Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Photography |
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New Color Photography |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 62 |
| Germany | 21 |
| Switzerland | 8 |
| Spain | 7 |
| United Kingdom | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland |
5 |
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The Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
5 |
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Luhring Augustine Gallery, USA |
5 |
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BUCHMANN GALERIE, Germany |
5 |
Biography: 
30.6.1944 Born in New York City, NY (US)
Awards 2004 The Citigroup Photography Prize 2004
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 124 
until 14.10.
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| Cityscapes - CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadanía, Madrid |
until 13.10.
Solo shows 20
2012
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| Joel Sternfeld - Albertina, Vienna |
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| Joel Sternfeld - Photographica Fine Art, Lugano |
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| Joel Sternfeld - First Pictures - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Joel Sternfeld - Color Photographs since 1970 - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Joel Sternfeld – Farbfotografien seit 1970 - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
2009
2008
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| Joel Sternfeld - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Joel Sternfeld - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
2006
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| Joel Sternfeld: Sweet Earth - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2005
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| Joel Sternfeld - Sweet Earth. Experimental Utopias in America - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Joel Sternfeld - American Prospects and Before - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Joel Sternfeld - Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
2002
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| Joel Sternfeld - White Box, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Stranger Passing: Collected Portraits by Joel Sternfeld - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1996
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| On This Site...Photographs by Joel Sternfeld - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1992
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| Joel Sternfeld Photographs - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1989
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| American Prospects: The Photographs of Joel Sternfeld - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
Group shows 102
2013
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| Power - Prix Pictet - Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam |
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| Prix Pictet - Power - Gallery of Photography, Dublin |
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| Gallery Selections - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
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| Prix Pictet Power - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| Dark Blue The Water as Protagonist - Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI |
2012
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| The Dwelling Life of Man - Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort |
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| In Ruin: Architectural Photographs from the Permanent Collection - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Lost Places - Orte der Photographie - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
2011
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| MärklinWorld - Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort |
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| Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Angry - Young and Radical - Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
2010
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| Edge Of Town - Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Wonderers - The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, Davis, CA |
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| Arbeit / Labour - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
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| TWENTY FIVE - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Great Photographs of the 20th Century: Staged and Startled - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
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| Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970 – 1980 - Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH |
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| In Focus: Photography from the Mills College Art Museum Colle - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
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| Everyday Ideologies - Zeitläufe, Lebenswege - Kunstmuseum Kloster unserer lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg |
2009
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| Large Scale Color Photography - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Pittoresk - Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Absenzen - 3. Fotofestivals Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
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| Joel Sternfeld - Bettina Pousttchi - NO SUCH PLACE - TERRITORIES OF THE INVISIBLE - Castillo de Santa Bárbara, Alicante |
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| Photo-OP - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
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| Reality Revisted - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| The edge of inent - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| Beyond The Picturesque - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| LandMark - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2008
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| maloney, meyerowitz, shore, sternfeld - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Of People and Places - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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| When color was new vintage photographs from around the 1970s - Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| A Mind at Play - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2007
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| Weather Report: Art & Climate Change - Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO |
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| Loaded Landscapes - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| Easy Rider: Road Trips through America - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Summer Show - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Loaded Lens - Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town |
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| Italie - doubles vision - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| utopian mirage - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| utopian mirage - Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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| On the Wall - Aperture Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Director’s Choice - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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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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| Arcadia - Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Multiple Exposures: Highlights From Csulb Special Collections - UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
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| In Sight - Resent additions to the permanent collection - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| PHotoEspańa 06 - PHotoEspańa, Madrid |
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| A Curator´s Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Geschichten, Geschichten - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Facing Americ. Portraits of the People and the Land - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Human/Nature: Landscape photography from the GoMA collection - GoMA - Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Portrait und Menschenbild - SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne |
2005
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| Aus Amerika - Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne |
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| nützlich – süß – museal. Das fotografierte Tier - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| Park - Monte Clark Gallery - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| Les Grands Spectacles - 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
2004
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| Casa de luz - Colección Mário Teixeira da Silva - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
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| Mediterranean: Between Reality and Utopia - The Photographers' Gallery, London (England) |
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| Pool Party - Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Temporalscape - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Italia. Doppie visioni - Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome |
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| Citigroup Photography Prize 2004 - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| In America - Sutton Lane - London, London (England) |
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| Big Photos - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
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| Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Citigroup Photography Prize - The Photographers' Gallery, London (England) |
2003
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| Content - Rem Koolhaas und OMA-AMO - Bauten, Projekte und Konzepte seit 1996 - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Strangers: the first ICP triennial of photography and video - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Road Show - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Lisbon Photo Biennial ; Galeria Municipal da Mitra - - Lisboa photo, Lisbon (closed) |
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| Vigovisións, 1986-2000 - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Affinities... Now and Then - H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
2002
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| Collecting Contemporary Art - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
2001
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| Trade - Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Overnight to Many Cities - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Revisited: Aspekte amerikanischer Farbphotographie - Kicken Berlin, Berlin |
2000
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| Hart Island - Melinda Hunt und Joel Sternfeld - Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel |
1999
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| The Hart Island Project - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England) |
1998
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| Fünf Komma Fünf - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Private ficcions - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
1997
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| American Photography: Recent Acquisitions - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Private View. Collection Allan Porter - Museum im Bellpark, Kriens |
1994
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| Beginn einer Sammlung - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
1990
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| Myth of the West - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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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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| Photographs by Leon Borensztein, Sage Sohier, and Joel Sternfeld - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1987
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| Midtown Review: A Look at Photography Books of 1987 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Twelve Photographers Look at US - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1984
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| Three Americans - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1981
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| The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
Dealer Directory 5 |
Belgium
| | Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist
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Germany
USA
| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 13

Switzerland
| | Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
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USA
| | Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
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| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
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| | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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Catalogs
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