Walead Beshty

*1976 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

Industrial Portraits

Fondazione MAST, Bologna (IT)
25 Jan 2020 – 3 May 2020
THREE PICTURES

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (BE)
5 Sep 2019 – 26 Oct 2019
WALEAD BESHTY

MAMCO art contemporain, Genève (CH)
29 May 2019 – 8 Sep 2019
Equivalents

Regen Projects, Los Angeles (US)
2 Mar 2018 – 7 Apr 2018
Transparencies

Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
24 Mar 2017 – 25 Jun 2017
Walead Beshty

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich (CH)
12 Jun 2016 – 27 Aug 2016
Gastarbeiten

Capitain Petzel, Berlin (DE)
7 Nov 2014 – 20 Dec 2014
Performances Under Working Conditions

Petzel Gallery, New York (US)
4 Sep 2014 – 4 Oct 2014
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The Rose Art Museum, Waltham (US)
12 Feb 2013 – 9 Jun 2013
POST

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK)
2 Apr 2013 – 30 Apr 2013
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Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (SE)
19 Feb 2011 – 1 May 2011
Production Stills

Thomas Dane Gallery, London (GB)
13 Oct 2009 – 14 Nov 2009
Passages

The Brick, Los Angeles (US)
21 Mar 2009 – 2 May 2009
The Maker and the Modell

Wallspace Gallery, New York (US)
7 Sep 2006 – 14 Oct 2006
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UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
20 Apr 2006 – 23 Jul 2006
The Body-Body Problem

Wallspace Gallery, New York (US)
17 Sep 2004 – 16 Oct 2004
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MoMA PS1, New York (US)
27 Jun 2004 – 27 Sep 2004

Group

Photography as Data

Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie (US)
9 Apr 2024 – 15 Sep 2024

with Anna Atkins, Francis Bedford, Jim Dow, Harold E. Edgerton, Andreas Feininger, Francis Frith, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Kenji Nakahashi, Trevor Paglen, Doug Rickard, Hito Steyerl, Stephanie Syjuco
True Pictures?

Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Kanada und den USA

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
12 Mar 2022 – 26 Jun 2022

with Vikky Alexander, Roy Arden, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Liz Deschenes, Stan Douglas, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Nan Goldin, Rodney Graham, Martine Gutierrez, Anthony Hernandez, Alison Jackson …
TRUE PICTURES?

Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Kanada und den USA

Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
6 Nov 2021 – 13 Feb 2022

with Vikky Alexander, Roy Arden, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Liz Deschenes, Stan Douglas, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Nan Goldin, Rodney Graham, Martine Gutierrez, Anthony Hernandez, Ayana Jackson …
Terminal

City Gallery Wellington, Wellington (NZ)
1 Sep 2020 – 14 Feb 2021

with Marco Brambilla, Thomas Demand, Simon Denny, Ray Eames, Charles Eames, Brian Eno, Andreas Gursky, Naeem Mohaiemen, Adrian Paci, Alex Prager, Taryn Simon
La Photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction

Centre Photographique, Paris (FR)
27 Sep 2020 – 13 Dec 2020

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mustapha Azeroual, Eric Baudart, Michel Campeau, Nicolas Floch, Marina Gadonneix, Lukas Hoffmann, Anouk Kruithof, Isabelle Le Minh, Chris McCaw, Sebastien Reuze, Meghann Riepenhoff …
Haptic Feedback

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
17 Jan 2020 – 1 Mar 2020

with David Hartt, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jean-Luc Moulene
Out of the Box: Camera-less Photography

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
9 Feb 2019 – 18 Jun 2019

with Christopher Bucklow, Ellen Carey, William Henry Fox Talbot, Adam Fuss, Robert Heinecken, Edmund Kesting, Man Ray
Modus Operandi

Contemporary Photography from the collection of BNY Mellon

Florida Museum Photo, Tampa (US)
15 Jan 2019 – 15 Apr 2019

with Miriam Boehm, Reinier Gerritsen, Yasumasa Morimura, Zanele Muholi, Alex Prager, Erin Shirreff, Mickalene Thomas
Picture Fiction

Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
28 Apr 2018 – 31 Dec 2018

with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Anne Collier, Robert Cumming, Jan Dibbets, Roe Ethridge, Rodney Graham, Dan Graham, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson …
ISelf Collection The Upset Bucket

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
5 Dec 2017 – 1 Apr 2018

with Lynda Benglis, Martin Boyce, Thomas Demand, William Eggleston, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Mona Hatoum, Georg Herold, Gabriel Kuri, Jim Lambie, Linder, Paul McCarthy …
BLACK MAGIC

Christine König , Wien (AT)
12 Jan 2017 – 4 Mar 2017

with Victoria Coeln, Marta Djourina, Barbara Hainz, Renato Leotta, Alexandra Navratil, Christoph Weber
New matter

recent forms of photography

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
10 Sep 2016 – 19 Feb 2017

with Jacqueline Ball, Matthew Brandt, Zoe Croggon, Christopher Day, Cherine Fahd, Todd McMillan, Justine Varga
Group Show

65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts

David Zwirner, New York (US)
9 Dec 2016 – 28 Jan 2017

with Diane Arbus, Roger Ballen, Robert Barry, Chuck Close, Anne Collier, Sue de Beer, Tacita Dean, Willie Doherty, Anna Gaskell, Robert Gober, Katy Grannan, Lyle Ashton Harris …
Abstract/Object

concurrent Moholy-Nagy retrospective

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
10 Sep 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

with Horst Ademeit, Mel Bochner, Liz Deschenes, Cao Guimaraes, Barbara Kasten, Gordon Matta-Clark, Carter Mull, Bruce Nauman, Rivane Neuenschwander, Giuseppe Penone, Alison Rossiter, Wolfgang Tillmans
The Venice Biennale - 56th International Art Exhibition

All the World's Futures

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Adel Abdessemed, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Abounaddara, Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Kutluğ Ataman, Maja Bajevic, Ernesto Ballesteros, Sammy Baloji, Rosa Barba …
Open Rhapsody

A journey into photography and video collections

Beirut Exhibition Center, Beyrouth (LB)
2 Mar 2015 – 19 Apr 2015

with Ziad Antar, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Valerie Belin, Ali Cherri, Larry Clark, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Fouad El Khoury, Elger Esser, Lucas Foglia, Cyprien Gaillard …
Damage Control

Art and Destruction Since 1950

Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT)
14 Nov 2014 – 15 Feb 2015

with Monica Bonvicini, Bruce Conner, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Harold E. Edgerton, Ori Gersht, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Christian Marclay, Gordon Matta-Clark, Steve McQueen, Gustav Metzger …
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950

Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
12 Jul 2014 – 12 Oct 2014

with Roy Arden, John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Mircea Cantor, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Bruce Conner, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Sam Durant, Harold E. Edgerton, Dara Friedman, Ori Gersht …
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (US)
24 Oct 2013 – 26 May 2014

with Roy Arden, John Baldessari, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Harold E. Edgerton, Ori Gersht, Mona Hatoum, Laurel Nakadate, Arnold Odermatt, Pipilotti Rist, Thomas Ruff
More American Photographs

UCR ARTS , Riverside (US)
28 Sep 2013 – 11 Jan 2014

with Esther Bubley, Larry Clark, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Katy Grannan, William E. Jones, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Sharon Lockhart, Carl Mydans …
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, Uta Barth, Lothar Baumgarten, Lucas Blalock, Mark Borthwick, Josh Brand, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Liz Deschenes …
Fragile?

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (IT)
8 Apr 2013 – 28 Jul 2013

with Gilbert & George, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Pipilotti Rist
More American Photographs

Wexner Center for Art, Columbus (US)
27 Jan 2013 – 7 Apr 2013

with Arthur Ann Segan, Esther Bubley, Larry Clark, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Katy Grannan, William E. Jones, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Sharon Lockhart …
The Unphotographable

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

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Liz Deschenes, Kota Ezawa, Adam Fuss, Paul Graham, Idris Khan, Richard Learoyd …
the endless renaissance

six solo artist projects

Bass Museum of Art, Miami (US)
6 Dec 2012 – 17 Mar 2013

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
More American Photographs

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (US)
4 Oct 2011 – 17 Dec 2011

with Arthur Ann Segan, Esther Bubley, Larry Clark, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Katy Grannan, William E. Jones, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Sharon Lockhart …
Frieze Art Fair - Video and photo based art

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

with Annelies Strba, Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Haluk Akakçe, Francis Alys, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Pawel Althamer, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari …
South Sweden Photo Biennial 2011

Malmö Fotobiennal, Malmö (SE)
5 Mar 2011 – 3 Apr 2011

with Bjoern Abelin, Lennart Alves, Johan Baevman, Bernd Behr, Nadja Bournonville, Bernt-Ola Falck, Pascal Fellonneau, Ake Hedström, Lina Jaros, Mary Ellen Mark, Sarah Oja, Brutus Östling …
Anti-Photography

Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (GB)
17 Jan 2011 – 2 Apr 2011

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, William Anastasi, Mel Bochner, Anne Collier, Jan Dibbets, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ed Ruscha, John Stezaker, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Welling
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

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

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, Slater Bradley, Sophie Calle, James Casebere, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Lucinda Devlin, Stan Douglas …
Bedtime for Bonzo

curated by Matthew Porter

Casa MB., Los Angeles (US)
11 Dec 2010 – 29 Jan 2011

with Gil Blank, Andrew Bush, Moyra Davey, Arthur Ou, James Welling, Hannah Whitaker, Mark Wyse
Milk Drop Coronet

30 Ausstellungen zur Virtuosität des Dinglichen

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
26 Sep 2010 – 9 Jan 2011

with Thomas Bayrle, Bjoern Braun, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Natalie Czech, Jeanne Faust, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Aurelien Froment, Sylvia Henrich, Andrew Howe, Margarete Jakschik, Annette Kelm, Herwig Kempinger …
Haunted : Contemporary photography / video / performance

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

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, James Casebere, Paul Chan, Sarah Charlesworth, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Ori Gersht, Felix Gonzalez-Torres …
An einem schönen Morgen des Monats Mai...

30 JAHRFEIER DER GAK

GAK Gesellschaft Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE)
30 May 2010 – 8 Aug 2010

with John Baldessari, Carol Bove, Sebastian Gräfe, Gareth Moore, David Sherry, Guido van der Werve
I want to see how you see

Julia Stoschek Collection

Haus der Photographie, Hamburg (DE)
16 Apr 2010 – 25 Jul 2010

with Pep Agut, Peggy Ahwesh, Doug Aitken, Eleanor Antin, Heike Baranowsky, Lynda Benglis, Bjoerk, Monica Bonvicini, Robert Boyd, Chris Burden, Jeff Burton, Matt Calderwood …
Day and Night - Copenhagen Photo Festival 2010

Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen (DK)
12 May 2010 – 20 May 2010

with Tim Davis, Peter Funch, Anne Hardy, Todd Hido, Jacob Holdt, Nicolai Howalt, Mark Hunter, Astrid Kruse, Hanna Lidén, Laurel Nakadate, Mads Nissen, Jason Nocito …
In a Paperweight

Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago (US)
16 Apr 2010 – 15 May 2010

with Sebastiaan Bremer, Daniel Gordon, Tamar Halpern, Barbara Kasten, Sara VanDerBeek, James Welling
Noise

Galerie Sfeir-Semler Beirut, Beyrouth
11 Dec 2009 – 2 Apr 2010

with Haris Epaminonda, Yoshua Okon
Elements of Photography

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
13 Jun 2009 – 1 Apr 2010

with Adam Ekberg, Luisa Lambri, Hiroshi Sugimoto
New Photography 2009

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
30 Sep 2009 – 11 Jan 2010

with Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, Sara VanDerBeek
PRUNE - abstracting reality

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

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Roger Ballen, Julian Faulhaber, Luke Gilford, Idris Khan, Lisa Oppenheim, Thomas Ruff, Horacio Salinas, Elliott Wilcox
Fragile

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
18 Oct 2008 – 1 Aug 2009

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Peggy Ahwesh, John Bock, Chris Burden, Janet Cardiff, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Jen Denike, Cheryl Donegan, Kate Gilmore, Douglas Gordon …
The Photographic Object

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
24 Apr 2009 – 14 Jun 2009

with Maurizio Anzeri, Annette Kelm, Gerhard Richter, Alina Szapocznikow, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Catherine Yass
Whitney Biennial 2008

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
6 Mar 2008 – 1 Jun 2008

with Rita Ackermann, John Baldessari, Olaf Breuning, Markus Ebner, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Roe Ethridge, Omer Fast, Louise Lawler, Mika Rottenberg, Javier Tellez, Henry Bradford Washburn
Anything You Want

Pump House Gallery, London (GB)
15 Aug 2007 – 14 Oct 2007

with Anne Collier, Annette Kelm
between two death

ZKM | Zentrum Kunst Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
12 May 2007 – 19 Aug 2007

with Rita Ackermann, Brock Enright, Nan Goldin, Brian Graham, John Miller, Adam Putnam, Florian Slotawa, Erik van Lieshout
2006 California Biennial

Orange County Museum, Newport Beach (US)
1 Oct 2006 – 31 Dec 2006

with Shannon Ebner, Pearl C. Hsiung, Sterling Ruby, Amir Zaki
Strange drugs

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (BE)
15 Sep 2006 – 28 Oct 2006

with Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Shore, Christopher Williams
Studio City

Contemporary Photography from Los Angeles . Curator: Efrat Shalem

Sprovieri, London (GB)
10 Mar 2006 – 15 Apr 2006

with Miles Coolidge, Andrew Freeman, Yanai Toister, James Welling
the backroom

SF Camerawork, San Francisco (US)
25 Jan 2006 – 25 Feb 2006

with Jeremy Deller, Kota Ezawa, Euan MacDonald, Ari Marcopoulos, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen, Raqs Media Collective
Studio City

Curator: Efrat Shalem

Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
6 Jan 2006 – 10 Feb 2006

with Miles Coolidge, Andrew Freeman, Efrat Shalem, James Welling
The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
30 Sep 2005 – 15 Jan 2006

with Gregory Crewdson, Tim Davis, Corin Hewitt, Zoe Leonard, Karin Apollonia Mueller, Catherine Opie, Michael Vahrenwald, Amir Zaki
Manufactured Self

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
10 Jan 2005 – 3 Mar 2005

with Philip Kwame Apagya, Tina Barney, Shannon Ebner, Yeondoo JUNG, Nikki S. Lee, Alex MacLean, Peter Menzel, Martin Parr, Tomoko Sawada, Oriz Sima-Tov, Brian Ulrich

Events

Artissima 2023

ARTissima, Torino (IT)
3 Nov 2023 – 5 Nov 2023

with Oystein Aasan, Gabriel Abrantes, Helena Almeida, Adam Avikainen, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Renate Bertlmann, Diego Bianchi, Barbara Bloom, Fatma Bucak …
Photographs

PHILLIPS London, London (GB)
17 Nov 2021 – 23 Nov 2021

with Guy Bourdin, Candida Hoefer, Miyako Ishiuchi, Ole Marius Joergensen, Lorenzo Meloni, Helmut Newton, Sohei Nishino, Eiji Ohashi, Cindy Sherman, Bastiaan Woudt
One of a Kind: Unique Photographs

artnet Auctions, New York (US)
19 Oct 2021 – 29 Oct 2021

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Matthew Brandt, William Klein, Chris Levine, Man Ray , Garry Fabian Miller, Mariah Robertson, Johannes Wohnseifer
Photographies

CHRISTIE'S Paris, Paris (FR)
26 Jun 2021 – 29 Jun 2021

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Nick Brandt, Joana Choumali, Nick Knight, Helmut Newton, Sohei Nishino, Irving Penn, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mario Testino, Edward Weston
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, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), John Bock, Inaki Bonillas, Sarah Charlesworth, Julian Charriere …
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

114 Artists. 28 Exhibitions

Front International, Cleveland (US)
14 Jul 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

with Erkan Oezgen, Eric Baudelaire, Dawoud Bey, Barbara Bloom, Candice Breitz, Gerard Byrne, Willie Doherty, Paul Druecke, Paul Druecke, Harrell Fletcher, Harrell Fletcher, Cyprien Gaillard …
Photographies

Sotheby's, Paris (FR)
4 Nov 2017 – 10 Nov 2017

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gustave Le Gray, Florian Maier-Aichen, Thomas Struth
Photography and Philosophy

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
13 Mar 2015 – 14 Mar 2015

with Viktoria Binschtok, Phil Chang, Thomas Demand, Farrah Karapetian, Arthur Ou, James Welling
South Sweden Photo Biennial 2011

Malmö Fotobiennal, Malmö (SE)
5 Mar 2011 – 3 Apr 2011

with Bjoern Abelin, Johan Baevman, Nadja Bournonville, Ake Hedström, Mary Ellen Mark, Mary Ellen Mark, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Sarah Oja, Brutus Östling, Michel Thomas, Annika von Hausswolff
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Barbican Art Gallery , London (GB)
Postwar and Contemporary Photographs

Sotheby's New York, New York (US)

with Vito Acconci, Helena Almeida, Ilit Azoulay, Matthew Barney, Peter Beard, Marco Breuer, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Calle, Kudzanai Chiurai, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra …