            Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

2015   Diffusion Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2015   Light Sensitive 2015: Celebrating Images from the Darkroom Art Intersection, AZ     

            (Robert Hirsch)

2014   Rebecca Sexton Larson and Matt Larson, “An Alternative Mood.”

2014   “Poetics of Light” Contemporary pinhole photography, Palace of the  Governors, New

            Mexico, (Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer)

2014    HANDMADE, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT. (Jessica Ferguson)

2014   Light Sensitive 2014, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.  (Tom Persinger)

2012   'Pinhole Photography” Atlantic Center for the Arts - Harris House, New Smyrna Beach

2012   “Alternative Views” Red Filter Fine Art Photography Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

2012    In One Instant Gallery of Photography, Ft. Myers, FL

2011   Transferred/Alternative Processes in Photography, Target Gallery at the Torpedo     

            Factory Art Center, VA (Regina DeLuis)

2011    Florida Museum of Women Artists, Biennial Exhibition DeLand, FL

2010   Low Tech The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (Crista Dix)

2010   Push>Process, CoExist Galleries & Studios @ TAP The Old Water Works, Southend on 

            Sea, Essex, U.K. (Emma Emmerton and Nastassja Simensky)

2010   Florida Biennial III, the Deland Museum of Art, (Mark Ormond)

2009   Visual Unity, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL

2008   "React," C. Emerson Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL

2007   Rebecca Sexton Larson, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA  

2007   Small Works Exhibit, Clayton Galleries, Tampa, FL

2006   Photographer Laureate Exhibition, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL (solo)

2006   Artwork by Rebecca Sexton Larson and Anna Tomczak, Lake Wales Art Center, FL

2006   The Narrative Tradition, the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

2006   Rethinking the Possibilities: Rebecca Sexton Larson, Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of 

            Art (formerly the Polk Museum of Art), Lakeland, FL

2005   Pinhole Photography Group Show, the Upstairs Gallery, Tyron, NC

2004   Fixed in Time: Matt Larson & Rebecca Sexton Larson, the Arts Center,  St. Petersburg

2003   Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,              Winston-Salem, NC  

2003   Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Traveling Exhibition, various Florida museums

2002   Boca Raton Museum Show, Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL

2002   Float, online magazine feature "Book of Fears", November issue

2001   Why Pinhole? International Exhibition of Lens-less Images, The Visual Studies                 

            Workshop,  NY

2001   Images from the Permanent Collection, the Tampa Museum of Art, 

2000  Larson & Tomczak, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL