William Wegman

(American, born 1943)

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William Wegman

Show of Shadow, 2003

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William Wegman

Chest of Drawers, 2003

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William Wegman

Stop Action, 2003

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William Wegman

Unfurled, 2003

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William Wegman

Rousseau, 2003

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William Wegman

Evergreen, 2003

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William Wegman

Valley of Lost Flora, 2003

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William Wegman

Composed For The Ear As Well As The Eye, 2003

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William Wegman

Head with Base, 2003

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William Wegman

Beetles, 2003

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William Wegman

Blizzard, 2003

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Biography

Timeline

1943
Born in Holyoke, MA
1961 - 1965
B.F.A. in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1965 - 1967
M.F.A. in Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1967 - 1969
Instructor at University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, WI and Madison, WI
1970 - 1971
Instructor at University of California, Long Beach, CA
1975
Recipient, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1979
Recipient, Creative Artists Public Service Grant (Video)
1982
Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts Grant (Photography)
1999
Recipient, New York Foundation for the Arts Honor, New York, NY
Recipient, Bailey House Key Award
Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2013
William Wegman Exhibitions in 2013:
William Wegman: Photographs and Drawings from the 1970s, Texas Gallery, Houston,TX (solo exhibition)
Punctum, Galerie Meyer Keiner, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
Eureka: William Wegman Photographs 1970 - 1975, Craig F. Starr Gallery,NY (solo exhibition)
AREA: The Exhibition, The Hole, NY (solo exhibition)
Beyond Human, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (solo exhibition)
Looking Back - Photography in the Seventies, Western Gallery, Bellingham, Washington (solo exhibition)
Masters of Modern & Contemporary Photography, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore (solo exhibition)
William Wegman: He Took Two Pictures/One Came Out, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
William Wegman: Hello Nature, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden (solo exhibition)
William Wegman: The Traveler, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT (solo exhibition)
2012
William Wegman Exhibitions in 2012:
William Wegman, Galerie Alfa, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
William Wegman: Hello Nature, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (solo exhibition)
Drawings for a Better Tomorrow and a Worse Yesterday, Salon 94, NY (solo exhibition)
Artists Including Me, Sperone Westwater, NY (solo exhibition)
2011
William Wegman Exhibitions in 2011:
William Wegman, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo exhibition)
William Wegman: A Thing or Two, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo exhibition)
William Wegman: Do/Redo, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo exhibition)
William Wegman: Strange But True, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
William Wegman, Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA (solo exhibition)
Inconscients! Artists and Psychoanalysis, Galerie Alfa, Paris, France
Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2010
William Wegman Exhibitions in 2010:
William Wegman: Fay, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, CA (solo)
William Wegman: Inside | Outside, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
2009
William Wegman: Dogs on Rocks in the Woods at the Seaside, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
William Wegman: Fay, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (solo)
2008
William Wegman: Paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, MA (solo)
William Wegman: Photographs, Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, MA, USA (solo)
William Wegman: FAY, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (solo)
William Wegman, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
East Coast Perspectives, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2007
William Wegman: New Paintings, Robilant and Voena, London, England (solo)
Wegman: Outdoors, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
William Wegman, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
William Wegman, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
William Wegman: C-prints, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
William Wegman: Around the Park, The Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY (solo)
William Wegman and No Dogs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
Busy Going Crazy, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Why Look at Animals?, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
The Shadow, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2006
William Wegman, Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
William Wegman, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
New & Improved (1974-2006), Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (solo)
William Wegman, Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA (solo)
William Wegman: Black and White Photographs, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
Good Vibrations: Le arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
A Curator's Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie mit Bleistift Fischer: Papierarbeiten aus den 60er und 70er Jahren, Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany
Animal Series, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
History of disappearance: 30th anniversario della Franklin Furnace, Neon, La fabbrica del vapore, Milan, Italy
William Wegman: Funney/Strange, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
William Wegman: New & Improved, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Transmediale.06: Smile Maschines, AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE, Berlin, Germany
2005
Man's Best Friend: Photographs and Videos, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
Strange but True, Hudson Guild, New York, NY (solo)
De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Fur, Feathers And Family: Our Relationship With Animals, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
New at the Neuberger: Recent Acquisitions, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
William Wegman, Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich, Germany
Atelier Adamson: David Adamson and his friends, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
50 Jahre: Years documenta 1955-2005, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
History of Disappearance, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2004
Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
ANIMAUX: Von Tieren und Menschen, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon, Switzerland
100 Artists See God, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
From a Collection, For a Collection, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf, Germany
Photography at Colby, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Dog Days of Summer, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Recent Polaroids, Galerie Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
William Wegman, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX (solo)
William Wegman: Recent Polaroids, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA (solo)

Public Collections

De Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Kunstaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France
Carngegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY