 Morell was awarded the Cintas Foundation fellowship in 1992 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993.Other awards he has received include the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award in 2011.In 1998 Morell was an artist-in-residence at Boston's Gardner Museum, and the following year, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts hosted his retrospective "Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye".