Lewis Baltz
CV
CV
Biography
Born 1945 in Newport, California, USA.
Died 2014 in Paris, France.
Education and 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, Pamona and at the California Institute of Arts, Valencia, California
1972 – 2003
Several guest professorships at European and US-American universities and art colleges
2004
Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Grants and Awards
1991
1991 Charles Pratt Memorial Award
1980
US-UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship
1977
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1976
Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts
1973
Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Lewis Baltz | Jeff Wall, Zander Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2019
Lewis Baltz | Sol LeWitt, Zander Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2018
Lewis Baltz. Sites of Technology, Andreas Murkudis, Berlin, Germany
2017
Lewis Baltz, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Lewis Baltz. Sites of Technology, Grand-Hornu MAC´s, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
2015
Lewis Baltz. Sites of Technology, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Lewis Baltz. Common Objects, Le Bal, Paris, France
2013
Lewis Baltz, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2012
Lewis Baltz, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Lewis Baltz, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2011
Lewis Baltz. Sites of Technology, Galeri Mana, Istanbul, Turkey
Lewis Baltz. Candlestick Point, Art Unlimited / Art Basel 42, Zander Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Lewis Baltz. Prototypes / Ronde de Nuit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
2010
Lewis Baltz. Prototypes / Ronde de Nuit, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lewis Baltz / Donald Judd, Zander Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Lewis Baltz. The Park City Portfolio, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, USA
2008
Lewis Baltz, Andrew Roth, New York, NY, USA
Lewis Baltz. 1989-91 Sites of Technology, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California, USA
2007
BALTZ 89 / 91 Sites of Technology, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
BALTZ 89 / 91, Zander Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2006
Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
2005
Lewis Baltz. Candlestick Point (1989) and Prototype Works (1966-1976), Zander Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2004
Lewis Baltz. Sites of Technology, Zander Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2002
Lewis Baltz. Neue Topografik, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
University Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
2001
Lewis Baltz. Was wäre wenn, Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California, USA
1998
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
1995
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1993
Lewis Baltz. Rule Without Exception, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1992
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Seibu Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
1991
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1990
Lewis Baltz. Rule Without Exception, New York Institute of Contemporary Art P.S.1, New York, NY, USA
1986
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, USA
1985
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1984
Matrix, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley, California, USA
1981
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Castelli Gallery, New York , NY, USA
1980
Werkstatt für Photographie, Berlin, Germany
1979
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1976
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, USA
1975
Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1974
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
1973
Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1971
Castelli Gallery, New York (and 1985, 1989), NY, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Barbara T.Smith: Treasures, The Box, Los Angeles, California, USA
2022 – 2024
Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2022
German Caviar. The Photography Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
“Earth: A Retrospective”. El Ultimo Grito and the Per Amor a l’Art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, València, Spain
Sculpting Reality. Per Amor a l'Art Collection, PhotoEspaña 2022, Círculo de Bellas Artes & Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
2021
American Photography, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2019
In the Sunshine of Neglect, California Museum of Photography UCR Arts, Riverside, California, USA
2018
The Pulse of the Body. Uses and representations of space. Per Amor a l’Art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, València, Spain
Camera Austria International. Laboratory for Photography and Theory, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Konzeptuelle Fotografie aus der Sammlung Falckenberg, Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
FLUX Feelings, Ratskeller - Cercle Cité, Ville-Haute Luxembourg, Luxemburg
The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
The Beauty of Lines. Masterpieces from the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla collection, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland
2017
The Photographic I – Other Pictures, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum, Gent, Belgium
2016
Lewis Baltz with works by Carl Andre and Charlotte Posenenske, Stills Center for Photography, Edinburgh, UK
OFFICE, Kersten Geers David Van Severen - Everything Architecture, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2014
American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Road Trip, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Terra Firma: Landscapes from the Photography and Media Arts Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Mais avant de mourir, j’aimerais savoir qui vous êtes, Cortex Athletico Galerie – Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Crossroads, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Lillehammer, Norway
Un Cabinet D’Amateur. 2 Years After, Un Cabinet D’Amateur, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013
CONCRETE - Fotografie und Architektur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
I Mondi dell’Industria, MAST Gallery, Bologna, Italy
An Artificial Wilderness – The Landscape in Contemporary Photography, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut , USA
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
Usual Suspects, Un Cabinet D’Amateur, Sofia, Bulgaria
Industrial Effects: Photographs from the Henry Art Gallery Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, D.C., USA
This Infinite World, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2012 – 2013
Art, science et fiction, MAC’s – Site du Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
2012
ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, Zander Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Carl Andre/Lewis Baltz, Tate Modern, London, UK
2011 – 2012
Photography Calling! Fotografie und Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
2011
DC Bonus, organized by the galleries Schmidt Maczollek, Michael Wiesehöfer and 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/Kultur, Cologne, Germany
2010 – 2011
Hyper Real - Realismen in Malerei und Fotografie, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria
2010
American Documents, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Anonymous America: photography and film, Le Bal, Paris, France
MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
The View from Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Identité(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 York, NY, USA
Life is stranger than fiction, Foto Kunst Stadtforum, 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, France
Into the Sunset, Photography's Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
2008
Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and Modern Photographic Utopia, Museum Colecçao Berardo, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Context: Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas (with works by Olivo Barbieri and Stephen Dean), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA
Jennifer Bornstein Selects From the Grunwald Collection, Hamme Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
20th Century Photography, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City, Japan
Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
D'Impossibles Trendezvous-Biennale de St. Denis, Paris, France
American Photography les Annees 70, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, France
2007
Ingenuity, Calouste Golbenkian Center, Lisbon, Portugal
Life is Stranger Than Fiction, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Views of Water, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Des fantomes et des anges, Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Art for Yale: Collecting for the 21st Century, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2006
TRANS EMILIA. Collection Linea di Confine, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and SK- Stiftung/Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Tempo Moderno, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
2005
STEIDL China Launch and Photography Exhibition, Timezone 8 Editions, Beijing, China
The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., USA
2004
Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2003
Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London, UK and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2002
In situ, 4eme Biennale de Enghien-les-Bains, France
Visions From America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2001
CTRL SPACE - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Le moment contemporain de la fabrique du paysage, Institute Franco-Japoniaise, Tokyo, Japan
Luoghi come paesaggi / Places as Landscape II, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
2000
How You Look At It, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, circulating to Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Afterimages, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Identification of a Landscape, Assessori di Cultura Commune de Venezia, Venice, Italy
1999
The American Century Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA
Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Views from the End of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Changement d’air, Musée d’art moderne Lille Metropole, Lille, France
1997
Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Artists’ Position on the Industrial Landscape, Museum Grassi, Leipzig, Germany
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
1996
Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
The Perpetual Mirage, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Homo Ecologicus. Fondacion Juan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
1995
Ars 95, Atheneum, Helsinki, Finland
Le Monde Apres La Photographie, Musee d'art moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France and Villa Arson, Nice, France,
Photography After Photography, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, Museum für Fotografie, Braunschweig, Germany
1994
La Ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Act of Seeing (Urban Space) Foundation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
1993
Critical Landscapes, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Photographs From the Real World, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
Photoplay: Works from The Chase Manhattan Collection. Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA
1992
Wasteland - From now on, Fotografie Biennial III, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1990
Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990, ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1989
Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
On the Art of Fixing A Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. , USA
Dialectical Landscapes: Nuovo Passagio Americano, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
1987
Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Modern Photography and Beyond, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1985
Paris-New York-Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Photography in California, 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
1980
Photographie als Kunst: Kunst als Photographie, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1979
American Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
1978
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1977
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
1975
New Topographics. Photographers of a Man-Altered Landscape, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, NY, USA
IXe Biennale de Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Other Selected Projects
2002 – 2005
Piazza Anrolfo di Cambio, Colle Val d’Elsa, Italy
2001
Swimming To the Seine, private client, Paris, France
1999
Michelina, Academy de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
1998
Venezia / Marghera Assessorato di cultura, Venice, Italy
1997
Zurich 97, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
1994 – 1996
Kunst und Landschaft, Siemens Kulturprogramm
1991
Linea de Confine: Scandiano, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Selected Bibliography
2020
Thomas Zander (Ed.): Lewis Baltz / Sol LeWitt, exh. cat., Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany
2017
Lewis Baltz, Exh. cat., Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2014
Common Objects/Lewis Baltz, exh. cat., Le Bal, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2012
Lewis Baltz, exh. cat., Kestnergesellschaft, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany
Lewis Baltz. Rule without Exception, only Exceptions, exh. cat., Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
Lewis Baltz. True stories, exh. cat., Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
ED RUSCHA JOHN McLAUGHLIN LEWIS BALTZ, exh. cat., Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2011
Lewis Baltz. Candlestick Point, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2010
Lewis Baltz. Works (including 10 books), Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2007
Lewis Baltz. 89/91 Sites of Technology, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2005
Lewis Baltz. The Prototypes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; RAM, Los Angeles and Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
Lewis Baltz. The Tract Houses, Essay by Sherlm Conkleton, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; RAM, Los Angeles; Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
2003
Lewis Baltz. The Deaths In Newport, onestarpress, Paris, France
2001
Lewis Baltz. Was wäre wenn, Kunstverein Rüsselsheim e.V., Rüsselsheim, Germany
Lewis Baltz. The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
Rian, Jeff: Lewis Baltz, Phaidon, London, UK
1998
Butler, Cornelia: Lewis Baltz, Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de nuit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and RAM, Los Angeles
1996
Geschichten von Verlangen und Macht, with Slavica Perkovic, Scalo Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland and New York
1995
Les Morts de Newport Beach, Editions de l'Aquarium Agnostique, Valenciennes, France
Baudier, Dennis and Salling Morten: Lewis Baltz, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
The Deaths In Newport, CD-ROM, Paradox, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1993
Stahel, Urs (Ed.): Regle Ohne Ausnahme, Scalo Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland & Berlin, Germany
Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard: Lewis Baltz, Editions de La Difference, Paris, France
1992
Fukugawa, Masafumi (Ed.): Rule Without Exception, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Visser, Hripsime, Lewis Baltz: 5 Projects, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ronde de Nuit, with Olivier Boissiere. CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1991
Turrell, Julia Brown (Ed.): Rule Without Exception, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
Giochi di Simulazione, Linea di Confine di Reggio Emilia, Italy
1989
Lewis Baltz. Candlestick Point, Text by Gus Blaisdell, Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Lewis Baltz. San Quentin Point, Essay by Mark Haworth-Booth, Editions de La Difference, Paris and Aperture, New York, USA
1981
Lewis Baltz. Park City, with Gus Blaisdell, Castelli Graphics New York, with Aperture, Inc., New York, NY, USA
1978
Lewis Baltz. Nevada, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, USA
1976
Lewis Baltz. Maryland, Essay by Jane Livingston, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1975
Lewis Baltz. The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, USA
Public Collections
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. , USA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusettsmassachusetts
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, NYmassachusetts
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NYmassachusetts
Henie-Onstad Foundation, Oslo, Norway
International Center of Photography, New York, NYmassachusetts
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
KMS Fine Art Group, Baar, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Californiamassachusetts
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; NYmassachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsinmassachusetts
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, USA
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Power Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wellesley College Art Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, USA