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Henry Wessel    (American, 1942)

 Henry Wessel - Pismo Beach, CA (Photographs) h: 16 x w: 20 in / h: 40.6 x w: 50.8 cm
Henry Wessel
Pismo Beach, CA 1974
 
 Henry Wessel - San Francisco, 1973 (Photographs) h: 24 x w: 20 in / h: 61 x w: 50.8 cm
Henry Wessel
San Francisco, 1973
 
 Henry Wessel - Santa Barbara (Photographs) h: 20 x w: 24 in / h: 50.8 x w: 61 cm
Henry Wessel
Santa Barbara 1977
 
 Henry Wessel - Vista Del Mar (Photographs) h: 20 x w: 24 in / h: 50.8 x w: 61 cm
Henry Wessel
Vista Del Mar 1995
 
  

Biography
Born in Teaneck, NJ, 1942
Education
1972 State University of New York at Buffalo/Visual Studies Workshop, M.F.A.
1966 Pennsylvania State University, B.A.
Awards
1979 John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant
1977 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1971 John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

Exhibitions
2007 Die Photographische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2007 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2007 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2007 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007 Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007 Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007 "Dialogues & Attitudes" Ludwig Museum, Cologne and Budapest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2007 "Celebrity" Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2006 "The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now)," Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2005 "Gary Winogrand and American Street Photographers Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, and Henry Wessel", foam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2005 "Tree," Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA2005 "Amerikanische Street Photography," Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2005 "Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2005 "women," Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2005 "The Anniversary Show," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 "Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise," Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
2005 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2004 "From House to Home: Picturing Domesticity," Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
2004 "Ditto: Multiples from the Collection," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2004 "About the House: From Architecture to the Domestic," Howard House, Seattle, WA
2004 "Landscape," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 - 2004 "The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now)," California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003 "Scenery," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2002 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2002 "American Standard (Para) Normality and Everyday Life," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "Masterpieces of California Photography: Capturing Light, 1850-2000," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
2001 "Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California," Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000," The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000 - 2001 "MOMA 2000, Modern Starts: People, Places, Things," Museum of Modern Art, NY
2000 "Walker Evans & Company," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000 "Ditto," James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1999 Gallery Luisotti Santa Monica
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
1997 Icons; Magnets of Meaning, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
1993 Critical Landscape, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo, Japan
1991 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1988 International Museum of Photography Osaka, Japan
1988 Road and Roadside: American Photographs, 1930-1986, , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
1987 Photographs from the Last Decade, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
1987 Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987 International Museum of Photography Osaka
1987 Min Gallery Tokyo
1984 Photography in California: 1945-1986, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
1981 American Landscapes; Photogrpahs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1981 Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco
1976 Grossmont College San Diego
1975 New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, International Museum of Photography Rochester, NY
1973 Museum of Modern Art NY
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