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[bio] Lewis Baltz [e]

Author:   Christoph Pingel  
Posted: 05.10.2001; 18:56:40
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*1945, Newport Beach, California [USA]

In 1969 he received a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 1971 a MFA at Claremont Graduate School.

Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Grants and Awards | Bibliography | Recommended Links

Solo Exhibitions
[selected]

1998
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [USA]

1995
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, [DK]

1993
Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris [F]
Seibu Contemporary Art, Tokyo [J]
Centre Pompidou, Paris [F]

1992
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam [NL]

1991
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland [USA]
University of Maryland, Baltimore [USA]

1990
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York [USA]

1986
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach [USA]

1985
Victoria and Albert Museum, London [GB]

1984
Matrix, University Art Museum, U.C., Berkeley [USA]

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Group Exhibitions
[selected]

2000
»Afterimages«, Kunsthaus Zürich [CH]
Venezia / Marghera II, Assessori di Cultura Commune de Venezia [I]
»How You Look At It«, Sprengel Museum Hannover and Staedl Museum, Frankfurt [D]

1999
»The American Century«, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [USA]
»Photographie als Ruine«, Kunsthalle Krems [A]
»Changement d’air«, Musée d’art moderne Lille Metropole [F]

1997
»Absolute Landscape«, Yokohama Museum of Art [J]
»Artists’ Position on the Industrial Landscape«, Museum Grassi, Leipzig [D]

1996
»Prospect 96«, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle [D]
»The Perpetual Mirage«, Whitney Museum of American Art [USA]
»Crossing the Frontier«, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [USA]

1995
»Le Monde Après La Photographie«, Musée d'art moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, and Villa Arson, Nice [F]

1994
»La Ville«, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris [F]
»The Act of Seeing (Urban Space), Foundation pour l'Architecture, Brussels [B]

1993
»Critical Landscapes«, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo [J]
»Photographs From the Real World«, Lillehammer Art Museum [N]

1992
»Wasteland«, Rotterdam Biennial III [NL]

1990
»Signs of Life: Process and Materials«, 1960-1990, ICA Philadelphia [USA]

1989
»Photography Now«, Victoria and Albert Museum, London [GB]
»On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography«, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [USA]

1987
»Modern Photography and Beyond«, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto [J]
»Photography and Art«, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [USA]

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Grants and Awards
[selected]

Charles Pratt Memorial Award (1991); US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship (1980); fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial (1977); fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts (1973/77)

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Bibliography
[selected]

»The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine«, California, Stedil Verlag, Göttingen 2001; »was wäre, wenn«, Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany 2001; Jeff Rian, »Lewis Baltz«, Phaidon, London 2001; Cornelia Butler, »Lewis Baltz: Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de nuit«, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and RAM, 1998; Dennis Baudier and Morten Salling, »Lewis Baltz«, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark 1995; Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, »Lewis Baltz«, Editions de La Difference, Paris 1993; »Rule Without Exception«, Masafumi Fukugawa (ed.), Kawasaki City Museum, Japan 1992; Hripsime Visser, »Lewis Baltz: 5 Projects«, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1992.

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Recommended Links

° Biographical information ::

- > short biography

- > Photographers Directory

- > American Studies. Fotokunst in den USA 1935-1985

° Exhibition ::

- > »Was wäre, wenn«, Rüsselsheim [D], 2001 - group exhibition

° Interview ::

- > »Subjects and objects of the new technological culture«
[in: Media Menet, 22.1.1998]

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