Artworks by James Welling at Regen Projects on artnet

James Welling

(American, born 1951)

James Welling

0462, 2009

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James Welling

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James Welling

0469, 2009

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James Welling

#007, 2003

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James Welling

001, E, 2006

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James Welling

013, 2007

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James Welling

0194, 2006

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James Welling

4531, 2007

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James Welling

Poe, 2008

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James Welling

Schiphol, 1996–2005

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James Welling

Torso 9, 2005–2008

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James Welling

Untitled, 2005

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Timeline

1951: born in Hartford, CT, USA
1969 - 1971: attended Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
1970 - 1971: attended University of Pittsburgh
1971 - 1974: received BFA and MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
1985: received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1986: received New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1995: Professor of Fine Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA
: Professor of Fine Art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
1999: received DG BANK-Förderpreis Fotografie award, Sprengel Museum Hannover
2007 - 2008: received International Association of Art Critics Award of Excellence to James Welling/First Place/Best Show in a Commercial Gallery Nationally for James Welling, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2009: became Pilara Foundation Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow
2014: received 2014 Infinity Award, International Center of Photography, New York
: Lives and works in New York City, New York

Exhibitions

2022: Thomas Ruff James Welling (with Thomas Ruff), Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
: A Family Story, Collection(s) Robelin, Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
: True Pictures? Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Kanada und den USA, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2021: True Pictures? Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Kanada und den USA, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany, traveled to: Salzburg, Austria
: Europe: Ancient Future, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria
2020: Where Art Might Happen. The Early Years of CalArt, Kunsthaus Graz
: Out of Order – Werke aus der Sammlung Haubrok, Teil 2, Neues Museum Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
2019: James Welling Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Seascape by James Welling, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine (solo exhibition)
Transform, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Disappearing—California, c. 1970: Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture After the Digital Turn, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, David Zwirner, New York
Highlights for a Future: De Collectie (1), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent [collection display]
Now Is the Time: 25 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany [collection display]
Psychedelic Healing Center, Essex Flowers Gallery, New York
2018: James Welling Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
James Welling: Choreograph, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid (solo exhibition)
Materials and Objects: James Welling and Zoe Leonard, Tate Modern, London [collection display]
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
By the Sea, MARQUEE PROJECTS, Bellport, New York
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Jack Goldstein: Under Water Sea Fantasy, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Résonance-Part 2, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, LondonStill Life: Obstinacy of Things, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
Une collection de photographies, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
2017: James Welling Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
James Welling: Seascape, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
James Welling: Chronology, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (solo exhibition)
James Welling: Metamorph, LOGIN, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (solo exhibition)
James Welling: Metamorphosis, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent [itinerary: Kunstforum Wien, Vienna] (solo exhibition)
James Welling: New Work, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (solo exhibition)
2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial: MAKE NEW HISTORY, Water Tower Gallery, Chicago
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York
Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2016: James Welling Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
James Welling: Choreograph, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
James Welling: Chronograph, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (solo exhibition)
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York
A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
EXTRA #20: Apparaat. Texts by Tamara Berghmans, Kenneth Goldsmith, Inge Henneman, Andrew Lugg et al. Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Antwerp and Fw:Books, Amsterdam
Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment, Elizabeth Dee, New York
A History of Photography: Selection from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Pandora’s Box - Another photography by Jan Dibbets, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Retro-spective: Analog Photography in a Digital World, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
2015: James Welling Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
James Welling: Choreograph, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (solo exhibition)
Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Blind Architecture, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Cámara de Maravillas/Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City [organized in collaboration with Colección Isabel y Augustin Coppel (CIAC), Mexico City and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris as part of Foto México 2015] [itinerary: Museo de Arte Moderna de Medillín, Colombia; Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro]
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [itinerary: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
The Human Apparatus, Klemm’s, Berlin
Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Part Picture, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto [co-organized by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto]
RIDEAUX/blinds, Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France
The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York
2014: James Welling Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
James Welling: Diary of Elizabeth and James Dixon, 1840-41/Connecticut Landscapes, 1977-86, Art Institute of Chicago (solo exhibition)
Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, The University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Darren Bader: Photographs I Like, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
A Machinery for Living, Petzel Gallery, New York [organized by Walead Beshty]
Trouble with the Index, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
Staring at the Sun, Griffin Editions, Blind Spot Lab, New York
What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York
The Will to Architecture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2013: Tulsa Art Museum, Tulsa, USA (solo)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
2012: Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, USA (solo)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA (solo)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
The Mind on Fire, Milton Keynes Gallery, London, England (solo)
2011: James Welling Photographs: The Phillip Johnson Glass House, Four Seasons Restaurant, New York, USA
2010: 25 or 30 Years Gallery Part III: Photography, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Connecticut, D’Amelio Terras, New York, USA
After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Group Show, BravinLee programs, New York, USA
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead, MAK Center for Art + Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, USA
Milk Drop Coronet, 30 Exhibitions on the Virtuosity of Thingness, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling, 1970–1976, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, USA
James Welling: Glass House, David Zwirner, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
New Pictures 3: James Welling, Glass House, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA (solo)
2009: La Pintura y sus Alrededores, Galerie naechst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
2008: James Welling, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Wurtz, Welling and S. Prina, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography, New York, USA
Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
James Welling: Works 1980-2008, David Zwirner, Inc., New York, USA (solo)
2007: James Welling, Maureen Paley, London, England (solo)
2006: THE MATERIALIZATION OF SENSIBILITY: ART AND ALCHEMY, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Santa Monica, USA
The Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
James Welling, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
James Welling, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2005: James Welling: New Work, David Zwirner, New York, USA (solo)
James Welling: New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
The Photograph in Question, von Lintel Gallery, New York, USA
Theorema. Une collection privée en Italie, la collection d’Enea Righi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, USA
PAIRS, GROUPS, AND GRIDS, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
2004: In America; William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, James Welling, Sutton Lane, London, England
Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
100 Artists See God, Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, USA
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Agricultural Works, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz; Albany Institute of Art and History, Albany, USA (solo)
California, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Art History: Photography References Painting, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
Likeness: Portraits by Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute and Independent Curators International, San Francisco, USA
Double Exposure: A Portfolio of Photographic Diptychs, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA
2003: The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Museo de Arte Contemporanea deVigo, Vigo, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Stéphane Couturier – Philippe De Gobert – Matthias Hoch – Bernard Voïta – James Welling, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
James Welling: Los Angeles, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, USA (solo)
James Welling: New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
James Welling, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy (solo)
2002: James Welling Abstract, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2001: Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (solo)
ELLIPSIS, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
2000: New Abstractions and Photographs from the Seventies, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
James Welling: 1974-1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
New Abstractions, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Galerie Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, USA (solo)
1999: New Abstractions, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (solo)
PENCILS OF NATURE: A DIALOGUE, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
1998: James Welling Early Photographs: 1976-1985, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA (solo)
James Welling, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)

Public Collections

: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
: Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
: 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 Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
: KPN Collection, The Netherlands
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: 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
: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida
: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
: Art Institute of Chicago
: Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
: Baltimore Museum of Art
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
: City Collection, Geneva
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
: Dallas Museum of Art
: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
: Denver Art Museum, Colorado
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, 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, Châteaugiron, 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, Seattle
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
: Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Literature

2002: Mahoney, Robert. “Justine Kurland, Catherine Opie, Martha Rosler and James Welling at Gorney Bravin + Lee”, Time Out New York, 27 June - 4 July 2002; p. 56
: Tumlir, Jan. "Previews: James Welling, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles", Artforum, Jan.; p. 72
2001: Tillman, Lynne "Portfolio: James Welling", Artforum, May; pp. 139-143
: Joselit, David. "Surface Histories: The Photography of James Welling", Art in America, May, pp. 136-143
: Jones, Kristin M. "James Welling at Gorney Bravin + Lee", Frieze, May; pp. 99-100
: Intra, Giovanni. "Reviews: James Welling at MoCA", artext, August - October 2001; p. 77
: Zellen, Jody. "Mining the Photographic Process", dArt International (Canada), Winter, p.40
2000: Giuliano, Mike, "James Welling Finds the Complexity", City Paper (Baltimore), 6 Sept., p. 37
: Sarah J. Rogers (ed. by), James Welling : Photographs 1974 – 1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, (essay by Michael Fried)
1984: Gelatin Photographs 1-12. Buffalo: C.E.P.A

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James Welling

(American, born 1951)

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

James Welling

(American, born 1951)

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

James Welling

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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