David Heald has been photographing art, architecture and the natural landscape for over twenty five years. His work has been exhibited widely and appeared in numerous books and periodicals. He is represented in many private and public collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Heald is presently Chief Photographer for the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

His photographs of the Cistercian abbeys of France were published in 2000 in the highly acclaimed book Architecture of Silence, by Harry N. Abrams, NY. The book was chosen as one of the thirteen best architecture books of the year 2000 by the New York Times Book Review and was reprinted in 2002. An exhibition of 40 original prints from this body of work, organized by Exhibitions International and supported by grants from the Graham Foundation, The Florence Gould Foundation and the Grand Marnier Foundation is currently touring museums in North America.

Current Exhibition Schedule

Mount Holyoke College Museum
South Hadley, Massachussetts
March 22 — July 3, 2005

New York School of Interior Design
New York, New York
September 6 — December 3, 2005

Hillstrom Museum of Art
St. Peter, Minnesota
September 10 — November 26, 2006

Selected One Man Exhibitions

2001
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH

1992
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
New York, NY

1991
University of the South
Sewanee, TN

1990
Western Michigan State University
Kalamazoo, MI

1989
University of New Mexico
Dept. of Architecture Galleries
Albuquerque, NM

1988
Michael Ward Gallery
New York, NY

Plymouth State College Art Gallery
Plymouth, NH

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT

Selected Publications

The Architecture of the Museo Picasso Malaga, edited by Carmen Gimenez, photography by David Heald. MPM, October 2004, Malaga, Spain.

Architecture of Silence: Cistercian Abbeys of France, photographs by David Heald, introduction by Terryl N. Kinder, Harry N. Abrams, Fall 2000, NY

L’Architecture du Silence: Les abbayes cisterciennes de France, French edition of 1st entry, Editions de la Martiniere, Fall 2000, Paris.

Art of this Century, The Guggenheim Museum and its Collections, Thomas Krens et al., photographs by David Heald, Guggenheim Museum, 1993, NY.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, photographs by David Heald, Lee Ewing & William Short, Guggenheim Museum, 1994, NY.

A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, Carmen Gimenez, photographs by David Heald, Guggenheim Museum, 1996, NY.

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Coosje van Bruggen, photographs by David Heald, Timothy Hursley et al., Guggenheim Museum, 1998, NY.

The Art of the Motorcycle, Thomas Krens editor, photographs by David Heald et al. Guggenheim Museum, 1998, NY.