Larry Camp is a painter, sculptor and educator whose work combines abstraction with recognizable imagery, exploring the relationships between objects, form and visual perception. Born in Indiana, he received a scholarship from the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis to study and travel in Europe, where he attended the Blocher School of Art in Munich, Germany. He earned his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1967. Camp was a visiting artist at UC Davis in 1968 and taught at Louisiana State University and the Ohio State University, contributing to a generation of artists exploring new approaches to painting and representation. His work was included in the 1974 Whitney Biennial in New York. In 1978, he received a Ford Foundation grant through the Ohio State University that enabled him to relocate to New York, where he subsequently joined the faculty of Parsons School of Design. Alongside his painting practice, Camp developed expertise in sculpture and the restoration of historic and decorative objects.