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William Wegman    (American, 1943)

 William Wegman - Chest of Drawers (Photographs) h: 52 x w: 43 in / h: 132.1 x w: 109.2 cm
William Wegman
Chest of Drawers 2003
 
 William Wegman - Evergreen (Photographs) h: 39.5 x w: 33.5 in / h: 100.3 x w: 85.1 cm
William Wegman
Evergreen 2003
 
 William Wegman - Rousseau (Photographs) h: 39.5 x w: 33.5 in / h: 100.3 x w: 85.1 cm
William Wegman
Rousseau 2003
 
 William Wegman - Show of Shadow (Photographs) h: 34.5 x w: 28.5 in / h: 87.6 x w: 72.4 cm
William Wegman
Show of Shadow 2003
 
 William Wegman - Stop Action (Photographs) h: 22.2 x w: 19.5 in / h: 56.4 x w: 49.5 cm
William Wegman
Stop Action 2003
 
 William Wegman - Unfurled (diptych) (Photographs) h: 47 x w: 39 in / h: 119.4 x w: 99.1 cm
William Wegman
Unfurled (diptych) 2003
 

Biography
1943 Born in Holyoke, MA
1961 - 1965 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, B.F.A. in Painting
1965 BFA, Painting, Massachusettes College of Art, Boston, MA
1965 - 1967 University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, M.F.A. Painting
1967 MFA, Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1975 Guggenheim Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts
1979 Creative Artists Public Service (Video)
1982 National Endowment for the Arts (Photography)
1985 National Endowment forthe Art
1986 Guggenheim Fellowship
1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Honor
1999 Bailey House Key Honor
Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions
2009 William Wegman: Dogs on Rocks � in the Woods � at the Seaside, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2008 William Wegman: Paintings Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport / Massachusetts, USA (solo)
2008 William Wegman: Photographs Maine Media Workshop, Rockport / Massachusetts, USA (solo)
2008 William Wegman: FAY Allentown Art Museum, Allentown / Pennsylvania, USA (solo)
2008 William Wegman Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale / Arizona, USA (solo)
2008 East Coast Perspectives, Imago Galleries
2007 William Wegman: New Paintings Robilant and Voena, London, England (solo)
2007 Wegman Outdoors Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York City (solo)
2007 William Wegman Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
2007 William Wegman Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo)
2007 William Wegman: C-prints Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York City (solo)
2007 William Wegman: Around the Park The Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York City (solo)
2007 William Wegman and no Dogs Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, D�sseldorf, Germany (solo)
2007 busy going crazy, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2007 Why Look at Animals? George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
2007 The Shadow, by Lea Vergine,Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
2006 Summer Exhibition,Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Good Vibrations: Le arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
2006 A Curator�s Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Galerie mit Bleistift Fischer: Papierarbeiten aus den 60er und 70er Jahren, Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Duesseldorf
2006 Animal Series, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2006 History of disappearance: 30� anniversario della Franklin Furnace, Neon, La fabbrica del vapore, Milano
2006 William Wegman: Funney/Strange, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2006 William Wegman: New & Improved,"Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Transmediale.06: Smile Maschines, AKADEMIE DER K�NSTE, Berlin
2006 William Wegman Adamson Gallery, Washington / DC (solo)
2006 William Wegman Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York City (solo)
2006 New & Improved (1974-2006) Sperone Westwater, New York City (solo)
2006 William Wegman Imago Gallery, Palm Desert / California (solo)
2006 William Wegman: Black and White Photographs Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2005 Man’s Best Friend: Photographs and Videos Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale / Arizona (solo)
2005 Strange but True" Hudson Guild, New York City (solo)
2005 De la comtesse De Castiglione � Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris
2005 Fur, Feathers And Family: Our Relationship With Animals, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2005 The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
2005 New at the Neuberger: Recent Acquisitions, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2005 William Wegman, Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich
2005 Atelier Adamson: David Adamson and his friends, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
2005 Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2005 50 Jahre: Years documenta 1955-2005, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2005 Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2005 History of Disappearance, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
2005 100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2004 Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2004 The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
2004 ANIMAUX: Von Tieren und Menschen, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pf�ffikon
2004 100 Artists See God, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
2004 From a Collection, For a Collection, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf
2004 Photography at Colby, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2004 dog days of summer, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
2004 Recent Polaroids, Galerie Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
2004 William Wegman, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX (solo)
2003 - 2004 William Wegman: Recent Polaroids, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA (solo)
2003 William Wegman, Centro Jose Guerrero, Diputacion de Granada, Spain (catalogue) (solo)
2003 William Wegman, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2003 William Wegman,Charlotte Lund Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 William Wegman in the 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, Creative Time and Panasonic, New York
2002 William Wegman: Indian in the Refrigerator and Other Printed Works, Printed Matter, New York
2002 William Wegman: Recent Work, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2002 William Wegman, Roman Zenner, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue)
2002 William Wegman: Fashion Photographs�and More: Works on Paper and Video, 1970 to 2001, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2002 William Wegman: Early Video/Recent Video, New Drawings/Earlier Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX; Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, NY
2002 Photo + Drawing + Video = William Wegman, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2002 William Wegman, Savage, Portland, OR
2001 William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
2001 William Wegman: Early Works, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2001 William Wegman, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Belgium
2001 William Wegman: Serie 'La Iglesia', Galeria De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
2000 William Wegman, The Art of Narrative, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art Dallas, TX
2000 William Wegman: Drawing, Video, Painting, The MAC Dallas, TX
1999 William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham
1999 Attention, Art: Concept, Paris, France
1998 William Wegman, Center for Contemporary Art Malm�, Sweden
1998 Wild Things: Artist Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Polaroids and Other Photographs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer D�sseldorf, Germany
1997 Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1997 William Wegman. Dessins/Drawings: 1973-1997, F.R.A.C. Limousin Limoges, France
1996 William Wegman: Fay's Fairy Tales, Mus�e d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
1996 The Art Embodied, Mus�e de Marseilles, France
1996 Picture This, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
1995 Photographs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer D�sseldorf, Germany
1995 International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
1995 William Wegman: Photographs, Aspen Art Museum

Collections
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carngegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Kunstaus, Zurich
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
De Menil Collection, Houston
Newport Harbor Museum, California
Sammlung Ludwig, Aschen
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saint Louis Museum of Modern Art
Stuart Collection, Univ. of California, San Diego
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Literature
2008 William Wegman: Dogs On Rocks A.S.A.P. Acadia Summer Arts Program, Maine
2006 William Wegman: Funney/Strange Yale University Press, New Haven / Conneticut
2004 Dress Up Batty Hyperion, New York
2004 Field Guide to North America and to Other Regions Art le Havre / France
2003 William Wegman Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada / Spain
2003 Chip Wants A Dog, Hyperion, New York
2002 Polaroids, Harry N. Abrams, New York
2002 How Do You Get to MoMaQns?, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2002 William Wegman, Roman Zenner, Stuttgart
2001 Wegmanology, Hyperion, New York
2000 Surprise Party, Hyperion, New York
2000 The Night Before Christmas, Hyperion, New York
1999 William Wegman, Nykytaiteen Museo, Kiasma
1999 What Do You Do? Hyperion, New York
1999 Pups, Hyperion, New York
1999 Fay, Hyperion, New York
1999 William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, Harry N. Abrams, New York
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