Uta Barth

*1958 / Germany

Works

Solo exhibitions

Peripheral Vision

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
15 Nov 2022 – 19 Feb 2023
Figure/Ground, Figure/Ground

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
3 Jun 2022 – 16 Jul 2022
In the Light and Shadow of Morandi

Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Paris (FR)
10 Jun 2021 – 24 Jul 2021
Uta Barth

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
9 Feb 2017 – 11 Mar 2017
to draw with light

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (US)
5 Apr 2013 – 28 Jul 2013
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
27 Oct 2011 – 22 Dec 2011
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
14 May 2011 – 14 Aug 2011
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Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (US)
12 Feb 2011 – 8 May 2011
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Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (SE)
18 Nov 2010 – 23 Dec 2010
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
6 May 2010 – 19 Jun 2010
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Alison Jacques, London (GB)
30 May 2008 – 28 Jun 2008
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Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (DE)
17 May 2008 – 21 Jun 2008
New work

Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (SE)
15 May 2008 – 19 Jun 2008
Sundial

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
18 Oct 2007 – 24 Nov 2007
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Alison Jacques, London (GB)
28 Apr 2006 – 27 May 2006
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Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (DE)
3 Sep 2005 – 8 Oct 2005
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Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (SE)
27 Aug 2005 – 24 Sep 2005
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Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
16 Jun 2005 – 23 Jul 2005
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
5 May 2005 – 15 Jun 2005
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ACME, Los Angeles (US)
30 Apr 2005 – 28 May 2005
nowhere near, …and of time, white blind (bright red) (1999-2002)

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (US)
12 Feb 2005 – 1 May 2005
nowhere near / ...and of time. / white blind (bright red)

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (US)
18 Mar 2004 – 6 Jun 2004
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Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (DE)
6 Jun 2003 – 5 Jul 2003
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Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (SE)
8 May 2003 – 7 Jun 2003

Group

If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground

by more than 110 artists from MoCP’s permanent collection

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
10 Sep 2026 – 19 Dec 2026

with Hanif Abdur-Rahim, Jody Ake, Harold Allen, Stephen Althouse, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Tom Arndt, David Avison, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Alun Be, Endia Beal, Del Bey, Jay Boersma …
Perceptual Shifts

Photographs from the Collection

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
28 Jun 2026 – 20 Sep 2026

with John Divola, Anthony Hernandez, Barbara Kasten, Susan Lakin, Chris McCaw, Trevor Paglen
MoCP at 50: Collecting Through the Decades

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
22 Jan 2026 – 16 May 2026

with Harry Callahan, Raul Corrales, Matthew Finley, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Joel Sternfeld, Bob Thall, Carla Williams
Second Nature

Modernism, San Francisco (US)
5 Sep 2025 – 1 Nov 2025

with Michael Brennan, Edward S. Curtis, Judy Dater, Elena Dorfman, Michael Dweck, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Michal Rovner, Camille Solyagua, Albert Steiner, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Blur / Obscure / Distort

Photography and Perception

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
5 Apr 2025 – 20 Jul 2025

with Jeff Brouws, Christopher Bucklow, Martin Kersels
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe

Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (US)
8 Mar 2024 – 7 Jul 2024

with Yto Barrada, Vanessa Beecroft, Carolle Benitah, Melanie Bonajo, Elina Brotherus, Alexandra Croitoru, Natalie Czech, Iris Hutegger, Ulla Jokisalo, Eva Kotatkova, Sarah Pickering, Barbara Probst …
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, Merry Alpern, William Anastasi, Janine Antoni, Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Matthew Barney …
Curious Visions

Toward Abstract Photography

Denver Art Museum, Denver (US)
24 Oct 2021 – 30 Mar 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Jaromir Funke, Jung-Jin Lee, Laura Letinsky, Man Ray , Joan Myers, Eliot Porter, Alison Rossiter, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Keita Sugiura, Brett Weston …
In the Now

Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
14 Nov 2021 – 13 Feb 2022

with Yto Barrada, Vanessa Beecroft, Carolle Benitah, Melanie Bonajo, Alexandra Croitoru, Natalie Czech, Marlene Haring, Caroline Heider, Iris Hutegger, Ulla Jokisalo, Eva Kotatkova, Milja Laurila …
Within the Frame

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (US)
16 Feb 2019 – 21 Jul 2019

with Elliott Erwitt, Allen Frame, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Pamela Pecchio, Alec Soth, Joyce Tenneson
Mapping Space: Recent Acquisitions in Focus

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
26 Feb 2019 – 14 Jul 2019

with WANG Jinsong, Robert Kinmont, Richard Long, Mark Ruwedel
Photoplay : Lucid Objects

JPMorgan Chase Art Collection

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
9 Nov 2017 – 12 Nov 2017

with Ellen Carey, Christopher Colville, Liz Deschenes, Gilbert & George, John Houck, Annette Messager, Tony Oursler, Eileen Quinlan, Liz Rideal, Mariah Robertson, Donna Ruff, Paul Sharits …
Scene

Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo (JP)
7 Jun 2017 – 24 Jun 2017

with Olafur Eliasson, Luisa Lambri, Yoshiko Seino, Tomoko Yoneda
Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
13 Nov 2015 – 21 Feb 2016

with Carol Bove, Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Sam Falls, Spencer Finch, Ann Veronica Janssens, James Welling
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 Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Binh Danh, Moyra Davey, Adam Fuss, Idris Khan, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Chris McCaw, Mark Ruwedel, Hiroshi Sugimoto …
The Marseillaise / fifteen years of collecting

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
13 Sep 2014 – 7 Dec 2014

with Claudia Angelmaier, Valerie Belin, BOWNIK, Winfried Bullinger, Balthasar Burkhard, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Calle, Popel Coumou, Jeff Cowen, Susan Derges, Charlotte Dumas, David Goldblatt …
A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
8 Feb 2014 – 1 Dec 2014

with Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, Karl Blossfeldt, Geta Bratescu, Constantin Brancusi, Francis Bruguire, Harry Callahan, Thomas Demand, Harold E. Edgerton, Fischli & Weiss, Robert Frank, Jan Groover …
I feel the need to express something, but I don’t know what it is I want to express. Or how to express it.

Park View, Los Angeles (US)
28 Sep 2014 – 2 Nov 2014

with John Divola, Barbara Probst
A Sense of Place

Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco (US)
1 Jul 2013 – 30 May 2014

with Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Edward Burtynsky, Eric William Carroll, John Chiara, Moyra Davey, Jan De Cock, Thomas Demand, José Manuel Fors, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky …
At the Window: The Photographer's View

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
1 Oct 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Robert Adams, Eugene Atget, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gregory Crewdson, William Henry Fox Talbot, Sabine Hornig, Yuki Onodera, Arthur Rothstein
SUMMER OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York (US)
12 Jul 2013 – 21 Sep 2013

with Doug Aitken, Darren Almond, Nobuyoshi Araki, John Baldessari, Peter Blake, Chuck Close, Anne Collier, William Eggleston, Fischli & Weiss, Adam Fuss, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin …
LENS DRAWINGS

Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities - contemporary photography curated by Jens Hoffmann

Marian Goodman Paris, Paris (FR)
28 Jun 2013 – 2 Aug 2013

with Lewis Baltz, Lothar Baumgarten, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Mark Borthwick, Josh Brand, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Liz Deschenes …
Making sense: contemporary LA photo artists

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
11 Feb 2012 – 13 May 2012

with Miles Coolidge, Shannon Ebner, Christina Fernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Anthony Hernandez, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie, Mark Wyse
Frieze Art Fair - Photography

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011

with Robert Adams, Pilar Albarracin, Victor Alimpiev, Helena Almeida, Darren Almond, Ziad Antar, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Kader Attia, Roger Ballen, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Yto Barrada …
Pictures by Women

A History of Modern Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
7 May 2010 – 4 Apr 2011

with Berenice Abbott, Rogi André, Emmy Andriesse, Claudia Andujar, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Gertrud Arndt, Anna Atkins, Tina Barney, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Valerie Belin, Lynda Benglis …
Inside Out, Photography After Form

Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami (US)
1 Dec 2010 – 6 Mar 2011

with Edward Burtynsky, Thomaz Farkas, Candida Hoefer, Luisa Lambri, German Lorca, Gabriel Orozco, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fiona Tan
Incognito: the Hidden Self-Portrait

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (US)
15 Jul 2010 – 27 Aug 2010

with Anne Collier, Amy Elkins, Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, David Hilliard, Tom Hunter, Jodie Vicenta Jacobson, Bill Jacobson, Kenneth Josephson, Lisa Kereszi, Esko Maennikkoe, Ray K. Metzker …
State of Mind: A California Invitational

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
6 Feb 2010 – 6 Jun 2010

with Susan Anderson, Stephen Berkman, Ken Gonzales-Day, Todd Hido, Mona Kuhn, Michael Light, Susan Rankaitis
The Reach of Realism

MoCA Miami, Miami (US)
1 Dec 2009 – 14 Feb 2010

with Olaf Breuning, Phil Collins, Thomas Demand, Alex Hubbard, Elad Lassry, Xaviera Simmons, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Artur Zmijewski
Inside // Outside

Innenraum und Ausblick in der zeitgenössischen deutschen Fotografie

MKM Küppersmühle, Duisburg (DE)
31 Oct 2008 – 18 Jan 2009

with Laurenz Berges, Thomas Demand, Guenther Foerg, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Thomas Florschuetz, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoefer, Sabine Hornig, Edgar Lissel, Wiebke Loeper, Beatrice Minda, Ricarda Roggan …
Del Paisaje Reciente (Concerning Recent Landscapes)

<a href="http://www.phedigital.com" target="_blank">PHotoEspaña 2006</a>

Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid (ES)
1 Jun 2006 – 30 Jul 2006

with Thomas Joshua Cooper, Rodney Graham, Xavier Ribas, Lars Tunbjoerk, Tomoko Yoneda
Whisper Not!

A different dimension of seeing: Huis Marseille / H+F Collection

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
4 Mar 2006 – 28 May 2006

with Pierre Faure, Carmela Garcia, Runa Islam, Syoin Kajii, Rinko Kawauchi, Luisa Lambri, Dorothée Meyer, Joerg Sasse, Hannah Starkey, Martine Stig, Gerald van der Kaap, Hans van der Meer …
Beyond Delirious

Architecture in Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami (US)
3 Dec 2005 – 3 Feb 2006

with Atelier Morales, Olivo Barbieri, Rochelle Costi, Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, Carlos Garaicoa, SHI Guorui, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoefer, Sabine Hornig, Sze Tsung LEONG, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer …
Artissima

Alison Jacques, London (GB)
11 Nov 2005 – 13 Nov 2005

with Robert Mapplethorpe, Nathaniel Mellors, Paul Morrison, Jack Pierson, Catherine Yass
Group Show

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
10 Sep 2005 – 1 Oct 2005

with Sandra Cinto, Mat Collishaw, Carla Klein
Out There: Landscape in the New Millenium

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
20 May 2005 – 14 Aug 2005

with Tom Bamberger, Olafur Eliasson, Anna Gaskell, Ellen Kooi, Rosemary Laing, Ange Leccia, Jennifer Steinkamp
In Focus: Themes in Photography

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo (US)
24 Sep 2004 – 30 Jan 2005

with Matthew Barney, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Sophie Calle, John Coplans, Gregory Crewdson, Willie Doherty, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Les Krims, Nikki S. Lee, Sharon Lockhart …
Landscape

Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
17 Jun 2004 – 17 Jul 2004

with Rebeca Bollinger, Doug Hall, Anders Krisar, Vik Muniz, Paul Seawright, Henry Wessel
Double exposure

Galerie Hafenrichter & Flügel, Nürnberg (DE)
30 Apr 2004 – 31 May 2004

with Vanessa Beecroft, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Nan Goldin, Candida Hoefer, Axel Huette, Alfredo Jaar, Bill Jacobson, Malerie Marder, Barbara Probst, Thomas Ruff, James Welling …
Imágenes en movimiento // Moving Pictures

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (ES)
7 Oct 2003 – 18 May 2004

with Marina Abramovic, Francis Alys, Matthew Barney, Oliver Boberg, Jeff Burton, James Casebere, Patty Chang, Miles Coolidge, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Trisha Donnelly …
Atmosphere

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
3 Feb 2004 – 9 May 2004

with Richard Prince, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans
Double Exposure

Brigitte March, Stuttgart (DE)
6 Feb 2004 – 28 Feb 2004

with Vanessa Beecroft, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Nan Goldin, Candida Hoefer, Axel Huette, Alfredo Jaar, Bill Jacobson, Malerie Marder, Barbara Probst, Thomas Ruff, James Welling
Print Publishers Spotlight: Edition Schellman

Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston (US)
25 Oct 2003 – 9 Dec 2003

with Vanessa Beecroft, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Nan Goldin, Candida Hoefer, Axel Huette, Alfredo Jaar, Bill Jacobson, Malerie Marder, Barbara Probst, Thomas Ruff, James Welling …
PUBLIC RECORD

MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (US)
6 Apr 2003 – 3 Aug 2003

with Candida Hoefer, Walter Niedermayr, Thomas Struth, Catherine Wagner

Events

Frieze Art Fair | New York

Frieze art fair, New York (US)
14 May 2026 – 17 May 2026

with Farah Al Qasimi, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jae-Eun Choi, Stan Douglas, Aki Goto, Sueyon Hwang, Isaac Julien, Lotus L. Kang , Lebohang Kganye, Karen Kilimnik, Bohnchang Koo, Florian Maier-Aichen …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Santa Monica (US)
26 Feb 2026 – 1 Mar 2026

with David Alekhuogie, Kenneth Anger, Sandra Brewster, Patty Chang, Julian Charriere, Sandra Cinto, Robert Cumming, Roy DeCarava, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Olafur Eliasson, Christina Fernandez, Ryan Gander …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Santa Monica (US)
20 Feb 2025 – 23 Feb 2025

with Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Widline Cadet, Talia Chetrit, John Divola, Darrel Ellis, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Coco Fusco, Alexandra Hedison, Alfredo Jaar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi, Vik Muniz …
Frieze Art Fair | New York

Frieze art fair, New York (US)
2 May 2024 – 5 May 2024

with Doug Aitken, Anne Collier, Davi de Jesus do Nascimento, Regina Jose Galindo, Rodney Graham, Shilpa Gupta, Frank Heath, Isaac Julien, Kimsooja, Mame-Diarra Niang, Lisa Oppenheim, Amalia Pica …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Los Angeles (US)
15 Feb 2019 – 17 Feb 2019

with Michele Abeles, Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Sophie Calle, William Eggleston, Katy Grannan, Mona Hatoum, Barbara Kruger, Linder, Richard Misrach, Senga Nengudi , Roman Ondak …