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William Eggleston

(American, b. 1939)

William Eggleston

Untitled, 1974

William Eggleston

Untitled (Boy Asleep in Bed, Lamp), 1970–1974

Biography

Timeline

1939: Born in Memphis, TN
1967: Goes to New York and meets Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus.
: Presents his work to John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974: Recieves a Guggenheim Fellowship
: Appointed Lecturer in Visiual and Environmental Studies at The Carpenter center, Harvard University
1975: Recieves a National Endowment for the Arts Photographer's Fellowship
1978: Appointed Reasearcher in Color Videa at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the invitation of Richard Leacock
1989: Accepts one of 54 Master Photographers of 1960-1979 awards from Photographic Society of Japan.
1996: Recieves the University of Memphis Distinguished Achievement Award
2003: Accepts Gold medal for Photography from National Arts Club, New York
2004: Receives the Getty Images Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Center of Photography (ICP) Infinity Awards
: Accepts Photoespana Award
: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
: Delta State College, Cleveland, MS
: University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
: Lives and works in Memphis, TN

Exhibitions

2013: At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
2011: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
: William Eggleston: American Photographer, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: 21st Century, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (solo)
: 21st Century, Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
2009: Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera. Photographs an Video. 1958-2008, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
: William Eggleston - David Lynch. Fotografien, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, München, Germany
: L'oeil démocratique, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure, France (solo)
: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Videos 1961 – 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2008: Hasselblad Center, Goteborg
: Color Portraits–1974, Photology, Milan, Italy (solo)
2007: Color Portraits–1974, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy; Studio Trisorio, Rome, Italy; Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
: Portfolios, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (solo)
: Cadillac Portfolio, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin (solo)
: MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo
: Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
: Museum Ludwig, Cologne
: Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis (solo)
: Stranded in Canton, Xavier Hufkens, Brusells, Belgium (solo)
: Nightclub Portraits, 1973, galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France (solo)
2006: William Eggleston, Camera Work AG, Berlin (solo)
: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Spirit of Dunkerque, Lieu d'Art et d'Action Contemporaine, Dunkerque, France (solo)
2005: William Eggleston, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
: BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
: Nightclub Portraits, 1973, Cheim & Read, New York City (solo)
: Albertina, Vienna (solo)
: William Eggleston Precolor: The Black and White Photographs, 1959–1974, and the film, STRANDED IN CANTON, 1974, Cheim & Read, New York (solo)
: Louisiana Project. Photographs 1981–82, Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: William Eggleston, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek (solo)
: Dust Bells, and the film Stranded in Canton, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (solo)
2003: Pictures from the Seventies, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Cadillac Portfolio, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (solo)
: Graceland, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: William Eggleston Recent Photographs, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (solo)
: William Eggleston: CA 2000–2001, Galerie Monika Spruth, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: William Eggleston, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Project Gallery, NY (solo)
: William Eggleston: Fotografier 1966–75, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
: William Eggleston: A Selection of 25 Recent Photographs, Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany (solo)
2002: Hayward Gallery, London (solo)
2001: Willliam Eggleston: Mostly California Desert Pictures 1999 – 2001, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
: William Eggleston, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
: William Eggleston, Thomas Zander, Köln, Switzerland (solo)
: William Eggleston Recent Work, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: William Eggleston: Recent Work, Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
: White Cube, London
: William Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Cadillac, Michael Hue–Williams, London, England (solo)
2000: Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover
1999: Cadillac: Color Photographs from 1966-71, Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
: William Eggleston—1998 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden (solo)
: Dye Transfer Prints, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
: Eggleston 70/90, The Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
1998: Fotomuseum Wintethur, Winterthur
1997: 10.D.70. VI. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Eve's Bayou, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1995: Four Portfolios. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (solo)
1994: From Graceland to Wasteland, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1992: Ancient and Modern, Barbican Gallery, London (solo)
: William Eggleston. First Color 1967–1972, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (solo)
1990: Democratic Forest, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
1986: William Eggleston's Guide, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
: New Works from Tennessee Project, Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
: William Eggleston. Photographs from Miami, Day Vista Photography Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL (solo)
1985: William Eggleston's Early Black and White Photography, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN (solo)
: Recent Color Photographs, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA (solo)
1984: Graceland, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
: Graceland and the South, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
1983: William Eggleston: Colour Photographs from the American South, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (solo)
1981: William Eggleston. Photographs 1967–1978, Light Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1980: Troubled Waters, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1979: American Photography in the 1970s, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
: Nicholas Nixon & William Eggleston, Cronin Gallery, Houston,Texas (solo)
1978: Election Eve, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas (solo)
: Election Eve, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: William Eggleston. Dye Transfer Photographs, Grapesteak Gallery, Washington, DC
1977: William Eggleston. Color Photographs 1966–1977, Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1976: Photographs by William Eggleston, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Public Collections

: Siemens Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
: Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
: Australia National Gallery
: Art Institute of Chicago
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
: Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
: Fotomuseum, Winterhur, Switzerland
: Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
: Museum of Modern Art, New York
: National Gallery, Washington, DC
: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA