Idris Khan

*1978 / United Kingdom

Solo exhibitions

QUARTET

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
6 Sep 2019 – 20 Oct 2019
Blue Rhythms

Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (US)
4 May 2019 – 22 Jun 2019
A World Within

New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall (GB)
3 Feb 2017 – 7 May 2017
Idris Khan

The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (GB)
14 Oct 2016 – 19 Mar 2017
Conflicting Lines

Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
1 May 2015 – 6 Jun 2015
Beyond the Black

Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
20 Sep 2013 – 9 Nov 2013
Photographs and Drawings

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
17 Nov 2012 – 15 Jan 2013
New Photographs

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1 Nov 2012 – 28 Dec 2012
Contrary Motion / Kontrapunktisk rörelse

Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg (SE)
13 May 2011 – 21 Aug 2011
The Devil's Wall

Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York (US)
13 Apr 2011 – 14 May 2011
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Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
17 Mar 2010 – 24 Apr 2010
Lines

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
27 Jun 2009 – 15 Aug 2009
Every...

K20 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (DE)
26 Jan 2008 – 9 Mar 2008
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Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
24 Mar 2007 – 5 May 2007
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Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
4 May 2006 – 30 Jun 2006

Group

The Audacity of Scale

Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (US)
13 Jun 2026 – 8 Aug 2026

with John Baldessari, James Casebere, Julian Charriere, Laurent Grasso, Aki Inomata, Anthony McCall, Shahzia Sikander, Frank Thiel, Janaina Tschaepe, Sun Xun
BOUND AND UNBOUND

The Photographic Book and the Print

ROSE GALLERY, Santa Monica (US)
6 Sep 2025 – 8 Nov 2025

with Edward Burtynsky, Jo Ann Callis, William Christenberry, Thomas Demand, Tania Franco Klein, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jim Goldberg, Katy Grannan, Ken Graves, Anthony Hernandez, Hannah Hughes, Kenro Izu …
LONDON LIVES

Photo London 2025

Photo London, London (GB)
14 May 2025 – 18 May 2025

with Heather Agyepong, Miles Aldridge, David Bailey, James Barnor, Antony Cairns, Edward Clark, Susan Derges, Jermaine Francis, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lydia Goldblatt, Joy Gregory, Jamie Hawkesworth …
Time Present

Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (DE)
10 Jun 2020 – 8 Feb 2021

with Shirin Aliabadi, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Zohra Bensemra, Mohamed Camara, Susan Derges, CAO Fei, Samuel Fosso, Andrea Galvani, Gauri Gill, Andreas Gursky …
La Vérité Déguisée (The Truth in Disguise).

GESTE Paris, Paris (FR)
5 Nov 2019 – 30 Nov 2019

with Marina Abramovic, Laia Abril, Sebastiaan Bremer, Nicole Cohen, Joan Fontcuberta, Andreas Gursky, Tom Lovelace, John Stezaker, Christer Stroemholm, Yuken Teruya, Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)
Aufgeblüht und abgelichtet

Blumen in der Fotografie

Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen
11 May 2019 – 25 Aug 2019

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Jessica Backhaus, Wout Berger, Karl Blossfeldt, Giovanni Castell, Imogen Cunningham, Natalie Czech, Noor Damen, Silvie Defraoui, Amin El Dib, Thomas Florschuetz, Joan Fontcuberta …
Actions. The image of the world can be different

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (GB)
10 Feb 2018 – 6 May 2018

with John Akomfrah, Nathan Coley, Jeremy Deller, Naum Gabo, Regina Jose Galindo, Mary Kelly, Linder, Melanie Manchot, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson
SELECTED

Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (US)
23 Jun 2017 – 28 Jul 2017

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, James Casebere, Awol Erizku, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Laurent Grasso, David Hammons, Tehching Hsieh, Marine Hugonnier, Joseph Kosuth, Peter Liversidge …
The Memory of the Future / La mémoire du futur

Photographic Dialogues between Past, Present and Future / Dialogues photographiques entre passé, présent et futur

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
25 May 2016 – 28 Aug 2016

with Takashi Arai, Israel Arino, Anna Atkins, Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Martin Becka, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Mathew B. Brady, Pierre Cordier, Binh Danh, John Dugdale, Dan Estabrook …
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art

Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
3 May 2015 – 13 Sep 2015

with Uta Barth, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Binh Danh, Moyra Davey, Adam Fuss, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Chris McCaw, Mark Ruwedel, Hiroshi Sugimoto …
Under Erasure

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
13 Nov 2014 – 18 Apr 2015

with Larry Abramson, Yair Barak, Deganit Berest, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Joseph Kosuth, Paul Pfeiffer, Anri Sala
The Unphotographable

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1 Jan 2013 – 23 Mar 2013

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Walead Beshty, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Liz Deschenes, Kota Ezawa, Adam Fuss, Paul Graham, Richard Learoyd …
I Wish This Was A Song

Music in Contemporary Art

The National Museum of Art, Oslo (NO)
14 Sep 2012 – 20 Jan 2013

with Nevin Aladag, Dave Allen, Fikret Atay, Johanna Billing, Christoph Brech, Clegg & Guttmann , Phil Collins, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Ragnar Kjartansson, Erkki Kurenniemi …
Moments of Reprieve

Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography

PARADISE ROW, London (GB)
27 Jul 2012 – 22 Sep 2012

with Indre Serpytyte, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), David Birkin, Ori Gersht, Taryn Simon, Jane & Louise Wilson
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (ES)
9 Nov 2010 – 13 Mar 2011

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Walead Beshty, Christian Boltanski, Slater Bradley, Sophie Calle, James Casebere, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Lucinda Devlin …
Haunted : Contemporary photography / video / performance

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
26 Mar 2010 – 6 Sep 2010

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Walead Beshty, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, James Casebere, Paul Chan, Sarah Charlesworth, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Ori Gersht …
On the Move: Visualising Action

Estorick Collection, London (GB)
13 Jan 2010 – 18 Apr 2010

with Thomas Eakins, Harold E. Edgerton, Etienne-Jules Marey, Gjon Mili, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Jonathan Shaw
PRUNE - abstracting reality

foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
18 Sep 2009 – 9 Dec 2009

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Roger Ballen, Walead Beshty, Julian Faulhaber, Luke Gilford, Lisa Oppenheim, Thomas Ruff, Horacio Salinas, Elliott Wilcox
Feedbackstage

Galerie Kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag (AT)
29 May 2009 – 27 Sep 2009

with Cory Arcangel, Janet Cardiff, Michael Gumhold, John Kessler, Christian Marclay, George Bures Miller, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner
Feedbackstage

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
14 Mar 2009 – 18 Apr 2009

with Janet Cardiff, Christian Marclay, George Bures Miller, Joao Penalva, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner
Feedbackstage

Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien (AT)
16 Jan 2009 – 7 Mar 2009

with Cory Arcangel, Janet Cardiff, Christian Marclay, George Bures Miller, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Peter Weibel
CONTRADICTIONS IN BLACK & WHITE

Hasted Kraeutler, New York (US)
8 Jan 2009 – 28 Feb 2009

with Margaret Bourke-White, Harry Callahan, Michael Flomen, Adam Fuss, Nathan Harger, Vera Lutter, Ray K. Metzker, Irving Penn
P2P

Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
26 Jan 2008 – 6 Apr 2008

with Pierre Bismuth, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Allan McCollum
Shot and go – A vision of today's international photography

Isola Di San Servolo, Venezia (IT)
7 Jun 2007 – 31 Jul 2007

with Marco Bohr, Elina Brotherus, Filipa Cesar, Song Chao, Lia Chavez, Katerina Drzková, Tarin Gartner, Claudio Gobbi, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Rémy Lidereau, Brigitte Niedermair, Stefania Romano …
Ortsbegehung

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
28 Apr 2006 – 10 May 2006

with Inigo Manglano-Ovalle
50 Fotografi di domani - ReGeneration

Fondazione Sozzani, Milano (IT)
10 Nov 2005 – 11 Dec 2005

with Anoush Abrar, Keren Assaf, Christoph Bangert, Samantha Bass, Jaret Belliveau, Marco Bohr, Mauren Brodbeck, Matthias Bruggmann, Bianca Brunner, Song Chao, Natalie Czech, Raphael Dallaporta …
Andmoreagain

Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (GB)
30 Sep 2005 – 26 Nov 2005

with Simon Cunningham, Maiko Hatano, Martin Newth, Katy Woods
to be continued / jatkuu

Helsinki Photography Festival 2005

Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki (FI)
8 Oct 2005 – 6 Nov 2005

with Marion Coutts, Simon Faithfull, Anne Hardy, Heli Hiltunen, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Sanna Kannisto, Pertti Kekarainen, Mark Lewis, Caroline McCarthy, Jyri Pitkänen, Elina Saloranta, Jari Silomaeki …
ReGeneration. 50 photographes de demain, 2005-2025.

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
23 Jun 2005 – 23 Oct 2005

with Anoush Abrar, Keren Assaf, Christoph Bangert, Samantha Bass, Jaret Belliveau, Marco Bohr, Mauren Brodbeck, Matthias Bruggmann, Bianca Brunner, Song Chao, Natalie Czech, Raphael Dallaporta …
Photography 2005

Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
18 Jan 2005 – 12 Feb 2005

with Stephen Gill, Dan Holdsworth, Brandon Lattu, Florian Maier-Aichen, Bettina von Zwehl
Royal College of Art Summer Show

Hoopers Gallery, London (GB)
9 Jul 2004 – 13 Aug 2004

with Kate Greenslade, Melissa Moore, Heiko Tiemann, O Zhang

Events

Art Basel Qatar 2026

Art Basel, Doha (Qatar)
5 Feb 2026 – 7 Feb 2026

with Adel Abidin, Sophia Al-Maria, Halil Altindere, Kutluğ Ataman, Mustapha Azeroual, Meriem Bennani, Ali Cherri, Simone Fattal, Ângela Ferreira, Shilpa Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Iman Issa …
Photo London 2025

Photo London, London (GB)
15 May 2025 – 18 May 2025

with Kristoffer Axen, Rose Marie Cromwell, David De Beyter, Colin Dodgson, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Tania Franco Klein, Bee Gats, Aikaterini Gegisian, Shadi Ghadirian, Olaf Heine, Robin Hunter Blake, Graciela Iturbide …
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Zsona Maco, Mexico City (MX)
8 Feb 2023 – 12 Feb 2023

with Marina Abramovic, Yolanda Andrade, Miroslaw Balka, Pablo Boneu, Inaki Bonillas, Edward Burtynsky, Miguel Calderon, Lucien Clergue, Laura Cohen, Lalla Essaydi, Joan Fontcuberta, Alberto Garcia-Alix …
ARCOmadrid 2020

ARCO ARte COntemporáneo, Madrid (ES)
26 Feb 2020 – 1 Mar 2020

with Marina Abramovic, Greta Alfaro, Helena Almeida, Claudia Andujar, Miguel Angel Rios, Steven Arnold, Roger Ballen, Rui Calcada Bastos, Eric Baudelaire, Nadia Belerique, Viktoria Binschtok, Shannon Bool …
ADAA: The Art Show

Art Dealers (ADAA), New York (US)
27 Feb 2020 – 1 Mar 2020

with Lynda Benglis, Bruce Conner, Ted Croner, Bruce Davidson, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Sid Grossman, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Los Angeles (US)
14 Feb 2020 – 16 Feb 2020

with Francis Alys, William Eggleston, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Danny Lyon, Florian Maier-Aichen, Richard Misrach, Richard Mosse, Trevor Paglen, Gordon Parks, Diana Thater, Hank Willis Thomas, Wolfgang Tillmans …
Z<font size=-2>s</font>ONA MACO 2020

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Zsona Maco, Mexico City (MX)
5 Feb 2020 – 9 Feb 2020

with Marina Abramovic, Miles Aldridge, Pablo Boneu, Inaki Bonillas, Soledad Cordoba, Lenka Clayton, Laura Cohen, Judy Dater, Ana de Orbegoso, Elena Dorfman, Michael Dweck, Guenther Foerg …
Photographs

PHILLIPS London, London (GB)
22 Oct 2019 – 25 Oct 2019

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Hans Bellmer, Constantin Brancusi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Thierry Cohen, Michael Dweck, Ormond Gigli, Man Ray , Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman …
Art Basel 2019

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
13 Jun 2019 – 16 Jun 2019

with Farah Al Qasimi, Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Becky Beasley, Hans Bellmer, Wallace Berman, Walead Beshty, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), John Bock, Inaki Bonillas, Sarah Charlesworth …
The Armory Show 2019

The Armory Show, Inc., New York (US)
7 Mar 2019 – 10 Mar 2019

with Marina Abramovic, Diane Arbus, Miriam Boehm, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Dirk Braeckman, Nick Brandt, Matthew Brandt, Sebastiaan Bremer, Gary Brotmeyer, Tammy Rae Carland, Asger Carlsen …
Photographs

PHILLIPS New York, New York (US)
31 Mar 2018 – 8 Apr 2018

with Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lillian Bassman, Peter Beard, Robert Capa, Ahmet Ertug, Robert Frank, Andreas Gursky, William Klein, Rudolf Koppitz, Florian Maier-Aichen, Man Ray …
Art Dubai 2018

Art Dubai, Dubai (AE)
21 Mar 2018 – 24 Mar 2018

with Miriam Baeckstroem, Girma Berta, Alex Hartley, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Cristina Iglesias, Nalini Malani, Barthelemy Toguo, Viktor Vorobyev, Yelena Vorobyeva