Archy LaSalle received a Bachelor of Art degree in Photography with honors from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1982.
Early in his career, Mr. LaSalle received national and international attention for his artistic documentation of the M.B.T.A. Orange Line Southwest Corridor subway system project. He was awarded a four month artist�s residency at the Foundation Karolyi in Vence, France. His work in France subsequently earned him a residency at Cite Internationale des Artes in Paris.
In the 1990�s, Mr. LaSalle began to work in Italy photographing its landscape, formal gardens, and architecture. In 1997, he was invited to work in Japan. His solo show in Kyoto in May of 1998 included his photographs from Japan, as well as, portfolios from other parts of the world.
Also, in 1998, Mr. LaSalle�s work was part of an exhibition at the Addison Gallery of American Art in a show entitled, �Expanded Visions: The Panoramic Photograph�. His work was on view at the DeCordova Museum in an exhibition �Photographs from the Permanent Collection: People and Places� and at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum as part of a show entitled, �On the Nature of Landscape�.
Prior to 1998, he has exhibited his photographs in Boston at the Photographic Resource Center, the Copley Society of Art, and the Boston Architectural Center. Mr. LaSalle�s work has consistently received rave reviews in such newspapers as The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and Boston Phoenix, where his show, "Form: Architecture and Landscape" was cited as one of the ten best art shows of 1996.
In conjunction with his artistic career, Mr. LaSalle is a committed and dedicated educator who has lectured at the Museum of Natural History in New York and lectures frequently at art institutions. He has taught photography at universities and high schools here and abroad.
Mr. LaSalle�s work is also included in Black Photographers: 1945-1985, published by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the DeCordova Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and numerous corporate and private collections.