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Joel-Peter Witkin
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American
, born 1939)
Joel-Peter Witkin
Kertesz in Edo,
2005
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Joel-Peter Witkin
Still Life with Breast,
2001
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Biography
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Timeline
1939
Born in Brooklyn, USA
1974
CAPS Grant in Photography NYC
1977
Ford Foundation Grant
1982
Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1984
Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1986
Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1988
International Center of Photography Award
1991
The French Minister of Culture/awared by Jack Lang
1992
Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1999 - 2000
Commander of the Legion of Honor, Paris
Lives and works in Albuquerque, USA
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Exhibitions
2011
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France (solo)
2010
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France (solo)
Castillo I Sehie, Italy (solo)
Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
2009
Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2008
Poetic Realism, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
Poetic Realism, Silverstein Photography, New York, USA (solo)
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France (solo)
2007
Human Kind, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2006
Vintage Work, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (solo)
Oeuvres recentes, Espace Jules Valles, Saint Martin d'Heres, Belgium (solo)
2005
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, USA (solo)
2004
Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
Heart Beats Dust, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2002
The Nature of Still Life: From Fox Talbot to the Present Day, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
The image of Jesus Christ in Photography, The Fotografie Forum: Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
Stadische Museen, Jena, Germany
Infinito Gallery, Torino, Italy
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Ricco/Maresca, New York, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2001
Joel-Peter Witkin: Photographs from the Stephan Janssen Collection, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tempe, USA
Joel-Peter Witkin: In and Out of Life, Art Concern Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Joel-Peter Witkin Fahey/Klein gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Art Since 1850, an introduction to the Collection, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
2000
Picture Photo Space Japan
1998
The Museum of Fine Arts & the Museum of N.M. Santa Fe, USA
1997
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1995
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1993
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Magicians of Light, National Gallery of Canada
1992
University of Illinois Champaign, Urbana, USA
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1987
Crosscurrents: Forty Years of Photographic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
1986
Sacred Images in Secular Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Signs of the Times: Some Recuring Motifs in Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Several Exceptionally Good, Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1985
The Sam Wagstaff Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1983
Personal Choice, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pace Wildenstein MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
1982
Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1981
Group show at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1980
Exhibited in Projects Studio One, New York, USA
1959
Group show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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Public Collections
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Spain
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Literature
2010
The Master Series: Joel-Peter Witkin , Delpire Publishers, Paris
2009
The Journal of Joel-Peter Witkin:The Maxims of Men Disclose Their Hearts, 21 st Editions, South Dennis, MA
2007
Joel-Peter Witkin, Phaidon, London
2006
Bourgeoisie in DeNeil, A. Suite of 10 Etchings, Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
2003
Songs of Innocence , 21 st Editions, South Dennis, MA
2002
Songs of Experience , poems by William Blake, photographs by Joel-PeterWitkin, 21 st Editions, South Dennis, MA
2001
Joel-Peter Witkin, “55" Series, Phaidon, London
2000
Disciple & Maître , Marval, Paris, France
1999
The Bone House , Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM