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BIOGRAFIE
| 1945 | Born in Newport Beach, CA |
| 1969 | BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 1970 – 1972 | Instructor for Photography at the Pamona College (CA) and at the California Insitute of Arts, Valencia |
| 1971 | MFA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA |
| 1972 – 2003 | Several guest professorships at European and US-american universities and art colleges |
| 1973 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowhip Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1976 | Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1977 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowhip |
| 1977 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship |
| 1980 | US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship |
| 1991 | Charles Pratt Memorial Award |
| 2004 | Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2013 | Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo) |
| 2012 | Carl Andre/Lewis Baltz, Tate Modern, London, GB Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (solo) |
| 2011 – 2012 | Photography Calling! Fotografie und Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany |
| 2011 | DC Bonus, Groupshow of the galleries Schmidt Maczollek, Michael Wiesehöfer and Galerie Thomas Zander, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, 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 Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point, Art Unlimited / Art Basel, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo) Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA (solo) |
| 2010 – 2011 | Hyper Real - Realismen in Malerei und Fotografie, MUMOK, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria |
| 2010 | Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008], Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Anonymous America: photography and film, Le Bal, Paris, France Sunless (Journeys in Alta California since 1933), Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK Lewis Baltz / Donald Judd, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo) MOCA’s First Thirty Years, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA The View from Here, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / LACMA, Los Angeles, USAIdentité(s)/ Territorialité(s), TRAFIC - FRac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France The Park City Portfolio, UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA (solo) |
| 2009 | Several Silences, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL Nighttown, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA Into the Sunset, Photography's Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York Life is stranger than fiction, FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadforum, Innsbruck, Austria THIS SIDE OF PARADISE : LOS ANGELES (1865-2008), Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland Seventies, le choc de la photographie américaine, BNF - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France |
| 2008 | Lewis Baltz: 1989-91 Sites of Technology, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo) Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and Modern Photographic Utopia, MACBA, Barcelona, Museum Colecçao Berardo Context: Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas (with works by Olivo Barbieri and Stephen Dean), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA Jennifer Bornstein Selects From the Grunwald Collection, Hamme Museum, University of California, Los 20th Century Photography, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City, Japan Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art, MOMA, New York D'Impossibles Trendezvous-Biennale de St. Denis, Paris American Photography les Annees 70, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris Lewis Baltz, Andrew Roth, New York (solo) |
| 2007 | Museo Civici di Modena, Modena, Italy (solo) Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo) Ingenuity, Calouste Golbenkian Center, Lisbon, Portugal Life is Stranger Than Fiction, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria Views of Water, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Des fantomes et des anges, Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France Art for Yale: Collecting for the 21st Century, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT |
| 2006 | Lewis Baltz: Desert of Disintegration, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo) Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremererhaven, Germany (solo) Tempo Moderno, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy TRANS EMILIA. Collection Linea di Confine, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and SKStiftung, Cologne |
| 2005 | Candlestick Point (1989) and Prototype Works (1966-1976), Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo) STEIDL China Launch and Photography Exhibition , Timezone 8 Editions , Beijing, RC The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection , National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA |
| 2004 | Sites of Technology, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne (solo) Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Cruel and Tender; the Real in 20th Century Photography, The Tate Modern, London, UK; The Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany |
| 2002 | Visions From America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Neue Topografik, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Gremany (solo) Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (solo) Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo) University Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (solo) |
| 2001 | Was wäre wenn, Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany (solo) Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA (solo) CTRL SPACE Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Le moment conteporain de la fabrique du paysage, Institute Franco-Japoniaise, Tokyo Luoghi come paessagi/Places as Landscape II, Palazzo Reale, Napoli |
| 2000 | Afterimages, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland How You Look At It, Spengel Museum Hannover, circulating to Staedl Museum, Frankfurt Identification of a Landscape, Assessori di Cultura Commune de Venezia |
| 1999 | Lewis Baltz: Prototype Works, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo) Boys 'N Girls, Dirty Windows Gallery, Berlin, Germany Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium The American Century Whitney Museum, New York Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria Views from the End of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York Changement d’air, Musee d’art moderne Lille Metropole |
| 1998 | Generic Night Cities, Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Lewis Baltz: Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de Nuit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1997 | Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer, Museum Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Artists’ Position on the Industrial Landscape, Museum Grassi, Leipzig, Germany |
| 1996 | Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Gallery RAM, Santa Monica, CA Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Stories of Desire and Power, Galerie Angelo Falzone, Mannheim, Germany Galerie Andres Weiss, Berlin, Germany Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany The Perpetual Mirage, Whitney Museum of American Art Homo Ecologicus. Fondacion Juan Miro, Barcelona Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| 1995 | Works 1979-1994, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humelbaek, Denmark (solo) Esthetiques de l'Ordinaire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France Janet Borden Inc., New York, NY Ars 95, Atheneum, Helsinki Le Monde Apres La Photographie, Musee d'art moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, and Villa Arson, Nice Photography After Photography, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, Museum für Fotografie Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1994 | La Ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France The Act of Seeing (Urban Space) Foundation pour l'Architecture, Brussels |
| 1993 | Critical Landscapes, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Photographs From the Real World, Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway Photoplay: Works from The Chase Manhattan Collection. Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo) Rule Without Exception, Fotomuseum, Winterhur, Switzerland (solo) |
| 1992 | Ronde de Nuit, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Seibu Contemporary Art, Tokyo (solo) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo) Wasteland, Rotterdam Biennial III. Catalogue |
| 1991 | Images of Excellence, International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (solo) John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (solo) Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA(solo) University of Maryland, Baltimore (solo) |
| 1990 | The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning, International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Rule Without Exception, New York Institute of Contemporary Art P.S.1, New York (solo) Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990, ICA Philadelphia |
| 1989 | Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo) Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Dialectical Landscapes: Nuovo Passagio Americano, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy |
| 1987 | Modern Photography and Beyond, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung, Museum Ludwig Cologne Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1986 | Newport Harbor Art Museum |
| 1985 | Paris-New York-Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum, Tokyo Photography in California, 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo) Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (solo) |
| 1984 | Photography in California 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Matrix, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkley, CA (solo) |
| 1981 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (solo) Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo) |
| 1980 | Photographie als Kunst: Kunst als Photographie, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria Werkstatt für Photographie, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
| 1979 | Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (solo) American Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo) |
| 1978 | Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 1977 | Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1976 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC , Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Baltimore Museum of Art; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (solo) |
| 1975 | Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo) New Topographics, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y Philadelphia College of Art IXe Biennale de Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris |
| 1974 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo) |
| 1973 | Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo) |
| 1971 | Castelli Graphics, New York, NY (solo) |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland St. Louis Museum of Art Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Victoria and Albert Museum, London Wellesley College Art Museum, Wellesley, MA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Simon Museum, Pasadena Oakland Museum Palazzo Fortuny, Venice Philadelphia Museum of Art Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Power Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Minneapolis Institute of Art Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts, Boston und weitere |
