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    DIANE ARBUS

     

    b. 1923-1971, New York, NY.


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    BIOGRAPHY

     

    American photographer Diane Arbus is best known for portraits of New York subjects: families, children, tranvestites, circus performers, eccentrics, nudists, little people, and giants. Born Diane Nemerov, she partnered with her husband Allan Arbus as a fashion photographer in the 1940s and published portraits and photographic essays in the 1950s and 1960s in Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines. The development of her mature style of portraiture came about through work with a square format camera beginning in 1962. Riveting and controversial, yet intimately familiar, her images marry formalism and storytelling to great effect.

     

     

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    Outsiders: American Photography and Film 1950 - 1980, curated by Jim Shedden and Sophie Hackett, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

     

    Masterpieces & Curiosities: Diane Arbus's Jewish Giant, curated by Daniel S. Palmer, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

    Portraits of America: Diane Arbus | Cady Noland, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

     

    Dark Blue The Water as Protagonist, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI

    Une Affaire De Famille, La Photographie Dans Les Collections De Stephane, Rodolphe Et Sebastien Janssen, Museé de la photographie de Charleroi, Charleroi

    Light Sensitive, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC

    The Time is Now, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

     

    September 11, P.S.1. MoMa, New York, USA

    Diane Arbus, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Germany (solo)

    Diane Arbus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (solo)

    Another story. 1000 Photographs from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Diane Arbus: Affinities, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)

    Through the Looking Glass, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany

     

    PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! Fotografie und Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany

     

    Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

    Artists Rooms, Tate Modern, London, GB (solo)

    Diane Arbus Retrospective, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Zurich, Swtizerland; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; FOAM, Amsterdam, Holland (solo)

    Diane Arbus: People and Other Singularities, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA (solo)

    Diane Arbus, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway (solo)

     

    75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

    Private Eyes, la Colección de Laurence Miller, Sala Municipal de San Benito, Valladolid, Spain

    Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

    The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / LACMA, Los Angeles

    Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix and CCP Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, USA

    elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

    Diane Arbus: Christ in a lobby and Other Unknown or Almost Known Works, selected by Robert Gober, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

    Diane Arbus: In the Absence of Others, Cheim & Reid, New York, NY (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)

    The White Under The Red, Galerie Metro, Berlin, Germany

    Seventies, le choc de la photographie américaine, Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France

    The Fallen Angels, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio, Japan

    1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    BIG CITY, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria

    Sander's Children, Danziger Projects, New York

    Street & Studio, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

    Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus, National Museum, Cardiff, UK (solo)

    The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York, NY

    New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY

     

    Le Choc de la Photographie Americaine, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France

    Diane Arbus: A Printed Retrospective, 1960-1971, Curated by Pierre Leguillon, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (solo)

     

    Arbus, Avedon, Sander, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY

    People, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY

    Times Square, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY

    Diane Arbus, Neil Selkirk, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany

    Female Trouble, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

    Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London

    New York at Night: Photographs from the Collection, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York

     

    Diane Arbus - Helen Levitt: A Conversation, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

    NEW YORK, NY, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Americans, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

    June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

    All the More Real, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

    Second View, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

    Something Was There: Early Work by Diane Arbus, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

    Diane Arbus, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)

    A Fine Collection, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA (solo)

     

    Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    Recent Acquisitions: New York Street Photography from the 1960s and 1970s, (16 Diane Arbus Coney Island photographs) New York Public Library, New York, NY

    Das Achte Feld/The Eight Square, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany

    The Construction of the Other, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

    Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia, Italy

    The Street: Pioneers of 20th-Century Photography, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    The photographs of Diane Arbus, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Revelations, (200 photographs and supplementary ephemera), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)

     

    Photographing the Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY

    Bilanz in zwei Akten, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Family Albums, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, USA / Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA(solo)

    Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

    Reinstallation of The Museum of Modern Art's Collection, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Diane Arbus: Other Faces, Other Rooms, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

    Diane Arbus, Gallery Koyanagi, Portland, OR (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Family Albums, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (solo)

     

    Eye to Eye, Groninger Museum, Holland, The Netherlands

     

    Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

    Menschenbilder, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

    Photographers of Genius, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

    Family Albums, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA / Grey Art Gallery, New York University (solo)

    Female Identities? Künstlerinnen der Sammlung Goetz, Weserburg I Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany

    Photography Until Now; Museum of Modern Art, New York (auch im Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio)

    On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. und Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (auch im Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

     

    Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

    A Clear Vision, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

     

    Gogh Modern, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Pictures from Within, Whitney Museum, New York, NY

    Flesh Tones, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

    Diane Arbus, De Hallen, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Niederlande 1972 (solo)

     

    American Standard: (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

     

    J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

     

    Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum’s Collection, 1945 – 2000, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

    Homage to the Square: Picturing Washington Square, 1890-1865, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, NY

    Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Untitled 1969-1971, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany (solo)

     

    Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Women, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Women, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

     

    Untitled: Diane Arbus, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

     

    The Movies: Photographs from 1956 to 1958, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Untitled 1970-71, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Photographs, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

    Diane Arbus: Untitled 1970-71, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

     

    Alice Neel and Diane Arbus: Children, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (two-person)

     

    Diane Arbus: Early Works 1956-1962, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Portraits on Assignment, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

     

    Diane Arbus: Vintage Unpublished Photographs, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

     

    Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960; Museum of Modern Art; New York

     

    Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)

     

    Contemporary Photographs I; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Venice Biennale, Italy

     

    Thirteen Photographers; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

    Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

    New Photography U.S.A., Museum of Modern Art, New York

    10 Photographers; U.S. Pavilion, Japan World Exhibition, Osaka, Japan

     

    New Documents: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand; Museum of Modern Art; New York

     

    Recent Acquisitions: Photography; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; School of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin

    Invitational Exhibition: 10 American Photographers Milwaukee

     

    The Family of Man (with Allan Arbus), Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

     

    FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland

    Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

    Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

    Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence

    Sweet Briar College Art Gallery

    The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village

    Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

    Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown

    Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada

    Yokohama Museum of Art

    John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

    Milwaukee Art Museum, USA

    Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden

    Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden

    Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg / Florida, Russia / USA

    National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, USA

    National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

    New Orleans Museum of Art, USA

    Akron Art Museum

    BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria

    Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham / Alabama, UK / USA

    Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, USA

    Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

    Davison Art Center, Middletown

    Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie

    Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge / MA, USA

    International Center of Photography, New York, USA

    IVAM Valencia, Spain

    Public Collections

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    2012

     

     

    2011

     

     

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    Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph: Fortieth-Anniversary Edition by Marvin Israel, Doon Arbus and Diane Arbus

     

    Diane Arbus – Untitled, Ausst.Kat., Schirmer Mosel: München, 2011

    Photography calling!, Ausst.Kat., Steidl: Göttingen, 2011

     

    Diane Arbus: The Libraries, 2005 (ed. by Doon Arbus)

     

    Diane Arbus: Familiy Album, 2003

    Arbus, Diane. Revelations. New York: Random House and Toronto: Random House of Canada Limited

     

    Arbus and Yolanda Cuomo, Eds. Untitled. New York: Aperture

     

    Arbus, Diane. and Thomas W. Southall. Diane Arbus Magazine Work. Eds. Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Millerton. NY: Aperture

     

    Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus. Eds. Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel

    2010 - present

    2010 - present