LEWIS BALTZ Born 1945 in Newport, California. Lives and works in Paris and Venice. Education / teaching 1969-1971 Study at the Art Institute of San Francisco and at the Claremont Graduate School 1970-1972 Instructor for Photography at the Pamona College (CA) and at the California Insitute of Arts, Valencia 1972-2003 Several guest professorships at European and US-american universities and art colleges 2004 - today Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Grants and awards 1991 Charles Pratt Memorial Award 1980 US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship 1977 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 1973 / 1976 Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts Selected solo exhibitions 2013 Albertina, Vienna, Austria 2012 Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany 2011 Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point, Art Unlimited/Art Basel 42, Galerie Thomas Zander, Basel, Switzerland Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA 2010 Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA Lewis Baltz/Donald Judd, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany The Park City Portfolio, UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA 2008 Lewis Baltz, Andrew Roth, New 1989-91 Sites of Technology, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA 2007 89/91 Sites of Technology Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy BALTZ 89/91, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne 2006 Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany 2005 Candlestick Point (1989) and Prototype Works (1966-1976), Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne 2004 Sites of Technology, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne 2002 Neue Topografik, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Gremany Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT University Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 2001 Was wäre wenn, Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA 1998 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1995 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark 1993 Rule Without Exception, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris 1992 Ronde de Nuit, Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Seibu Contemporary Art, Tokyo Centre Pompidou, Paris Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1991 Des Moines Art Center John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA University of Maryland, Baltimore 1990 Rule Without Exception, New Institute of Contemporary Art P.S.1, New 1986 Newport Harbor Art Museum 1985 Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1984 Matrix, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkley, CA 1981 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1980 Werkstatt für Photographie, Berlin 1979 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1976 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. D.C Baltimore Museum of Art; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art 1975 Philadelphia College of Art 1974 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1971 Castelli Gallery, New (and 1973, 1975, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1989) Selected group exhibitions 2012 ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne Carl Andre/Lewis Baltz, Tate Modern, London, GB 2011 2012 Photography Calling! Fotografie und Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany 2011 DC Bonus, Groupshow of the galleries Schmidt Maczollek, Michael Wiesehöfer and Galerie Thomas Zander, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, Germany Hyper Real - Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, SK-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany 2010 2011 Hyper Real - Realismen in Malerei und Fotografie, MUMOK, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria 2010 American Documents, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerps, Belgium Anonymous America: photography and film, Le Bal, Paris, France MOCA s First Thirty Years, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA The View from Here, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / LACMA, Los Angeles, USA dentité(s)/ Territorialité(s), TRAFIC - FRac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008], Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur- Saone, France 2009 Into the Sunset, Photography's Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New Life is stranger than fiction, FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadforum, Innsbruck, Austria THIS SIDE OF PARADISE : LOS ANGELES (1865-2008), Musée de l Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland Seventies, le choc de la photographie américaine, BNF - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris Into the Sunset, Photography's Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New 2008 Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and Modern Photographic Utopia, MACBA, Barcelona, Museum Colecçao Berardo Context: Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas (with works by Olivo Barbieri and Stephen Dean), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA Jennifer Bornstein Selects From the Grunwald Collection, Hamme Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
20th Century Photography, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City, Japan Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art, MOMA, New D'Impossibles Trendezvous-Biennale de St. Denis, Paris American Photography les Annees 70, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 2007 Ingenuity, Calouste Golbenkian Center, Lisbon Life is Stranger Than Fiction, Albertina Museum, Vienna Views of Water, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan Des fantomes et des anges, Musée d'art Moderne, Villeneuve-d'Ascq Art for Yale: Collecting for the 21st Century, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT 2006 TRANS EMILIA. Collection Linea di Confine, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and SK- Stiftung, Cologne Tempo Moderno, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy 2005 STEIDL China Launch and Photography Exhibition, Timezone 8 Editions, Beijing, RC The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA 2004 Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, New 2003 Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London und Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2002 In situ, 4eme Biennale de Enghien-les-Bains, catalogue; Visions From America Whitney Museum of American Art, New 2001 CTRL SPACE Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Le moment conteporain de la fabrique du paysage, Institute Franco-Japoniaise, Tokyo Luoghi come paessagi/places as Landscape II, Palazzo Reale, Napoli 2000 Afterimages, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland How You Look At It, Spengel Museum Hannover, circulating to Staedl Museum, Frankfort Identification of a Landscape, Assessori di Cultura Commune de Venezia 1999 The American Century Whitney Museum, New Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria Views from the End of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New Changement d air, Musee d art moderne Lille Metropole 1997 Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum of Art Artists Position on the Industrial Landscape, Museum Grassi, Leipzig, Germany Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA 1996 Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany The Perpetual Mirage, Whitney Museum of American Art Homo Ecologicus. Fondacion Juan Miro, Barcelona Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1995 Ars 95, Atheneum, Helsinki Le Monde Apres La Photographie, Musee d'art moderne, Villeneuve d'ascq, and Villa Arson, Nice Photography After Photography, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, Museum für Fotografie Braunschweig 1994 La Ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris The Act of Seeing (Urban Space) Foundation pour l'architecture, Brussels 1993 Critical Landscapes, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Photographs From the Real World, Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway Photoplay: Works from The Chase Manhattan Collection. Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL 1992 Wasteland, Rotterdam Biennial III. Catalogue 1990 Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990, ICA Philadelphia 1989 Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Dialectical Landscapes: Nuovo Passagio Americano, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice 1987 Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung, Museum Ludwig Cologne Modern Photography and Beyond, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New 1985 Paris-New -Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum, Tokyo Photography in California, 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1980 Photographie als Kunst: Kunst als Photographie, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1979 American Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photographie since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New 1977 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New 1975 New Topographics. Photographers of a Man-Altered Landscape, George Eastman House, Rochster, NY IXe Biennale de Paris, Musee d'art Moderne de Ville de Paris Other selected projects 2002-2005 Piazza Anrolfo di Cambio, Colle Val d Elsa, Italy 2001 Swimming To the Seine, private client, Paris 1999 Michelina, Academy de France a Rome, Villa Medici Linea de Confine: Via Emilia, Reggio Emilia 1998 Venezia / Marghera Assessorato di cultura, Venice 1997 Zurich 97, Kunsthaus Zurich 1994-1996 Kunst und Landschaft, Siemens Kulturprogramm6 1991 Linea de Confine: Scandiano, Reggio Emilia Collections Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Art Institute of Chicago Baltimore Museum of Art Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal Cincinatti Art Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Des Moines Art Center Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University George Eastman House, Rochester, New Guggenheim Museum, New Henie-Onstad Foundation, Oslo, Norway International Center of Photography, New Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Milwaukee Art Museum Minneapolis Institute of Art Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Simon Museum, Pasadena Oakland Museum
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice Philadelphia Museum of Art Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Power Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University St. Louis Museum of Art Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Victoria and Albert Museum, London Wellesley College Art Museum, Wellesley, MA Whitney Museum of American Art, New Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT Selected bibliography 2012 ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, 2012. 2011 Candlestick Point, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2011 2010 Works (including 10 books), Steidl Publishers, 2010 2007 89/91 Sites of Technology, Steidl Publishers, 2007 2005 The Prototypes. Whitney Museum of American Art, New ; RAM, Los Angeles; Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2005 The Tract Houses. essay by Sherlm Conkleton. Whitney Museum of American Art, New ; RAM, Los Angeles; Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2005 2003 The Deaths In Newport, onestarpress, Paris, 2003 2001 Was wäre wenn. Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany, 2001 The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California. Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2001 Rian, Jeff. Lewis Baltz, Phaidon, London, 2001 1998 Butler, Cornelia. Lewis Baltz: Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de nuit. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and RAM, 1998 1996 Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, with Slavica Perkovic. Scalo, Zurich and New, 1996 1995 Les Morts de Newport Beach, Editions de l'aquarium Agnostique, Valenciennes, 1995 Baudier, Dennis and Salling Morten. Lewis Baltz. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1995 The Deaths In Newport, CD-ROM, Paradox, Rotterdam, 1995 1993 Stahel, Urs, ed. Regel Ohne Ausnahme, Scalo Verlag, Zurich & Berlin, 1993 Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard. Lewis Baltz. Editions de La Difference, Paris, 1993 1992 Fukugawa, Masafumi, ed. Rule Without Exception, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan, 1992 Visser, Hripsime. Lewis Baltz: 5 Projects, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1992 Ronde de Nuit, with Olivier Boissiere. CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1992 1991 Turrell, Julia Brown, ed. Rule Without Exception. Des Moines Art Center, 1991 Giochi di Simulatzione. Linea di Confine di Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1991 1989 Candlestick Point, text by Gus Blaisdell. Min Gallery, Tokyo, 1989 1986 San Quentin Point, essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. editions de La Difference, Paris and Aperture, New, 1986 1981 Park City, with Gus Blaisdell, Castelli Graphics New, with Aperture, Inc., 1981 1978 Nevada, Castelli Graphics, New, 1978 1976 Maryland, essay by Jane Livingston. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1976 1975 The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California. Castelli Graphics New, 1975