William Klein



BORN:
1928New York
Lives and works in Paris, France


SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2001Painted Contacts, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
2001Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
2001Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England and Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
2000Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan
1999FIAC, Paris
1999Grenoble Museum, Grenoble
1998Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1998National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
1998Grand Manege, Moscow
1997Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1997Puchkin Museum, Moscow
1997Palace of Exhibitions, Rome
1997Italian Foundation for Photography, Torino (traveled)
1996Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
1996Caixa Foundation, Barcelona & Madrid
1996Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
1995Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1995Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1994Galerie Zabriskie, Paris
1994FNAC Étoile, Paris
1994International Center of Photography, New York
1994Fahey/Klein, Los Angeles
1994Presidential Palace, Prague
1994Hamiltons Gallery, London
1993Scene Nationale, Bayonne
1993Foundation Cartier, Printemps de la Photo, Cahors
1993Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen
1993Hamiltons Gallery, London
1992Beaux Arts, Almeria, Spain
1992Stadtmuseum, Munich
1992Mosel and Tchechov, Munich
1992Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
1991Exposure, Parco, Tokyo
1991Hamiltons Gallery, London
1991FNAC, Lyon
1991Foundation Cartier, Jouy en Josas
1990Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1990National Library, Torino
1989Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1989Museum Folkwang, Essen (traveled)
1988Elysée Museum and Swiss Cinémathèque, Lausanne
1987Photography and Art 1946-1986, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1987Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
1987Printemps Ginza, Tokyo
1987Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1986The New York School, Photographs, 1935-1963, Part III, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1986Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1985The New York School, Photographs, 1935-1963, Part I & Part II , Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1985Zabriskie Gallery, Paris, New York
1983 Centre Beaubourg, Paris. Retrospective
198250 Years of VOGUE, Musée Jacquemart André, Paris
1981Galerie Zabriskie, Paris
1981Centre Culturel Americain, Paris
1981Light Gallery, New York
1981Cinemathèque, Paris
1981Ikona Gallery, Venice
1981Light Gallery, Los Angeles
1981The Photographer's Gallery, London
1980Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980Photography of the 50's , International Center of Photography, New York; Traveled to: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; California State University, Long Beach; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
1979Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Lyon, France
1979Canon Photo Gallery, Geneva
1978The Photographer's Gallery, London (traveled)
1978Galerie Fiolet, Amsterdam
1978Apeldoorn Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
197810 Photographers from Atget to Klein , MIT, Cambridge
197710 Fashion Photography , International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, Brooklyn Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati Art Institute; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
1967Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1961Fuji Gallery, Tokyo


SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Guggenheim Museum, New York
International Center for Photography, New York
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Staatliche Museum, Berlin
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


AWARDS:
1999 Millennium Medal, Royal Photographic Society, Great Britain
1993Agfa Bayer, Germany
1990International Prize Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden
1989 Commander of Arts and Letters, France
1988Guggenheim, USA
1987Kultur Preis, Germany
1986Grand Prix National de la Photographie, France