James Van Der Zee

♂ *1886-1983 / United States

Solo exhibitions

A Portrait of Harlem

James Van Der Zee’s Photographs

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
28 Nov 2021 – 30 May 2022
Studio

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
7 Mar 2019 – 27 Apr 2019
The James VanDerZee Studio

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
24 Jan 2004 – 25 Apr 2004
Harlem Guaranteed

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (US)
12 Sep 2002 – 2 Nov 2002

Group

Confluence

The Tina Freeman Collection of Photographs

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
20 Nov 2026 – 4 Jul 2027

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, George N. Barnard, Ilse Bing, Keith Calhoun, Julia Margaret Cameron, Imogen Cunningham, George Dureau, Robert Frank, Gertrude Kaesebier, Clarence John Laughlin, Sally Mann, Lisette Model …
Remember Me

Picturing African Americans in Early Photography

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
7 Nov 2026 – 14 Mar 2027

with Daniel Freeman, Glenalvin J. Goodridge, James Presley Ball, Fred S. Tisdell
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 …
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 …
American Photography

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
7 Feb 2025 – 9 Jun 2025

with Anonymous, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Lisette Model, Irving Penn, Andres Serrano
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 …
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

Saatchi Gallery, London (GB)
5 Nov 2024 – 20 Jan 2025

with James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Vanley Burke, Mohamed Camara, Kennedi Carter, Stan Douglas, Louis Draper, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso …
PLAY BALL!

CELEBRATING BASEBALL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM MAJOR LEAGUE AND NEGRO LEAGUE TO LITTLE LEAGUE AND STICKBALL

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
20 Jun 2024 – 16 Aug 2024

with Anonymous, Bruce Davidson, Martha Holmes, William Klein, Arthur Leipzig, Gjon Mili, Ralph Morse, Marvin E. Newman, W. Eugene Smith
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 …
Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
2 Dec 2023 – 10 Mar 2024

with Richard Avedon, Dorothea Lange, Alma Lavenson, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Susan Meiselas, Inge Morath, Gordon Parks, Edward Steichen, Joyce Tenneson, Todd Webb
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 …
As We Rise

Photography from the Black Atlantic

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (US)
17 Jun 2023 – 31 Dec 2023

with Raphael Albert, Henry Clay Anderson, James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Deanna Bowen, Jody Brand, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Elliott Jerome Brown, Vanley Burke, Mohamed Camara …
Whom

Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston (US)
9 Sep 2023 – 14 Oct 2023

with Christian Boltanski, Lyle Ashton Harris, Sherrie Levine, Liliana Porter, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, David Wojnarowicz
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver (CA)
24 Feb 2023 – 21 May 2023

with Raphael Albert, Henry Clay Anderson, James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Deanna Bowen, Jody Brand, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Elliott Jerome Brown, Vanley Burke, Mohamed Camara …
Facing Ourselves

Mike Disfarmer and the American Portrait

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk (US)
16 Dec 2022 – 14 May 2023

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Kwame Brathwaite, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer), Irving Penn
Presence

The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids (US)
11 Feb 2023 – 29 Apr 2023

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White, Mario Giacomelli, Graciela Iturbide, Lotte Jacobi, Alma Lavenson, Leon Levinstein, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Gordon Parks …
Presence

The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

Portland Museum of Art, Portland (US)
30 Sep 2022 – 15 Jan 2023

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Annie Brigman, Imogen Cunningham, Mario Giacomelli, Graciela Iturbide, Lotte Jacobi, Alma Lavenson, Leon Levinstein, O. Winston Link, Danny Lyon …
Called to the Camera

Black American Studio Photographers

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
16 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

with Henry Clay Anderson, Endia Beal, Arthur P. Bedou, Gordon Parks
A New York Minute

Street Photography, 1920–1950

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
10 Jul 2021 – 7 Nov 2021

with Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Arnold Genthe, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Walter Rosenblum, Ralph Steiner, Lou Stoumen, Lloyd Ullberg
From Margins to Mainstays

Highlights from the Photography Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (US)
24 Apr 2021 – 26 Sep 2021

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Cornelius M. Battey, Lotte Jacobi, Lee Miller, Carrie Mae Weems
Collecting New York's Stories

Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious

Museum of the City of NY, New York (US)
22 Jan 2020 – 1 Jun 2020

with Martha Cooper, Bruce Davidson, Sally Davies, Ashley Gilbertson, Helen Levitt, Ruddy Roye, Richard Sandler, Aaron Siskind, Allan Tannenbaum, Gail Thacker
Gloss: Modeling Beauty

UMMA Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (US)
26 Aug 2017 – 7 Jan 2018

with Guy Bourdin, Ralph Gibson, Philippe Halsman, Nikki S. Lee, Joel Meyerowitz, Helmut Newton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Edward Steichen, Andy Warhol
20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
22 Jul 2017 – 31 Dec 2017

with Edgar Arceneaux, Mark Bradford, Ellen Gallagher, David Hammons, Ben Jones, Kerry James Marshall, Kori Newkirk, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Howardena Pindell, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson …
From Riches to Rags

American Photography in the Depression

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
13 Aug 2017 – 31 Dec 2017

with Arthur Ann Segan, Imogen Cunningham, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer), Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Paul Outerbridge, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston
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 …
Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections

Art Museum Toronto, Toronto (CA)
6 May 2016 – 30 Jul 2016

with Iain Baxter, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ernest James Bellocq, Rebecca Belmore, Richard Billingham, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Harry Callahan, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynne Cohen …
African American Life and Family

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (US)
17 Jan 2015 – 3 May 2015

with W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris, Marion Post Wolcott
Photo-Unrealism

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
17 Oct 2014 – 15 Mar 2015

with Anna Atkins, Nancy Burson, Carlotta Corpron, Andre Kertesz
PhotoNOLA 2014

The Ninth Annual Festival of Photography in New Orleans with more than 50 exhibitions

New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans (US)
4 Dec 2014 – 7 Dec 2014

with Jeremiah Ariaz, Anna Atkins, Christa Blackwood, Christopher Boffoli, Susan Burnstine, Nancy Burson, Carlotta Corpron, Michael Donnor, Emmet Gowin, Andre Kertesz, Heidi L. Kirkpatrick, Sophie T. Lvoff …
Art Faces

Des photographes rencontrent des artistes

Musee Würth, Erstein (FR)
5 Jun 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Kurt Blum, Philippe Bonan, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Denise Colomb, Pierre Descargues, Jean Dieuzaide, Luc Fournol, Gisele Freund, Michael Halsband, Monique Jacot, Benjamin Katz, Barbara Klemm …
Embodied

Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (US)
18 Feb 2011 – 26 Jun 2011

with Dawoud Bey, Adrian Piper, Carrie Mae Weems
EARLY PHOTOJOURNALISM 1855 - 1945

L. Parker Stephenson, New York (US)
23 Sep 2010 – 10 Dec 2010

with Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roger Fenton, Arthur Gerlach, John Gibson, Lewis Hine, Rolph Lantin, Timothy O'Sullivan, Leni Riefenstahl, Erich Salomon, James F. Wood
Connections

Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York (US)
7 Feb 2009 – 28 Mar 2009

with Sheila Pree Bright, Gerald Cyrus, Thomas McGovern, Felicia Megginson, Gordon Parks, Hank Willis Thomas, Hiroshi Watanabe, Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Wyse
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography

Tate Modern, London (GB)
23 May 2008 – 31 Aug 2008

with Francis Alys, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Marjaana Kella, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Lee To Sang, Norman Parkinson, Irving Penn, August Sander, Cindy Sherman …
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, Carl van Vechten, Edward Weston
Icons of American Photography

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
24 Jun 2007 – 16 Sep 2007

with Ansel Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Arthur Ann Segan, William H. Bell, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew B. Brady, Harry Callahan, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Imogen Cunningham, Thomas Eakins, Walker Evans …
African American Vernacular Photography

Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
9 Dec 2005 – 26 Feb 2006

with Cornelius M. Battey, Frances Benjamin Johnston
Inner Cities

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
17 Jan 2004 – 11 Apr 2004

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau, Alwyn Scott Turner
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
12 Dec 2003 – 29 Feb 2004

with Ansel Adams, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Richard Avedon, Aziz + Cucher, John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Sandra Bermudez, Louis Carlos Bernal …
Harlem Lost and Found

Museum of the City of NY, New York (US)
3 May 2003 – 4 Jan 2004

with Edwin Levick, Paul Rocheleau, Thaddeus Wilkerson
Life of the City

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
28 Feb 2002 – 21 May 2002

with Berenice Abbott, Jules Allen, Merry Alpern, Diane Arbus, Tom Arndt, Richard Avedon, Anthony Barboza, Richard Benson, Dawoud Bey, Katharina Bosse, Rudy Burckhardt, Henri Cartier-Bresson …

Events

Capture Photography Festival 2023

Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver (CA)
1 Apr 2023 – 30 Apr 2023

with Henry Clay Anderson, Roy Arden, James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Deanna Bowen, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Vanley Burke, Mohamed Camara, Kennedi Carter, Jorian Charlton …
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2022

AIPAD, New York (US)
20 May 2022 – 22 May 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Adou, Albarran Cabrera, Albarran Cabrera, Eugene Atget, David Attie, Lewis Baltz, Anthony Barboza, Cornelius M. Battey, Peter Beard, Ruth Bernhard …
Paris Photo 2021

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
11 Nov 2021 – 14 Nov 2021

with Berenice Abbott, Hoda Afshar, Jun Ahn, Aassmaa Akhannouch, Latif Al Ani, Albarran Cabrera, David Alekhuogie, Jean-Michel André, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tom Arndt, Ananké Asseff, Jane Evelyn Atwood …