James Welling

Nato / Born
Hartford, Connecticut, USA / 1951

Vive e lavora / Lives and works
Los Angeles, California, USA

Istruzione / Education
1971-74 - B.F.A. and M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts , USA, Valencia , California
1969-71 - Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 - Glass House, David Zwirner, New York, New York
2010 - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
2009 - Hapax Legomena, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2009 - Notes on Color, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2009 - Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
2009 - Maureen Paley, London, England
2008 - Works 1980-2008, David Zwirner, New York, New York
2008 - The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois [with Walead Beshty]
2008 - Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
2008 - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
2007 - David Zwirner, New York, New York [catalogue]
2007 - Horticultural Society of New York, New York, New York
2007 - Maureen Paley, London, England
2006 - New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2006 - New Series, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
2006 - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2006 - Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2005 - New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
2005 - New Work, David Zwirner, New York, New York
2004 - Agricultural Works/Insect Chorus, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New
2005 - Paltz, New York [itinerary: Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York; Hudson River
2005 - Museum, Yonkers, New York] [catalogue]
2005 - New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2003 - California, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
2003 - Los Angeles, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York
2003 - New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
2003 - Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan [with Christopher Williams]
2003 - Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2002 - Abstract, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002 - Abstract, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium [itinerary: Art Gallery of York
2002 - University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] [catalogue]
2001 - Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany [catalogue]
2000 - New Abstractions, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
2000 - New Abstractions and Photographs from the Seventies, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2000 - New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 - Photographs, 1974-1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [itinerary: Baltimore
2000 - Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los
2000 - Angeles, California] [catalogue]
2000 - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California [with Sharon Lockhart]
2000 - Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
2000 - Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York
1999 - New Abstractions, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany [catalogue]
1999 - Photographs 1981-98, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 - Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
1999 - Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1998 - 1981, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
1998 - Early Photographs 1976-1985, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, New York
1998 - Light Sources, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
1998 - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [brochure]
1998 - Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria [with Paul Strand] [catalogue]
1998 - Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
1998 - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland [catalogue]
1997 - Eastern Window, Haus Editions, Antwerp, Belgium
1997 - Light Sources, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 - Light Sources, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1997 - Light Sources, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1997 - Light Sources, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
1996 Calais Lace Factories, Camden Arts Center, London, England
1995 - New Photographs. Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan [catalogue]
1995 - The Ugly America, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, New York
1995 - Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
1995 - Módulo-Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
1995 - Project Room, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1995 - Whitney Center, Hamden, Connecticut
1994 - James Welling, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [catalogue]
1994 - James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria [with
1994 - Gaylen Gerber and Angela Grauerholz]
1994 - James Welling, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
1994 - James Welling: Photographs from the ‘90s, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
1994 - James Welling: Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany [catalogue]
1994 - Photographs from the ‘90s, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1993 - Calais Lace Factories, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1993 - Usines de Dentelle, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France [catalogue]
1993 - Galeri F15, Moss, Norway [with Mikael Levin]
1993 - Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California [with Rodney Graham]
1993 - S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1993 - Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan [catalogue]
1993 - Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
1992 - The Gangplank, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, New York [in cooperation with Jay Gorney]
1992 - Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1992 - Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
1992 - Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany [with Candida Höfer]
1992 - Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway [catalogue]
1992 - Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France [itinerary:
1992 - Musée de la Roche sur Yon, La Roche sur Yon, France] [catalogue]
1991 - Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France [with Christopher Williams]
1991 - Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1990 - Les Voies Ferrées: St. Etienne et la Plaine du Forez, Maison de la Culture et de la
1990 - Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France [catalogue]
1990 - Photographs 1977-1990, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland [with Vikky Alexander] [catalogue]
1990 - Sous-Sol, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel, Geneva, Switzerland [catalogue]
1990 - Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
1989 - Photography and Abstraction, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New
1989 - York, New York [with Holly Wright] [catalogue]
1989 - Richardson Photographs/ 1988-89, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania
1989 - Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria [catalogue]
1988 - Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France
1988 - Photographs Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1988 - Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, New York [in cooperation with Jay Gorney Modern Art]
1988 - Feature, Chicago, Illinois
1988 - Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
1987 - New Photographs and Paintings, Feature, Chicago, Illinois
1987 - Paintings and Photographs, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, California
1987 - Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
1986 - Cash/Newhouse, New York, New York
1986 - Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [with Rodney Graham]
1985 - First, Last, and Always, Cash/Newhouse, New York, New York
1984 - Gelatin Photographs 1-12, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York [catalogue published 1985]
1984 - Cash/Newhouse, New York, New York [with Allan McCollum]
1983 - Artificial Miracles, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [with Vikky Alexander]
1982 - Photographs, Metro Pictures, New York, New York
1982 - CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1981 - Photographs, Metro Pictures, New York, New York
1976 - Polaroid Photographs, Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, California
1974 - Hair Helmet, University of California Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, California
1974 - MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1973 - Project, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 - Five Shows/Five Days, Fine Arts Building, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Selected Grpoup Exhibitions

2010 - After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2010 - Connecticut, D’Amelio Terras, New York, New York
2010 - Group Show, BravinLee programs, New York, New York
2010 - How Many Billboards? Art In Stead, MAK Center for Art + Architecture at the Schindler House,
2010 - Los Angeles, California [21 commissioned art works exhibited on billboards throughout Los Angeles]
2009 - 1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future? Comments on a Paradigm Shift, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria [catalogue]
2009 - Can I Come Over To Your House: The First Ten Years of the Suburban, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois [catalogue]
2009 - The Chef’s Theory, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, California
2009 - The Edge of Vision, Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
2009 - Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2009 - Flower Power, CRAA Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy [catalogue]
2009 - The Garden at 4 am, Gana Art New York, New York, New York
2009 - In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2009 - Jack Goldstein, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany [catalogue published in 2010]
2009 - Photography in the Abstract, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2009 - The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York [curated by Douglas Eklund] [catalogue]
2009 - Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York
2009 - Werken, Fragmenten van een Collectie, STUK Kunstcentrum, Leuven, Belgium
2008 - 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [catalogue]
2008 - Anthony Hernandez, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California [curated by James Welling]
2008 - Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of
2008 - Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California [catalogue]
2008 - Espèces d’éspace, Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France [catalogue]
2008 - The Eternal Network, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
2008 - The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, New York
2008 - Group Show, 1301PE, Los Angeles, California
2008 - Implant, UBS Art Gallery, New York, New York
2008 - Implant Redux, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, New York
2008 - Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary
2008 - Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2008 - Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2008 - Kavalierstart, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2008 - Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los
2008 - Angeles, California [curated by Karin Higa]
2008 - No Room, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2008 - Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
2008 - Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
2008 - Pictures: Gerhard Richter, Andreas Slominski, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Welling, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008 - Renaissance, Ferragamo USA, New York, New York
2008 - Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE, St. Nazaire, France [itinerary: Museion, Bolzano, Italy;
2008 - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain] [catalogue]
2008 - Stephen Prina, James Welling, B. Wurtz, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
2008 - Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York
2008 - When It’s a Photograph, Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
2008 - The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York, New York
2007 - 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
2007 - Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones, Orchard, New York, New York
2007 - Concrete Works, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, New York
2007 - Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal [catalogue]
2007 - Elusive Subjects, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 - End(s) of Photography: Modeling the Photographic, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown
2007 - State University, Youngstown, Ohio
2007 - Global Anxieties, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
2007 - L.A. Desire, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007 - Method, Ellen Curlee Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
2007 - Paint It Blue: ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst,
2007 - Bremen, Germany [catalogue]
2007 - Private/Public, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [catalogue]
2007 - Real Life, Artists Space, New York, New York
2007 - Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, New York
2007 - Les Temps Modernes: Collection du Frac Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France
2007 - Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington [catalogue]
2007 - Wako Works of Art: 15 Years, Part I, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2006 - The 80s: A Topology, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal [catalogue]
2006 - 666: An Exhibition Organized by Jan Tumlir, University of Southern California Roski School of
2006 - Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
2006 - Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California [catalogue]
2006 - Double Exposure, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
2006 - The Gold Standard, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2006 - In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art at
2006 - Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
2006 - It’s Not A Photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York
2006 - The Los Angeles Art Scene: 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France [catalogue]
2006 - The Materialization Of Sensibility: Art And Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New
2006 - York, New York
2006 - The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California [curated by Slater Bradley]
2006 - Mystique de la Couleur, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
2006 - Our Town: Architecture in Art, Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, New York
2006 - Sixteen Tons: UCLA Department of Art Faculty, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, University of
2006 - California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California [catalogue]
2006 - Studio City, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel [itinerary: Pescali & Sprovieri, London, England]
2006 - TomorrowLand: CalArts in Moving Pictures, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York [itinerary: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France]
2006 - Verde, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 - William Eggleston, James Welling, Stephen Wilks, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2005 - Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2005 - Early Work, David Zwirner, New York, New York
2005 - Enchanté Château, Château d’Arenthon, Alex, France
2005 - Intuition Box, Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C.
2005 - L’Invention du Paysage, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Franche-Comté, Musée des Beaux-
2005 - Arts de Lons-le-Saunier, Lons-le-Saunier, France
2005 - Paper, Groups and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York
2005 - The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, New York
2005 - Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
2005 - Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2005 - Theorema: Une collection privée en Italie, la collection d’Enea Righi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
2004 - 100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York, New York [itinerary: Jewish
2004 - Museum, San Francisco, California; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California;
2004 - Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia] [catalogue]
2004 - Art History: Photography References Painting, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York
2004 - Bell, Book, and Candle, Hayworth, Los Angeles, California
2004 - The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [catalogue]
2004 - Double Exposure: A Portfolio of Photographic Diptychs, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004 - D’une image qui ne serait pas du semblant, La photographie écrite. 1950-2005, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
2004 - Éblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France [catalogue]
2004 - In America: William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, James Welling, Sutton Lane, London, England
2004 - Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California and
2004 - Independent Curators International, New York, New York [itinerary: McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston,
2004 - Massachusetts; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;
2004 - University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach,
2004 - California; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta,
2004 - Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia] [catalogue]
2004 - Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2004 - Spread in Prato, Prato, Italy
2003 - Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, New York
2003 - Artists’ Gifts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2003 - Double Exposure, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2003 - Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York, New York
2003 - Imaging the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, New York
2003 - Imprimés: Stéphane Couturier, Philippe De Gobert, Matthias Hoch, Bernard Vïota, James Welling, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
I2003 - naugural Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
2003 - The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
2003 - Minnesota [itinerary: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Museo de Arte
2003 - Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland] [catalogue]
2003 - Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2003 - Print Publishers Spotlight: Edition Schellmann, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 - Rethinking Photography/Narration and Reduction in Photography, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2003 - Rethinking Photography III. Die Relativierung des Objektbezuges in der zeitgenössischen
2003 - Fotografie, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
2002 - Acquiring Taste, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut [catalogue]
2002 - Art Downtown: New Photography, Wall Street Rising, New York, New York
2002 - Back Grounds: Impressions photographiques, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France [itinerary:
2002 - Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, New York]
2002 - Ballpoint Inkings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
2002 - Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York, New York [brochure published in 2003]
2002 - Fold: Drapery in Contemporary Visual Culture, City Gallery, Leicester, England [catalogue]
2002 - Fotografie, Landschaften, Towntown, Abstractions, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
2002 - Hot and New in 2002: A Print and Photography Exhibition and Sale, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2002 - New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County
2002 - Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2002 - Painting Matter, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
2002 - Photography by Gallery Artists, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002 - Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [itinerary: Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Visual Arts, Montréal, Quebec, Canada]
2002 - Remarks On Color, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
2002 - Transform the World 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002 - Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [catalogue]
2001 - As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [curated by Philip
2001 - Armstrong, Laura Lisbon, and Stephen Melville] [catalogue]
2001 - At Home, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York [curated by Stephanie Theodore]
2001 - Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York [curated by Julie Baranes]
2001 - Interim Art, Maureen Paley, London, England
2001 - Kaye Donachie, Maureen Gallace & James Welling, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, England
2001 - Nature in Photography, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
2001 - Next Wave Prints, Elias Fine Art, Allston, Massachusetts
2001 - this is [not] a photograph, University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California [itinerary: Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; DePaul
2001 - University, Chicago, Illinois; Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania] [catalogue]
2001 - This Side of Paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2001 - W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dôle, France [curated by Robert Nickas] [catalogue]
2000 - Black & White, Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York, New York
2000 - A Changing Summer Group Exhibition, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, New York
2000 - Light-heeled, Light-Handed: Edward Ruscha, Julius Schulman, James Welling, Kölnischer
2000 - Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany [curated by Lynne Cooke]
2000 - Los Angeles, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
2000 - Maison, Portraits Singuliers, Galerie du Petit Château, Sceaux, France
2000 - Photo Art Photo, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, New York
1999 - Gallery Artists, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York
1999 - Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenössisches Kunst Zeit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
1999 - Los Angeles, Sabine Kunst Maximilian Verlag & Philomene Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
1999 - Multiplicity, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1999 - Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York
1999 - Plain Air, Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York
1999 - Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, Iowa
1999 - Schöpfung, Diözesanmuseum, Munich, Germany [catalogue]
1999 - Sequences, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
1999 - Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
1999 - Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
1998 - Art that Happens to be Photography, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1998 - The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York
1998 - Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture & Film, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California [catalogue]
1998 - Exterminating Angel, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1998 - From the Heart: The Power of Photograph: A Collector’s Choice, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1998 - L’Hypothèse du Tableau Volé, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
1998 - Launch of the New Evergreen Review, 644 Broadway, New York, New York
1998 - Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
1998 - Nouvelles Acquisitions, 97, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
1998 - Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative Photography,
1998 - University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona [itinerary: International Center of Photography, New York, New York] [catalogue]
1998 - Sequences, Edition Schellmann, New York, New York [catalogue]
1998 - Stare, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
1998 - TransFiction 1, Galerie Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria
1998 - Utz: A Collected Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York
1997 - 10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland [catalogue]
1997 - About Painting: Eggleston, Gerber, Gursky, Kalpakjian, Polidori, Welling, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
1997 - Bring your own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [CD catalogue]
1997 - Contemporary Collections ‘97, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, California
1997 - Density or the Unimaginable Museum/Discontinuity/Synchrony/Presence, Domaine de
1997 - Kerguéhennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France [curated by Denys Zacharopoulos]
1997 - Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1997 - Heaven, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
1997 - Kunst…Arbeit: Aus der Sammlung Sudwest LB, Südwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart, Germany [catalogue]
1997 - Photographie d’une collection, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignements, Paris, France [catalogue]
1997 - Someone else with my fingerprints, David Zwirner, New York, New York
1997 - Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [catalogue]
1997 - Track Records, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada [itinerary: Canadian Museum of
1997 - Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Presentation House Gallery, North
1997 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art,
1997 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Centre Culturel l’Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke,
1997 - Quebec, Canada; Centre d’Exposition de Drummondville, Drummondville, Quebec, Canada] [catalogue]
1997 - Utz, A Collected Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York
1996 - 100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, New York
1996 - Ab Fab, Feature Inc., New York, New York
1996 - Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, New York
1996 - Changing Summer Group Show, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1996 - Deep Surface, Pace Wildenstein MacGill, Los Angeles, California
1996 - Evident: New Landscape Photography, Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
1996 - Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA’s Permanent Collection, 1975-96, Museum of
1996 - Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
1996 - Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Rudolf Stingel, James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1996 - Muse [x] Editions: Recent Publications, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1996 - Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfürter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus und Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany [curated by Peter Weiermair] [catalogue]
1996 - Swag & Puddle, The Work Space, New York, New York [curated by Mary Jones and Janice Krasnow]
1995 - Abstract Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1995 - After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, Washington [catalogue]
1995 - Blind Spot, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1995 - Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
1995 - Boston, Massachusetts
1995 - Drawings and Photographs, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 - Fact and Fiction: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum at Champion,
1995 - Stamford, Connecticut
1995 - New Acquisitions: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Multiples, Art Metropole, Toronto,
1995 - Ontario, Canada
1995 - The Reflected Image, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy [curated by Antonella Soldaini and Paolo Colombo] [catalogue]
1995 - Romantico Contemporaneo, Castello di Bentivoglio, Bologna, Italy
1995 - Strung into the Apollonian Dream, Feature Inc., New York, New York
1995 - Summer Group Exhibition, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, New York
1995 - Uta Barth, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, James Welling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1994 - The Abstract Urge: Recent Photographs Beyond Description, Ansel Adams Center for
1994 - Photography, San Francisco, California [curated by Andy Grundberg] [catalogue]
1994 - L’Amour Toujours, Le Carré, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France
1994 - Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California [catalogue]
1994 - David Deutsch, Douglas Blau, James Welling, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1994 - Experimental Vision: The Evolution of the Photogram since 1919, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado [catalogue]
1994 - G7, Theoretical Event, Naples, Italy
1994 - Gaylen Gerber, Angela Grauerholz, James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie
1994 - Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
1994 - Géométries, Galerie du TNB, Rennes, France
1994 - Pictures of the Real World: In Real Time, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York [curated by Robert Nickas and On Kawara] [itinerary: L’Usine, Dijon, France] [catalogue]
1994 - Transport, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia [curated by Helen Miranda Wilson] [catalogue]
1994 - Werkstattquartier, Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria
1994 - The World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, California
1993 - Group Show, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France
1993 - Group Show, Galleri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway
1993 - Group Show, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1993 - Image First: Eight Photographers for the ‘90s, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993 - Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rosemarie Trockel, James Welling, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
1993 - October Portfolio One, Metro Pictures, New York, New York
1993 - Oeuvres du Patrimoine Contemporain Régional, L’Usine, Dijon, France
1993 - Nettverk, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway [catalogue]
1993 - The Sublime Void, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Antwerp, Belgium [catalogue]
1992 - Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany [catalogue]
1992 - Rodney Graham, Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, New York
1992 - Une seconde pensée du paysage, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France
1992 - Skulpturen-Fragmente, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria [catalogue]
1992 - Specs/Photography Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York
1992 - Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1992 - Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1992 - Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
1992 - Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1991 - Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, James Welling, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1991 - Fariba Hajamadi, Hirsch Perlman, James Welling, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991 - La revanche de l’image, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
1991 - Les Grandes Lignes, Gare de l’Est, Paris, France [catalogue]
1991 - Group Show, Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France
1991 - Photographing L.A. Architecture, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1991 - Photography 1980-1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, Colorado and Aspen, Colorado
1991 - Vom Verschwinden der Dingle aus der Fotografie, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria [curated by Monica Faber] [catalogue]
1990 - Figures et Lectures, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
1990 - Group Show, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
1990 - The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York, New York
1990 - Le Diaphane, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France [curated by Denys Zacharopoulos] [catalogue]
1990 - Perspectives on Place, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, California
1990 - Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris, France [curated by Régis Durand]
1989 - Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New
1989 - York [itinerary: Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia]
1989 - Attitudes Photographiques Dans les Collections du Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord
1989 - Pas-de-Calais, College D’Annoellin, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
1989 - Diagrams & Surrogates, Shea & Baker Gallery, New York, New York [catalogue]
1989 - A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California [catalogue]
1989 - Group Show, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1989 - International Camera, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
1989 - Materiality, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York [curated by James Welling]
1989 - Pathetique, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
1989 - Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York [catalogue]
1989 - Troy Brauntuch, Matt Mullican, James Welling, Kent Fine Art, New York, New York
1989 - Une autre Affaire, Maison Fyot, Le Consortium, Dijon, France[itinerary: Centre National des Arts Plastiques
1989 - Frac de Bourgogne, Dijon, France]
1989 - Galerie Matteo Remolino, Turin, Italy
1988 - Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden [curated by Tricia
1988 - Collins and Richard Milazzo] [catalogue]
1988 - Bi National: American Art of the Late 80s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts [itinerary: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany] [catalogue]
1988 - Das Licht von der Anderen Seite, Teil II Fotografie, Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne, Germany[itinerary: PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany]
1988 - Group Show, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1988 - Group Show, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York
1988 - Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence
1988 - Museum, New York, New York [curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo]
1988 - Photography and Abstraction, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, New York [catalogue published in 1989]
1988 - Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1988 - Schlaf der Vernunft, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany [catalogue]
1988 - Selected, Feature, Chicago, Illinois
1988 - Utopia Post-Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography,
1988 - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts [catalogue]
1988 - A Visible Order: Contemporary Still Life Photography, Otis/Parsons Exhibition Center, Los Angeles, California
1987 - Art Against AIDS, Baskerville & Watson, New York, New York
1987 - Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [catalogue]
1987 - Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Prince, James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie
1987 - Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
1987 - Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs, International Center of
1987 - Photography, New York, New York
1987 - Fariba Hajamadi, Gerhard Merz, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, New York
1987 - Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York, New York
1987 - Implosion, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden [catalogue]
1987 - The Ironic Sublime, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
1987 - Lemieux, Kruger, Nagy, Welling, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York
1987 - Malerei-Wandmalerei, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria [catalogue]
1987 - New Locations, Jamie Wolff, New York, New York [catalogue]
1987 - New Photography, Feature, Chicago, Illinois
1987 - New Work, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, California
1987 - Nuovi territory dell’arte, Europe/America, Fondazione Michetti, Milan, Italy
1987 - Photo Mannerisms, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987 - Photography and Art: Interactions since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California [catalogue]
1987 - Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York [catalogue]
1987 - Sex, Death, & Jello, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1986 - Barbara Ess, Ian Wallace, James Welling, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
1986 - Group Show, Cash/Newhouse, New York, New York
1986 - Paravision, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 - Particulars, Baskerville & Watson, New York, New York
1986 - Picture Perfect, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, California
1986 - Poetic Resemblance, Hallwalls, New York, New York
1986 - Poetic Resemblance, Lougelton Gallery, New York, New York
1986 - Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 - Vikky Alexander, Annette Lemieux, Allan McCollum, James Welling, Cash/Newhouse, New York, New York
1986 - A Visible Order, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, New York
1985 - Blow-Up, Feature, Chicago, Illinois
1985 - Final Love, Cash/Newhouse, New York, New York
1985 - JAA Benefit, Cash/Newhouse, New York, New York
1985 - Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, James Welling, Metro Pictures, New York, New York
1985 - P, 303 Gallery, New York, New York
1985 - Seduction: Working Photographs, White Columns, New York, New York
1985 - A Summer Selection, Castelli Uptown, New York, New York
1985 - Weird Beauty, The Palladium, New York, New York
1985 - Xerox: States of Art, Todd’s Copy, New York, New York
1984 - Ailleurs et Autrement, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France [catalogue]
1984 - Artists’ Call, Metro Pictures, New York, New York
1984 - Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent, Nature Morte, New York, New York
1984 - Group Show, Cash Gallery, New York, New York
1984 - Natural Genre, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida [catalogue]
1984 - Still Life in Photography, Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [catalogue]
1983 - Artificial Miracles, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1983 - In Plato’s Cave, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York [catalogue]
1982 - Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California [catalogue]
1982 - Love is Blind, Castelli Photographs, New York, New York
1982 - Natural History, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York [catalogue]
1982 - On Location, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1982 - Photograph, Metro Pictures, New York, New York
1982 - Pictures and Promises, The Kitchen, New York, New York
1982 - Trouble in Paradise, A+M Artworks, New York, New York
1982 - Wiener Internationale Biennale: Erweiterte Fotografie 5, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
1982 - Worlds Apart, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont
1981 - Love is Blind, Castelli Photographs, New York, New York
1980 - Likely Stories: an exhibition of narrative works, Castelli Graphics, New York, New York
1980 - Pictures in New York Today, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy [catalogue]
1979 - Imitation of Life, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut
1979 - Opening Group Exhibition, Metro Pictures, New York, New York [with Brauntuch, Goldstein,
1979 - Lawson, Levine, Longo, Prince, Sherman, Simmons, Zwack]
1979 - Remembrances for Tomorrow, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland [exchange exhibition with Artists Space]
1978 - Beyond the Photograph, Cultural Arts Center, Sylmar, California
1978 - The New West, The Kitchen, New York, New York
1976 - Evening of Works, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1976 - Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California [catalogue]
1975 - Indian Summer, Project Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
1974 - MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valenica, California
1974 - Performances – Matt Mullican, Ilene Segalove, David Salle, James Welling, Welling-Salle Studio, Venice, California
1972 - Newick, Osher, Welling, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1972 - Videoworks from the California Institute of the Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1971 - Newick, Osher, Welling, Woodlawn Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1971 -Second Annual Carnegie-Mellon Film Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1969 - Scholastic Magazine’s 42nd National High School Art Exhibition, Climax of the 1969 Scholastic
1969 - Art Awards Program, union Carbide Exhibition Hall, New York, New York