David Schulz is an artist, graphic designer, and teacher currently living and working in Connecticut. His photo-bookworks are in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Beinecke (Yale), the Walker Art Center, the Getty Research Library, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. He has exhibited his work in New York at galleries and museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, Pierogi 2000, the Front Room, Gigantic Art Space, and the Cellar Gallery. He has taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Whitman College in Walla Walla. He is a member of ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative.
[david schulz works at gmail dot com]

Light Rail Works is an online project space and imprint started by David Schulz. It finds some of its expression in the connections and disjunctions between individual experience, narrative structures, memory, and physical/virtual infrastructures in human environments.


For inquiries of any books listed on this site, please email david schulz works at gmail dot com.

Select Exhibition/Event History
2025 Of Land and Place, Vermont Center for Photography
2024 Ulises: Assembly, Tufts University Art Galleries,
2024 Shibboleth (Milan), NYABF, “Illegible Lines” workshop
2024 Vico’s Spiral, Center for Book Arts, NYC
2024 Language, Decipherment, Translation, The Grolier Club, NYC
2023 The Library, Solo show, La Grua Center, CT
2023 ABC Stampa, Miss Read, Berlin, Germany
2023 Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea
2021 ABC Assembly, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine
2021 ABC Days, Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair, organized by Wil van Iersel
2021 ABC Post, C/O Berlin 
2021 ABC Proposals for Paris, Le Plac’art Photo, organized by Duncan Wooldridge
2020 10 x 10 Photobooks Salon/Exhibition/Artists’ talk, Penumbra Foundation, NYC
2018 Book fairs: New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Offprint London Art Book Fair, Offprint Paris Art Book Fair
2016 Book fairs: New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
2016 Scenes and Types, Group Exhibition and Catalog repurposing the Adnan Charara Photography Collection, Whitman College
2015 Book fairs: New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Rencontres d’Arles, Unseen Art Book Fair, Amsterdam
2014 Book fairs: New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Miss Read Book Fair, Berlin, Offprint London Art Book Fair
2013 How the West Was Won. Copyright Applied For., Penrose Archive, performance, Whitman College, Walla Walla
2013 ABCed, Brandhorst Museum, Münich, Books & Co.
2013 ABCed, Gagosian Gallery, NYC, Books & Co. (with Ed Ruscha), curated by Hermann Zscheigner
2012 Lone Wolf, Tiff Photo Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, Selected by Hester Keijser
2012 The Mercantile Library, FotoFocus Cincinnati
2012 ABCed, The Mews Project Space, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2012 Fotografia Festival di Roma, curated by Douglas Stockdale, Macro Testaccio Museum, Rome, Italy
2012 Book Days, C/O Berlin, Selected by Joachim Schmid
2011 Printed Matter, ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative (Chief organizer, artist, panel discussion with Bruno Ceschel), New York
2011 Booklet, Tokyo, Japan