Jem Southam

♂ *1950 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

The Red River

Huxley-Parlour, London (GB)
24 Oct 2025 – 22 Nov 2025
The Pond at Upton Pyne

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
2 Mar 2024 – 7 Jul 2024
The Seventh Winter

Huxley-Parlour, London (GB)
25 Jan 2023 – 4 Mar 2023
The Long White Cloud

Huxley-Parlour, London (GB)
13 Feb 2019 – 9 Mar 2019
PHOTOESPAÑA 2010

Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid (ES)
10 Jun 2010 – 25 Jul 2010
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Madison Contemporary Art, London (GB)
30 Oct 2008 – 29 Nov 2008
Rockfalls in Normandy

Centre Photographique, Rouen (FR)
15 May 2008 – 12 Jul 2008
The Rockfalls of Normandy

Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
20 Mar 2008 – 10 May 2008
Upton Pyne / The Red River

Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla (US)
12 Jan 2007 – 9 Mar 2007
Upton Pyne

Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (US)
28 Oct 2006 – 14 Jan 2007
From A Distance: An Industrial Landscape in Cornwall

Tate St Ives, St Ives (GB)
9 Oct 2004 – 9 Jan 2005
Rivermouths

Elliott Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
5 Jun 2004 – 6 Jul 2004
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Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
5 Feb 2004 – 20 Mar 2004
The Shape of Time

Pump House Gallery, London (GB)
26 Nov 2003 – 25 Jan 2004
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Hirschl Contemporary Art, London (GB)
15 Oct 2003 – 15 Nov 2003
The Shape of Time

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
3 Jan 2003 – 18 Jan 2003

Group

Summer in the City '26

Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam (NL)
11 Jul 2026 – 29 Aug 2026

with Jeroen Hofman, Rob Hornstra, Rogier Houwen, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, Thomas Manneke, Mark van den Brink, Hans van der Meer, Vasantha Yogananthan
8 Projects – From Landscape to Interior

8 Projekte – Von der Landschaft zum Interieur

Projektbüro DFI, Düsseldorf (DE)
28 Mar 2025 – 27 Apr 2025

with Nicola Baldazzi, Laurenz Berges, Peter Downsbrough, Alessandra Dragoni, Cesare Fabbri, Marcello Galvani, Francesca Gardini, Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Francesco Neri, Luca Nostri, Mark Ruwedel …
CIVILIZATION

The Way We Live Now

Saatchi Gallery, London (GB)
2 Jun 2023 – 17 Sep 2023

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Lisa Barnard, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond …
The RWA Season of Photography

Photo Open, Jem Southam 'A Bend it the River' , and more

Royal West of England , Bristol (GB)
28 Jan 2023 – 1 May 2023

with Anne-Katrin Purkiss
The Expanded Landscape

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
29 Jun 2021 – 10 Oct 2021

with Darren Almond, Virginia Beahan, Ron Jude, David Maisel, Laura McPhee, Richard Misrach, Susan Rankaitis, Toshio Shibata, Lieko Shiga
Once. Again. Photographs in Series

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
9 Jul 2019 – 10 Nov 2019

with Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron, William Christenberry, John Divola, Donna Ferrato, LaToya Ruby Frazier, William A. Garnett, Roni Horn, Richard Misrach, Seamus Murphy, Gordon Parks, Milton Rogovin …
Dream States

Contemporary Photographs and Video

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
1 Jun 2016 – 30 Oct 2016

with Darren Almond, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Siegrun Appelt, Eugene Atget, Shannon Bool, Brassai, Liz Deschenes, Patrick Faigenbaum, Robert Frank, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Jack Goldstein …
A History of Photography

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
18 Jan 2014 – 17 Jan 2015

with Keith Arnatt, Cecil Beaton, Francis Bruguire, Jeremy Deller, Lucas Foglia, Robert Frank, Don McCullin, Thomas Ruff
Seduced by Art

Photography Past & Present

CaixaForum, Barcelona (ES)
22 Feb 2013 – 19 May 2013

with Robert Adamson, Tina Barney, Richard Billingham, Nicky Bird, Julia Margaret Cameron, Helen Chadwick, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Roger Fenton, Ori Gersht, David Octavius Hill …
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present

The National Gallery, London (GB)
31 Oct 2012 – 20 Jan 2013

with Robert Adamson, Tina Barney, Richard Billingham, Julia Margaret Cameron, Helen Chadwick, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Roger Fenton, Ori Gersht, David Octavius Hill, Craigie Horsfield …
Sense of Place

European Landscape Photography

Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar, Brussels (BE)
14 Jun 2012 – 16 Sep 2012

with Pavel Banka, Nigel Baldacchino, Bruno Baltzer, Elina Brotherus, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Marianna Christofides, Celine Clanet, Gerardo Custance, Augusto Alves da Silva, Carl de Keyzer, Gerco de Ruijter, Olafur Eliasson …
Terre transformée / Transformed Land

Centre Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris (FR)
18 Oct 2011 – 16 Dec 2011

with Claudia Angelmaier, Filipa Cesar, Tacita Dean, Geert Goiris, Joachim Koester, Rachel Reupke, Benno Schlicht, Collier Schorr
PHOTOESPAÑA 2010 (PHE10)

XIII International Festival of PHotography and Visual Arts

PHotoEspaña, Madrid (ES)
9 Jun 2010 – 25 Jul 2010

with Ignasi Aballi, Ana Laura Alaez, Manu Arregui, Alvin Baltrop, Daniel Blaufuks, Bleda & Rosa, Tom Burr, Claire Chevrier, David Claerbout, Louis De Clercq, Tacita Dean, Harold E. Edgerton …
Parrworld

Haus der Kunst, München (DE)
7 May 2008 – 17 Aug 2008

with Keith Arnatt, Heiner Blum, John Gossage, Chris Killip, Mark Neville, Martin Parr, Tom Wood
Photoscapes

TILLOU FINE ART, New York (US)
2 Feb 2008 – 8 Mar 2008

with Frank Breuer, Gregory Crewdson, Lynn Geesaman, Kim Keever, Michael Kenna
The Genius of Photography

Atlas Gallery, London (GB)
25 Sep 2007 – 6 Oct 2007

with Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Chris Killip, Richard Misrach, Thomas Ruff, Stephen Shore, Edward Steichen, Jeff Wall, Edward Weston
LOCAL. El fin de la globalización (LOCAL. The End of Globalisation)

<a href="http://www.phedigital.com" target="_blank">PHotoEspaña 2007</a>

Canal de Isabel II, Madrid (ES)
6 Jun 2007 – 2 Sep 2007

with Hans Aarsman, Shelby Lee Adams, Hashem el Madani, Tom Hunter, Xavier Ribas, LI Tianbing, Hellen van Meene, Massimo Vitali, Karlheinz Weinberger
Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
20 Jan 2007 – 13 May 2007

with Anna Gaskell, Muriel Hasbun, Gavin Hipkins, Nikki S. Lee, Tracey Moffatt, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Polixeni Papapetrou, Barbara Probst, Melanie Pullen
ARCADIA

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (US)
6 Jul 2006 – 25 Aug 2006

with Elger Esser, Anthony Goicolea, Justine Kurland, Joel Sternfeld
The world is turning

DOMOBAAL, London (GB)
27 Jan 2006 – 25 Feb 2006

with Christiane Baumgartner, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Kate Scrivener
Halte Brussel

Vlaams-Nederlands Huis, Brussels (BE)
19 Feb 2005 – 26 Mar 2005

with Elger Esser, Hans Op de Beeck, Gerald van der Kaap, Frank van der Salm
Permutations on the Picturesque

Betsy Senior Fine Art, New York (US)
4 Nov 2004 – 8 Jan 2005

with Adam Bartos, Denis Dailleux, Tim Maul, Richard Misrach, John Pfahl, Joni Sternbach
Rise and Fall

foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
28 May 2004 – 29 Aug 2004

with Jan Koster
Three Photographers

Hirschl Contemporary Art, London (GB)
5 Feb 2003 – 8 Mar 2003

with Sian Bonnell, Paul Cunningham
reViewing Landscape

ArtandPhotographs, London (GB)
16 Oct 2002 – 16 Nov 2002

with Andrew Cross, Paul Cunningham, Pete Massingham, Tom Merilion, Nigel Shafran, Howard Sooley, Lou Spence, David Spero
Psycho-geography

New Photographs by Paul Cunningham, Sian Bonnell and Jem Southam

Hirschl Contemporary Art, London (GB)
2 Feb 2002 – 5 Mar 2002

with Sian Bonnell, Paul Cunningham

Events

Art Rotterdam / Unseen Photo 2026

Stichting ART Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
27 Mar 2026 – 29 Mar 2026

with Laurence Aegerter, Albarran Cabrera, Vivian Ammerlaan, Michael Bailey-Gates, Kilian Breier, Sander Coers, Paul Cupido, Sara De Brito Faustino, Cristina De Middel, Misha de Ridder, Florence di Benedetto, Giulio di Sturco …
Photo Oxford 2023

The Hidden Power of the Archive

Photography Oxford, Oxford (GB)
14 Apr 2023 – 6 May 2023

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Sian Davey, Anne Ferran, Matthew Finn, William Henry Fox Talbot, Man Ray , Jenny Matthews, Daniel Meadows, Garry Fabian Miller, Bernice Mulenga, Cornelia Parker, Martin Parr …
Paris Photo 2019

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2019 – 10 Nov 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Oliver Abraham, Marina Abramovic, Ansel Adams, David Adika, Jun Ahn, Albarran Cabrera, Pilar Albarracin, Laure Albin-Guillot, Helena Almeida, Darren Almond, Malala Andrialavidrazana …
photo london 2019

Photo London, London (GB)
16 May 2019 – 19 May 2019

with Ansel Adams, Claire Aho, Albarran Cabrera, Miles Aldridge, Alia Ali, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Liza Ambrossio, Takashi Arai, Matan Ashkenazy, Jessica Backhaus, Roger Ballen, Gian Paolo Barbieri …
Paris Photo 2018 - Booksignings

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
8 Nov 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Albarran Cabrera, Christopher Anderson, Mathieu Asselin, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Ilit Azoulay, James Barnor, Bae Bien-U, Andreas H. Bitesnich, Daniel Blaufuks, Denis Brihat, Sophie Calle, Laurent Chehere …
8 Projekte – Von der Landschaft zum Interieur

Projektbüro DFI, Düsseldorf (DE)

with Laurenz Berges, Gerry Johansson, Francesco Neri, John Spinks