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BIOGRAFIE
| 1936 | Born in Tuscaloosa, USA |
| 1954 – 1959 | Studied at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Arts in painting |
| 1958 – 1959 | Taught at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa |
| 1962 | Assistant professor of Art at Memphis State University. Began friendship with William Eggleston. First drawings and paintings for the "Klan Room." |
| 1967 | Moved to Washington D.C. |
| 1982 | Lyndhurst Foundation |
| 1994 | Art Matters, Inc., grant |
| 1996 | Recieved The University of Memphis Distinguished Achievement Award in Memory of Elvis Presley, Memphis, Tennessee |
| 2016 | gestorben |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2013 | William Christenberry, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, ES |
| 2012 | William Christenberry, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA William Christenberry:Assembled Memory, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
| 2011 | William Christenberry, Mark Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Aspects of Color, Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | Vintage Kodak Brownies, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C House and Car and, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY Photographs, 1961- 2005, Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery , Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Salem, NC |
| 2009 | day by day, dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, Germany Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA |
| 2008 | Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C. William Christenberry, Moody Gallery, Houston, USA |
| 2007 | Site/Possession, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA Photographer William Christenberry, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA 20/20 Vision, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, USA The Genius of the Place: Land and Identity in Contemporary A |
| 2006 | Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA William Christenberry: 35mm Kodachromes, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. William Christenberry: Trips & Recent Sculpture, Pace MacGill, New York; Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA William Christenberry: Alabama, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada La trajectoire du regard, Salle d'exposition du quai Antoine ler, Monaco, Monaco Tendenzen internationaler Fotografie, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany |
| 2005 | Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, USA American Classics, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany Regarding the Rural, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA |
| 2004 | Picturing the South, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, USA Best Of - Blick in die Sammlung, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany Seventies Color Photography, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Southern Images: Six Contemporary Photographers, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington D.C. The American Scene 2000, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany William Christenberry, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany |
| 2002 | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2001 | Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C. Changing Landscape: The Source Revisited, Kreeger Museum of Art, Washington D.C. William Christenberry: Architecture/Archetype, DAAP Gallery at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
| 2000 | Southern Exposure, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, USA Open Ends/MoMA 2000, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1962-2000, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Dixon Gallery, Memphis, USA American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Innovation and Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, USA William Christenberry: The Early Years, Belger Art District, Kansas City, USA The Klan Tableau, University of Kansas City Art Galleries, Kansas City, USA |
| 1999 | Carol Ehlers Gallery Ltd., Chicago, USA Carried to the Heart: Faith and Doubt in Contemporary Southern Photography, Millsaps College, Jackson, USA |
| 1998 | Southern Stories, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, USA William Christenberry: The Early Years (1954-1968), Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, USA |
| 1997 | The Early Years and Beyond, Phillips Collection; Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C. Photographien im Dialog, Photographischen Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kulture, Cologne, Germany |
| 1996 | The Early Works, 1954 to 1968, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, USA Reconstruction: William Christenberry’s Art, Center for Creative Photography and University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA |
| 1995 | Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C. |
| 1994 | Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, USA |
| 1993 | Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| 1992 | Southern Views, Moody Gallery, Houston, USA Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, USA Tartt Gallery, Washington D.C. Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, USA |
| 1991 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, USA |
| 1990 | Center for Cultural Studies, Gadsden, USA Southern Exposure, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA |
| 1989 | Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA |
| 1988 | Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA Memphis Center for Contemporary Art, Memphis, USA |
| 1987 | Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C. A Southern Perspective, Columbus Museum, Columbus, USA |
| 1986 | New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, USA Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA |
| 1985 | Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA |
| 1984 | Southern Monuments and Photographs, Moody Gallery, Houston, USA James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
| 1983 | Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C. Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, USA |
| 1982 | Southern Views, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA |
| 1981 | Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington D.C. |
| 1980 | Cronin Gallery, Houston, USA |
| 1979 | Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA |
| 1978 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
| 1977 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Sander Gallery, Washington D.C. State University of New York at Albany, University Art Gallery, Albany, USA |
| 1976 | Gallery of Art at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA Weatherspoon Art Gallery at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1973 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA The Octagon House, American Institute of Architects, Washington D.C. |
| 1971 | Henri II Gallery, Washington D.C. |
| 1963 | Memphis State University Gallery of Art, Memphis, USA |
| 1961 | Gallery of Art at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
| 2011 | Recieved Alice Denney Award, Washington Project for the Arts |
| 1998 | Honorary doctor of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa |
| 1989 | Alabama Prize |
| 1986 | Recieved "Excellence in an Artistic Discipline," Mayor's Art Award, Washington, D.C. 1985 Alabama Alumni Art Award, Society of Fine Art,University of Alabama, Alabama |
| 1984 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham / Alabama Smithsonian Institution, Washington Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington Middlebury College Museum of Art Kemper Museum, Kansas City Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia Center for Creative Photography, Tucson The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Maryland Yale University Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut The High Museum of Art, Atlanta,Georgia Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco California International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, Rochester, New York Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia Menil Collection, Houston, Texas Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York Smith College of Art, Amherst, Massachusetts Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
