Carl van Vechten

♂ *1880-1964 / United States

Solo exhibitions

Beyond the Harlem Renaissance

African American Portraits by Carl Van Vechten

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
1 Jun 2020 – 1 Nov 2020
Harlem Heroes

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (US)
28 Aug 2016 – 19 Mar 2017
PHOTOGRAPHING THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND

Museum of the City of NY, New York (US)
4 Nov 2015 – 6 Mar 2016
harlem is...Music

Museum of the City of NY, New York (US)
28 Jan 2006 – 1 Apr 2006

Group

Photographic Memory

Fifty Years of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery, Washington (US)
14 Nov 2026 – 7 Nov 2027

with Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roy DeCarava, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, Alexander Gardner, Yousuf Karsh, Tseng Kwong Chi, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray
RED BLACK & BLUE

20TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
6 Feb 2025 – 28 Mar 2025

with David Attie, Anthony Barboza, Gordon Coster, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eli Reed, Arthur Rothstein, Flip Schulke, Beuford Smith, Weegee, Bob Willoughby
OUT OF THIS WORLD

SURREAL & FANTASTIC ART IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
3 Oct 2024 – 27 Nov 2024

with Pierre Adam, David Attie, Cecil Beaton, Gordon Coster, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Loomis Dean, Fernand Fonssagrives, Philippe Halsman, Man Ray , Herbert Matter, Angus McBean, NASA …
Masterworks of Modern Photography (MoMA)

The Thomas Walther Collection

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
14 Sep 2021 – 13 Feb 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Aurel Bauh, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Arturo Bragaglia, Anton Giuglio Bragaglia, Brassai, Marianne Breslauer …
Harlem: In Situ

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (US)
30 Mar 2019 – 31 Jul 2019

with Lucien Aigner, Dawoud Bey, Roy DeCarava, Lorraine O'Grady, Aaron Siskind, Kehinde Wiley
Light & Dark

Portraits of Distinguished African Americans

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
7 Feb 2019 – 21 Mar 2019

with Anthony Barboza, Wayne F. Miller, Flip Schulke, Chuck Stewart
Face to Face: Portraits of Artists

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
26 Jun 2018 – 14 Oct 2018

with Richard Avedon, Sonia Katchian, Man Ray , Arnold Newman, Dorothy Norman, Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz
4 Saints in 3 Acts

A Snapshot of the American Avant-garde

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
20 Oct 2017 – 11 Feb 2018

with Therese Bonney, Lee Miller, George Platt-Lynes
Human Interest

Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
27 Apr 2016 – 2 Apr 2017

with Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Dawoud Bey, John Coplans, Jay DeFeo, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lee Friedlander …
About Face - Vintage Portrait Photography

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
21 Feb 2008 – 19 Apr 2008

with Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Bob Willoughby
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits

National Portrait Gallery, Washington (US)
19 Oct 2007 – 2 Mar 2008

with Berenice Abbott, Mathew B. Brady, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Doris Ulmann, James Van Der Zee, Edward Weston
A Selection of Vintage and Contemporary Photographs

ArteF, Zürich (CH)
25 Oct 2007 – 21 Dec 2007

with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Doisneau, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Jean-Pascal Imsand, Tina Modotti, Orlan, Martin Parr, Roberto Raineri-Seith, Giovanni Sesia, Aaron Siskind, Sandy Skoglund …
Andrew Mania & Carl Van Vechten

Vilma Gold, London (GB)
2 Mar 2006 – 16 Apr 2006

with Andrew Mania

Events

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2026

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
23 Apr 2026 – 26 Apr 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Cecil Beaton, Blanc & Demilly, Bill Brandt, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Baron Adolphe De Meyer, Robert Frank, Ara Gueler, Friedrich Kiesler, Jan Lukas, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus), Madame Yevonde …
The Pride Sale

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)

with Charles Gatewood, Allen Ginsberg, Nan Goldin, Arlene Gottfried, Don Herron, Peter Hujar, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Fred W. McDarrah, Duane Michals, Wilhelm (Guglielmo) von Plueschow, George Platt-Lynes …