Ernest C. Withers

*1922-2007 / United States

Solo exhibitions

The Picture Taker

CPW, Woodstock (US)
23 Jul 2022 – 23 Oct 2022
I'll take you there

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
24 Jun 2021 – 4 Sep 2021
I’ll Take You There

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
24 Jun 2021 – 31 Jul 2021
Civil Rights & The Memphis Blues

Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (GB)
25 Jun 2019 – 30 Aug 2019
Black Resistance

Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement

Memphis Museum of Art, Memphis (US)
3 Feb 2018 – 19 Aug 2018
A Life's Work

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
4 Oct 2013 – 24 Nov 2013
Pictures Tell the Story

Griffin Museum Photography, Boston (US)
5 Jan 2012 – 1 Mar 2012
Signs of Social Change

Panopticon Gallery, Boston (US)
24 Jan 2008 – 11 Mar 2008
The Memphis Blues Again

High Museum of Art, Atlanta (US)
5 Feb 2005 – 7 Aug 2005
A Lifetime of Photography

Panopticon Gallery, Waltham (US)
20 Jan 2005 – 5 Mar 2005
Pictures Tell the Story

Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis (US)
7 Jun 2003 – 7 Sep 2003
Pictures Tell the Story:

Ernest C. Withers

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia (US)
11 Feb 2003 – 4 May 2003

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 …
Influence and Identity

Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection

Nassau County Museum, New York (US)
21 Mar 2026 – 12 Jul 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1. Earl of Snowdon, Richard Avedon, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Arnold Crane, Robert Cumming, Paul Cunningham, Pepe Diniz, Gisele Freund …
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 …
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 …
Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

Wellcome Collection, London (GB)
19 Sep 2024 – 27 Apr 2025

with Vikram Divecha, Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq, Forensic Architecture, Adelita Husni-Bey, Daniela Ortiz, John Thomson
A Long Arc

Photography and the American South since 1845

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (US)
5 Oct 2024 – 26 Jan 2025

with Bob Adelman, George N. Barnard, Dawoud Bey, Sheila Pree Bright, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, Doris Adelaide Derby, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Alexander Gardner, Lewis Hine …
FACE THE MUSIC

The Legacy of Music Photography

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
25 Jul 2024 – 7 Sep 2024

with David Bailey, Janette Beckman, Harry Benson, William Claxton, Patrick Demarchelier, Timothy Duffy, Greg Gorman, Nadav Kander, Daniel Kramer, Herman Leonard, Christopher Makos, Jim Marshall …
A Long Arc

Photography and the American South since 1850

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (US)
2 Mar 2024 – 31 Jul 2024

with Bob Adelman, George N. Barnard, Dawoud Bey, Sheila Pree Bright, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, Doris Adelaide Derby, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Alexander Gardner, Lewis Hine …
A Long Arc

Photography and the American South since 1845

High Museum of Art, Atlanta (US)
15 Sep 2023 – 14 Jan 2024

with Bob Adelman, George N. Barnard, Dawoud Bey, Sheila Pree Bright, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, Doris Adelaide Derby, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Alexander Gardner, Lewis Hine …
Influence & Identity

Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection

Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
25 May 2023 – 8 Oct 2023

with Berenice Abbott, Shigeo Anzai, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1. Earl of Snowdon, Richard Avedon, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Arnold Crane, Robert Cumming, Imogen Cunningham, Pepe Diniz …
THE BLACK TRIANGLE

Photographs of the civil rights and anti-racist movements in the UK, USA and South Africa

Atlas Gallery, London (GB)
7 Oct 2022 – 3 Dec 2022

with Bob Adelman, Eve Arnold, Ian Berry, Vanley Burke, Pogus Caesar, Ernest Cole, Bruce Davidson, Doris Adelaide Derby, Neil Kenlock, Hiroji Kubota, Danny Lyon, Constantine Manos …
Signs Of The Times

Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
1 Oct 2021 – 21 Nov 2021

with Nina Berman, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Eppridge, Ashley Gilbertson, Bob Gomel, Ernst Haas, Neil Leifer, Carl Mydans, Ken Regan, Steve Schapiro
Revelations

Recent Photography Acquisitions

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans (US)
14 Mar 2020 – 27 Sep 2020

with William Christenberry, Walker Evans, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Aaron Hardin, Lewis Hine, Birney Imes, Dorothea Lange, Sally Mann, Andrew Moore, RaMell Ross
I am a Man.

Photographies et luttes pour les droits civiques dans le Sud des États-Unis, 1960-1970

Le Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier (FR)
17 Oct 2018 – 6 Jan 2019

with Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Norman Dean, Doris Adelaide Derby, Art Shay
A Fire That No Water Could Put Out: Civil Rights Photography

High Museum of Art, Atlanta (US)
4 Nov 2017 – 29 Apr 2018

with David Alekhuogie, Dawoud Bey, Sheila Pree Bright, Benedict J. Fernandez, Charles Moore, Gordon Parks, Steve Schapiro, Burk Uzzle
Forever Young: Bob Dylan & the 60s

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
10 Sep 2005 – 5 Nov 2005

with Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, Jerry Schatzberg
The Color of Baseball

Panopticon Gallery, Boston (US)
7 Apr 2005 – 28 May 2005

with Bill Chapman
Rencontres Photographiques en Sud Gironde

Centre Culturel des Carmes, Langon (FR)
18 Sep 2004 – 17 Oct 2004

with Erick Derac, Arno Gisinger, Stanley Greene, Anthony Haughey, Guillaume Herbaut, Joerg Huber, Marion Poussier