 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 40 |
| France | 11 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Netherlands | 3 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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San Jose Museum of Art, USA |
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Biography: 
1938 Born in San José, CA (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 72
Solo shows 20
2011
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| Ordinary Folks - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
2010
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| Bill Owens: Suburbia - Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT |
2009
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| Riots - Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris |
2008
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| Bill Owens - Suburbia Revisited - Arnolfini, Bristol (England) |
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| Bill Owens e Woolrich Woolen Mills - Lorenzelli Arte, Milan |
2007
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| Suburbia and Leisure - DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Bill Owens: Flesh - Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2005
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| Bill Owens - America - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Bill Owens: Leisure Nathan Baker: People At Work - Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Bill Owens - - Jack Hanley Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (closed, 2008) |
2004
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| Bill Owens - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
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| Bill Owens: Leisure - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Photographs 1969 - - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2010) |
2000
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| Suburbia - Photographs by Bill Owens - UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA |
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| The Suburban Seventies - Photographs by Bill Owens - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
1999
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| Bill Owens Photos from -Suburbia,- -Working- and -Our Kind of People- - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1998
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| Bill Owens - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON |
1978
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| Bill Owens - Photographs - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI |
Group shows 52
2012
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| Walker Evans & The American Social Landscape Photographers - Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA |
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| Gaze - The Changing Face of Portrait Photography - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| Fototriennale 2012 - Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense |
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| FotoTriennale.dk 2012 - FotoTriennale.dk, Odense |
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| Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982 - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
2011
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| Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Masters of American Photography - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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| Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment - New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
2010
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| 21st Century Outlook - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| Prospective XXIe siecle - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| Tales From The Crypt - Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery - PDNB, Dallas, TX |
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| La collection s'expose - Polaroïd en péril ! - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Who are you close to - Thrust Projects, New York City, NY |
2009
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| In Focus: The Worker - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Tree - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Reality Revisted - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
2008
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| The Cult of Personality - Portraits and Mass Culture - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels |
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| Urbanités - Galerie les filles du calvaire - Paris, Paris |
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| Instantané (70), Porte-parole (épisode n°2) - FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
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| The Good Life - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Contemporary Photographs: Recent Acquisitions - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
2007
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| Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens and Weiner - Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY |
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| Stalking Surburbia - Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT |
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| Ingenium.Photographie et Ingeniosite 1846 - 2006 - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| June Bride - Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Mapping the City - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
2006
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| Public Faces/Private Spaces: Recent Acquisitions - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Peintres de la vie moderne Modern-life painters - Donation - Caisse des Dépôts' photograph collection - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Suburban Escape - The Art of California Sprawl - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Une Proposition de Mathieu Mercier - FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen |
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| Montezuma´s Revenge - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The age of innocent - Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery - PDNB, Dallas, TX |
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| Dreaming California - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| I ♥ the Burbs - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
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| 20ème anniversaire de la galerie - Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris |
2005
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| Invito al Collezionismo - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
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| Der Traum vom Ich, der Traum von der Welt - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
2004
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| Pool Party - Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Terrain Vague - Photography, Architecture and the Post-Industrial Landscape - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Street Credibility - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
2003
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| The Gray Area - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Terrain Vague - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
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| fables de l'identité - Centre national de la photographie, Paris |
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| Travailler fatigue - FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier |
2002
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| Through the Looking Glass - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2001
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| The Nature of Still Life - - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna (closed, 2007) |
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| Il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences, un train peut en cacher un autre - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
2000
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| Urbanities - Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje |
1999
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| The Permanent Collection - Into the 21st Century - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
1978
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| Bill Owens & Julia M. Cameron - Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza |
| Dealer Directory 8 |
China
| | James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai
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France
| | Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
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Netherlands
United Kingdom
| | Eyestorm, London (England)
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USA
| | Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery - PDNB, Dallas, TX
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| | James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Jack Hanley Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 9
France
| | FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen
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| | FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
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| | FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
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| | FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
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Switzerland
| | Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
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USA
| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
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