Merry Alpern

*1955 / United States

Works

Contacts for the work of Merry Alpern

Galerie Miranda FR

Galerie Miranda
21 rue du Château d’Eau
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Solo exhibitions

Shopping

Photobastei, Zürich (CH)
14 Mar 2019 – 28 Apr 2019
Dirty Windows

Galerie Miranda, Paris (FR)
22 Feb 2019 – 20 Apr 2019

Group

Suddenly there was nothing

Photos on Fridges

Harkawik, New York (US)
8 Nov 2025 – 10 Jan 2026

with Amy Adler, Farah Al Qasimi, Laurie Anderson, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Olivia Arthur, Michel Auder, Michael Bailey-Gates, Nikolay Bakharev, Lewis Baltz, Jared Bark, Hans Bellmer …
Huis clos

Galerie Miranda, Paris (FR)
4 Sep 2025 – 1 Nov 2025

with Jo Ann Callis
Social bodies

Documenting the individual as a social being: rules, codes and paradoxes

Galerie Miranda, Paris (FR)
12 Mar 2024 – 13 Apr 2024

with Peggy Anderson, Martine Fougeron, Dave Heath, Tanya Marcuse
Private views

Observed, posed and staged portraits of the intimate sphere

Galerie Miranda, Paris (FR)
1 Feb 2024 – 9 Mar 2024

with Jo Ann Callis, Jean Curran, Tanya Marcuse, Laura Stevens, Arne Svenson
Visions from America

Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
26 Jun 2022 – 22 Sep 2022

with Vito Acconci, Robert Adams, William Anastasi, Janine Antoni, Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Matthew Barney, Uta Barth …
Society/Spectacle

Galerie Miranda, Paris (FR)
3 Feb 2022 – 30 Apr 2022

with Harry Gruyaert
THE ILLEGAL IMAGE – Photography between image prohibition and self- censorship

DAS ILLEGALE BILD – Fotografie zwischen Bildverbot und Selbstzensur

f³ - freiraum für fotografie, Berlin (DE)
6 Feb 2020 – 17 May 2020

with Espen Eichhoefer, William E. Jones, Carola Lampe, Beat Streuli, Jan Dirk van der Burg
BODY OF EVIDENCE

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (US)
6 Feb 2020 – 21 Mar 2020

with Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Darrel Ellis, Martha Holmes, Clarence John Laughlin, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Peter Moore, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Weegee
Street.Life.Photography

Street Photography aus sieben Jahrzehnten

Kunst Haus Wien, Wien (AT)
11 Sep 2019 – 16 Feb 2020

with Diane Arbus, Mohamed Bourouissa, Andrew Buurman, Harry Callahan, Yasmin Chatila, Maciej Dakowicz, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Alex Dietrich, Natan Dvir, Melanie Einzig, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander …
#womenphotographer Vol. I

Herausragende Fotografinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts

Galerie Ahlers, Göttingen (DE)
14 Jun 2019 – 13 Jul 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Elinor Carucci, Nan Goldin, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Vivian Maier, Ruth Orkin, Rosemarie Pierer, Dayanita Singh, Karin Szekessy, Annette von Keudell
Women in Colour

Anna Atkins, Colour Photography and Those Struck by Light

Galerie Miranda, Paris (FR)
26 Apr 2019 – 6 Jul 2019

with Claire Aho, Jo Bradford, Jo Ann Callis, Ellen Carey, Patty Carroll, Elinor Carucci, Susan Derges, Sally Gall, Meghann Riepenhoff, Mariah Robertson, Chloe Sells, Sandy Skoglund …
womenphotographer vol. I

Photobastei, Zürich (CH)
14 Mar 2019 – 5 May 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Elinor Carucci, Nan Goldin, Roswitha Hecke, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Marianne Mueller, Vivian Maier, Inge Morath, Ruth Orkin, Rosemarie Pierer …
Photographs from the Tom Birch Collection

Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington (US)
26 Jan 2019 – 2 Mar 2019

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Zeke Berman, Karl Blossfeldt, Felix Bonfils, Jewgeni Chaldej, William E. Dassonville, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andre Gelpke, Jan Groover, Graciela Iturbide …
#womenphotographer Vol. I

f³ - freiraum für fotografie, Berlin (DE)
6 Dec 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Elinor Carucci, Nan Goldin, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange, Vivian Maier, Inge Morath, Ruth Orkin, Rosemarie Pierer, Dayanita Singh, Karin Szekessy …
[SPACE] STREET. LIFE. PHOTOGRAPHY

Seven Decades of Street Photography / Street Photography aus sieben Jahrzehnten<br>7. Triennale der Photographie Hamburg 2018

Haus der Photographie, Hamburg (DE)
8 Jun 2018 – 21 Oct 2018

with Jun Ahn, Diane Arbus, Jerry Berndt, Roman Bezjak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Mohamed Bourouissa, Andrew Buurman, Harry Callahan, Yasmin Chatila, Mario Cuic, Maciej Dakowicz, Philip-Lorca diCorcia …
SURVEILLANCE INDEX

Performing Books #1

LE BAL, Paris (FR)
10 Jan 2018 – 27 Jan 2018

with Laia Abril, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Viktoria Binschtok, Mohamed Bourouissa, Sophie Calle, Edmund Clark, Anne Collier, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Uri Gershuni, John Gossage, Fred Huening, Mishka Henner …
J'aime regarder les filles

Lumière des Roses, Paris (FR)
4 Oct 2017 – 9 Dec 2017

with Angelo Caperna, Lewis Carroll, Olivier Kervern, Kohei Yoshiyuki
Public, Private, Secret

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
23 Jun 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Zach Blas, Natalie Bookchin, Nancy Burson, Sophie Calle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Kurt Caviezel, Larry Clark, Phil Collins, Kate Cooper, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Ron Galella …
Sexy and the City - New York Photographs

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
9 Jul 2009 – 28 Aug 2009

with Will Anderson, Diane Arbus, Alvin Baltrop, Bruce Davidson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Louis Faurer, Leonard Freed, Nan Goldin, Gail Albert Halaban, Charles Harbutt, Lisa Kereszi, Andre Kertesz …
MODE:BILDER

Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach

NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf (DE)
17 Nov 2007 – 24 Mar 2008

with Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, George Hoyningen-Huene, Martin Kippenberger, Juergen Klauke, Herlinde Koelbl, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus), Robert Mapplethorpe, Will McBride …
Stripped Bare . Der Entblößte Körper

Fotografien aus der Sammlung Thomas Koerfer

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
28 Sep 2007 – 9 Dec 2007

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Jeff Bark, Daniele Buetti, Jeff Burton, Walter Chappell, Larry Clark, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Noritoshi Hirakawa …
The Heartbeat of Fashion

Werke aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach

Haus der Photographie, Hamburg (DE)
27 Sep 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

with Alfred Trischtler & Dr. Paul Wolff, Ludwig Angerer, Atelier Reutlinger, Paris, Richard Avedon, Martin Badekow, Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Johannes Bernhard, Emil Bieber, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Erwin Blumenfeld, Guy Bourdin …
The Furtive Gaze

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
8 May 2003 – 12 Jul 2003

with Sophie Calle, Melanie Manchot, Chris Verene, Shizuka Yokomizo
Life of the City

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

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

Events

Paris Photo 2026*

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
12 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026

with Miguel Angel Rojas, Anna Atkins, Viktoria Binschtok, Antony Cairns, Alessandro Calabrese, Jo Ann Callis, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, Tania Franco Klein, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Guido Guidi, Mari Katayama …
Paris Photo 2026 - Solo

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
12 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026

with Poklong Anading, Miguel Angel Rojas, Hicham Benohoud, Elina Brotherus, Alejandro Cartagena, Julie Cockburn, Jack Davison, Tamas Dezso, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Edouard Taufenbach & Bastien Pourtout, Ahmet Ertug, Aneta Grzeszykowska …
Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
20 Nov 2025 – 28 Nov 2025

with Lai Afong, Leopold Ahrendts, David Armstrong, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Auguste Belloc, Guillaume Berggren, Erwin Blumenfeld, Samuel Bourne, Harry Callahan, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson …
Festival du Regard 2022

Festival du Regard, Saint-Germain en Laye (FR)
14 Oct 2022 – 27 Nov 2022

with Juliette Agnel, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Brassai, Rene Burri, Thierry Cohen, Celine Croze, Leon Gimpel, Ronan Guillou, Todd Hido, Loewy and Puiseux, Anders Petersen, Rima Samman …
Photography

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
4 Nov 2019 – 7 Nov 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Laure Albin-Guillot, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Hans Bellmer, Edouard Boubat, Guy Bourdin, Margaret Bourke-White, Marcel Bovis, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Adolphe Braun …
Stripped Bare

Photographs from the Collection of Thomas Koerfer

CHRISTIE'S Paris, Paris (FR)
4 Nov 2017 – 9 Nov 2017

with Diane Arbus, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Man Ray , Robert Mapplethorpe, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Paul Outerbridge, Jack Pierson, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman
Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie

AT Triennale zur Fotografie , Graz (AT)
21 Nov 1999 – 2 Jan 2000

with Dominique Auerbacher, Lewis Baltz, Monica Bonvicini, Sergey Bratkov, Tomaz Gregoric, Pierre Huyghe, Korpys / Loeffler, Pia Lanzinger, Slavica Perkovic, Martha Rosler, Holger Truelzsch, Anita Witek