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Gregory Crewdson
CV
1962 Born in Brooklyn
Lives and works in New York
Education
1988 MFA, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1985 BFA, SUNY Purchase, NY
Awards
2004
Skowhegan Medal for Photography, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2008
Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses, White Cube, London
Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses, Gagosian, Los Angeles, CA
Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
2007
Fireflies, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY
Drawing on Hopper: Gregory Crewdson/Edward Hopper, Williams College Museum of Art,
Williams, MA
Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005, DA2. Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca; Hasselblad Center, Goteborg; Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
2006
Gregory Crewdson: Fotografien 1985-2005, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; Museen Haus Lange/ Haus Esters Krefeld, Krefeld; Fotomuseum Den Haag, Switzerland
Fireflies, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
Beneath the Roses, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beneath the Roses, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Beneath the Roses, White Cube, London
Beneath the Roses, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Twilight, First Center, Nashville, TN
2003
Gregory Crewdson. Dream House, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
New Work 6: Gregory Crewdson, Twilight, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
Gregory Crewdson, Twilight, White Cube, London, UK
Gregory Crewdson, Galleria D'Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy
2001
Gregory Crewdson: Photographs, SITE Santa Fe, NM
2000
Twilight, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Early Work 1987-88, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina
Gregory Crewdson: Disturbed Nature, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art Design, Vancouver
1999
Twilight, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Ginza Art Space, Shiseido Co., Tokyo, Japan
Surreal Suburbia, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1998
Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Mise-en-Scene: A Selected Survey of Photographs, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
H&R Projects, Brussels, Belgium
Gallerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
Twilight, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (travels to Salamanca in 1999)
1997
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1996
Ginza Artspace, Shiseido Co., Tokyo, Japan
1995
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jay Jopling / White Cube, London, UK
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
Gallerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
Les Images du Plastir, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Galerie des Carmes, La Fleche, France
1994
Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
1993
Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992
Houston Center for Photography, Houston
1991
Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
There is Something About These Pictures: Works from Collection Museum Frieder-Burda, Baden- Baden
2009
Tears of Eros, Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid
Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon – The Forbidden Gaze, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Of Other Spaces, Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio
FORMAT09 International Photography Festival, QUAD, Derby
Ophelia, Museum voor Moderne Kunst / mmka, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2008
Photographic works to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Summer in the City 2008, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The Implications of Image), Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Photoscapes, Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York City, NY
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Henry Buhl Collection, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2007
Family Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Contemporary Photography and the Garden - Deceits and Fantasies, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
A House is not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
“Dream & Trauma. Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens” Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
EXISTENCIAS, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Foto.Kunst: Contemporary Photography From the Essl Collection, Kunst Der Gegenwart, Essl Museum, Klosterneburg, Austria
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now!, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Mockumentaries, Winston Watcher, New York, NY
Jano. La doble cara de la fotografía, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens and Weiner, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
the BIG picture, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Vertigo: II Secolo Di Arte Off-Media Dal Futurismo Al Web, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
2006
The Magic Hour of Twilight, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Before the Camera, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Major Photography Show: A Donation by the Caisse des Dépôts, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Complicit! Contemporary American Art & Mass Culture, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Dark, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, NL (catalogue)
Garden Paradise, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, Curated by Lacy Davisson Doyle and Clare Weiss, New York, NY
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
I Love the Blurbs, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Fictions Abound, Fotogallery, Cardiff
Light in August, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Twilight: The Magic Hour, (travelling exhibit) V&A, London
Photography Portfolio I & II, Paula Cooper, Carolina Nitsch & The Merce Cunningham Dace Co., Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Canada
2005
Suspended Narratives, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Power of Places: The Berkshires, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Highlights New Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The World is a Stage. Stories Behind Pictures, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
My Own Cinema, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
I Never Thought What You Were Telling Me Was True or a Product of Your Imagination, Galeria Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Contemporary Photography in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Speaking with Hands, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
4. gegenwartig: Geschichtenzerzahler, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
The Real Ideal, Utopian Ideals and Dystopian Realities, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust, Sheffield
Embracing the Present: The USB Art Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2004
Ghost Stories. The Disembodied Spirit, Austin Museum of Art, TX
Dreamwavers, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Dwelling, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY
Behind Closed Doors, Collectors Celebrate The Museum's Golden Anniversary, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Everything's Gone Green Photography and the Garden, The Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK
Animals & Us. The Animal in Contemporary Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
Big Photos, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Sets & Situations. A New Visions Series Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Dream House, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2003
Not Afraid, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College of Art, North Hampton, MA
Reality/Fiction: (Re)Constructing Representation, Jamaica Center Art & Learning, Jamaica, NY
UnNaturally, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Disembodied Spirits, Bowdoin Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Passengers, Lisboa Photo, Lisbon, Portugal
Family Ties. A Contemporary Perspective, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Twilight, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Yard, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker.
Ed Rucha. Photographs: Recent Acquisitions Paintings and Sculptures, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
Imperfect Innocence, The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection," PBICA (Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
UnNaturally, Independent Curators International, New Travelling Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino
Fantastic, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
We Love Painting, The American Contemporary Art from Misumi Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, Independent Curators International, New York, NY
Contemporary American Photography 1970-2000, From the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea
Archivo Pons Artxiboa, Erakusketa - Exposicion, 45.zk.No.45, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
Fictions. New Narratives in Contemporary Photography and Video, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Vision From America: Photographs From the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Looking at America, Yale University Gallery, CT
Moving Pictures, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Art Downtown, Wall Street Rising, New York, NY
Some Options in Realism, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Lobby Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
A Thousand Hounds. A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography, UBS PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, NY
Staged! Contemporary Photography Gregory Crewdson, Rosemary Laing, Sharon Lockhart, Contemporary Art, Worcester Art Museum, MA
Situated Realities. Where Technology and Imagination Intersect, Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries, Baltimore, MD
2001
The Reality Effect, Contemporary American Photography, Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY
Photochrome, Current Contemporary Photography from New York City Galleries, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Cannan, CT
Bright Paradise, The First Auckland Triennial, University of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, curated by Louise Neri and Vince Aletti, White Cube, London UK; The City Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic
2000
Larry Clark/ Gregory Crewdson, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Contemporary Group Show, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium
Gregory Crewdson, Vik Muniz, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Spark Inc. Tokyo, Japan
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainsville, FL
Alfred Hitchcock, Musee des Beaux Arts De Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Photography Now, curated by S. Rubin, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Collector's Choice, curated by Ann Tenenbaum at Exit Art, New York, NY
Post-Historical Narrative in Contemporary Photography, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Art at MoMA since 1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Open Ends: Sets and Situations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
A Beastie Boys Exhibition, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
Before They Became Who They Are, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Affinities with Architecture, Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC; Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN; Anderson Gallery School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Under/Exposed, Varldens Storsta Fotoutstallning, Stockholms Tunnelbana, Sweden
Nature is not Romantic, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
As Far as the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art Gallery/City Gallery at Chastain in Atlanta, GA
Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Summer SurReality, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
Making It Real, (1997 - 1999), Independent Curators International, New York, NY; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
WILDflowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Shot: Una Visione Americanam, curated by Christiana Perrella, Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
Animal Artifice, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1998
Mysterious Voyages, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Collier Schorr, Apex, New York, NY
Pollution, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Telling Tales, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Pop Surrealism, organized by Harry Philbrick, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art, The Whiney Museum, New York, NY
Spectacular Optical, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (catalog)
The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York, NY
Veronica's Revenge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997
Gothic, ICA, Boston, MA
American Art Today: The Garden, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Nature Studies, Johnson County Community College, Santa Barbara, CA
The Set Up, Barbara Farber Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
97 Kwangju Biennale, Korea
Surrealism, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
Pictures This: Photographs from former and current faculty and staff of the Cooper Union School of Art, Cooper Union Foundation Building, New York, NY
Des Fleurs en Mai, Oeuvres de la collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire, Maison Billaud, Fontenay-le-Comte
To Be Real, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
A Thin Line, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Bard, NY
1996
Everything That's Interesting Is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Organized by the DESTE Foundation. Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverin, Frankfurt, Germany
Nature/Culture and the Postmodern Sublime, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard, NY
Carl Von..., Boras Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden
Perfect World, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Digital Gardens, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1995
The Set-Up, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington D.C.
Blind Spot, The MAC, Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, Dallas, TX
1995 Yamantaka Donation: An Exhibition of Photographs to Benefit Tibet House, Robert Miller, New York, NY (curated by Diego Cortez)
Hetrick-Martin Institute Benefit, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Brave New World, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Nature Studies: Gregory Crewdson, Adam Fuss, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
La Belle et La Bete, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
The Friendly Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Confronting Nature, Silences Voices, California State University, Fullerton, CA
On the Face of it, Fotofeis exhibition, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Fake Nature, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
Nature Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
Duchamp's Leg, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Faculty Work on Paper, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Photography at Berkeley Square, The City Bank Private Bank Collection, London, UK
1994
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Animal Farm, Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Psycho-pathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Nature Studies, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
A Garden, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
New Work, New Directions 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Photography Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Home Sweet Home and Other Fables, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Close Encounters, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
1993
Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Elizabeth Koury, New York, NY
Daydream Nation, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Dirty Birds, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
All the World's a Stage, Marsha Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (curated by Kenneth Goldsmith)
The Bestiary, BlumHelman, New York, NY
Picturing Ritual, The Center for Photography, Woodstock; Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Wit on Rye: Humor in Photography, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1992
Our Town, Burden Galley, New York, NY
Set and Setting, Berland Hall Gallery, New York, NY
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
Perverse Nature, Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
White Columns, New York, NY
BlumHelman, New York, NY
1991
John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
"Pleasures and Terrors in Domestic Comfort," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Artist Projects
1999
Another Girl, Another Planet, Exhibition and catalogue organized by Gregory Crewdson and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, text by A.M. Homes. March 23 – April 17, 1999, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
Teaching Positions
1993-Present
Yale University, New Haven, CT
1993
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1993-1990
Cooper Union, New York
1993-1988
SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
1990
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Museum Collections
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
The Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
The Malba-Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The American Contemporary Art from Misumi Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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