biography - Galleria Raffaella Cortese

GALLERIA RAFFAELLA CORTESE
JAMES WELLING
Born 1951, Hartford, Connecticut. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
EDUCATION
1969-71
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
1971-74
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; BFA, MFA
AWARDS
2014
Infinity Award, International Center of Photography, New York
2009
Best Show in a Commercial Gallery Nationally, AICA USA (International Assosciation of Art
Critics, United States Section) for 2008 exhibition at Regen Projects, Los Angeles
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Choreograph, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2015
Choreograph, David Zwirner, New York
Diary of Elizabeth and James Dixon, 1840-41/Connecticut Landscapes, 1977-86, Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago
Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs, Brandywine River Museum of Art,
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
2014
Diary of Elizabeth and James Dixon, 1840-41/Connecticut Landscapes, 1977-86, Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago
2013
James Welling, Tulsa Art Museum, Tulsa
Monograph, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Autograph, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Open Space, Amherst Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2012
Wyeth, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Wyeth, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Geometric Abstraction, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Overflow, David Zwirner, New York
The Mind on Fire, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea,
Santiago de Compostela; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
2011
Maureen Paley, London
Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid
2010
Glass House, David Zwirner, New York
Glass House, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Glass House, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
2009
Notes on Colour, Wako works of Art, Tokyo
Picturing the Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Maureen Paley, London
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
Hapax Legomena, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2008
James Welling, Works 1980 – 2008, David Zwirner, New York
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
2007
Maureen Paley, London
David Zwirner, New York
Flowers, 2005, Horticultural Society of New York, New York
2006
James Welling: New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Agricultural Works: Photographs by James Welling and Music by Will Welling, Hudson River
Museum, Yonkers
2005
James Welling: New Work, David Zwirner, New York
James Welling: New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2004
New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Agricultural Works, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz
2003
James Welling: Los Angeles, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
James Welling: New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
California, Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
2002
James Welling Abstract, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Palais des BeauxArts, Brussels
James Welling Abstract, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2001
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
2000
New Abstractions and Photographs from the Seventies, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
James Welling: 1974-1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
New Abstractions, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Nelson, Paris
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
1999
New Abstractions, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Photographs 1981-98, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City
Galerie Barbara Gross, Münich
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
1998
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Light Sources, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
Galerie Nelson, Paris
Forum: James Welling, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Early photographs 1976-1985, Leslie Tonkonow, New York
1997
Eastern Window, Haus Editions, Antwerp
Light Sources, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Light Sources, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Light Sources, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Light Sources, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1996
Calais Lace Factories, Camden Arts Center, London
1995
Whitney Center, Hamden
Jürgen Becker, Hamburg
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
The Ugly America, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Módulo / Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon
Project room, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1994
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Photographs from the 90ʼs, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
James Welling: Photographs from the 90ʼs, Galerie Nelson, Paris
Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
1993
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
Calais Lace Factories, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Usines de Dentelle, Galerie de lʼAncienne Poste, Calais
1992
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
Musée Départemental dʼArt Contemporain de Rochechouart, Limoges; Musée de la Roche
sur Yon, La Roche sur Yon
Künstnernes Hus, Oslo
The Gangplank, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York
1991
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1990
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Les Voies Ferrées / St. Etienne et la Plaine du Forez, Maison de la Culture et de la
Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
Sous-Sol, Ecole Supérieure dʼArt Visuel, Geneva
1989
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside
Photography and Abstraction, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College,
New York
Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
1988
Feature Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Johnen & Schüttle, Cologne
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
1987
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Feature, Chicago
1986
Cash/Newhouse, New York
1985
Cash/Newhouse, New York
1984
CEPA, Buffalo
1982
Metro Pictures, New York
1981
Metro Pictures, New York
1976
Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles
1973
Project, INC, Cambridge
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Old
Lyme, CT
2015
Another Minimalism, Art after California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Blind Architecture, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
Cámara de Maravillas/Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City for Foto México
Trees, Fondazione Rolla, Brusella, Switzerland
Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York
L'Ordre caché, saison 1, FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon
Darkroom Alchemists, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center,
Los Angeles
Human Apparatus, Klemmʼs, Berlin
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles [catalogue]
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway [exhibition publication]
Part Picture, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto [co-organized by Scotiabank
CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto] RIDEAUX/ blinds, Institut dʼart contemporain
Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes, France
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2014
Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University,
Boca Raton
Trouble with the index, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
Back Grounds: Impressions Photographique (2), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
A Machinery for Living, Petzel Gallery, New York
Darkroom Alchemists, Getty Center, Los Angeles
2013
Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
The Black Mirror, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles
Endless Bummer II/Still Bumminʼ, Marlborough Gallery, New York
The Estate, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Looking Forward: Gifts of Contemporary Art from the Patricia A. Bell Collection, Montclair Art
Museum, Montclair
Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Department of Light Recordings, Section IV:
Lens Drawings, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting, Museum
of Contemporary Art, North Miami
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art
Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach,
Florida
Tenth Anniversary Show, Wallspace, New York
THINGE, Dan Gunn, Berlin
Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Chicago
2012
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA),
Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
Le Frac s'invite au Consortium, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
Zauberspiegel: Die Sammlung nach 1945, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
The Permanent Way, Apexart, New York
Fotografie Total, Werke Aus Der Sammlung Des Mmk, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK),
Frankfurt/Main
New Photography In Palma, Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca
Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Loughelton Revisited, Winkleman Gallery, New York
A New Vision: Modernist Photography, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
101 Collection: Route 3, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2011
Anti-Photography, Focal Point and The Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, Museum of Contemporary Art Los
Angeles, Los Angeles
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de
Compostela
New Space, New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
2010
After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Connecticut, DʼAmelio Terras, New York
BravinLee programs, New York
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead, MAK Center for Art + Architecture at the Schindler House,
Los Angeles
Self-fulfilling Prophecies, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2009
The Edge of Vision, Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal
The Pictures Generation, 1974 – 1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, FLAG Art Foundation,
New York
2008
Espèces dʼEspace, Magasin: Centre National dʼArt Contemporain, Grenoble
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York
No Room, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
Untitled (Vicarious) Photographing The Constructed Object, Gagosian, New York
When itʼs a Photograph, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles
Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2007
Concrete Works, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Paint It Blue: Works from the ACT Art Collection/ Siegfried Loch, Neues Museum Weserburg
Bremen, Bremen
Real Life, Artistʼs Space, New York
Global Anxieties, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster
Les Temps Modernes: Collection du Frac Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan
End(s) of Photography: Modeling the Photographic, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown
State University, Youngstown
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra
L.A. Desire (Part 1), Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
15 Years, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
2006
Double Exposure, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels
The Eighties: Topology, Museu de Serralves, Porto
The Gold Standard, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Sixteen Tons, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Our Town: Architecture in Art, Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson
TomorrowLand: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre
Pompidou, Paris
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art at
Phillips Academy, Andover
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles
Itʼs not a photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
The Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Studio City, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Joshua White, Los Angeles
2005
Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Paris
The Photograph in Question, von Lintel Gallery, New York
Theorema. Une collection privée en Italie, la collection dʼEnea Righi, Collection Lambert en
Avignon, Avignon
Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
2004
In America; William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, James Welling,
Sutton Lane, London
Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris
100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York; The Jewish Museum,
San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,
Virginia Beach
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Art History: Photography References Painting, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Likeness: Portraits by Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute and Independent Curators
International, San Francisco; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte; Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax; University Art Museum,
California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta
College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
Double Exposure: A Portfolio of Photographic Diptychs, Inman Gallery, Houston
Spread in Prato, Prato
2003
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;
UCLA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo;
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
Auction for Photographic Education in Afghanistan, Christies, New York
Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Stéphane Couturier – Philippe De Gobert – Matthias Hoch – Bernard Voïta – James Welling,
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Imaging the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York
Back Grounds – Impressions, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Rethinking Photography/Narration and Reduction in Photography, Forum Stadpark, Graz
Artistʼs Gifts, MOCA, Los Angeles
2002
Art Downtown: New Photography, Wall St Rising, New York
Remarks On Color, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Saidye Bronfman
Centre for the Visual Arts, Montreal
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, LACMA, Los
Angeles
Fold, Drapery in Contemporary Visual Culture, City Gallery, Leicester
Visions from America, Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting Matter, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Hot and New in 2002: A Print and Photography Exhibition and Sale, Katonah Museum of Art,
Katonah
Photography by Gallery Artists, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Acquiring Taste, Real Art Ways, Hartford
Fotografie, Landschaften, Towntown Abstractions, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Ballpoint Inkings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
Transform the World 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
2001
This is not a photograph, University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla;
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; DePaul University, Chicago; Williams
Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
This Side of Paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery
W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole
At Home, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
Kaye Donachie, Maureen Gallace & James Welling, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Next Wave Prints, Elias Fine Art, Allston
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
2000
As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Black & White, Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York
Photo Art Photo, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Light-heeled, light-handed: Edward Ruscha, Julius Schulman, James Welling, Kölnischer
Kunstverein, Cologne
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, Cologne
A Changing Summer Group Exhibition, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Sharon Lockhart / James Welling, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
1999
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell
Sequences, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Plain Air, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenössisches Kunst zeit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Wolfsburg
Gallery Artists, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
Schöpfung, Diösanmuseum, Munich
Multiplicity, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Welling, Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie
Schwarzwalder, Vienna
1998
Stare, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Exterminating Angel, Ghislaine Husenot, Paris
Nouvelles acquisitions, 97, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Art that happens to be photography, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
LʼHypothèse du tableau volé, Musée dʼArt Moderne et Contemporaine, Geneva
Sequences, Edition Schellman, New York
Launch of the New Evergreen Review, 644 Broadway, New York
TransFiction 1, Charim Klocker, Vienna
The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture & Film, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
From the Heart: The Power of Photograph – A Collectorʼs Choice, Art Museum of South
Texas, Corpus Christi
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative
Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson
Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum,
Baltimore
Utz, A Collected Exhibition, Lennon Weinberg, New York
Paul Strand / James Welling, Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
1997
Track Records, Oakville Galleries, Oakville; Canadian Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Ottawa; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver; The Illingworth Kerr
Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary; Centre culturel Université de Sherbrooke,
Sherbrooke; Centre dʼexposition de Durmmondville, Durmmondville
Kunst… Arbeit, Südwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, Selections from the Permanent
Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Contemporary Collections 97, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
Surface Auction, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles
Heaven, P.S.1, Long Island City
Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Bring your own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam
Photographie dʼune collection, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignements, Paris
About Painting: Eggleston, Gerber, Gursky, Kalpakjian, Polidori, Welling, Robert Miller
Gallery, New York
Density or the unimaginable museum / discontinuity / synchrony / presence, Domaine de
Kerguehennec, Centre dʼArt Contemporain, Bignan
Ausstellung 10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Someone else with my fingerprints, David Zwirner, New York
1996
Muse [x] Editions: recent publications, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Evident: New Landscape Photography, The Photographersʼ Gallery, London
Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCAʼs Permanent Collection, 1975-96, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York (and benefit
auction at Christieʼs)
Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Rudolf Stingel, James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los
Angeles
Deep Surface, Pace Wildenstein McGill, Los Angeles
Ab Fab, Feature, Inc., New York
Swag & Puddle, The Work Space, New York
Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfürter Kunstverein im Steinernen
Haus and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
1995
Drawings and Photographs, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Uta Barth, Candida Hofer, Andreas Gursky, James Welling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San
Francisco
New Acquisitions: An Exhibition of Artistsʼ Books and Multiples, Art Metropole, Toronto
Summer Group Exhibition, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
The Reflected Image, Museo Pecci, Prato
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Museum, Seattle
Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Romantico Contemporaneo, Castello di Beutivaglio, Bologna
Fact and Fiction: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum at Champion,
Stanford
Abstract Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Blind Spot, McKinney Arts Center, Dallas
Strung into the Apollonian Dream, Feature Gallery, New York
1994
Géométries, Galerie du TNB, Rennes
LʼAmour Toujours, Le Carré / Musée Bonnat, Bayonne
Transport, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Womanʼs College, Lynchburg
G7, Theoretical Event, Naples
Werkstattquartier, Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna
David Deutsch, Douglas Blau, James Welling, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Content and Discontent in Todayʼs Photography, Friends of Photography, San Francisco
The Abstract Urge, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco
The Evolution of the Photogram since 1919, The Denver Art Museum, Denver
Experimental Vision, The Denver Art Museum, Denver
Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomonʼs Garage, Los Angeles
Gaylen Gerber, Angela Grauerholz, James Welling, Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie
Schwarzwalder, Vienna
1993
Nettverk, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
The Sublime Void, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
Oeuvres du Patrimoine Contemporain Régional, LʼUsine, Dijon
Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rosemarie Trockel, James Welling, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Image First: Eight Photographers for the 90ʼs, Laura Carpenter Fine Arts, Santa Fe
October Portfolio One, Metro Pictures, New York
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Galerie de lʼAncienne Poste, Calais
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Galleri F15 Alby, Moss
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Rodney Graham, Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Skulpturen-Fragmente, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Une seconde pensée du paysage, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan
Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
1991
Les Grandes Lignes, Gare de lʼEst, Paris
Vom Verschwinden der Dingle aus der Fotographie, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, James Welling, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Photographing L.A. Architecture, Turner / Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Fariba Hajamadi, Hirsch Perlman, James Welling, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa
Monica
Photography 1980 – 1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver and Aspen
Galerie Nelson, Lyon
1990
The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York
Johnen & Schüttle, Cologne
Perspectives on Place, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego
Le Diaphane, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing
Une autre affaire, Centre National des Arts Plastiques DRAC de Bourgogne, Dijon; Maison
Fyot, Le Consortium, Dijon
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
1989
Troy Brauntuch, Matt Mullican, James Welling, Kent Fine Arts, New York
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton;
Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Studio Guenzani, Milano
Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Pathetique, Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf
International Camera, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
Diagrams & Surrogates, Shea & Baker Gallery, New York
1988
Bi National: American Art of the Late 80ʼs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kunsthalle,
Dusseldorf
Hybrid Neutral, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence Museum, New York
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum Museum, Stockholm
Galerie Lelong, New York
Schlaf der Vernunft, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Utopia Post Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and
Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Implosion, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1987
Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Photo Mannerisms, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
Malerei-Wandmalerei, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Prince, James Welling, Galerie Nächst St.Stephan/Rosemarie
Schwarzwalder, Vienna
Photography and Art, Interactions since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles
Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York
The Ironic Sublime, Galerie Albrecht, Munich
Art Against AIDS, Baskerville & Watson, New York
New Locations, Jamie Wolff, New York
Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Fariba Hajamadi, Gerhard Merz, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Lemieux, Kruger, Nagy, Welling, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
New Photography, Feature, Chicago
1986
Rodney Graham / James Welling, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver
Barbara Ess, Ian Wallace, James Welling, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Particulars, Baskerville & Watson, New York
Poetic Resemblance, Lougelton Gallery, New York
Picture Perfect, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Paravision, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles
Vikky Alexander, Annette Lemieux, Allan McCollum, James Welling, Cash/Newhouse, New
York
1985
JAA Benefit, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Blow-Up, Feature, Chicago
Weird Beauty, The Palladium, New York
Final Love, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, James Welling, Metro Pictures, New York
A Summer Selection, Castelli Uptown, New York
P, 303 Gallery, New York
Seduction: Working Photographs, White Columns, New York
1984
Ailleurs et Autrement, Musée dʼArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Natural Genre, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Still Life in Photography, Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam
Cash Gallery, New York
Allan McCollum / James Welling, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent, Nature Morte, New York
Artistsʼ Call, Metro Pictures, New York
1983
In Platoʼs Cave, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Artificial Miracles, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver
1982
Trouble in Paradise, A+M Artworks, New York
Natural History, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Love is Blind, Castelli Photographs, New York
Photograph, Metro Pictures, New York
On Location, Texas Gallery, Houston
Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Pictures and Promises, The Kitchen, New York
Erweitertre Fotografie, Weiner Secession, Vienna
1980
Opening Group Exhibition, Metro Pictures, New York
Pictures in New York Today, P.A.C., Milan
1979
Imitation of Life, Hartford Art School, Hartford
1978
The New West, The Kitchen, New York
1976
Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
Evening of Works, LAICA, Century City
1975
Indian Summer, Project INC., Cambridge
1974
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita
1972
Newick, Osher, Welling, Hewlitt Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Museum,
Winter Park, Florida
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ont., Canada
Art Institute of Chicago
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
City Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fondation Belgacom, Brussels
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
KPN Collection, The Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, Roche-sur-Yon, France
Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Museum Boijman Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The 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
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tate Gallery, London
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Vancouver Art Gallery
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, Connecticut