John Berggruen Gallery
Gregory Crewdson
Biography
Gregory Crewdson1962 Born on September 26, 1962 in Brooklyn, NY
Education
1988 Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, M.F.A.
1985 SUNY Purchase, NY, B.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Gregory Crewdson : Beneath the Roses
Gagosian Gallery - CA, Beverly Hills, CA
The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Beyond Big: Oversized Prints - Drawings and Photographs
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2004 Picasso to Pop: A Growing Contemporary Collection
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
2003 Dream House, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
UnNaturally, USC Fisher Gallery - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2002 New Work 6: Gregory Crewdson, Twilight, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Gregory Crewdson Twilight, White Cube, London
2001 Gregory Crewdson: Photographs, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Twilight, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Early Work 1987-88, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina
Gregory Crewdson: Disturbed Nature, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art Design, Vancouver, Canada
1999 Twilight, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
Ginza Art Space, Shiseido Co., Tokyo
Surreal Suburbia, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1998 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University
Mise-en-Scene: A Selected Survey of Photographs, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
H&R Projects, Brussels
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
Twilight, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Spain (travels to Salamanca in 1999)
1997 Luhring Augustine Gallery
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1996 Ginza Artspace, Shiseido Co., Tokyo
1995 Luhring Augustine, New York
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
Jay Jopling / White Cube, London
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Gallerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Les Images du Plastir, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Galerie des Carmes, La Fleche
1994 Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
1993 Feigen Gallery, Chicago
1992 Houston Center for Photography, Houston
1991 Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
Blum Helman Warehouse, New York
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
1988 Yale University, New Haven, CT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 Disembodied Spirits, Bowdoin Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Passengens, Lisboa Photo, Lisbon, Portugal
Family Ties. A Contemporary Perspective, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Twilight, London, UK
Yard, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker
Ed Ruscha. Photographs: Recent Acquisitions Paintings and Sculptures, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
Imperfect Innocence, The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, PBICA (Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
UnNaturally, Independent Curators International (ICI), New Traveling Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino
Fantastic, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
We Love Painting, The American Contemporary Art From Misumi Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures, Independent Curators International, New York
Contemporary American Photography 1970-2000, From the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Samsung Museum of Modern Art
Archivo Pons Artxiboa, Erakusketa - Exposicion, 45.zk.No.45, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
Fictions. New Narratives in Contemporary Photography and Video, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Vision From America: Photographs From the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Looking at America, Yale University Gallery, CT
Moving Pictures, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York
Art Downtown, Wall Street Rising, New York
Some Options in Realism, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Lobby Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge , MA
A Thousand Hounds. A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography, UBS Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
Staged! Contemporary Photography Gregory Crewdson, Rosemary Laing, Sharon Lockhart, Contemporary Art, Worcester Art Museum, MA
Situated Realities. Where Technology and Imagination Intersect, Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland.
2001 The Reality Effect, Contemporary American Photography, Guilt Hall of East Hampton, NY
Photochrome, Current Contemporary Photography from New York City Galleries, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Cannan, CT
Settings and Players, Louise Neri and Vince Aletti, White Cube, London
Bright Paradise, The First Auckland Triennial, University of Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Settings and Players: Theatrical ambiguity in American photography, curated by Louise Neri and Vince AlettiWhite Cube, London UK
Settings & Players, Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, The City Gallery of Prague
2000 Larry Clark/ Gregory Crewdson, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Contemporary Group Show, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium
Gregory Crewdson, Vik Muniz, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Spark Inc. Tokyo, Japan
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum; Gainsville, FL
Alfred Hitchcock, Musee des Beaux Arts De Montreal; Montreal, Canada
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art; Atlanta, Ga
Photography Now, curated by S. Rubin, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center of Virgini, Virginia Beach, VA.
Collector’s Choice, curated by Ann Tenenbaum at Exit Art, New York, NY.
Post-Historical Narrative in Contemporary Photography, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
Art at MoMA since 1980, MoMA, New York
Open Ends: Sets and Situations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
A Beastie Boys Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
Before They Became Who They Are, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Affinities with Architecture, Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C.; Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tenn.; Anderson Gallery School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Under/Exposed, Varldens Storsta Fotoutstallning, Stockholms Tunnelbana, Sweden
Nature is not Romantic, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
As Far as the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art Gallery/City Gallery at Chastain in Atlanta, GA
Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Summer SurReality, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
Making It Real, (1997 - 1999), a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International, New York, and curated by Vik Muniz. Traveled to The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, traveling to Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, NJ
WILDflowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Shot: Una Visione Americanam, curated by Christiana Perrella, Valentina Moncada, Rome
Animal Artifice, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1998 Mysterious Voyages, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.
The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Collier Schorr, Apex, New York.
Pollution, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Telling Tales, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,Australia
Exterminating Angel, curated by Joshua Decter, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.
Pop Surrealism, organized by Harry Philbrick, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art, The Whiney Museum, New York, NY
Spectacular Optical, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (catalog)
The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York, NY
Veronica’s Revenge, Stedelijk Museum, Sittard
1997 Gothic, ICA, Boston
American Art Today: The Garden, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Nature Studies, Johnson County Community College, Santa Barbara, California
The Set Up, Barbara Farber Galerie, Amsterdam
‘97 Kwangju Biennale, Korea
Surrealism, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts , Columbus, Ohio
Pictures This : Photographs from former and current faculty and staff of the Cooper Union School of Art, Cooper Union Foundation Building, New York.
des fleurs en mai, Oeuvres de la collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire Maison Billaud, Fontenay-le-Comte
To Be Real, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
A Thin Line, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
1996 Everything that’s interesting is new, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Organized by the DESTE Foundation. Athens School of Fine Arts “the factory,” Athens, Greece.
Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York
Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverin, Frankfurt, Germany
Nature/Culture and the Postmodern Sublime, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies
Carl Von... Boras Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden
Perfect World, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, New York.
Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York.
Digital Gardens, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
1995 The Set-Up, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington D.C.
Blind Spot, The MAC, Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, Dallas
1995 Yamantaka Donation: An Exhibition of Photographs to Benefit Tibet House, Robert Miller, New York (curated by Diego Cortez)
Hetrick-Martin Institute Benefit, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
Brave New World, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Nature Studies: Gregory Crewdson, Adam Fuss, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
La Belle et La Bete, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
The Friendly Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Confronting Nature, Silences Voices, California State University, Fullerton
On the Face of it, Fotofeis exhibition, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Fake Nature, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, Georgia
Nature Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Fine Arts Center
Duchamp’s Leg, Center for the Fine Arts
Faculty Work on Paper, Yale School of Art, New Haven
Photography at Berkeley Square, The City Bank Private Bank Collection, London.
1994 Luhring Augustine, New York
Animal Farm, Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
Psycho-pathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
Nature Studies, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis
A Garden, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
New Work, New Directions 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Recent Photography Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Home Sweet Home and Other Fables, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Close Encounters, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
1993 Feigen Gallery, Chicago
Elizabeth Koury, New York
Daydream Nation, Luhring Augustine, New York
Dirty Birds, Wooster Gardens, New York
All the World’s a Stage, Marsha Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (curated by Kenneth Goldsmith)
The Bestiary, Blum Helman, New York
Picturing Ritual, The Center for Photography, Woodstock; Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase
Wit on Rye: Humor in Photography, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1992 Our Town, Burden Galley, New York
Set and Setting, Berland Hall Gallery, New York
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
Perverse Nature, Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
White Columns, New York
Blum Helman, New York
1991 John Post Lee Gallery, New York
Pleasures and Terrors in Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Artist Works
Untitled (house fire), Summer 2004
digital C-print
66 1/4 x 97 inches
edition of 6
Untitled (yankee septic emergency)
1998
C-print
50 x 60 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Gregory Crewdson
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