James Welling

(American, born 1951)

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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

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James Welling

Lavender Mist, 2014

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James Welling

Chemical, 2013

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Biography

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

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

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

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