James Welling
Exhibitions at WAKO:
» 2017.09 (solo)
» 2015.06
» 2012.01 (solo)
» 2011.02
» 2009.02 (solo)
» 2008.12
» 2007.10
» 2006.07
» 2006.01 (solo)
» 2004.04 (solo)
» 2003.06
» 2002.07
» 2002.01
» 1999.09 (solo)
» 1995.04 (solo)
» 1993.10 (solo)
Born in 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
[photo: Jane Weinstock]
Education:
- 1969-71
- Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1971-74
- California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA; BFA, MFA
- 2018
- ”James Welling: Choreograph" Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid (ES)
- 2017
- "New Work" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"James Welling: Seascape" David Zwirner, New York (US)
"Metamorph" LOGIN, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AU)
"Chronology" Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (FR)
"Metamorphosis" Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent (BE) [ travels to Kunstforum Wien, Vienna] - 2016
- "Choreograph" Regen Projects, Los Angeles (US)
"Chronograph" Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (US) - 2015
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"Choreograph" David Zwirner, New York (US)
"Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs" Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (US)
- 2014
- "Diary of Elizabeth & James Dixon/Connecticut Landscapes" Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
- 2013
- "The Mind On Fire" Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
"Monograph", Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (US), (cat.)
"Open Space", University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (US) - 2012
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"Overflow" David Zwirner, New York (US)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (US)
"Geometric Abstraction" Regen Projects, Los Angeles (US)
"The Mind on Fire" MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England (UK)
"Wyeth" Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut (US) (cat.)
"Wyeth" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP), (cat.) - 2011
- Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid (ES)
Maureen Paley, London (UK) - 2010
- "Glass House" David Zwirner, Inc., New York, NY (US)
"Glass House" Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US)
”New Pictures 3: James Welling, Glass House" Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota (US) - 2009
- "Notes on Color" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"James Welling: Hapax Legomena" Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris (FR) - 2008
- Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AT)
"Works 1980 – 2008" David Zwirner, New York, NY (US) - 2007
- "James Welling: Flowers" Maureen Paley, London (UK)
David Zwirner, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"James Welling: Flowers, 2005" Horticultural Society of New York, New York, NY (US) - 2006
- "Agricultural Works: Photographs by James Welling and Music by Will Welling" The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (US)
"James Welling" Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
"James Welling" Galerie Nelson, Paris (FR)
"James Welling" Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (BE)
"James Welling: New Photographs" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JA) - 2005
- "James Welling: New Work" David Zwirner, New York, NY (US)
"James Welling: New Photographs" Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US) - 2004
- "New Photographs" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JA)
"Agricultural Work" Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY; Albany Institute of Art and History, Albany, NY (US), (cat.) - 2003
- "James Welling: Los Angeles" Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (US)
"James Welling: New Photographs" Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"James Welling" Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (IT)
"California" Galerie Nächst St. Stephan / Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AT) - 2002
- "James Welling Abstract" Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (CA); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (BE), (cat.)
"James Welling Abstract" Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (US) - 2001
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (DE)
- 2000
- "New Abstractions and Photographs from the Seventies" Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (BE)
"New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies" Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
"James Welling: 1974-1999" Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (US), (cat.)
"New Abstractions" Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Galerie Nelson, Paris (FR)
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (US) - 1999
- "New Abstractions" Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
"Photographs 1981-98" Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO (US)
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich (DE)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP) - 1998
- "1981" Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (BE)
"Light Sources" Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (CH), (cat.)
Galerie Nelson, Paris (FR)
"Forum: James Welling" Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
"Early photographs 1976-1985" Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY (US) - 1997
- "Eastern Window" Haus Editions, Antwerp (BE)
"Light Sources" Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
"Light Sources" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterda (NL)
"Light Sources" Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (BE)
"Light Sources" S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto (CA) - 1996
- "Calais Lace Factories" Camden Arts Center, London (UK)
- 1995
- Whitney Center, Hamden, CT (US)
Jürgen Becker, Hamburg (DE)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"The Ugly America" American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY (US)
Módulo / Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon (PT)
Project room, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US) - 1994
- Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Photographs from the 90’s" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (NL)
"Wolfsburg" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE), (cat.)
"James Welling: Photographs from the 90’s" Galerie Nelson, Paris (FR)
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (AT)
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US), (cat.) - 1993
- Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (BE)
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto (CA)
"Calais Lace Factories" Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
"Usines de Dentelle" Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Calais (FR), (cat.)
Jack Hanley Gallery (with Rodney Graham), San Francisco, CA (US)
Galeri F15 Alby (with Mikael Levin), Moss (NO) - 1992
- Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris (FR)
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA (US)
Musée de la Roche sur Yon, La Roche sur Yon (FR)
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Limoges (FR), (cat.) Künstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO), (cat.)
"The Gangplank" Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, NY (US) - 1991
- Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
- 1990
- Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris (FR)
"Les Voies Ferrées / St. Etienne et la Plaine du Forez" Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne (FR), (cat.)
"Sous-Sol" Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel, Geneva (CH), (cat.) - 1989
- Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
"Photography and Abstraction" The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/ Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AT), (cat.) - 1988
- Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon (FR)
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
Johnen & Schüttle, Cologne (DE)
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY (US) - 1987
- Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris (FR)
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Feature, Chicago, IL (US) - 1986
- Cash/Newhouse, New York, NY (US)
- 1985
- Cash/Newhouse, New York, NY (US)
- 1984
- CEPA, Buffalo, NY (US)
- 1983
- "Artificial Miracles" Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, B.C. (CA)
- 1982
- Metro Pictures, New York, NY (US)
- 1981
- Metro Pictures, New York, NY (US)
- 1976
- Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA (US)
- 1974
- "MFA Thesis Exhibition" Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (US)
- 1973
- Project, INC, Cambridge, MA (US)
- 2018
- ”Materials and objects: James Welling and Zoe Leonard" Tate Modern, London (UK)
"By the Sea" MARUQUEE PROJECTS, Bellport, NewYork (US)
"David Zwirner: 25 Years" David Zwirner, New York (US), (cat.)
"Jack Goldstein: Under Water Sea Fantasy, 1301PE" Los Angeles (US)
"Résonance-Part2" FRAC Normandie Rouen, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen (FR)
"Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art" Tate Modern, London (UK)
"Une collection de photographies" Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (BE) - 2017
- "2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial: MAKE NEW HISTORY" Chicago (US)
"The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin" Jewish Museum, New York (US)
"Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (US) - 2016
- "65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts" David Zwirner, NewYork (US)
"A Change of Heart" Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angels (US)
EXTRA #20: Apparaat. Texts by Tamara Berghmans, Kenneth Goldsmith, Inge Henneman, Andrew Lugg et al. Fotomuseum Provincoe Antwerpen, Antwerp and Fw:Books, Amsterdam (NL)
“Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment" Elizabeth Dee, New York (US) A History of Photography: Selection from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas (US)
"A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age" George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York (US)
"The Sun Placed in the Abyss" Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (US), (cat.)
"L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (US) "De toi à la surface" FRAC – Ile-de-France – Le Plateau, Paris (FR)
“Pandora’s Box” - Another photography by Jan Dibbets, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR)
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)
“Cámara de Maravillas/Camera of Wonders” Museo de Arte Moderna de Medellín (CO) [travels to Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro]
“In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT (US) - 2015
- “Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) (cat.)
“Cámara de Maravillas” Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City (MX)
“Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (US)
“The Secret Life” Murray Guy, New York (US)
“The Human Apparatus” Klemm’s, Berlin (DE)
“Gallery Selections” Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
“Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography” The Getty Center, Los Angeles (US)
“MetaModern (travelling)” Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Illinois (US)
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona , Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida (US)
”The Noing Uv It” Bergen Kunsthall, Bergan (NO), (cat.) - 2014
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“Fiona Banner selects from the V-A-C Collection Stamp Out Photographie, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
“Another, Once Again, Many Times More Martos, New York, USA Back grounds: Impressions Photographiques (2)” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (US)
“Staring at the Sun” Griffin Editions, Blind Spot Lab, New York (US)
“What is a Photograph?” International Center of Photography, New York. (US), (cat.)
“The Will to Architecture” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston(US) - 2013
- "The Black Mirror" Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles [curated by James Welling], (US)
"The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation" Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (US), (cat.)
"WAKO WORKS OF ART: Gallery Selections at TOLOT" TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo (JP) - 2012
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"This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA (US)
"Le Frac S'invite Au Consortium" FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (FR)
"This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (US)
"Zauberspiegel: Die Sammlung nach 1945" Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen (DE)
"The Permanent Way" Apexart, New York City, NY (US)
"Fotografie Total" Werke Aus Der Sammlung Des Mmk Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main (DE)
"New Photography In Palma" Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca (IT)
"Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (AL)
"Loughelton Revisited" Winkleman Gallery, New York City, NY (US) "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL (US)
"A New Vision: Modernist Photography" Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (UK)
"01 Collection: Route 3" CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CAProject, INC, Cambridge, MA (US) - 2011
- "New Space, New Works" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"25 Years/25 Artists" Julie Saul Gallery, New York (US)
"Anti-Photography" Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex (UK)
"Fabric is Form" Tilton Gallery, New York
"Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path" [traveling] Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (BE); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
"Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs" Morgan Library & Museum, New York (US)
"Process(ing)" Galerie Perrotin, Paris (FR)
"Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960" Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (US)
"Stuff: Still Life Photography" curated by Vince Aletti, Paddle8.com
"Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic." Murray Guy, New York (US) - 2010
- "Flow (at Ambiguous Gallery)" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Milk Drop Coronet - 30 Ausstellungen zur Virtuosität des Dinglichen" Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
"Contemporary Works from the Monsen Family Collection" Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (US)
"Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That)" Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Stairway to Heaven" Susan Inglett Gallery, New York City, NY (US)
"Group Show" BravinLee programs, New York City, NY (US)
"Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010" Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"To A Degree, Rational" galleria gentili, Prato (IT)
"In a Paperweight" Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
"25 OR 30 YEARS GALLERY: PART III photography" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (NL)
"After Architects" Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH)
"Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" Leo Koenig Inc., New York City, NY (US)
"How Many Billboards? Art In Stead" MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, CA (US)
"STATE OF MIND - A California Invitational" The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA (US)
"101 Collection: Route 1 - R for Replicant" CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (US)
"Connecticut" D´Amelio Terras, New York City, NY (US)
"Group Show" BravinLee programs, New York City, NY (US) - 2009
- "Picturing the Studio" School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US)
"Werken, Fragmenten Van Een Collectie" Stuk Kunstcentrum, Leuven (BE)
"The Chef’s Theory" Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"SONIC YOUTH etc.: Sensational Fix" (touring) Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf (DE); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (SE); CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles (ES)
"La pintura y sus alrededores. En torno a la Galería Nächst St. Stephan de Viena" Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza (ES)
"FLOWER POWER" Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania (IT)
"QuodlibetII" Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (DE)
"Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography" FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY (US)
"The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY (US)
"The Garden at 4 AM" Gana Art New York , New York City, NY (US)
"Photography in the Abstract" Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX (US) - 2008
- "Pictures" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Wako Works of Art: 15 Years - Part IV" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960" Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US)
Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
"Renaissance" Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY (US) - 2007
- "The End(s) of Photography: Modeling the Photographic" McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH (US)
"Les Temps Modernes: Collection du Frac Bretagne" Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan (FR)
"Global Anxieties The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH (US)
"REALLIFE 1979-1990" Artist's Space, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Foundation" Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra (PT)
"Wako Works of Art: 15 Years - Part 1" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP) - 2006
- "The Gold Standard" P.S.1, Long Island City, NY (US)
"Shifting Terrain - Contemporary Landscape Photography" The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (US)
"Double Exposure Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art" Brussels (BE)
"In Sight: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection" The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (US)
"Studio City - Contemporary Photography from Los Angeles" Curated by Efrat Shalem, Pescali & Sprovieri, London (UK); Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
"A la (re)découverte des collections photographiques du Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon" Musée municipal d'art de la Roche sur Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon (FR)
"Dark Places" Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"The Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR), (cat.)
"The 80's: A Topology of Sense" Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporãnea, Porto (PT), (cat.)
"Sixteen Tons" The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"The Monty Hall Problem" Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"It’s Not A Photo" Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY (US)
"Our Town: Architecture in Art" Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, NY (US)
"Verde" Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto (CA)
"TomorrowLand: CalArts in Moving Pictures" Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US); Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
"666: An Exhibition Organized by Jan Tumlir" USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"William Eggleston – James Welling – Stephen Wilks" Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (BE)
"In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography" Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA (US) - 2005
- "Photographies" Galerie Nelson, Paris (FR)
"The Photograph in Question" von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Theorema. Une collection privée en Italie, la collection d’Enea Righi" Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon (FR)
"Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking" Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (US)
"Recent Acquisitions" The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Early Work" David Zwirner, New York, NY (US) - 2004
- "In America; William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, James Welling" Sutton Lane, London (UK)
"Eblouissement" Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
"100 Artists See God" Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston for Independent Curators International, NY; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (US); Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (US); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA (US); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (UK); Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (US); Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (US), (cat.) [Traveled until 2006]
"The Big Nothing" Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (US)
"Art History: Photography References Painting" Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Out of Place" Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (DE)
"Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists" Curated by Matthew Higgs, Kevin Killian, David Robbins. Co-organized by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA and ICI (Independent Curators International), New York, NY; California College of Arts, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA (US); McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC (US); ICA Boston, MA (US); Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (CA); University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, CA (US); Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta (CA); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA (US), (cat.) [Traveled until 2006]
"Bell Book and Candle" Curated by Nancy De Holl, Hayworth Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Double Exposure: A Portfolio of Photographic Diptychs" Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (US)
"Spread in Prato" Prato (IT) - 2003
- "The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (US); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US); Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo (ES); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
"Prima Facie" Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (US)
"Auction for Photographic Education in Afghanistan" Christie's, New York, NY (US)
"Double Exposure" Edition Schellmann, New York, NY (US)
"Inaugural Exhibition" Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Imprimés: Stéphane Couturier - Philippe De Gobert - Matthias Hoch - Bernard Voïta – JamesWelling" Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (BE)
"Imaging the Abstract" Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY (US)
"Abstraction in Photography" Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Rethinking Photography/Narration and Reduction in Photography" Forum Stadpark, Graz (AT)
"Artist’s Gifts" MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (US) - 2002
- "Art Downtown: New Photography Wall St Rising" New York, NY (US)
"Remarks On Color" Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Back Grounds – Impressions" Galerie Nelson, Paris (US); Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Regarding Landscape" Curated by Gregory Salzman, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (CA) Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Visual Arts, Montreal (CA)
"New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections" LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Fold, Drapery in Contemporary Visual Culture" City Gallery, Leicester, England (UK)
"Visions from America, Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
"Painting Matter" James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Hot and New in 2002: A Print and Photography Exhibition and Sale" Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (US)
"Photography by Gallery Artists" Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
"Acquiring Taste" Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (US)
"Fotografie, Landschaften, Towntown, Abstractions" Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (DE)
"Ballpoint Inkings" Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (US)
"Transform the World 2002" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP) - 2001
- "This is not a photograph" University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego,La Jolla, CA; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; DePaul University, Chicago, IL; Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA (US)
"Nature in Photography" Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AT)
"Ellipsis" Curated by Julie Baranes, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY (US)
"This Side of Paradise" Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"W" Curated by Robert Nickas, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole (FR)
"At Home" Curated by Stephanie Theodore, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY (US)
"Kaye Donarchie, Maureen Gallace & James Welling" Maureen Paley Interim Art, London (UK)
"Next Wave Prints" Elias Fine Art, Allston, MA (US)
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK - 2000
- "As Painting: Division and Displacement" Curated by Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon and Stephen MelvilleWexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (US), (cat.)
"Black & White" Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York, NY (US)
"Photo Art Photo" Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Light-heeled, light-handed: Edward Ruscha, Julius Schulman, James Welling" Curated by Lynne Cooke, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (DE)
"Los Angeles" Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, Cologne (DE)
"A Changing Summer Group Exhibition" Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Sharon Lockhart / James Welling" Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Maisons, Portraits Singuliers" Galerie du Petit Château, Sceaux (FR)
"Mises en jeu" FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (FR)
"Mixing Memory and Desire" Neues Kunstmuseum, Lucerne (CH) - 1999
- "Re-Structure" Grinnell College Art Gallery Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, IO (US)
"Sequences" University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (US)
"Thin Air" Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Plain Air" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue" Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY (US)
"Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenösisches Kunst zeit 1968" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
"Gallery Artists" Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (US)
"Schöpfung" Diösanmuseum, Munich (DE), (cat.)
"Multiplicity" Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US), (cat.)
"Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Welling" Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/ Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AT) - 1998
- "Stare" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Exterminating Angel" Galerie Ghislaine Husenot, Paris (FR)
"Nouvelles acquisitions, 97" Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (FR)
"Art that happens to be photography" Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (US)
"L’Hypothèse du tableau volé" Musée d’art moderne et contemporaine, Geneva (CH)
"Sequences" Edition Schellman, New York, NY (US)
"Launch of the New Evergreen Review" 644 Broadway, New York, NY (US)
"TransFiction 1" Charim Klocker, Vienna (AT)
"The Cultured Tourist" Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY (US)
"Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture & Film" Curated by Steve Wolfe, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (US)
"From the Heart: The Power of Photograph - A Collector’s Choice" Curated by Adam D. Weinberg, Art Museum of Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (US)
"Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography" Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; I.C.P., New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography" Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (US)
"Utz, A Collected Exhibition" Curated by Stephanie Theodore, Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY
"Paul Strand / James Welling" Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AT), (cat.) - 1997
- "Track Records" Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C.; The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta; Centre culturel Universit・de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, P.Q.; Centre d’exposition de Durmmondville, Durmmondville, P.Q. (CA)
"Kunst... Arbeit" Südwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart (DE)
"Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, Selections from the Permanent Collection" The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
"Contemporary Collections 97" Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Surface Auction" MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Heaven" P.S.1, Long Island City, NY (US)
"Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2" Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (US)
"Bring your own Walkman" W139, Amsterdam (NL), (CD cat.)
"Photographie d’une collection" Caisse des Dépòts et Consignements, Paris (FR), (cat.)
"About Painting: Eggleston, Gerber, Gursky, Kalpakjian, Polidori, Welling" Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Density or the unimaginable museum / discontinuity / synchrony / presence" Curated by Denys Zacharopoulos, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan (FR)
"Ausstellung 10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern" Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (CH)
"Someone else with my fingerprints" Curated by Wilhelm Schümann, David Zwirner, New York, NY (US) - 1996
- "Muse [x] Editions: recent publications" Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"100 Photographs" American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY (US)
"Evident: New Landscape Photography" Curated by Andrew Cross, The Photographers' Gallery, London (UK)
"Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA's Permanent Collection, 1975-96" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years" Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY (and benefit auction at Christie’s) (US)
"Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Rudolf Stingel, James Welling" Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Deep Surface" Pace Wildenstein McGill, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Ab Fab" Feature, Inc., New York, NY (US)
"Swag & Puddle" Curated by Mary Jones & Janice Krasnow, The Work Space, New York, NY (US)
"Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst" Curated by Peter Weiermair, Frankfürter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (DE), (cat.) - 1995
- "Drawings and Photographs" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (NL)
"Uta Barth, Candida Hofer, Andreas Gursky, James Welling" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (US)
"New Acquisitions: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Multiples" Art Metropole, Toronto (CA)
"Summer Group Exhibition" American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY (US)
"The Reflected Image" Curated by Antonella Soldaini & Paolo Colombo, Museo Pecci, Prato (IT), (cat.)
"After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography" Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA (US), (cat.)
"Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (US)
"Romantico Contemporaneo" Castello di Beutivaglio, Bologna (IT)
"Fact and Fiction: Photographs from the Permanent Collection" Whitney Museum at Champion, Stanford, CT (US)
"Abstract Photography" Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (US)
"Blind Spot" McKinney Arts Center, Dallas, TX (US)
"Strung into the Apollonian Dream" Feature Gallery, New York, NY (US) - 1994
- "Géométries" Galerie du TNB, Rennes (FR)
"L’Amour Toujours" Le Carré/ Musée Bonnat, Bayonne (FR)
"Transport" Curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA (US), (cat.)
"G7" Theoretical Event, Naples (IT)
"Werkstattquartier" Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna (AT)
"David Deutsch, Douglas Blau, James Welling" Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
"Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography" Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA (US), (cat.)
"The Abstract Urge" Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA (US), (cat.)
"The Evolution of the Photogram since 1919" The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (US), (cat.)
"Experimental Vision" The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (US), (cat.)
"Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time)" Co-organized by Robert Nickas and On Kawara, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (US); L’Usine, Dijon (FR), (cat.)
"The World of Tomorrow" Curated by Douglas Blau, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Gaylen Gerber, Angela Grauerholz, James Welling" Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna (AT) - 1993
- "Nettverk" Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO), (cat.)
"The Sublime Void" Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE), (cat.)
"Oeuvres du Patrimoine Contemporain Régional, L’Usine" Dijon (FR)
"Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rosemarie Trockel, James Welling" Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris (FR)
"Image First: Eight Photographers for the 90’s" Laura Carpenter Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (US)
"October Portfolio One" Metro Pictures, New York, NY (US)
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais (FR) - 1992
- Documenta IX, Kassel (DE), (cat.)
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Rodney Graham, Sherrie Levine, James Welling" Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Studio Guenzani, Milan (IT)
"Skulpturen-Fragmente" Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT), (cat.)
"Une seconde pensée du paysage" Domaine de Kerguehennec (FR)
Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne (DE) - 1991
- "Les Grandes Lignes" Gare de l’Est, Paris (FR), (cat.)
"Vom Verschwinden der Dingle aus der Fotographie" Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna (AT), (cat.)
"Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, James Welling" Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Photographing L.A. Architecture" Turner / Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Fariba Hajamadi, Hirsch Perlman, James Welling" Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (US)
"Photography 1980 – 1990" Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver and Aspen, CO (US)
Galerie Nelson, Lyon (FR) - 1990
- "The Indomitable Spirit" International Center of Photography, New York, NY (US) Johnen & Schüttle, Cologne (DE)
"Perspectives on Place" San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA (US)
"Le Diaphane" Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing (FR), (cat.)
"Une autre affaire" Centre National des Arts Plastiques DRAC de Bourgogne, Dijon; Maison Fyot, Le Consortium, Dijon (FR)
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (CH), (cat.) - 1989
- "Troy Brauntuch, Matt Mullican, James Welling" Kent Fine Arts, New York, NY (US)
"Abstraction in Contemporary Photography" Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY,; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (US)
Studio Guenzani, Milano (IT)
"Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos" The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"Pathetique" curated by Ronald Jones, Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf (DE)
"International Camera" Salama-Caro Gallery, London (UK)
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA (US)
"A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (US), (cat.)
"Diagrams & Surrogates" Curated by Saul Ostrow, Shea & Baker Gallery, New York, NY (US) - 1988
- "Bi National: American Art of the Late 80’s" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (US); Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (DE), (cat.)
"Hybrid Neutral" Curated by Collins & Milazzo, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence Museum, New York, NY (US)
"Art at the End of the Social" Curated by Collins & Milazzo, Rooseum Museum, Stockholm (SW)
Galerie Lelong, New York, NY (US)
"Schlaf der Vernunft" Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (DE), (cat.)
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
"Utopia Post Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (US), (cat.)
"Implosion" Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SW), (cat.)
"Photography and Art" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (US) - 1987
- "Recent Tendencies in Black and White" Curated by Jerry Saltz, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"Photo Mannerisms" Curated by Klaus Ottman, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (US)
"Malerei-Wandmalerei" Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (AT), (cat.)
"Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Prince, James Welling" Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/ / Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (AT)
"Photography and Art, Interactions since 1946" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (US), (cat.)
"Generations of Geometry" Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York, NY (US)
"The Ironic Sublime" Galerie Albrecht, Munich (DE)
"Art Against AIDS" Baskerville & Watson, New York, NY (US)
"New Locations" Jamie Wolff, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s)" The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (US)
"Fariba Hajamadi, Gerhard Merz, James Welling" Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Lemieux, Kruger, Nagy, Welling" Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"New Photography" Feature, Chicago, IL (US) - 1986
- "Rodney Graham / James Welling" Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (CA)
"Barbara Ess, Ian Wallace, James Welling" Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne (DE)
"Particulars" Baskerville & Watson, New York, NY (US)
"Poetic Resemblance" Lougelton Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Picture Perfect" Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Paravision" Margo Leavin, Los Angeles, CA (US)
"Vikky Alexander, Annette Lemieux, Allan McCollum, James Welling" Cash/Newhouse, New York, NY (US) - 1985
- "JAA Benefit" Cash/Newhouse, New York, NY (US)
"Blow-Up" Feature, Chicago, IL (US)
"Weird Beauty" The Palladium, New York, NY (US)
"Final Love" Cash/Newhouse, New York, NY (US)
"Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, James Welling" Metro Pictures, New York, NY (US)
"A Summer Selection" Castelli Uptown, New York, NY (US)
"P" 303 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Seduction : Working Photographs" White Columns, New York, NY (US) - 1984
- "Ailleurs et Autrement" Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR), (cat.)
"Natural Genre" Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (US), (cat.)
"Still Life in Photography" Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam (NL), (cat.)
Cash Gallery, New York, NY (US) - 1984
- "Allan McCollum / James Welling" Cash/Newhouse, New York, NY (US)
"Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent" Nature Morte, New York, NY (US)
"Artists’ Call" Metro Pictures, New York, NY (US) - 1983
- "In Plato’s Cave" Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"Artificial Miracles" Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, BC (CA) - 1982
- "Trouble in Paradise" A+M Artworks, New York, NY (US)
"Natural History" Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY (US)
"Love is Blind" Castelli Photographs, New York, NY (US)
"Photograph" Metro Pictures, New York, NY (US)
"On Location" Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (US)
"Exhibition" California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (US), (cat.)
"Pictures and Promises" The Kitchen, New York, NY (US)
"Erweitertre Fotografie" Weiner Secession, Vienna (AT) - 1980
- "Opening Group Exhibition" Metro Pictures, New York, NY (US)
"Pictures in New York Today" P.A.C., Milan (IT), (cat.) - 1979
- "Imitation of Life" Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT (US)
- 1978
- "The New West" The Kitchen, New York, NY (US)
- 1976
- "Southland Video Anthology" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (US), (cat.)
"Evening of Works" LAICA, Century City, CA (US) - 1975
- "Indian Summer" Project INC., Cambridge, MA (US)
- 1974
- "MFA Thesis Exhibition" Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA (US)
- 1972
- "Newick, Osher, Welling" Hewlitt Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
City Collection, Geneva
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge
Fondation Belgacom, Brussels
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Bretagne, Châteaugiron
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
KPN Collection, The Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Musée d'Art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, Roche-sur-Yon
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Olympic Collection, Oslo
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven
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