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William Christenberry Biography
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1936
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Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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1954 - 1959
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Study at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Bachelor of Fine Arts (1958) and Master of Arts in painting (1959)
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1958 - 1959
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Christenberry had begun taking pictures with a simple Brownie camera
Teaching at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
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1962
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Since August as assistant professor of Art at the Memphis State University. Begin of the friendship with William Eggleston. First drawings and paintings for the "Klan Room"
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1982
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Lyndhurst Foundation
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1984
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
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1994
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Art Matters, Inc., grant
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1998
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Honorary doctor of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
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Lives & Works in Washington, DC
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Since 1968
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Teaches painting and drawing at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C.; Tuscaloosa
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2010 |
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Southern Artifacts, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis Missouri, USA (solo) |
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2010 |
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William Christenberry, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
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2010 |
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Vintage Kodak Brownies, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, Washington, USA (solo) |
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2010 |
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Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970 - 1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Ohio, USA |
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2009 |
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day by day, dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, Germany |
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2009 |
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Columbus Museum of Art (solo) |
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2008 |
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Christenberry, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC (upcoming Fall 2008) |
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2008 |
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William Christenberry, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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2007 |
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Site/Possession, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (traveling exhibition) |
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2007 |
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Photographer William Christenberry, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA |
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2007 |
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20/20 Vision, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, USA |
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2007 |
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The Genius of the Place: Land and Identity in Contemporary Art, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, USA |
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2006 |
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La trajectoire du regard, Salle d'exposition du quai Antoine ler, Monaco, Monaco |
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2006 |
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Tendenzen internationaler Fotografie, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany |
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2006 |
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Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (traveling exhibition) |
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2006 |
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William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, (traveling exhibition) |
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2006 |
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William Christenberry: 35mm Kodachromes, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
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2006 |
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William Christenberry: Trips & Recent Sculpture, Pace MacGill, New York, NY, and Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
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2006 |
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William Christenberry: Alabama, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
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2005 |
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William Christenberry, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
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2005 |
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In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA |
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2005 |
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American Classics, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany |
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2005 |
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Regarding the Rural, Mass MoCA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Missouri, USA |
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2005 |
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama (solo) |
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2004 |
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Picturing the South, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, NewYork, USA |
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2004 |
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Best Of - Blick in die Sammlung, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne |
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2004 |
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Seventies Color Photography, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, NewYork, USA |
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2003 |
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Southern Images: Six Contemporary Photographers, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, Washington, USA |
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2003 |
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The American Scene 2000, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin |
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2003 |
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William Christenberry, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany |
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2002 |
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William Christenberry: Disappearing Places |
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2002 |
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Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
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2001 |
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Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
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2001 |
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Changing Landscape - The Source Revisited |
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2001 |
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The Kreeger Museum of Art, Washington, DC |
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2001 |
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William Christenberry: Architecture/Archetype |
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2001 |
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University of Cincinnati, DAAP Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
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2001 |
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Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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2001 |
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In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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2000 |
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Southern Exposure, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA |
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2000 |
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Open Ends/MoMA 2000, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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2000 |
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Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1962-2000, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA & Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN |
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2000 |
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The Art of Family: The Christenberrys, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA |
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2000 |
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American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
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2000 |
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Innovation and Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA |
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2000 |
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William Christenberry - The Early Years, Belger Art District, Kansas City, MO |
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2000 |
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The Klan Tableau, University of Kansas City Art Galleries, Kansas City, MO |
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1999 |
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Carol Ehlers Gallery Ltd., Chicago, IL |
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1999 |
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Carried to the Heart: Faith and Doubt in Contemporary Southern Photography, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS |
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1998 |
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Southern Stories, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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1998 |
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William Christenberry: The Early Years (1954-1968), The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL & The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN |
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1997 |
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The Early Years and Beyond, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
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1997 |
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Photographien im Dialog, Photographischen Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kulture, Cologne, Germany |
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1996 |
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The Early Works, 1954 to 1968, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA |
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1996 |
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Reconstruction: William Christenberry’s Art, Center for Creative Photography and The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson. Traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA |
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1995 |
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Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1995 |
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Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1994 |
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The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, MO |
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1993 |
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The Opelika Arts Association, Alabama |
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1993 |
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Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1992 |
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Southern Views, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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1992 |
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Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1992 |
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Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
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1992 |
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Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL |
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1992 |
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Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1992 |
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Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1992 |
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Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT |
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1991 |
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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1991 |
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Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX |
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1990 |
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Center for Cultural Studies, Gadsden, AL |
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1990 |
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Southern Exposure, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
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1989 |
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Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1989 |
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL |
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1988 |
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Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1988 |
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Memphis Center for Contemporary Art, Memphis, TN |
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1987 |
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Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1987 |
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A Southern Perspective, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA |
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1986 |
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New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM |
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1986 |
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Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
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1985 |
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Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1985 |
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Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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1984 |
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Southern Monuments and Photographs, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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1984 |
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The James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1983 |
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Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1983 |
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Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL |
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1982 |
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Southern Views, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX. Traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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1981 |
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Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1980 |
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Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX |
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1979 |
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL |
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1978 |
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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1977 |
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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1977 |
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Sander Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1977 |
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State University of New York at Albany, University Art Gallery, Albany, NY |
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1976 |
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Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL |
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1976 |
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Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC |
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1976 |
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Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY |
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1973 |
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Traveled to Baltimore Museum of Art. |
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1973 |
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The Octagon House, American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC |
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1972 |
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD |
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1971 |
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Henri II Gallery, Washington D.C. (solo) |
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1963 |
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Memphis State University Gallery of Art (solo) |
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1961 |
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Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (solo) |
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Selected Public Collections |
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Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham / Alabama
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Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
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Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
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Kemper Museum, Kansas City
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Middlebury College Museum of Art
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
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Smithsonian Institution, Washington
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2008 |
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William Christenberry: Working From Memory, William Christenberry, Susanne Lang (Editor), (Steidl, 2008) |
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2007 |
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William Christenberry.Place, Time, and Memory Southern Spaces September 28, 2007 |
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2006 |
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William Christenberry, Aperture, 2006 |
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2002 |
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Christenberry - Reconstruction,The Art of William Christenberry, 2002 |
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2001 |
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Susanne Lange: William Christenberry, 2001 |
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1991 |
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Walker Evans, William Christenberry: Of Time and Place (by Thomas W. Southall), 1991 |
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Links to further information |
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