Recent Selected Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 Scape Gallery, 90º, Corona del Mar, CA
Great Park Gallery, The Great Picture: Making the World’s Largest Photograph, Irvine, CA
Peter Blake Gallery, Hymns to the Silence, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 Laguna Art Museum, Hymns to the Silence, Laguna Beach, CA
2020 Great Park Gallery, El Toro 2003, Irvine, CA
2018 SAC Arts Galley, Photo Abstraction, Santa Ana, CA
2016 BC Space Gallery, The Solstice Show, Laguna Beach, CA
2015 Art Center Photo Gallery, Where Are the People?, Costa Mesa, CA
2014 Museum of Art & History, On The Beach, Lancaster, CA
2013 Second Harvest, 30 Faces of Hunger & Hope, Irvine, CA
2012 SAC Arts, T.L.C. Their Latest Creations, Santa Ana, CA
2009 Phleger Gallery, Passages, Encinitas, CA
Peter Blake Gallery, Triptychs: Fractured Realities, Laguna Beach, CA
Irvine Fine Arts Center, On The Beach: Chance Portraits, Irvine, CA
John Wayne Airport, The Last Hurrah, Santa Ana, CA
2006. Southeast Museum of Photography, On the Beach, Daytona Beach, FL
2005. Peter Blake Gallery, Dream Series, Laguna Beach, CA
Recent Selected Group Exhibitions
2024. World Art Expo, Olympiart, Souel, Korea
2023 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Architecture in Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
John Wayne Airport, Laguna Festival of the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Newport Beach, CA
2021 Los Angeles Center of Photography, member of the month, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Millepiani Gallery, Isolation/Living Apart, Rome, Italy
Laguna Art Museum, Word & Images in Dialogue, Laguna Beach, CA
Great Park Gallery, El Toro 2003, Irvine, CA
2019 dnj Gallery, LACP Member’s Exhibition, Santa Monica, CA
Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery, A Place for Everything & Everything in Its Place, CSUF, Fullerton, CA
California Center for Photography, A Deconstructed Odyssey, Santa Ana, CA
South X Southeast Photo Gallery, Environment 2019, Molena, GA
Laguna Art Museum, California Cool, Laguna Beach, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Centenial Gifts Exhibition: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Laguna Beach, CA
Loosen Art Gallery, Isolation, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
Festival of the Arts, Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach, CA
2018 Pico/Union Project, Crossroads, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Ana College, Photo Abstraction 2018, Santa Ana, CA
MyDailyPhotograph, Paris, Santa Monica, CA
Festival of the Arts, Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach, CA
Laguna Art Museum, California Cool, Laguna Beach, CA
2017 OC Contemporary Gallery, Grand Opening, San Clemente, CA,
Great Park Gallery, Walt and the Flying Bull, Irvine, CA
BC Space Gallery, The Solstice Show, Laguna Beach, CA
Festival of the Arts, Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach, CA
2016 Forest & Ocean Gallery, Remembrances of Things Passing, Laguna Beach, CA
BC Space, Amerikan Krazy, Life Out of Balance, Laguna Beach, CA
Great Park Gallery, Smile, Irvine, CA
PhotoPlace Gallery, A Sense of Place, Middlebury, VT
MyDailyPhotograph, Red, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Center for Contemporary Arts, The Land Mark Show, Santa Fe, NM
Southeast Museum of Photography, The Growth of a Collection, Part II: 2002-2014, Daytona Beach, FL
2014 Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., National Air & Space Museum
California Museum of Photography, Do-It-Yourselfie, Riverside, CA
2013 Center For Fine Art Photography, Black and White 2013, Fort Collins, CO
Photo NOLA, New Orleans, LA
Laguna College of Art & Design, 24th Annual Collector’s Choice, Laguna Beach, CA
IFAC, All Media 2013, Irvine, CA
Orange County Great Park, A Different Point of View, Irvine, CA
2012 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Give Us Your Best Shot, Santa Ana, CA
Orange County Great Park Gallery, The Great Picture, Irvine, CA
Community Arts Project Gallery, All Media 2012, Laguna Beach, CA
Photo Place Gallery, Windows and Mirrors, Middlebury, VT
BC Gallery, Capital Crimes$, Laguna Beach, CA
2011 UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA
CAFA, Chinese Academy of Fine Art, The Great Picture, Beijing, China, The Great Picture
Great Park Gallery, The Great Picture, Irvine, CA
CAP Gallery, All Media Show, Laguna Beach, CA
2010 Orange County Great Park, Phantoms Phorever, Irvine, CA
Sylvia White Gallery, National, Ventura, CA
Grand Central Art Center, BC Space - Mything in Action, Santa Ana, CA
Laguna College of Art & Design, 21st Collector’s Choice, Laguna Beach, CA
Orange County Great Park, Phantoms Phorever, Irvine, CA
SAC Art Gallery, Portraiture, Santa Ana, CA
Selected Institutional Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Southeast Museum of Photography
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Laguna Art Museum
Selected Commissions, Public Art & Documentary Projects
30 Faces of Hunger and Hope (2013), Caring Communities (2104), The Seven Voices of Hunger (2015), Big Dreams (2016)
The Beach Project
Published Books
Hymns to the Silence, Ryan Press, 2021
A Deconstructed Odyssey, 2018
Revival, My Publisher, 2016 (Out of Print)
Second Chances, Mixbook, 2013
The Great Picture: Making the World’s Largest Photograph, Hudson Hill Press, 2011
On The Beach, Southeast Museum of Photography, 2006
The Edge of Air, Laguna Wilderness Press, 2005
In Transition, Great Park Conservancy, 2003 (Out of Print)
Selected Bibliography
2024 ThemFrames Magazine, Garnier’s meditations…, June 2024
Lens Culture Magazine, Hidden Stories, July 2024 #18
2023 OpenEye Magazine #30, Hymns to the Silence, February/March 2023
The Eye of Photography, Hymns to the Silence, January 2023
Times Community News, Monumental Photo Returns Home, Andrew Turner, February 2023
Orange County Register, See how the world’s largest photograph was created in Irvine’s Great Park, Yusra Farzan, Feb 18, 2023
LA Times, As ‘The Great Picture”’ returns home, its creators look back on the monumental project, Andrew Turner, Feb 18, 2023
2022 Edge of Humanity, Jacques Garnier’s REVIVAL, December 5, 2022
2021 ProPhoto Daily, Jacques Garnier Reimagines Architecture, Sept 3, 2021
OC Art Blog, Artist to Artist: In Gallery Conversation with Jacques Garnier, Joel Woodward
Stu’s News, With Hymns to the Silence, Jacques Garnier captures the sublime, Marrie Stone
Stu’s News, The Poetics of Space: A conversation at the intersection of art & architecture, Marrie Stone
Visual Arts Source, Hymns to the Silence at the Laguna Art Museum, Liz Goldner
2017 OC Weekly, Jacques Garnier is the Star of this Year’s Laguna Festival of the Arts, Dave Barton, August 24, 2017
San Clemente News, Festival of Arts Adds Jacques Garnier Photograph, Ruth White, September 15, 2017
2016 Photographer’s Forum, Best of Photography 2016
PhotoPlace Gallery, A Sense of Place
2014 Exposure Guide, The Great Picture is the Largest Seamless Print Photograph Ever, August 2, 2014