Barbara Krakow Gallery

Sophie Calle

(French, b. 1953)

Sophie Calle

Last Seen (Rembrandt, The Storm in the Sea of Galilée), 1991

Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1953: Born in Paris, France
1979: Returned to Paris after traveling for seven years and began a series of projects to acquaint herself again both with the city and people of Paris and with herself
2002: Spectrum Award – Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen
: Lives and works in Paris

Exhibitions

2012 - 2013: 9th Shanghai Biennale together with Thomas Hirschhhorn
2012: Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore
: Pour la dernière et pour la première fois, Chapelle Saint-Martin du Méjan, Rencontres Internationales de la photographies, Arles, France
: “Sophie Calle” De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands (solo)
: “Human,” Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (solo)
: “Take Care of Yourself,” De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands (solo)
: “Louisiana Contemporary: Sophie Calle,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (solo)
: “FALL OUT – art, desire and disengagement,” curated by Mads Damsbo and Merete Jankowski, Gl Holtegaard, Denmark, and Malmö Kunsthal, Sweden
: “Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance,” curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: “I Love You,” curated by Pernille Taagaard and Lise Mortensen, ARos Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus C, Denmark
: “Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers,” De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands (solo)
: “Feeling what no longer is,” A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: “In Full Bloom”, curated by Antonio Grulli, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
: “Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera,” Tate Modern, London, England
: “Introducing the Fisher Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: “Che Fare? Arte Povera, the historic years,” Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2010: “Trans-Monumental,” Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
: "The Talent Show", curated by Peter Eleey, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
: “Regift” curated by John Miller, Swiss Institute, New York
: “After Image,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
: “With You I Want to Live: Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Collection,” Museum of Art, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: “Darkside II – Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod,” Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
: “The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Collection, 1957-2007,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: “From Private to Public: Collections at the Guggenheim” Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
: “Reading & Writing,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
: “Take Care of Yourself,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: “Où et quand? Berck/Lourdes,” Arndt and Partner, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: “CALLE SOPHIE,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: “Take Care of Yourself,” SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: “Take Care of Yourself,” Museum of Modern Art, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (solo)
: “Sophie Calle” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2009: “Sophie Calle: The Address Book,” Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: “1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future?” KUNSTHALLE wien, Vienna, Austria
: “Sophie Calle: Exquisite Pain” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (solo)
: “Prenez soin de vous,” DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada (solo)
: 2008 “Où et Quand?” Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo)
: “Prenez soin de vous,” Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (solo)
: “The New Normal,” curated by Michael Connor, Artist Space, New York, NY; traveling to Haurte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte, Spain
: “Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion,” Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2008: “Mr.’s Nobody Dies” Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
: “Slightly Unbalanced,” organized by Independent Curators International, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; traveling to Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV and to Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
: "Le vif et le furtif", Conseil Général de Seine St Denis, Musée d'art et d'histoire de St Denis
: "Pensa con i sensi senti con la mente", Giardini della Biennale / Pavillon Italien, Venise
: Nouvelle présentation des collections du musée d'art moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
: "Passion complex", 21st Century museum of Contemporary Art of Kanazawa, Japon
: "Portraits-souvenirs", Salon du collectionneur, Grand Palais, Paris
: "Douleur exquise", Sophie Calle (avec la participation au projet de Frank Gehry), Luxembourg (solo)
: Biennale de Venise, Pavillon Français, Italie (solo)
2007: Take Care of Yourself, French Pavillon, 52nd Venice Biennial (solo)
: "Airs de Paris", Centre George Pompidou, Paris
2006: "Dormir, rêver et autres nuits", CAPC, Bordeaux
: "Noir c'est la vie (comme un polar)", Centre d'art de Meymac
: "Dark Places", Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA
: "Ce n'est pas grave", Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Saint-Denis
: "Transitional Objects", Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, USA
: "Strange powers", Creative Time, New York
: "Cabine téléphonique", Pont Garigliano, Paris
: "True stories", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL, USA (solo)
: Exquisite Pain, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
: (2005 Whitney Museum ISP Exhibition) The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center of the CUNY, New York, NY
: Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
: Dommages Collateréraux, Galerie Emanuel Perrotin, Paris
2005: "M'as tu vue ?", Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Allemagne (solo)
: Sophie Calle + Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
2004: The True Stories, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
: Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
: University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY
: James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
: "M’as-tu vue", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlande; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Allemagne (solo)
: Kunst im Deutschen Bundestag, Allemagne
: Editions, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
: Sophie Calle, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2003: Dommages Collateréraux, Galerie Emanuel Perrotin, Paris
: M’as-tu vue?, Sophie Calle – Retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2002: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Provence, Grasse, France
: "Sophie Calle, Spectrum", International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
: Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
: "Vingt ans après", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin (30 rue Louise Weiss), Paris, France (solo)
: "Editions", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin ( 5 rue louise Weiss), Paris, France (solo)
: "Double Game", Galerie Paula Cooper, New York, USA (solo)
: Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki
: Museum Ludwig, Budapest
: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
: "Sophie Calle, Public Places – Private Spaces", The Jewish Museum San Francisco (solo)
2001: Museé d’Art et d’Histoire de Provence, Grasse, France
2000: "Sophie Calle…", Librairie Archives, Paris, France
: "Sophie Calle", Ecole régionale des Beaux-arts de Dunkerque, France
: "Souvenirs de Berlin Est", La photographie traversée, XXXIéme Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Actes Sud, Arles, France
: "Die Wahren Geschichten der Sophie Calle (les histoires vraies de Sophie Calle)", Museum Fridericarium Kasel; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Allemagne (solo)
: "L'eprouv", Jewish Museum, New York, USA (solo)
: "Douleur exquise", Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japon (solo)
: "Double games" (gamme chromatique et b,c w), Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japon (solo)
: De l’obeissance (gamme chromatique et b,c w) Galerie Matthias Arndt, Berlin, Allemagne (solo)
: "Souvenirs de Berlin-Est", Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France (solo)
: "The Detachment -Die Entfernung", Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, Allemagne (solo)
: "Double-jeux", (gamme chromatique et b,c w), Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg, France (solo)
: "LesTombes", Galerie Clara Rainhorn, Bruxelles, Belgique (solo)
: "Double-jeux" (gamme chromatique et b,c w), Galerie Sollertis Toulouse, France (solo)
1999: Appointment, Freud Museum London, England
: "Double games", Camden Arts Center, Londres, Grande-Bretagne (solo)
: "L’erouve", Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France (solo)
: Double Jeu, CNP Paris, France
: "The birthday ceremony", Tate gallery, Londres , Grande-Bretagne (solo)
: "The detachment -Die entfernung", Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, Allemagne (solo)
: "Double games", Site Gallery, Sheffield, Grande-Bretagne (solo)
1998: "L’Hôtel", La sphère de l'intime", Printemps de Cahors, France (solo)
1997: "Relatos", Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
: "Relatos", Palacio de los Condes, Grenade, Espagne (solo)
: "The Detachment -Die entfernung", Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Suisse (solo)
: "Comme si de rien n'était", Fondation Ledig Rowohlt, Château de Lavigny, Vaud, Suisse (solo)
: "Suite Venitienne", White Cube gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne (solo)
: "The sleepers, Suite Vénitienne, Birthday Ceremony", Donald Young Gallery Seattle, WA
: "True Stories", Museum of Modern Art Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
: "Les Tombes", Musée de la mine, St Etienne, France (solo)
: "Relatos", Fundación "la Caixa", Madrid, Espagne (solo)
: "Venise", Galerie de Luxembourg, France (solo)
: "The Detachment - Die entfernung", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Allemagne (solo)
: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (solo)
: "L’Erouv", XXVIIèmes Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles, Librairie Actes Sud, Arles, France (solo)
: "Des histoires vraies", Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japon (solo)
1996: The "Eruv" of Jerusalem, Artfocus - Contemporary Art, Jérusalem (solo)
: "L’Erouv," Journées d'art contemporain de Porto, Synagogue de Porto (solo)
: "Les Tombes", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Allemagne (solo)
: "Proof", University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara /Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland / David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA (solo)
1995: "Fravaer (l’absence)", Portalen, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Copenhague, Danemark (solo)
: "Les autobiographies", Printemps de Cahors, France (solo)
: "Des histoires vraies, le mari", Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France (solo)
: "Des histoires vraies", FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France (solo)
: "L’absence", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)
: "Romances", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA (solo)
: "L’absence", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Suisse (solo)
: "The sleepers", Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, USA (solo)
: "The Husband", Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
1994: "L’absence", Musée Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas (solo)
: "Les aveugles", Sala Amàrica, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Espagne (solo)
1993: "Blind Color," Leo Castelli, New York, USA (solo)
: Proofs", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA (solo)
: "Los Ciegos, Las Tumbas, Anatoli", Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela / Museo d'Arte, Maracay, Venezuela (solo)
1992: "The Graves," Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, USA
: "A Suivre", Lunds Konsthall, Suède
: Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA
: Centre Culturel français, Palermo, Italie
: "Les tombes", Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France
: "Sophie Calle in under skinnët", Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Ecosse (solo)
: Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1991: Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: "A Suivre", ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, USA (solo)
1990: "A survey", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
: "A survey", Matrix Gallery, Berkeley University, Berkeley, Californie, USA
: Galery Croussel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France
: "The sleepers", Matrix Gallery, Berkeley University, Berkeley, Californie, USA
: Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Séville, Espagne
: "Les tombes", Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris
1989: Fred Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles (survey), USA (solo)
1988: Galerie Montenegro, Madrid, Espagne (solo)
1987: "Les aveugles", Centre d'Art de Flaine, France (solo)
: "Anatoli", Museotrain du F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges (solo)
: "De Appel", Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
1986: Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, France
: "Anatoli", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Orléans, France
: "Les aveugles", Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris
: "Les aveugles", Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Tasmanie, Hobart, Australie
1985: A.P.A.C., Nevers, France
1983: "L’hôtel", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)
1981: "Les dormeurs", Galerie Canon, Genève, Suisse (solo)
1980: Le Bronx, Fashion Moda, New York, USA (solo)