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Introduction

Joel-Peter Witkin was born in New York in 1939. His Jewish father was an immigrant from Lithuania and his Catholic mother was from Italy. He has a son and a twin brother, Jerome-Paul Witkin, who is a well-known painter.

Witkin's parents divorced when he was a child because of religious differences. After primary schooling at Saint Cecilia's in Brooklyn he went to Grover Cleveland High School. During his military service he was assigned to various reporting tasks and received basic training in photography. Despite a persistent legend, and the fact that Vietnam War was in full swing at the time, Witkin was not sent to the battlefields as a war correspondent, but was asked to document everyday life of regiment base in Europe and elsewhere, particularly the rate of accidents and suicides.


When he left the army, he studied art at the Cooper Union, and earned a Bachelor of Art degree. In 1974 he received a grant from the University of Colombia. He then moved to Albuquerque (New Mexico), where he still lives today, and enrolled at the University of New Mexico. He graduated as a Master of Fine Arts.

This was when his career as a photographer began in earnest.

Witkin has often recounted his early research and the way he began to use staged photography and abnormal models, recruited through chance encounters or through classified ads. In particular he talks about his time with a freak show, and making friends with his stars. He subsequently developed a highly individual style of photography and printmaking. He does his own printing, making only a few copies, and takes few photographs.

Although he is not a reporter or event photographer, he travels widely. He is receptive to different cultures and the atmosphere that emanates from them. He takes photographs in many different countries, systematically setting the stage with great attention to details.

Witkin's artistic culture is immense, and his knowledge of the plastic vocabulary and themes of great art - classical and modern - transpires in his choices of subjects, staging, and viewing angles. He sometimes reinterprets works by classical painters such as Goya, Courbet, Manet... Whether clearly stated in the titles or merely an underlying presence, this element is a constant in his oeuvre.

Instead, he applies collage effects manually on the final print. The image is thought out beforehand, usually prepared with meticulous pencil or charcoal drawings. The highly individual elaboration of the image, that makes his photographs immediately identifiable, is done during the printing stage. He has developed great skill with a number of very personal procedures (scratching, tearing or standing the negative, inserting filters and various obstacles between the support and the enlarger), and will go to any lengths in his printing methods. He enters the darkroom, and does not stop working until he achieves the perfect print. This is a particularly crucial point, because many photographers delegate this phase of production to a printer: for Witkin the material process of creation is of capital importance. What Witkin exhibits is certainly a "subject", but it is also a very substance of the photograph, an object in itself. What Manet did for painting, that is, demonstrate the importance of the paint and the canvas beyond themes and anecdotes, Witkin does for photography.


Video of the exhibition 'The Soul Has No Gender'

Biography

Joel-Peter Witkin was born in 1939 in Brooklyn, New York.
He lives and works in Albuquerque, NM, USA.



SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

 2022

  • Madonnas, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Lumina Gallery, Oslo, Norway

 


2021

 

  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Lumina Gallery, Oslo, Norway


2019

  • Mythologies of Gods and Men, La Chapelle, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, FR
  • ICON, Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, FR with baudoin lebon & Etherton Gallery
  • From the Studio, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA

 

 

2018

  • Splendor and Misery, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, USA


2017

  • The World is Not Enough, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, USA
  • The Soul Has No Gender I, baudoin lebon, Paris FR
  • Photographs 1980-2016, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
  • The Soul Has No Gender II, Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, FR

 

2016

  • Galeria de arte Michel Soskine, Madrid, ES
  • Witkin & Witkin, Foto Quatro Caminos Museum, Mexico City, MEX
  • The World is Not Enough, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, USA
  • Gallery Hitawsky, Berlin, DE

 

2015

  • The World is not Enough, Galerie Hiltawsky, Berlin, DE
  • Musée Gu-Cang, Lanzhou, PRC
  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Paolo Gioli, baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Rita Castellote Gallery, Madrid, ES
  • Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, IT
  • The Despair of The Soul, exhibition 1, Ofoto Gallery & Anart, Shanghai, PRC
  • Witkin and Witkin, Cuatro Caminos Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2014

  • Joel Peter Witkin Photolux Festival, Lucca, IT
  • Love and Other reasons, Galerie Keitelman, Brussels, BE
  • Twin Visions : Joel & Jerome Witkin, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA
  • Museet For Fotokunst, Odense, DK

 

2013

  • Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
  • Topographie de l'Art Fondation-Esprit de Corps, Paris, France
  • Il maestro dei suoi maestri, Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia, Florence, IT
  • PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, IT
  • Vanitas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
  • Retrospective, Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière, Geneva, CH

 

2012

  • Enfer ou ciel, French National Library (BNF), Paris, FR
  • History of the White World, baudoin lebon, Paris, FR


2011

  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Ca' di Fra' Galleria, Milano, IT
  • Bodies, Fotografiska, Stockholm, SE
  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Counterfactuals, galerie baudoin lebon, Paris, France


2010

  • The Brno House of Art, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Museum Jamek, Vaso, Poland
  • Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Galerie baudoin lebon, Paris, France
  • Castillo I Sehie, IT
  • Minshar School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel


2009

  • Nordic Light Festival, Kristiansund, NO
  • Itaù Cultural, Sao Paolo, BR


2008

  • Poetic Realism, Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA
  • Poetic Realism, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
  • Galerie baudoin lebon, Paris, France


2007

  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza, IT
  • Galleria Ca di Fra, Milan, IT
  • Human Kind, baudoin lebon, Paris, FR


2006

  • Vintage Work, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, USA
  • Recent works, Le Café Français, Brussels, BE
  • Recent works, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (Mois de la Photo), FR
  • Recent works, Espace Jules Valles, Saint Martin d'Hyères, FR


2005

  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Recent Image, Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, USA
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
  • Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, USA
  • Compassionate Beauty, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • Heart beats dust, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Heart beats dust, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, RU


2004

  • Heart Beats Dust, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, USA
  • Heart Beats Dust, baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Galerie Clave, Murcie, ES


2003

  • Phonology Gallery, Milano, Italy
  • Galerie Aizpuru, Madrid, ES
  • Galerie Le Garage, Toulouse, FR
  • Circulo de Bellas Artes (Photo Spain Festival), Madrid, ES


2002

  • Infitnito Gallery, Torino, Italy
  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Compassionate Beauty, Stadtmuseum, Iena, DE
  • Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, USA
  • Mystery of Presence, baudoin lebon, Paris, FR


2001

  • In and Out Of Life, Joel-Peter Witkin, Galerie Art Concern, Courtrai, BE
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Pghotographs from the Stephan Janssen Collection, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tempe, USA
  • Joel-Peter Witkin, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Disciple and Master, Hôtel Sully, Paris, France
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Recent Work, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • “JoelPeter Witkin: Unpublished and Unseen”, Centro Portugese de Fotographia, Coimbra, Portugal
  • “JoelPeter Witkin: Unpublished and Unseen”, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, Greece
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Life and Death, Parno, Estonia
  • Etherton Gallery, Tucson, USA


2000

  • baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Witkin, disciple et maître, Patrimoine Photographique, Hôtel Sully, Paris, FR
  • Centre d'Art, Pärno, EE


1999

  • Slovenska Madrona Gallery, Bratislava, SI
  • Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  • Galerie baudoin lebon, Paris, France
  • Camera Work Gallery, San Fransisco Gallery
  • Musée d'Art Contemporain, Strasbourg, France


1998

  • Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
  • Lege Ruimte Gallery, Gand, BE
  • Cultuur Centrum, Bruges, BE
  • Musée Hanlim, Seoul, KO


1997

  • Pace/Wildenstein/MacGill Gallery, New York., USA
  • Pace Wildenstein MacGill, Los Angeles, USA
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
  • Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Foto Massen, Goteborg, Sweden
  • baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Gallerie Objekete, Munich, Germany


1996

  • David Floria Gallery, Aspen Colorado, USA
  • Megan Fox Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
  • Fotology Gallery, Milano, Italy
  • Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
  • Econtros de Fotogragia, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Gallerie Objekete, Munich, Germany


1995

  • Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
  • Interkamera, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
  • Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japan
  • Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
  • Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
  • baudoin lebon, Paris, FR


1994

  • Galerie De La Tour, Bâle, CH
  • La Tour Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
  • Mokka Gallery, Reykjavik, IS


1993

  • Cahors Museum, Cahors, FR
  • Galerie De La Tour, Bâle, CH
  • Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
  • Catherine Edelman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japon
  • Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest, Hongrie


1992

  • Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
  • University of Illinois, Chapaign-Urbana, USA


1991

  • Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
  • Fraeknel Gallery, San Fransisco, USA
  • Hamilton's Gallery, Londres, UK
  • Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israël


1989

  • Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
  • Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • National Center for Photography, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
  • Fraeknel Gallery, San Fransisco, USA
  • Hamilton's Gallery, Londres, UK
  • Galerie baudoin lebon, Paris, France
  • Dart Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • Museum fur Fotographie und Zeitkunst, Bremen, Allemagne
  • Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Palau Sellerie, Palma, Spain


1988

  • Tartt Gallery, Washington, USA
  • Brent Sikkema Gallery, Boston, USA
  • Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, FI
  • Rotterdam Biennal, NL
  • Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid Spain

 

1987

  • University of Illinois at Carbondale, Carbondale, USA
  • Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego  (MCASD), La Jolla, CA, USA
  • Watari Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  • baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
  • Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
  • La Jolla Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA


1986

  • The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • Anderes Ufer, Berlin, DE
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  • Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin, DE
  • baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Colombia College, Chicago, USA


1985

  • Forty Photographs, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, ILL, USA
  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
  • American Images : Photography 1945-1980 , Barbican Gallery, London, UK
  • Aspen Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
  • Watari Gallery (catalogue) Tokyo, Japan
  • Galerie Texbraun, Grand Palais, FIAC '85 (catalogue), Paris, France
  • Institute Franco-American (catalogue), Paris, France
  • Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
  • Butler Gallery, Houston, SUA


1984

  • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
  • Pace/MacGill Gallery


1983

  • Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Hasselt, Belgiium
  • Fraenkel gallery, San Fransisco, USA
  • Stedeljik Museum (catalogue), Amsterdam, Hollande
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas CIty, USA


 

1982

 

  • Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France
  • San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, USA


 

1980

 

  • Projects Studio One, New York, USA
  • Cooper Union School of Fine Art, New York, USA

 


1976

  • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA


 

1972

 

  • Cooper Union School of Fine Art, New York, USA

 


 

1969

  • The Moore Collection of Art, Philadelphie, USA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • Canova: Innocence and Sin, Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, IT

2021

 

  • Chimères, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
  • La Suite, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentine

 


2020

  • L'antichambre, act 2, baudoin lebon, Hôtel La Nouvelle République, Paris, FR
  • Dream House, Photo Basel online, baudoin lebon, Basel, CH

 

2019

  • Drawing the Line, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA


2017

  • AIPAD, baudoin lebon, New York, USA
  • Art Busan, baudoin lebon, Busan, KO
  • Photo Basel, baudoin lebon, Basel, CH
  • KIAF, baudoin lebon, Séoul, KO

 

2016

  • Alexander McQueen - Savage Beauty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • AIPAD, baudoin lebon, New York, USA
  • Shadowlands, Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, USA
  • Botticelli Reimagined, Victoria & Albertmuseum (Londres, UK), Gemalde Galerie (Berlin, DE)
  • Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
  • Surreal and Unreal, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

 

2015

  • Âmes qui vivent, baudoin lebon, Paris, USA
  • PhotoLux Festival Internazionale di Fotografia, Sacro e profano, Guest of Honour, Luccia, IT
  • Art & Food, Milano Triennal, commissaire : Germano Celent, IT
  • De-Formations, Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA
  • Luxembourg Art Week, Halle Victor Hugo, LU
  • Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtor Hallen Museum, Hambourg, DE

 

 

2014

  • Hysteria, baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Twin Visions, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Art Elysées, avec baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • Paris Photo, avec Edelman Gallery, Paris, FR
  • Between Subject and Object, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Vanitas, La collection Stéphane Janssen, Phoenix Art Museum, USA

 

 

2013

  • Lunch with Manet, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, USA
  • Art O'Clock, avec baudoin lebon, Paris, FR
  • The Unseen Eye, George Eastman House, New York, USA
  • Esprits de Corps, commissaire : Martine Lusardy, Topographie de l'Art, Paris, FR
  • Summa Art Fair, Madrid, ES
  • Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

 

2012

  • Art O'Clock, Paris, FR
  • Silent Hill, curators : Fanny Giniès & Julia Javel, Galerie Chappe, Paris, FR
  • Photography as Fiction, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  • Paris Photo, Paris, FR

 

2011

  • Selections From Collections, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC, NY
  • Fundacio Stam Peli, Barcelona, ES
  • L.A. Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
  • Maison européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR
  • Galerie Maeght, Paris, FR

 

2010

  • Decadence Now!, The Brno House of Art, Prague, CZK
  • C'est la vie, Musée Maillol, Paris, FR

 


2009

 

  • Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Corée du Sud
  • Musée Ingres, Montauban, FR
  • Abbaye d'Auberive, FR
  • Bestiaire imaginaire, baudoin lebon, Paris, FR

 


2008

 

  • 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, USA
  • Musée Picasso, Barcelone, ES
  • Extraordinary Bodies, The Mutter Museum, Philadelphie, USA

 


 

2007

  • The Nude, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA


 

2006

  • Masks, Museum Photo, Youngwol, Corée du Sud


 

2004

 

  • Beautiful Grotesques, Riva Gallery, New York, USA


 

2002

 

  • The Nature of Still Life: From Fox Talbot to the Present Day, Galleria d?Arte Moderna, Bologne, IT
  • The Image of Jesus Christ in Photography, The Fotografie Forum: Museum of Modern Art, Francfort, DE
  • Art Since 1850, An Introduction To The Collection, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA



2000

  • Animal, Musée Bourdelle, Paris, FR
  • 2000 ans de création d?après l?Antique, Musée du Louvre, Paris, FR
  • Drôles de bestioles, Centre photographique d'Île-de-France, Pontault-Combault, FR
  • Le siècle du corps, Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, CH
  • Pourquoi faites-vous cette tête-là ?, Galerie Sabine Puget, Paris, FR
  • Ecce Homo, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
  • Psycho, Ann Faggionto Gallery, Londres
  • Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Elton John collection, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
  • Postmodern Hereticcs: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art, Siena Heights Univeristy, Michigan, USA

 

1998

  • Rosso Vivo, Padiglione d'Arte-Contemporanea, Milan, Italie
  • The Missing Link, Kunstmuseum, Bern, CH
  • The Elton John Collection, High Museum, Atlanta, USA
  • Love and Desire, between Neoclassicism and Neuroticism, Photology, Milan, IT
  • Rattling, the Frale, the Photographic Space, JPW, Unpublished and Unseen Work, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, USA

 

1998

  • Taboo: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, USA
  • Photography's Multiple Roles, Museum of contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
  • 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, USA
  • Corps à vif, Art et Anatomie, Museum of Art and History, Genève, CH
  • The Body in the Mirror- Photography Today, Photographic Center of Skopelos, Skopelos, GR
  • Autour du sport, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, FR


1997

 

  • Body Fictions: Reinventing Anatomy, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
  • The Mythic Image, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
  • Rear View, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, USA
  • The Quick and the Dead, Hayward Gallery, London, England
  • Transvestism Identity in the Arts, Koldo Mitelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
  • Photography and the Classical Nude, Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, USA
  • Contemporary Photography in France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

 

1996

 

  • Neo-Masters, Greg Kucrea Gallery, Seattle, USA
  • La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 1955 - 1995, Paris, France
  • DOUBLE VUE, fondation Cartier, Paris, France

 


1995

  • Interkamera Photo Festival, Prague, Czech Republic


 

1994

 

  • Still Pictures/Still Life, University of Rhode Island, Providence, USA
  • Photo Dessin/Dessin Photo, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France

 


 

1993

 

  • Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, Museo de Art Contemporanea, Rufino, Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexique
  • Magicians of Light, Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada

 


1992

 

  • Quotation, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, USA
  • Photography and Sculpture, Tokyo Palace, Tokyo, Japan
  • Objets O Trouvé d'Artiste, Galerie Urbi, Paris, France
  • The Crucifixion Through the Modern Eye, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Morgana, USA


 

1989

 

  • On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery Art, Washington, USA
  • The Photography of Invention, National Museum of American Art, Washington, USA


 

1987

 

  • Crosscurrents, Forty Years of Photographic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
  • Master America Photographs 1910 to 1986, Whitney Equitable, New York, USA 


 


 

1986

 

  • Sacred Images in Secular Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
  • Signs of the Times: Soime Recurring Motifs in Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  • The Sacred and the Sacrilegious, Photographic Recourse Center, Boston, USA
  • Art Quest, Parsons Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
  • The Biennial of Sydney (catalogue), Sydney, Australia
  • Das Artfoto: The Nude in Photography, Munchner Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany

 


 

1985

 

  • The Sam Wagstaff Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
  • American Images: Photography, 1945 - 1980, Barbican Art Gallery, Londres, Angleterre, (travelling catalogue)
  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

 



 

1984

 

  • Hirshorn Tenth Anniversary Exhibition of World Art, Washington, USA
  • Biennial, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA


 


 

1983

 

  • Houston Center of Photography, Houston, USA
  • Personal Choice, Victorian and Albert Museum, London, England


 


 

1982

 

  • Mois de la photo, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
  • Form, Freud and Feeling, San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  • Staged Photo Events, Rotterdam Kunstichting, Holland
  • New American Photography, Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France


 

1980

  • Contemporary Photographers of New Mexico, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA


 

1977

 

  • Soho Center of Visual Arts, (C.A.P.S)
  • Photoerotica, San Francisco Camera Work, San Francisco, USA
  • Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, USA


 

1976

  • FOTOMUSEUM, Winterthur, Switzerland



public collections

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, FR

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR

National Fund for Contemporary Art, Paris, FR

European House of Photography, Paris, FR

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, FR

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES

Museo d'arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, ES

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, JP

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

Columbia College, Chicago, USA

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, USA

Library of Congress, USA

Los Angeles County Moseum of Art (LACMA), CA, USA

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

New-Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., USA

National Gallery, Toronto, Canada

National Museum, Bogota, CO

Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA

Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, USA

The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN, USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX, USA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA

Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

 

The Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA

Exhibitions

Henry LEWIS / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Bettina RHEIMS / Wilhelm von GLOEDEN / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Pierre MOLINIER / Bettina RHEIMS / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Lisette MODEL / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Vicky COLOMBET / Juliette-Andréa ELIE / Karen FARKAS / Tschang-Yeul KIM / Sol LEWITT / Elissa MARCHAL / Youssef NABIL / Laurent PERBOS / Keiji UEMATSU / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Peter KNAPP / Lisette MODEL / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Ayana V. JACKSON / Maya MERCER / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Paul HORST / Ayana V. JACKSON / Maya MERCER / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Ayana V. JACKSON / Chrystèle LERISSE / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Jeanloup SIEFF / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND / Lisette MODEL / Louis-Rémy ROBERT / Tomas VAN HOUTRYVE / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Ayana V. JACKSON / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Lisette MODEL / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND / BRASSAÏ / Juliette-Andréa ELIE / André KERTESZ / Chrystèle LERISSE / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Willy RONIS / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Alain CLEMENT / Karen FARKAS / Charles Christopher HILL / Tschang-Yeul KIM / Mi-Hyun KIM / H.K KWON / Francis LIMERAT / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Joel-Peter WITKIN
Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND / Juliette-Andréa ELIE / Ayana V. JACKSON / Arezu KARUBI / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Guglielmo PLUSCHOW / Wilhelm von GLOEDEN / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND / Yves GELLIE / Ayana V. JACKSON / Peter KNAPP / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Philippe PERRIN / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Etienne CARJAT / Juliette-Andréa ELIE / Ayana V. JACKSON / Gustave LE GRAY / Etienne-Jules MAREY / Eadweard J. MUYBRIDGE / Adrien TOURNACHON / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Paul Delvaux / DUBUFFET / Sol LEWITT / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Lisette MODEL / Germaine RICHIER / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Gilles Desrozier / Ayana V. JACKSON / André KERTESZ / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Patrick WILLOCQ / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Paolo Gioli / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Javier BALMASEDA / Luciano Castelli / Chu Teh Chun / Alain CLEMENT / Joël DUCORROY / Charles Christopher HILL / Tschang-Yeul KIM / Francis LIMERAT / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Ivan MESSAC / Evsa MODEL / Gloria Petyarre / Jaume PLENSA / Julian Schnabel / Sung-Hy SHIN / Vladimir SKODA / Antoni Tàpies / Joel-Peter WITKIN / A-Sun WU
Roger Ballen / Les KRIMS / Albert Londe / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Alain CLEMENT / Christian COURREGES / Yves GELLIE / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND / Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND / Gilles Desrozier / Les KRIMS / Chrystèle LERISSE / Rafael NAVARRO / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND / Edouard Boubat / Alain CLEMENT / Gilles Desrozier / Nathalie GRENIER / Michel KIRCH / Nicéphore Niepce / Willy RONIS / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Malala Andrialavidrazana / Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND / Christian COURREGES / Yves GELLIE / Ayana V. JACKSON / Peter KNAPP / Chrystèle LERISSE / Lisette MODEL / Félix Tournachon dit NADAR / Pierre-Louis PIERSON / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Alain CLEMENT / Gilles Desrozier / Nathalie GRENIER / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Charles AUBRY / Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Paul OUTERBRIDGE / Robert RAUSCHENBERG / Joel-Peter WITKIN

Publication

Joel-Peter Witkin - oeuvres récentes 1998-1999
artists :
author : Joel-Peter Witkin

editeur : Baudoin Lebon
langue : Français/Anglais
pays : France
pages : 70
format : 21 x 16 cm
reliure : Broché
prix public : 20 euros


Joel-Peter Witkin - Witkin
artists :

auteur : Guy Cogeval
editeur : Baudoin Lebon
langue : Français/Anglais
pages : 58
format : 21 x 15 cm
reliure : Broché
prix public : 20 ?