Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 66 |
| France | 21 |
| Italy | 15 |
| Spain | 12 |
| Germany | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, USA |
8 |
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Etherton Gallery, USA |
7 |
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Fahey/Klein Gallery, USA |
4 |
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Galerie Baudoin Lebon, France |
4 |
Biography: 
13.9.1939 Born in Brooklyn,NY (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 163  2013
Solo shows 36
2013
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| Retrospective - Jacques de la Béraudière , Geneva |
2012
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| Histoire du monde occidental - Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris |
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| Enfer ou Ciel (Heaven or Hell) - BnF Site Richelieu, Paris |
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| Enfer ou Ciel - Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris |
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| The Thanatograph - Lust Gallery, Vienna |
2010
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - The Brno House of Arts - Central Building, Brno |
2009
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| Joel Peter Witkin - Museo Ken Damy, Brescia |
2008
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| Joel-Peter Witkin: Poetic Realism - Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin: Poetic Realism - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA |
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| Joel Peter Witkin - PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
2007
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| Human Kind - Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris |
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| Joel Peter Witkin - Galleria Cà di Frà, Milan |
2006
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| Joel Peter Witkin - Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin-d'Hères Cedex |
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| Joel Peter Witkin - Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Vintage - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin: Compassionate Beauty - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Heart Beats Dust - Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| One Man Show - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow |
2004
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| Joel Peter Witkin - Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris |
2002
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - The Mystery of Presence - Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Compassionate Beauty - Stadtmuseum Jena, Jena |
2001
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Revisited - Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Photographs - Works from a Valley Collection - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| Unpublished and Unseen by Joel-Peter Witkin - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
2000
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| Joel-Peter Witkin: Recent Work - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1995
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
1992
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| Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
1989
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca |
1988
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Sala Parpallo, Valencia |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki |
1986
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| Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1985
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| The Unique Vision of Joel-Peter Witkin: photographs - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
Group shows 127
2013
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| Une Affaire De Famille - La Photographie Dans Les Collections De Stephane, Rodolphe Et Sebastien Janssen - Museé de la photographie de Charleroi, Charleroi |
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| Sex, Money and Power - Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin, Alice Leora Briggs, Holly Roberts - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
2012
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| The Supersurrealism - Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö |
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| Oltre il muro - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| See: Untold Stories - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Musings - Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM |
2011
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| The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Kunsthalle Darmstadt macht Schule - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt |
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| Analog to Digital - LACDA - Los Angeles Center for digital Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Altered States - Foley Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Masters of American Photography - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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| Isabelle Huppert - Woman of Many Faces - The Museum of Photography, Seoul |
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| Märchen Mythos Marotte - Galerie Steinek, Vienna |
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| Tous cannibales - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Flesh • Bone • Spirit - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
2010
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| Case Study from the Bureau of Contemporary Art - New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
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| El Cuerpo Inventado - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Autour de l'extreme - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| De la cite internationale des arts a la maison europeenne de la photographie - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris |
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| Decadence Now! Visions of Excess - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
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| What We’re Collecting Now: Art/Not Art - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Heads Or Tails - Mary Ryan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| tra pittura e fotografia - sezione contemporanea dal 1960 al 2000 - Museo Ken Damy, Brescia |
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| Another Nude Show - Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Baraka - Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin-d'Hères Cedex |
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| Group Exhibition - Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| C'est la vie ! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst - Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris |
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| exposed - Aktfotografie des XX. Jahrhunderts - in focus Galerie, Cologne |
2009
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| More Mergers & Acquisitions - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
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| El tiempo del Arte - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires |
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| Chilling in the Summer - Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo |
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| Ingres et les modernes - Musée Ingres, Montauban |
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| Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| The Bare Necessity of Art - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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| GiovaniMaestri - mc2gallery, Milan |
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| Esposizione Universale - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
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| I love Art 10 - The Fallen Angels - Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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| Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature and Society - Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
2008
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| Biancaneve (e i 7 nani) - Guidi&Schoen - Arte Contemporanea, Genoa |
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| Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York City, NY |
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| In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
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| Biennale di Alessandria - Shapes of Time - Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria |
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| Transphotographiques 2008 - Transphotographiques, Lille |
2007
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| O gabinete de curiosidades de Domenico Vandelli - Museu Botânico, Coimbra |
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| Livres de nus, une anthologie - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| Fotografica Bogota 2007 - Fotografica Bogota, Bogota |
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| A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ |
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| Body as Spectacle - MMSU - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Rijeka |
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| Group Show - Reality bites - - Galerie | Caprice Horn, Berlin (closed, 2012) |
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| Ateliers - L'artistes et ses lieux de création - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Treinta - Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza |
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| Oog / Eye - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute - The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN |
2006
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| Speaking with Hands - Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow |
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| The Invisible Landscape revealing our place in the world - mocca - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON |
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| Wide Angle: Recent Photography Acquisitions - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| Six Feet Under; Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| silver - Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX |
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| busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Revelation (Uppenbar(a)t) - Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm |
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| Eretica - - Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo, Palermo (closed) |
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| Under the Influence - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Natures Silencioses. Fundación Ordoñez-Falcón de Fotografía - Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida |
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| Flesh II - - Galeria Clave, Murcia (closed) |
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| Year Of Tibet Portfolio - Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| My Collection - Museo Ken Damy, Brescia |
2005
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| Donation Cordier - les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse |
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| BIG BANG - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| The Art of Summer: Etherton Selections - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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| Chronos - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed) |
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| Painting on Photography - Photography on Painting - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| Nueva tecnología-nueva iconografía-nueva fotografía - Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca |
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| Pas Moi Sans Eux - Colección Pierre Borhan - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
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| Conjuring the Invisible - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
2004
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| Mostly Photography - Art since 1980 from the Collection - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| Voodoo Shit - Hales Gallery, London (England) |
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| Portraits/Autoportraits - Photographies - Guy Ledune, Brussels |
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| Nueva tecnología,nueva iconografía, nueva fotografía - Museu d´Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca |
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| Printed light - photographic vision and the modern print - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Why not live for Art? - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo |
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| Andererseits - Die Phantastik - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
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| Art History: Photography References Painting - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Making Faces: The Death of the Portrait (Je t’envisage: La disparition du portrait) - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
2003
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| Corpus Christi _ Christus-Darstellungen in der photographie, 1850-2001 - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Herb Ritts Private Collection - Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Heiliger Sebastian - A Splendid Readiness For Death - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| A Clear Vision: Photographic Works from the F.C. Gundlach Collection - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Cara a Cara - Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos - Culturgest, Lisbon |
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| Master Photographers & Master Prints 1840-2000 - Akira Ikeda - Berlin, Berlin |
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| The 2003 Autumn Expo - Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo |
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| Naked Before God - The Museum of New Art, Pärnu |
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| Gallery Artists 2003 - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| In the Eye of the Beholder - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Christmas Show: I'm dreaming of ... - Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam |
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| What WereYou Thinking? - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Through the Looking Glass - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| A Bird Show - Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Masks - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow |
2001
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| The Nature of Still Life - - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna (closed, 2007) |
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| Gallery Artists 2001 - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Subverted Realities - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
2000
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| Le Siecle Du Corps Photographies 1900-2000 - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Narcisse Blesse - Passage de Retz, Paris |
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| Off the Shelf - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
1999
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| Rattling The Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999 - SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA |
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| Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| Fotografie in una collezione privata - Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano |
1998
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| Private ficcions - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
1997
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| Selected Works from the LINC Collection - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Civil Progress: Life in Black America - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1996
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| Master Classes: What classifies an artist as a Master - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Double vie, Double vue - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| Family Matters - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1994
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| Mexico through foreign eyes - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
1990
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| Vénus - Centre d'Art le LAIT, Albi |
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| The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers And Artists Respond In The Time Of Aids - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Selections - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1988
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| The Dog Show - Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1987
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| Midtown Review: A Look at Photography Books of 1987 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Memento Mori - Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA |
1984
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| Confrontations - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
Dealer Directory 10 |
Austria
| | Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna
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France
| | Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
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Germany
Italy
Russia
USA
| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
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Denmark
| | Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen
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Estonia
| | The Museum of New Art, Pärnu
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France
| | 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Israel
| | Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
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Italy
| | Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
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South Korea
| | Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul
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Spain
USA
| | UNM Art Museum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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| | MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
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| | Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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| | Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, San Marcos, TX
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| | New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM
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| | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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