Man Ray Self Portrait with Record, Lying down 1930
Biography
1890
Born in Philidelphia, PA as Emmanuel Radnitsky
1897
His family moved to Brooklyn, NY
1904
Entered high school
1910 - 1911
Began going to Ferrer Center, New York, NY
1912
Moved to Ridgefield, NJ
1915 - 1916
Participated in the New York Dada movement
1913 - 1919
Worked part-time as draughtsman for publisher of maps and atlases
1925
French and American editions of Vogue publish his fashion photographs
1921 - 1940
Lived and worked in Paris, France
1976
Died in Paris, France
Exhibitions
2009 - 2010
"Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo) "Man Ray: African art through the modernist lens", The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville,VA; University of British Columbia,Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2008
"Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia: The Moment Art Changed Forever", Tate Modern, London, UK
2006
"Man Ray in the Age of Electricity", Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY (solo) "Dada", Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2004
"Man Ray, from the collection of Ray’s assistant Lucien Triellard", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
2003
"Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray", Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray", Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, GA; Montclair Art Museum, NJ (solo) "Man Ray's Paris Portraits: 1921-39", Carosso Fine Art, New York, NY (solo) "The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences", The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
2002
"Man Ray: Voyeur/Voyant", Hillwood Art Museum, NY (solo) "Surrealism: Desire Unbound", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY,br>"Modernist Photographs by Herbert Bayer and Man Ray", Denver Museum of Art, CO
2000
"A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray, 100 prints from 1916-1950s", Walker Art Center, MN (solo)
1998 - 1999
"Man Ray: Photography and Its Double, retrospective", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France;International Center of Photography, New York, NY (solo) "A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray", J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo) "Comprehensive American Surrealism Exhibition", The Salvador Dali Museum, St.Petersberg, FL
1971
"Retrospective of 225 works from 1912-1971", Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy (solo)
1967
'Salute to Man Ray", American Center, Paris, France (solo)
1948
Bill Copley Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
1947
“Dreams that Money Can Buy”, film collaborated with Ernst, Duchamp, Calder, Milhaud, Léger, Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
1921
Galerie des Six, Paris, France
1920
"Painting by American Modernists", Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, CA
1919
Daniel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1917
Daniel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1915
Daniel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Selected Public Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC International Center of Photography, New York, NY The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain Tate Gallery, London, UK Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Literature
2003
Castant, Alexandre. Noire et blanche de Man Ray. New York: Scala, 2003
2002
L'Ecotais de, Emmanuelle. Man Ray rayographies. Paris, France: Léo Scheer, 2002
2001
Martin, Jean-Hubert. Man Ray Photographs. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001 Lottman, Herbert. Man Ray à Montparnasse.Paris, France: Hachette, 2001 Heiting, Manfred. ManRay. Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2001
2000
Baldwin, Neil. Man Ray: American Artist. New York: Da Capo Press Inc, 2000
1998
L'Ecotais de, Emmanuelle. Man Ray, la photographie à l'envers. Paris, France: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1998 (catalogue)
