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William Eggleston

(American, born 1939)

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William Eggleston

Untitled, 1973

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Biography

Timeline

1939
Born in Memphis, TN
1967
Went to New York and met Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus
Presented his work to John Szarkowski at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1974
Recieved a Guggenheim Fellowship
Appointed Lecturer in Visiual and Environmental Studies at The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1975
Recieved a National Endowment for the Arts Photographer's Fellowship
1978
Appointed Reasearcher in Color Videa at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the invitation of Richard Leacock
1989
Accepted one of 54 Master Photographers of 1960–1979 awards from Photographic Society of Japan
1996
Recieved the University of Memphis Distinguished Achievement Award
2003
Accepted Gold medal for Photography from National Arts Club, New York, NY

Exhibitions

2019
William Eggleston Selected Exhibitions 2019:
William Eggleston: 2 ¼, David Zwirner, London (solo exhibition)
2018
William Eggleston Selected Exhibitions 2018:
William Eggleston: Los Alamos, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo exhibition)
Camera Austria International. Laboratory for Photography and Theory, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
Earache, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Surface Matters, Mutina for Art, Fiorano Modenese, Italy
2017
William Eggleston Selected Exhibitions 2017:
William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (solo exhibition)
Autophoto, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris [catalogue]
Les Visitants: Guillermo Kuitca y la colección de la Fondation Cartier, Kirchner Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires
Looking Back: The Eleventh White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
States of America: Photography from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era, Nottingham Contemporary, England
2016
William Eggleston Selected Exhibitions 2016:
William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston, University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford (solo exhibition)
William Eggleston: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London [itinerary: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne] [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
William Eggleston: Selections from the Wilson Centre for Photography, Portland Art Museum, Oregon (solo exhibition)
I still believe in miracles: 30 years of Inverleith House, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas [itinerary: Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Florida] [organized by Aperture Foundation, New York] [catalogue]
The Poetics of Place: Contemporary Photographs from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Rebellious Image, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Seeing Things, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Shrines to Speed: Art and the Automobile, From the Postwar to the Postmodern, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina [itinerary: Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky] [catalogue]
Still Life/Work Life, Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden [catalogue]
The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles [itinerary: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; Portland Museum of Art, Maine] [catalogue]
2015
William Eggleston Selected Exhibitions 2015:
William Eggleston, a cor Americana, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
William Eggleston & Ernest C. Withers in Conversation, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition publication]
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, England [itinerary: Tate Liverpool, England] [catalogue]
The Magic Medium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2013
At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (solo)
2011
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2010
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (solo)
William Eggleston: American Photographer, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
21st Century, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (solo)
21st Century, Cheim & Read, New York, USA (solo)
2009
Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1958-2008, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
William Eggleston - David Lynch. Fotografien, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, München, Germany
2008
Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
Color Portraits–1974, Photology, Milan, Italy (solo)
Democratic Camera, Photographs and Videos 1961 – 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
L'oeil démocratique, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure, France (solo)

Public Collections

Siemens Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
The Menil Collection, Houston
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
English (US)

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