Artworks by Henry Wessel at Rena Bransten Gallery on artnet

Henry Wessel

(American, 1942–2018)

Henry Wessel

Night Walk L.A. #41, 1996

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Henry Wessel

Waikiki No. 7, 1978

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Henry Wessel

Waikiki No. 1, 1979

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Henry Wessel

Waikiki No. 9, 1979

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Henry Wessel

San Francisco Bay, California, 1989

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Henry Wessel

Untitled

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Biography

Timeline

1942: Born in Teaneck, New Jersey
1966: Pennsylvania State University, B.A.
1971: John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1972: State University of New York at Buffalo/Visual Studies Workshop, M.F.A.
1975: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1977: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1978: National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant
1979: John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
: Lives and works in Point Richmond, California

Exhibitions

2011: Vintage Work, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
: Waikiki, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Seismic Shift, UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, USA
: Here, Pier 24 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, USA
: Sammlung Falckenberg, Phoenix Hallen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
: Hyper Real - Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, SK-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany
2010 - 2011: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria
: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art /LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA
2010: Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008], Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur- Saone, France
2009 - 2010: Henry Wessel - Photographs, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
: Henry Wessel - Photographs, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
2009: THIS SIDE OF PARADISE : LOS ANGELES (1865-2008), Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2008: Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Celebrity, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
: Dialogues & Attitudes, Ludwig Museum, Cologne and Budapest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
: Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Die Photographische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2007: Re-SITE-ing the West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art /LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA
: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006: The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now), Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2005: Gary Winogrand and American Street Photographers Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, and Henry Wesse", foam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
: Tree, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA2005 "Amerikanische Street Photography," Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
: Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
: women, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
: The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Landscape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: About the House: From Architecture to the Domestic, Howard House, Seattle, WA
: Ditto: Multiples from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: From House to Home: Picturing Domesticity, Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
2004: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2003 - 2004: The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now), California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003: Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2002: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
: American Standard (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001: Masterpieces of California Photography: Capturing Light, 1850-2000, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
: Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
2000 - 2001: MOMA 2000, Modern Starts: People, Places, Things, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2000: Walker Evans & Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Ditto, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1999: Gallery Luisotti Santa Monica (solo)
1998: Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1997: Icons; Magnets of Meaning, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
1996: Gallery Ram, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
1993: Critical Landscape, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo, Japan
1992: Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco (solo)
1991: Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1989: Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco (solo)
1988: International Museum of Photography Osaka, Japan
: Road and Roadside: American Photographs, 1930-1986, , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
: Min Gallery Tokyo (solo)
: International Museum of Photography Osaka (solo)
: Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987: Photographs from the Last Decade, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
1984: Photography in California: 1945-1986, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
1981: American Landscapes; Photogrpahs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
: Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco (solo)
1977: Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (solo)
1976: Grossmont College San Diego
1975: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, International Museum of Photography Rochester, NY
1973: Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY, USA (solo)

Public Collections

: FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
: California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
: Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA/ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Britain
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Literature

2011: Henry Wessel, Waikiki, Steidl, Göttingen
2007: Henry Wessel, Steidl, Göttingen
2006: Henry Wessel: California and the West; Odd Photos; Las Vegas; Real State Photographs; Night Walk (Five paperbacks in slipcase, limited edition of 1,500 copies) Steidl Publishers

Henry Wessel

(American, 1942–2018)

Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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