Charles Gaines

♂ *1944 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Night/Crimes

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
16 Aug 2025 – 1 Feb 2026
Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series)

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
30 Oct 2024 – 6 Jul 2025
CHARLES GAINES

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
9 Nov 2018 – 22 Dec 2018
Gridwork 1974-1989

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
7 Feb 2015 – 24 May 2015
Gridwork 1974-1989

Studio Museum Harlem, New York (US)
17 Jul 2014 – 26 Oct 2014
NIGHT CRIMES

L.A. 1991

Brigitte March, Stuttgart (DE)
8 Jun 2012 – 14 Aug 2012
Manifestos

Kent Fine Art, New York (US)
23 Oct 2008 – 8 Dec 2008

Group

Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985

Mississippi Museum of Art, Los Angeles (US)
25 Jul 2026 – 8 Nov 2026

with Billy Abernathy, Harry Adams, Raphael Albert, Ralph Arnold, Anthony Barboza, James Barnor, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite, Dwight Carter, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong …
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
24 Feb 2026 – 14 Jun 2026

with Billy Abernathy, Harry Adams, Raphael Albert, Ralph Arnold, Anthony Barboza, James Barnor, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite, Dwight Carter, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong …
ECHO DELAY REVERB

American Art and Francophone Thought

Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
22 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026

with Laurie Anderson, Mark Dion, Hal Fischer, Andrea Fraser, Ellen Gallagher, Andrea Geyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Renee Green, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, David Hammons …
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
21 Sep 2025 – 4 Jan 2026

with Billy Abernathy, Harry Adams, Raphael Albert, Ralph Arnold, Anthony Barboza, James Barnor, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite, Dwight Carter, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong …
Consider Listening

haubrok projects, Berlin (DE)
6 Apr 2025 – 6 Jul 2025

with Ahmet Oeguet, Ilit Azoulay, Monica Bonvicini, Willem de Rooij, Sam Durant, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Rashid Johnson, Oliver Laric, Louise Lawler, Joanna Piotrowska …
Seeing from the Block

Observing the Justice System through the Collection of the Nasher Museum

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (US)
19 Sep 2024 – 12 Jan 2025

with Leonard Freed, Ed Ruscha
Transformations: American Photographs from the 1970s

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
27 Jan 2024 – 7 Jul 2024

with Robert Adams, William Eggleston, Mikki Ferrill, Michael Jang, William Larson, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, Martha Rosler, Lucas Samaras
Life Cycles

DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (US)
7 Sep 2023 – 11 Feb 2024

with Hugo Brehme, Barbara Crane, Brendan Fernandes, Theaster Gates, Michiko Itatani, Mayumi Lake, Nathan Lerner, Laura Letinsky, Tracey Moffatt, Abelardo Morell, Laurel Nakadate, Miwa Yanagi
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville (US)
18 Sep 2018 – 3 Mar 2019

with Claudia Andujar, Sammy Baloji, Subhankar Banerjee, Huma Bhabha, LIU Bolin, Edward Burtynsky, Sandra Cinto, Elena Damiani, Dornith Doherty, Mishka Henner, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Chris Jordan …
No Time

The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA), San Francisco (US)
21 Sep 2018 – 19 Jan 2019

with Ansel Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Paul Caponigro, Keith Carter, Binh Danh, Gohar Dashti, John Divola, Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Emmet Gowin …
AS YOU LIKE IT - C'EST COMME VOUS VOULEZ

Praz-Delavallade L.A., Los Angeles (DE)
28 Jun 2018 – 18 Aug 2018

with Doug Aitken, Pierre Ardouvin, Whitney Bedford, Matthew Brandt, Adrien Missika, Catherine Opie, Jim Shaw, Jennifer Steinkamp, James Welling
Masterprints and photographs

Brigitte March, Stuttgart (DE)
4 Jul 2018 – 15 Aug 2018

with Silvie Defraoui, Antoni Muntadas, Anne & Patrick Poirier
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
11 Jul 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Stan Douglas, Renee Green, Rashid Johnson, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Catherine Sullivan
The Venice Biennale - 56th International Art Exhibition

All the World's Futures

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Adel Abdessemed, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Abounaddara, Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Kutluğ Ataman, Maja Bajevic, Ernesto Ballesteros, Sammy Baloji, Rosa Barba …
LANDSCAPE

the virtual, the actual, the possible?

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US)
24 Oct 2014 – 25 Jan 2015

with Lucas Blalock, Elina Brotherus, Marcelo Cidade, Tacita Dean, Vidya Gastaldon, ZHENG Guogu, Paul Kos, Charlotte Moth, Robert Zhao Renhui, Hiraki Sawa, Lois Weinberger, CHEN Xiaoyun
LA BIENNALE DE MONTRÉAL

L'avenir (looking forward)

Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal (CA)
22 Oct 2014 – 4 Jan 2015

with Abbas Akhavan, Edgar Arceneaux, Nicolas Baier, Taysir Batniji, Amanda Beech, Ursula Biemann, Raymond Boisjoly, Andrea Bowers, Matthew Buckingham, Simon Denny, Ryan Gander, Babak Golkar …
Kunst mit der Kamera - Analoge Fotografie 1963 - 1996

Brigitte March, Stuttgart (DE)
24 May 2013 – 21 Jun 2013

with Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Christo & Jeanne-Claude , Gloria Friedmann, Jochen Gerz, Concha Jerez, Antoni Muntadas, Patrick Raynaud, Timm Ulrichs
UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN - CALIFORNIA ART 1974-1981

MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles (US)
1 Oct 2011 – 13 Feb 2012

with Bas Jan Ader, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Judith Barry, Bruce Conner, Joe Deal, John Divola, Jim Goldberg, Robert Heinecken, Lynn Hershman, Mike Kelley …
Snake River

Redcat, Los Angeles (US)
16 Sep 2006 – 19 Nov 2006

with Edgar Arceneaux
Snake River

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
28 Apr 2006 – 13 Aug 2006

with Edgar Arceneaux
Attitüden Bilder Konzepte - Zu Ehren von Friedrich Schiller

Brigitte March, Stuttgart (DE)
28 Jan 2005 – 26 Feb 2005

with Ugo Dossi, Jochen Gerz, Kazuo Katase, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Patrick Raynaud, Ulrike Rosenbach, Silvie + Chérif Defraoui
6. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 2004 . RECHERCHE - ENTDECKT! Bildarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten

Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE)
18 Jul 2004 – 3 Oct 2004

with Guillaume Bijl, Monika Brandmeier, Willie Doherty, Olafur Eliasson, Hamish Fulton, Daniela Keiser, Jochen Lempert, Bettina Lockemann, Peter Piller, Richard Prince, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Martha Rosler …
The Night of the Hunter – Die Nacht des Jägers. Fotografische Erkundungen

Brigitte March, Stuttgart (DE)
12 Sep 2003 – 4 Oct 2003

with Samta Benyahia, Jean Sylvain Bieth, Peter Bonde, Silvie Defraoui, Ugo Dossi, Gloria Friedmann, Nikolaus Lang, Les Levine, Søren Martinsen, Uwe H. Seyl, Rainer Wittenborn

Events

Frieze Art Fair | Seoul 2025

Frieze art fair, Seoul (KR)
4 Sep 2025 – 6 Sep 2025

with Hideo Anze, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jae-Eun Choi, Eun Chun, Chun Heeseung, Godfried Donkor, Luigi Ghirri, Youngsoo Han, Alfredo Jaar, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Nagata Kosuke …
Frieze London 2024

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
9 Oct 2024 – 13 Oct 2024

with Ignasi Aballi, Bani Abidi, Marina Abramovic, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Francis Alys, Ghada Amer, Tina Barney, Anna Barriball, Vanessa Beecroft, Inaki Bonillas, Julian Charriere, Isaac Chong Wai …