Exhibitions

2009

Altamont, Suburbia, Leisure, Riots, Galerie Alex Daniels - Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)

2005

PhotoEspana. Madrid, Spain: Bill Owens. June 1-July 17

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary. Street Credibility January 25-June 7, 2004

Photographs Do Not Bend. “ Landscape???” January 30-April 17, 2004

Whitney Museum of American Art. Inside Out: Portrait photographs from the permanent collection. February 7-May 23, 2004

Reflex Modern Art Gallery Amsterdam, “Beauty of Darkness’ April 24-June 12, 2004.

Photographs Do Not Bend. Nine April 30-June 12, 2004

Kennedy Boesky Photographs Marianne Boesky Gallery. Seventies Color Photography William Christenberry, Mark Cohen, John Divola, William Eggleston. Mitch Epstein, Nan Golden. Helen Levitt. Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerwitz, Richard Misrach, Bill Owens, Ed Ruscha. Steven Shore, Joel Sternfeld. January 3-January 31, 2004

USC Fisher Gallery. University of Southern California, “Game Face-What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?” September 9-November 1, 2004

San Jose Museum of Art. It’s About Time: Celebrating 35 Years. October 2, 2004-February 13, 2005

International Center for Photography, New York, Bill Owens Leisure. December 12, 2004-February 27, 2005

2004

Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan. Italy. Bill Owens Photography 1964-2003. December 10, 2004-January, 2005

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York “Pool Party” June 16-August 20, 2004

SpazioFoto Credito Artiano, Florence, Italy. “Bill Owens: The American Way” January 20-February 22, 2003

Centre national de la photographie,”Fables de l’identite” Oeuvres photographiques et video de la collection NSM Vie ABN AMRO, June 16-August 25, 2003

Newark Museum,"Changing America 1945-1975: Master Photographs from the David Sestak Family Collection." May 3 November 30, 2003

Collection Lambert-musee d’art contemporain, Avignon, France. “Photograhier to photograph”

Peabody Essex Museum. “Family Ties” curated by Trevor Fairbrother June 12-Sept. 21, 2003

CCA Graduate Gallery “Acquired Taste” November 11-18, 2003

Atlanta Contempory Art Center. “Terrain Vague: Photography, Architecture and the Post-Industrial Landscape” November 13-2003 January 3, 2004, Carnegie Museum of Art March 20-June 20, 2004

2003

CCA Wattis Institute, The Grey Area. Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now. December 3, 2003-February 14, 2004.

Centre National de la photographie jeu de paume. “Fables de l’identite-ouvres de la collection NSM Vie/ABN AMRO. June 18-August 25, 2003

George Krevsky Gallery “Extra Innings-The art of Baseball” April 18 May 18, 2002

The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts. Philadelphia PhotoReview@25 March 1-31, 2002

Barbara Gladstone Gallery “American Standard: (Para)Normality and American Standard (Para) Normality in Everyday Life Organized by Gregory Crewdson. June 26-August 16 2002

Whitney Museum of American Art “Visions from America-Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art” June 27-Sept 22, 2002

Greg Kuscera Gallery States of the Union: Before and After September 5-28, 2002

2002

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery Bill Owens Suburbia, October 25 November 30, 2002

Robert Koch Gallery, Obsession July 13-August 31, 2002

Paul Morris Gallery, Bill Owens Suburbia Color Photographs, January 27-March 10 , 2001

2001

Paul Morris gallery “It’s a wild party and we’re having a great time” December 13, 2001-January 12, 2002

Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France “Faut-il rajouter de la vie aux annees ou des annees s la vie” (“Should we add life unto years or years unto life” November 17-December 23, 2001

Jack Hanley Gallery, Bill Owens Photographs 1967-69 November 15 December 15, 2001

Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena per la Fotografia 2001 A proposito degli anni settanta: Bill Owens “Suburbia” October 7-January 6, 2002

Museum of Contempory Art, Denver. “Go Fish” September 21, 2000 January 6, 2001.

St Louis Art Museum, Photographs from the 1960s and 1970s from the permenent collection. July 10-September 30, 2001

Smithsonian Institution, ‘Game Face-What Does a Woman Athlete Look Like?” July. 2000

L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfort, Germany, ‘Places and People’ March 31-May 12, 2001

Oakland Museum of California, Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography 1850-2000, March 3-May 27, 2001

1998

Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Bill Owens

1996

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, Suburbia Vintage Prints

1995

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bill Owens Suburban Selections

1994

American Fine Arts, New York, Photographs from Suburbia, Our Kind of People and Working

1983

The Art Museum Association San Francisco, Best of Bill Owens (traveled 1983-85)

1982

University of New Mexico, Bill Owens-traveling exhibition (1982-3)

1981

Biennale of Venezie,Italy, Home=Family?

1980

La Photo galeria, Madrid, Bill Owens

1979

Oregon Gallery, Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon: Working

1978

Museum of Modern Art , New York, Mirrors and windows: American Photography Since 1960

1977

Showa, Tokyo, Japan, Suburbia

1976

Dalhhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bill Owens: Suburbia

1975

Mills College, Western Art Association, Oakland, Ca (traveled for 2 years)

1973

De Young Museum, San Francisco New Bay Area Photographers

1965

Institute of Jamaica, Jamaica , West Indies -Bill Owens Village Life