"New Topographics,"
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House. Rochester, New York.
1977
"New York: The City and Its People,"
Yale University School of Art. New Haven, Connecticut.
"Nicholas Nixon and Stephen Shore,"
Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts.
"Court House,"
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York.
1978
"Nicholas Nixon/William Eggleston,"
The Cronin Gallery. Houston, Texas.
"14 New England Photographers,"
Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, Massachusetts. February 14-April 20, 1978.
"Mirrors and Windows,"
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. July 28-October 2, 1978.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California. June 8-July 29, 1979.
1979
"American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers,"
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington D.C. October 13- December 2, 1979.
1980
"American Photography in the 70s,"
Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.
"Photography and Architecture,"
Fraenkel Gallery. San Francisco, California.
1981
"American Children,"
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. January 8-March 29, 1981.
1982
"20th Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art,"
The Seibu Museum of Art. Tokyo, Japan. October 2-19, 1982.
"The Contact Print,"
Friends of Photography. Carmel, California.
1984
"Les Ages et les Villes: Frederick Cantor - Nicholas Nixon,"
The American Center. Paris, France. November 9-December 14, 1984.
1985-1986
"Variants,"
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. December 12, 1985-March 11, 1986.
1986
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, California.
1987
"Photographs from the Last Decade,"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California. March 20-June 28, 1987.
"Twelve Photographers Look at U.S.,"
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 11-July 5, 1987.
1989
Honolulu Academy of Arts. Honolulu, Hawaii.
1989-1990
"Photography Until Now,"
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. February 14-May 29, 1989.
Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio. June 27-August 19, 1990.
1991
"Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography,"
The Addison Gallery of American Art. Andover, Massachusetts. October 18-December 15, 1991.
"Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort,"
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. September 26-December 31,1991.
1992
"Fables of the Visible World,"
Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, Massachusetts. September 14-October 14, 1992.
1995
"Hidden Faces,"
Paul Kopeikin Gallery. Los Angeles, California.
"Visions of Childhood,"
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. New York, New York. May 17-July 2, 1995.
1997
"About Face: Artists' Portraits in Photography,"
Fogg Art Museum. Boston, Massachusetts. July 19-October 12, 1997.
1998
"Newly Acquired Works,"
Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Washington.
1999-2000
"People/Places,"
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York.
2000
"How You Look At It,"
Sprengel Museum. Hanover, Germany. May 14-August 6, 2000.
Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt,
Germany. August 23-November 12, 2000.
2000-2001
Ollman, Arthur, curator.
"The Model Wife,"
San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California. October 22, 2000-January 21, 2001.
Chicago Art Institute. Chicago, Illinois. February 10-May 6, 2001. Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio. May 27-August 5, 2001.
2002-2003
Schwartz, Mark and Tom E. Hinson, curator.
"A City Seen: Photographs from The George Gund Foundation Collection,"
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. November 17, 2002-January 26, 2003.
2003
"Cruel and Tender,"
Tate Modern. London, United Kingdom. June 5-September 7, 2003.
Museum Ludwig. Cologne, Germany. December 6-February 18, 2004.
"Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVIII,"
Fraenkel Gallery. San Francisco, California. July 6-August 12, 2006.
"In the Street,"
Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver. Vancouver, Canada. August 11-September 9, 2006.
"Portrait und Menschenbild,"
Art Cologne. Cologne, Germany. November 1-5, 2006.
2006-2007
"The Photographer’s Contract,"
Academie der Künste. Berlin, Germany. November 12, 2006-January 7, 2007.
Museum Morsbroich. Leverkusen, Germany. March-May 2007.
2007
"The Naked Portrait,"
Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland. June 6-September 2, 2007.
Compton Verney. Warwickshire, United Kingdom. September 29-December 9, 2007.
"The Art of Growing Old,"
Ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum/Galleria Museo. Bolzano, Italy. September 6-October 27, 2007.
2008
"Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children,"
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. Lincoln, Massachusetts. February 2–April 27, 2008.
2008-2009
"The Collection and Then Some,"
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, Texas.
"Day by Day: Amerikanische Fotografie,"
Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus. Cottbus, Germany. October 17, 2008-January 11, 2009.
"Ego Documents: The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art,"
Kunstmuseum Bern. Bern, Switzerland. November 14, 2008-February 15, 2009.
"Photographic Figures,"
Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, Massachusetts. November 19, 2008-May 10, 2009.
2009
Goodman, Cynthia, Ph.D, curator.
"The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography,"
New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, Louisiana. May 16-August 2, 2009.
"The Private Collection of Fern M. Schad,"
Rick Wester Fine Art. New York, New York. September 24-October 29, 2009.
2009-2010
"New Topographics: Photographs of a Man Altered Landscape,"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, California. October 25, 2009-January 3, 2010.
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