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BORN
1949, San Francisco. Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1981 S.M. Management Science, M.I.T.
1973 M.F.A. Photography, Yale University
1970 A.B. Studio Art, Stanford University
GRANTS
1995 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1990-91 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist's Fellowship
1987-89 Polaroid Corporation Artist Support Grants
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2003 “Baseball,” Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
“David Levinthal,”
Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
“The Wild
West,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
“Small Wonder:
Worlds in a Box,” Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2002 “From the Valley of the Dolls: David Levinthal,
1985-2001,” Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, FL
“XXX,”
The Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“The Wild
West,” The Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
“David Levinthal:
1975-2001,” Ashevile Art Museum, Asheville, NC
“XXX,”
The Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
“The Wild
West,” The Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“The Wild
West,” The Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Wild
West,” Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
“Blackface,”
Alexandria Black History Resource Center, Alexandria, VA
“Small Wonders:
World in a Box,” Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach,
VA
2001 “David Levinthal,” Marella Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, Italy
“Small Wonders:
World in a Box,” Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
“XXX”
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
“XXX Series,”
Modernism, San Francisco, CA
“Blackface,”
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
“XXX Series,”
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 “Modern Romance,” Speed Museum, Louisville,
KY
“Wild West
Series,” Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
“Blackface,”
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“XXX Series,”
Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
1999 “XXX: New Photographs,” Baldwin Gallery, Aspen,
CO
“Girlfriend!
The Barbie Sessions,” San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA: Traveling to: Norton
Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology,
New York, NY; Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham,
AL
“Spring Fever:
David Levinthal’s Baseball Series,” Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque,
NM
“David Levinthal:
Barbie Millicent Roberts”, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
“Barbie,”
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1998 “Wild West”, P.S. 1, Queens, NY
Mark Moore Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
New Gallery, Houston,
TX
Baldwin Gallery,
Aspen, CO
1997 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Lisa Sette Gallery,
Scottsdale, AZ
Craig Krull Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
Philadelphia Museum
of Judaica, Philadelphia, PA
Holocaust Museum
Houston, Houston, TX
“David Levinthal:
1975-1996,” International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Janet Borden Gallery,
New York, NY
1996 Judah L. Magnus Museum, Berkeley, CA
Modernism Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1995 University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM
Galerie H.S. Steinek,
Vienna, Austria
Craig Krull Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
Megan Fox Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
1994 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Center for Creative
Photography, Tucson, AZ
Gilcrease Museum,
Tulsa, OK
Janet Borden Gallery,
New York
The Photographers’
Gallery, London, England
Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris, France
1993 The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco,
CA
Wiener Staatsoper,
Vienna, Austria
Galerie H.S. Steinek,
Vienna, Austria
Gene Autry Western
Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs Desert
Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Southeastern Center
for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Laurence Miller
Gallery, New York
Pastrays Gallery,
Yokohama, Japan
1991 Janet Borden Gallery, New York, NY
Laurence Miller
Gallery, New York, NY
Museum für
Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
Forum Bottcherstrasse,
Bremen, Germany
1990 Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Laurence Miller
Gallery, New York, NY
1989 University Art Museum, California State University, Long
Beach, CA
Jan Kesner Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
1988 C.E.P.A. Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Laurence Miller
Gallery, New York, NY
Clarence Kennedy
Gallery, Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Allied Arts Gallery,
Las Vegas, NV
1987 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Philadelphia College
of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama, Birmingham,
AL
Blatent Image Gallery,
Pittsburgh, PA
1985 Area X Gallery, New York
Founders Gallery,
University of San Diego, CA
1978 International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House,
Rochester, NY
Quivera Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
1977 Carpenter Center of Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
California Institute
for the Arts, Valencia, CA
Southern Light Gallery,
Amarillo College, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 “Cowboys and Indians: the West as Muse in Contemporary
Photography,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2003 “5 YEAR < RETRO,” Conner Contemporary Art, Washington,
DC
“Tunnel Vision:
A Contemporary Visual Odyssey,” Art Basel & Art Miami, Daniel Azoulay
Gallery, Miami, FL
“Beyond Tradition:
Permanent Collection Photographs,” San Jose Museum of Art, CA
“Flash, Swimsuits
and Sports,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
“Valley of
the Dolls,” Modernism, San Francisco, CA
“Pictures
from Within: American Photographs, 1958-2002,” Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY
“Not So Cute
& Cuddly: Dolls and Stuffed Toys in Contemporary Art,” Ulrich Museum
of Art,Wichita, KS
“Sharks in
the Morning,” Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, FL
“Indians and
Cowboys,” Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“The Burbs,”
DFN Gallery, New York, NY
“American
Dream: A Survey,” Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
“Wait Until
Dark,” Williams College Museum of Art, Williams, MA
“Faking Real,”
Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Witness:
Theories of Seduction,” Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
“M_ARS - Art
and War,” Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
“Constructed
Realities: Contemporary Photography,” Orlando Museum of Art, FL
“Phantom of
Pleasure,” Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2002 “American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid
Collection,” Boston University Art Gallery and Photographic Resource Center,
Boston, MA
“Culture Shock,”
The Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
“Visions from
America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001,”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Erotika,”
Riva Gallery, New York, NY
“The American
Dream: Swimming Pool,” Sky Studios, New York, NY
“Gun Crazy,”
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Visual Arts Gallery
“A Doll's
House,” Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
“Desire,”
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
“Selections
from the Metropital Museum of Art's Permanent Collection,” Robert Wood
Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
“Art Downtown,”
Wall Street Rising, New York, NY
“Red as a
Color for Exploration and Expression,” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe,
NM
2001 “Diabolical Beauty,” Santa Barbara Contemporary
Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
“Horse Tales:
American Images and Icons 1800-2000,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah,
New York
“Love Affair
with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,”
Houston, Texas
“Toy With
Us,” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
“300 Year
Anniversary Yale University School of Art Alumni Exhibition,” New Haven,
CT
“Desire,”
Ursula Blickle Stiftung in association with the Galleria d’Arte Moderna,
Bologna, Italy
“True Fictions,”
Museum Bad Arolsen, Kassel, Germany
“Places &
People,” L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
“Phigment,”
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
“Toying with
Reality,” Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
“Mémoire
des Camps: Photographies des Camps de Concentration d’Extermination Nazis,
1933-1999,” Patrimonie Photographique, Hôtel de Sully, Paris, France
2000 “Stage and Manipulated: Photographic Fictions from St.
Louis Collections,” Cohen Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
“The Darker
Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“MoMA 2000:
Open Ends,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“American
Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection,” Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
“It Was So
Hot We Had To Take Our Clothes Off: A Summer Show of Selected Artists,”
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
“The Toy Show,”
Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY
“Living Doll,”
The Work Space, New York, NY
“Chorus of
Light, Photography from the Collection of Sir Elton John,” High Museum
of Art, Atlanta, GA
“Made in California,
1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Islands of
Order,” Leeds Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
1999 “Mastermind of Mode,” International Fashion Festival
in Japan 1999, Tokyo, Kobe, and Fukuoka, Japan
“Images for
an Age: Art and History at the Center for Creative Photography,” The University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
“Un Monde
Irréel,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
“American
Photographs, Part 3: 1968-1999,” Danziger Gallery, New York, NY
“Déja
Jadis: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Part I,” Modernism, San Francisco,
CA
“Female,”
Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
“Urban Life,”
Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria
“Almost Warm
and Fuzzy,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
“Through the
Looking Glass,” Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural
Center, Staten Island, NY
“Summertime,”
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Built,”
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Stars &
Stripes,” Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
“Into the
21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” San Jose Museum
of Art, San Jose, CA
“Veiled Time:
Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust,” Mason Gross School of the Arts
Gallery, Trenton, NJ
“I’m
the Boss of Myself,” Sara Meltzer’s On View, New York, NY
1998 “Altered Beliefs,” City Gallery East, Bureau of
Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA
“Babes,”
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“From the
Heart: The Power of Photography-A Collector’s Choice,” Art Museum
of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
“Same Difference,”
Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
“The Not-Quite
Doll Show,” O’Kane Gallery, Houston, TX
“Heart, Body,
Mind, Soul: American Art in the 1990’s, Selections from the Permanent
Collection,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1997 “New Realities: Hand-colored Photography, 1839 to the
Present,” University ofWyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
“The Mythic
Image,” David Adamson Gallery, Washington DC
“Figured,”
Associated American Artists, New York, NY
“Devoir de
Mémoire,” Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles,
France
“Rear View,”
California State University, Northridge, CA
“The Gun As
Image, “ Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
“Making it
Real,” Independent Curators International, New York, The Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Traveling to: Reykjavik Municipal
Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME; Bayly Art
Museum, Charlottesville VA; Bakalar Gallery, Boston MA; and Emerson Gallery,
Clinton NY
1996 “The Imaginary Real,” The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX
“The Importance
of Toys,” Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
“Helman Gallery:
Invitational,” Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
“Blind Spot
Photography: The First Four Years,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York,
NY
“The Secret
Life of Toys,” Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
“Prospect
96,” Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
“The Enduring
Illusion,” Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA
“Telling Stories:
Narrative Tableau Photography,” Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art,
Jacksonville, FL
1995 “Edward Hopper and the American Imagination,” Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“An American
Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital,” The Hallmark Photographic
Collection, Kansas City, MO
"Informed by
FILM,” Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
“Representations
of Auschwitz: 50 Years of Photographs, Paintings and Graphics,” Auschwitz-Birkenu
State Museum, Oswiecim, Poland
“After Art:
Rethinking 150 Years of Photography,” Selections from the Joseph and Elaine
Monsen Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“Talking Pictures:
People Speak about the Photographs that Speak to Them,” International
Center of Photography, Midtown, New York, NY. Traveling to: 1995, The Friends
of Photography, San Francisco, CA; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington,
D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI.
1996, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute
of Art, Mlps., MN; Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ. 1997, Louisiana Art and Science
Center, Baton Rouge, LA
1993 “Memories, Facts & Lies,” BlumHelman Gallery,
New York, NY
“Dolls in
Contemporary Art,” Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee,
WI
“American
Made: The New Still Life,” Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1992 “More Than One Photography,” Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
“Sofort-Bild-Geschichten,
Instant-Imaging-Stories,” Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
“Interpreting
the American Dream,” (James Casebere, David Levinthal, Richard Ross),
Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria
“Illusions
et Travestissements,” A.B. Galerie, Paris, France
1991 “Devil on the Stairs,” Institute of Contemporary
Art, Philadelphia, PA; Newport Harbor Museum, CA
“Des Vessies
et des Lanternes,” La Botanique, Brussels, Belgium; Palais de Tokyo, Paris,
France
“Recent Acquisitions,”
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1990 “Odalisque,” Jayne Baum Gallery, New York, NY
“Rethinking
American Myths,” Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1989 “Surrogate Selves: David Levinthal, Cindy Sherman, Laurie
Simmons,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Photography
of Invention,” National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
“The New Concept,”
Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
“The Mediated
Imagination,” SUNY Purchase, NY
“Abstraction
in Contemporary Photography,” Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
“Constructed
Realities,” Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
“Theatergarden
Bestiarium,” The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, New York,
NY
1988 “The Return of the Hero,” Burden Gallery, New York,
NY
“The Constructed
Image II,” Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Selections
4,” Photokina 88, Cologne, Germany
1987 “Avant-Garde in the Eighties,” Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, CA
“Fabrications,”
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
“Photography
and Art 1946-86,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1986 “Acceptable Entertainment,” Bruno Facchetti Gallery,
NY
“Signs of
the Real,” White Columns, New York, NY
1985 BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA
1983 “In Plato’s Cave,” Marlborough Gallery, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BankAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Collection of Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Continental Insurance, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Eurostar, Graz, Austria
Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis., MN
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Heights, OH
San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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