Born 1943, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
Lives in New York and Maine, USA
Education
1965 B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
1967 M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
William Wegman – Solo Show, LOOM gallery, Milan Italy; October 24 – November 20, 2024
William Wegman: Favorite Models, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China; July 27 – September 13, 2024
The Photography of William Wegman: Experimentation and Representation, The Rockwell Museum, Corning NY, The Arnot Art Museum, Arnot NY; May 29 – September 3, 2024
William Wegman: Favorite Models, Sperone Westwater, New York; March 1 – April 20
William Wegman: Learn to Dance with Modern Electronic Equipment, Early Conceptual Photography 1971-74; The Vault: William Wegman: Do you Want, Video Works, 1970-76, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; January 26 – March 9, 2024
William Wegman: 20 x 24, Galeria Alta, Anyós, Andorra; February 17 – June 22, 2024
2023
William Wegman: A Number of Problems, Magenta Plains, New York; March 9 – April 22, 2023
William Wegman: Drawings by Artist, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London; March 10 – April 22
William Wegman: Around Bermuda, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, Bermuda; May 12 – November 26 (catalogue)
2022
William Wegman: Writing by Artist, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY; May 5 – June 18
William Wegman: Art by Artist, curated by Andrew Lampert, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hils, CA; July 9 – August 27
William Wegman: Painting by Artist, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX; July 12 – August 27
William Wegman: Agility conceptuelle, curated by Martin Bethenod, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris; December 9, 2022 – January 28, 2023
2021
William Wegman: Instant Miami, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; June 24 – September 26
2019
William Wegman: 80s Music, MLIS Artotheque, Villeurbanne, France; February 14 – April 20
William Wegman: Postcard Works, Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris, France; March 30 – May 11
William Wegman: Being Human, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand; April 8 – August 4; travelling to Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland; Fotomuseum den Haag/Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
William Wegman: Outside/In, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont; June 22 – October 27
2018
Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; January 17 – July 15
William Wegman: Vogue, Imago Gallery, Palm Springs; February 17
“Cinderalla Polaroids”, Galerie Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York; April 13
Sit!, Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; June 21 – August 11
William Wegman: Being Human, Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, Arles, France; July 2 – September 23
“Instant Miami”, Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton; September 4
2017
William Wegman: Improved Photographs, Telfair Museums Jepson Center, Savannah, GA; May 12 – August 13
William Wegman: Please Stand By, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; March 8 – April 22
William Wegman: Reel to Real, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; June 10 – October 22
William Wegman: Dressed and Undressed, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY; September 5 – October 28
2016
William Wegman: Postcard Paintings, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY; March 17 – April 23
William Wegman: Drawings, Magenta Plains Gallery, New York, NY; March 17 – April 24
William Wegman: New and Used Furniture 1972-2015, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; April 16 – May 28
William Wegman: Good Dogs on Nice Furniture, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas; July 2 – August 13
2015
Artists Including Me: William Wegman, The Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 30 – July 25; traveling to the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; October 2 – February 7, 2016
William Wegman: Good Dogs on Nice Furniture, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, February 14 – March 28
William Wegman: Good Dogs on Nice Furniture, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
William Wegman: Cubism and Other-Isms, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; August 22 – January 24
William Wegman, Patrick de Brock Gallery; Knokke, Belgium; Oct 31 – Nov 30
William Wegman: Good Dogs on Nice Furniture & Cubism and Other -Isms, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Nov 29 – Jan 9
2014
William Wegman: Cubism and Other -Isms, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, NY, November 15 – January 17, 2015
Way Up in Maine: The Works of William Wegman, Emery Flex Gallery, Farmington, June 16 – September 7
2013
William Wegman: The Traveler, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, January 25 – March 24
William Wegman: He Took Two Pictures, One Came Out, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, May 4 – July 3
William Wegman: Photographs and Drawings from the 1970s, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, November 21 – December 28
Eureka: William Wegman Photographs 1970-1975, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, November 8 – January 25
2012
William Wegman: Artists Including Me, Sperone Westwater, NY; May 4 – June 16
William Wegman: Drawings for a Better Tomorrow and a Worse Yesterday, Salon 94 Freemans, September 13 – October 20
William Wegman: Hello Nature, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; July 13 – October 21; traveled to Artipelag, Varmdo, Stockholm, Sweden, May 25 – September 29
2011
William Wegman, Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, California
William Wegman: New Photos, Galerie Bugdahn Und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany, April 1- June 10
2010
William Wegman, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
William Wegman: Some Tricks, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, March 27 – April 24
William Wegman and Fay: Polaroids 1987-1995, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
William Wegman: Fay, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida
William Wegman: Family Combinations, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
William Wegman: Inside/Outside, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
William Wegman: Paintings, Photographs, Video, Chang Art, Beijing, China
William Wegman: Out of the Box, Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turners Falls, Massachusetts
2009
William Wegman, Artspace@Heutrans, Tanjon Pagar Distripark, Singapore
Unexpected Wegman, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
William Wegman: Fay, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
William Wegman: New Work, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
William Wegman: Dogs on Rocks, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
2008
William Wegman, Paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
William Wegman, Photographs, Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, ME
William Wegman: Fay, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
William Wegman, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
William Wegman, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2007
William Wegman, New Paintings, Robilant and Voena, London
Wegman Outdoors, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
William Wegman, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
William Wegman, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (cat.)
William Wegman and no Dogs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006
William Wegman, Adamson Gallery, Washington D.C.
William Wegman, Black and White Photographs, Galerie Wouter van Leewen, Amsterdam, Holland
William Wegman: Funney/Strange, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (cat.) traveling to: Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
William Wegman, Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
New & Improved (1974-2006), Sperone Westwater, New York
William Wegman, Senior & Shopmaker, New York
2005
William Wegman, Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich, Germany
Man’s Best Friend: Photographs and Videos, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Strange But True, Hudson Guild, New York, NY
2004
William Wegman, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan
William Wegman, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC
William Wegman, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas TX
William Wegman, deprises et reprises :annotations, corrections et deplacements: 1969-2003, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France
William Wegman, Recent Paintings, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
William Wegman, Recent Polaroids, Galerie Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
2003
William Wegman, Charlotte Lund Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
William Wegman, Recent Polaroids, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
William Wegman, Centro Jose Guerrero, Diputacion de Granada, Spain (cat.); Artium, Vitoria, Spain
William Wegman, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
William Wegman, Winston Wacter, Seattle, WA.
William Wegman, Galleria Cardi & Co, Milan, Italy
William Wegman, VB-valokuvakeskus photographic centre, Kuopio, Finland
William Wegman, Recent Polaroids, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
William Wegman, New Pigment Prints, Adamson Gallery, Washington DC
William Wegman, Paintings, Sperone Westwater, New York
William Wegman, Reading Two Books, Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York
2002
William Wegman in the 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, Creative Time and Panasonic, New York
William Wegman: Indian in the Refrigerator and other printed works, Printed Matter, New York
William Wegman, Recent Work, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
William Wegman, Roman Zenner, Stuttgart, Germany (cat.)
William Wegman: Fashion Photographs…and More: Works on Paper and Video, 1970 to 2001, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
William Wegman; Early Video / Recent Video, New Drawings / Earlier Paintings; Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Photo + Drawing + Video = William Wegman, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
William Wegman, Savage, Portland, OR
William Wegman: Early Drawings / Early Video, Recent Drawings / Recent Video Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, NY
2001
William Wegman: Serie “La Iglesia”, Galeria De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, Contemporary Art Museum, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Drawings, Photographs and Videos: 1970 – 2000, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, Speed Art Museum; Louisville, Kentucky;
William Wegman: A Brief Survey of Earlier Work: Speed Museum, Louisville, KY,
Fashion Photographs by William Wegman, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
William Wegman: Early Works, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2000
Pillsbury Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
William Wegman, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
William Wegman: Photography, Video, Drawing and Painting, 1970 – 2000
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
William Wegman: The McKinney Ave Contemporary; Dallas, Texas
Canis Ecclesiorum: The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York
William Wegman: Photography, Video, Drawing and Painting, 1970 – 2000
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Once Upon a Time: Contemporary Art for Children for Childrens Books, Cleveland
Center of Contemporary Art; Cleveland
William Wegman, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Belgium
1999
Art in the News, The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, FL
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
William Wegman: Drawing, Video Painting, Photography, Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Return of the Weimaraner, ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany
William Wegman, Durant-Dessert Gallery, Paris, France
William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
David Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1998
William Wegman, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden (cat.); Museet for Fotokunst,
Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense C, Denmark; Kiasma, Nykyaiteen Museo, Finland
William Wegman, PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York
William Wegman, PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles
Saks Project Art, Saks Fifth Avenue, New York
William Wegman, Recent Work, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas
Strange But True, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA
1997
William Wegman: Fay’s Fairy Tales, Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
William Wegman, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museum “EKI,” Kyoto, Japan (cat.)
William Wegman: Drawings 1973-1997, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Limousin, Limoges, France
Lost and Found, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Six Scenic Scenes, The Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ
William Wegman Lost and Found, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Jay Gorney Gallery, New York
1996
William Wegman: Paintings, Drawing, Photographs, Videotapes, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Austin Museum of Art, TX; The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL ; Art Center of Battle Creek, MI (traveling 1996-1999)
William Wegman, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Galleri Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago
William Wegman, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Fay, New York, April 1994, Photokina 96, Leverkusen, Germany, Texas Gallery, Houston
1995
A William Wegman Primer: Shapes, Numbers and Alphabet, George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
William Wegman: Photographs, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Weimar den Weimaranern, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany, (cat.)
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas
PaceWildenstein/MacGill, Los Angeles
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Anderson Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa
Kristina Wasserman Gallery, Providence, RI
Campbell Contemporary Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1994
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix
Edition Julie Sylvester, New York
William Wegman, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Hamiltons, London
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles
1993
William Wegman’s Cinderella, Museum of Modern Art, New York
William Wegman: Out of Doors, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
William Wegman, Museo de Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
Fay’s Fairy Tales: William Wegman’s Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth; Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Pace/MacGill Gallery,
New York Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris,
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1992
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
William Wegman: Field Guide to North America, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
William Wegman Paintings and Drawings John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York (cat.)
1991
Outdoor Photographs, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY
William Wegman: Photographic Works 1969-76, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Limousin, Limoges, France (cat.)
1990
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles
The History of Travel, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati; The Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH (cat.)
Galerie 36, Lucerne
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
William Wegman: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs,Videotapes, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; ICA, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICA, Boston; Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (cat.)
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
1989
William Wegman, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France (cat.)
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1988
La Jolla Vista View, The Stuart Collection, University of San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
William Wegman: Polaroids and Videos, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Thomas Soloman’s Garage, Los Angeles
William Wegman New Paintings Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Dart Gallery, Chicago
William Wegman, Photographs, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
William Wegman, Man Ray Commemorative Prints, Solo Gallery, New York
1987
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C
1986
William Wegman: Color Photographs, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Improved Photographs, Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1985
Instant Miami, Lowe Museum of Art, Miami
1984
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1983
Local Boy Makes Good, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
William Wegman: Videoworks, Institute of Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum, Richmond
Wegman’s Photographs from the Ed Ruscha Collection and Wegman’s Videotapes: Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
$19.84, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY (cat.)
Texas Gallery, Houston
1982
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Dart Gallery, Chicago
Locus Solus, Geonoa, Italy
Wegman’s World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth; De Cordova & Dana Museum & Park, Lincoln, MA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (cat.)
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1980
William Wegman: Selected Works 1970-79, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder; Aspen Center for Visual Arts, Aspen, Colorado
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1979
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
Texas Gallery, Houston
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf
1978
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1977
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1976
The Kitchen, New York
1975
Mayor Gallery, London
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf
1974
112 Greene Street, New York
Galleria Toselli, Milan
Texas Gallery, Houston
1973
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
Texas Gallery, Houston
Francoise Lambert and Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1972
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf
Situation Gallery, London
1971
Pomona College of Art, Pomona, CA (cat.)
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris