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Christopher Williams

(American, born 1956)

Christopher Williams

Cutaway model Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/15 ZM Focal length: 15mm... [See description for complete title], 2013

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Christopher Williams

Pacific Sea Nettle
Chrysaora Melanaster
Long Beach, California
October 18, 1998, 1998

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Christopher Williams

Cutaway model Rodenstock Apo-Ronar 360/9 Copal 3 , 2016

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Biography

Timeline

1956: Born in Los Angeles
1978: received BFA, California Institute of Arts, Valencia
1981: received MFA, California Institute of Arts, Valencia
2004: grant recipient, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles
2005: grant recipient, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
2014: received Photography Catalogue of the Year award, Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Paris and New York
: lives and works in Cologne, Chicago, and Los Angeles
: Professor, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf since 2008

Exhibitions

2018: Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Christopher Williams: Normative Models, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (solo exhibition)
Kleine Geschichte(n) der Fotografie/Small Story(s) of Photography, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Still Life: Obstinacy of Things, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, Luma Foundation, Arles, France
Surface Matters, Mutina for Art, Fiorano Modenese, Italy
2017: Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Christopher Williams: Books Plus, ARCHIV, Zurich (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Models, Open Letters, Prototypes, Supplements, La Triennale di Milano, Milan (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Open Letter: The Family Drama Refunctioned? (From the Point of View of Production), David Zwirner, London (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Supplements, Models, Prototypes, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Supplements, Models, Prototypes, ETH Zurich, Institute gta, Zurich (solo exhibition)
The Absent Museum, WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels
Darren Bader (@mined_oud), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina Napoli (MADRE), Naples
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Jump into the Future: Art from the 90’s and 2000’s. The Borgmann Donation, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Perfectly Concocted Context by Jonathan Monk, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2016: Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Christopher Williams, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (solo exhibition)
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York
Albert Oehlen, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
BRD, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin [organized by Haubrok Foundation, Berlin]
California and the West: Photography from the Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
L’image Volée/The Stolen Picture, Fondazione Prada, Milan
Mit anderen Augen/With Other Eyes, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
We Call It Ludwig, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2015: Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Anatomies de l’automate, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Chalet Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [itinerary: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
Display Show, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin [itinerary: Eastside Projects, Birmingham, England; Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands]
Everything Must Go: Art and the Market, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
It’s Obvious, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Ostend, Belgium
Le Souffleur: Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina [itinerary: The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Rhona and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon]
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: artistic practices around 1990, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna
Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
We Are A Parasite On The Institution of Cinema, An Institution Of Parasites, 1st Studio for Propositional Cinema Film Festival, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna
2014: Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 19), David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, Art Institute of Chicago [itinerary: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London] (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva [part of Des histoires sans fin/Endless stories series] (solo exhibition)
1984-1999: The Decade, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Darren Bader: Photographs I Like, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
In the Crack of the Dawn, LUMA Westbau / POOL etc, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich
Love Story: The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna
A Machinery for Living, Petzel Gallery, New York [organized by Walead Beshty]
(Mis)Understanding Photography: Works and Manifestos, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Potent Wilderness: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Take It or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Thing Itself, Yancey Richardson, New York
To do as one would, David Zwirner, New York
What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York
2011: Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 12), David Zwirner, New York (solo)
: Connected things collected, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
: Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation of Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue]
: Tasters’ Choice, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
: Swagger, Drag, Fit Together, Wallspace Gallery, New York
: A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles [curated by Walead Beshty]
: Ordinary Madness: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh [exhibition publication]
: Filmschönheit, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna [itinerary: Greene Naftali, New York]
: Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin [catalogue]
: Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
: Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London
: Atlas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid [itinerary: ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg]
: The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: 8th Gwangju Biennale: 10,000 Lives, Gwangju, South Korea [catalogue]
: Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway [catalogue] (solo)
2010: Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 11), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany [catalogue] (solo)
: A Wild Night and a New Road, Altman Siegel, San Francisco
: Walead Beshty, Kelley Walker, Christopher Williams, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles
: Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 8), Capitain Petzel, Berlin (solo)
: Christopher Williams, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (solo)
: Then the work takes place. Zum Paradigma des Konzeptuellen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
: Mathias Poledna, Christopher Williams, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany [two-person exhibition] (solo)
: Männer Frauen – Porträts Aus Der Sammlung, Kunstraum Grässlin, St. Georgen, Germany
: FAX, The Drawing Center, New York
: Das Gespinst: Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Besuch im Museum Abteiberg, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2009: Dance with Camera, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia [itinerary: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona] [catalogue]
: Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona [itinerary: Museum of Modern Art Warsaw] [catalogue]
2008: Color Chart, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Kunstverein Bonn with Mathias Poledna, Bonn, Germany (solo)
: Christopher Williams: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 7), David Zwirner, New York (solo)
: Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Centre Pompidou, Paris
: Les Temps moderne – Collection du Frac Bretagne, Centre d´Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
: Die Wörter, Die Dinge, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
: What does the jellyfish want? Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne
: Cross-border. Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
: Conditions of Display, The Moore Space, Miami
: L.A. Desire, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf (curated by Wilhelm Schürmann)
: Angelegenheiten, die sich daraus ergeben, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
: Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
: Brasil: desFocos [o olho de fora], Centro Cultural, Banco Do Brasil Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Paço des Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil
: Yäg, La Planta, Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico
: Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
: Christopher Williams, Haubrokshows, Collection Axel Haubrok, Berlin (solo)
: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 5), Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (solo)
2007: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 6), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (solo)
: 15 Years, Early and New Works Part XX, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
: (Revision 3), Galerie David Zwirner, New York (solo)
: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (solo)
2006: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (solo)
: (Revision 4), Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (solo)
: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle Archéologie, Beaux-Arts, Ethnographie, Théatre-Vérité, Couleur Europeénne, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise Variétés (solo)
2005: Christopher Williams. De Rijke/De Rooij, Wiener Secession, Vienna (solo)
: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 2), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (solo)
: Program. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision I) Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany (solo)
: Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)

Public Collections

: Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
: Vanmoerkerke Collection, Ostend, Belgium
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Sammlung Gundlach, Hamburg
: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Italy
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
: Dallas Museum of Art
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
: Art Institute of Chicago
: Ludwig Museum, Cologne
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Christopher Williams

(American, born 1956)

Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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