Joel-Peter Witkin Biography

1939 Born in Brooklyn, NY
1974 CAPS Grant in Photography NYC
1977 Ford Foundation Grant
1982 Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1984 Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1986 Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1988 International Center of Photography Award
1991 The French Minister of Culture/awared by Jack Lang
1992 Natl Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1999 - 2000 Commander of the Legion of Honor, Paris

Selected Exhibitions

2007 "Human Kind," Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006 "Vintage Work," Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006 "Cite Internationale des Arts," Paris, France (solo)
2006 "Oeuvres recentes, Espace Jules Valles, Saint Martin d'Heres, Belgium (solo)
2005 Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2005 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2005 Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, AZ (solo)
2004 Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
2004 “Heart Beats Dust,” Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NYC,New York (solo)
2002 “The Nature of Still Life: From Fox Talbot to the Present Day”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2002 The image of Jesus Christ in Photography”, The Fotografie Forum: Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 Stadische Museen, Jena, Germany
2002 Infinito Gallery, Torino, Italy
2002 Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
2002 Ricco/Maresca, NYC, New York
2002 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Joel-Peter Witkin: Photographs from the Stephan Janssen Collection, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
2001 “Joel-Peter Witkin: In and Out of Life”, Art Concern Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2001 Joel-Peter Witkin Fahey/Klein gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 “Art Since 1850, an introduction to the Collection”, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
2000 Picture Photo Space Japan
1998 The Museum of Fine Arts & the Museum of N.M. Santa Fe, NM
1997 Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco, CA
1995 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
1995 Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco, CA
1993 Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco, CA
1993 Magicians of Light, National Gallery of Canada
1992 U. of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, IL
1989 On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, National Gallery of Art
1987 Crosscurrents: Forty Years of Photographic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1986 Sacred Images in Secular Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1986 Signs of the Times: Some Recuring Motifs in Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1986 Several Exceptionally Good, Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 The Sam Wagstaff Collection, International Center of Photography, NY
1985 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1983 Personal Choice, Victoria and Albert Museum London, England