HENRY WESSEL

BORN:

1942 Teaneck, NJ

EDUCATION:

1972 State University of New York at Buffalo/Visual Studies Workshop, M.F.A.
1966 Pennsylvania State University, B.A.

FELLOWSHIPS:

1979 John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant
1977 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1971 John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2005 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

   Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA

2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

   Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA

1996 Gallery Ram, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987 International Museum of Photography, Osaka, Japan
1987 Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan
1981 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1973 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2005 Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Tree, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA

Gary Winogrand and American Street Photographers Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Henry Wessel, foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Staedtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany

2004 About the House: From Architecture to the Domestic, Howard House, Seattle, WA

2001 Masterpieces of California Photography: Capturing Light, 1850-2000, Oakland Museum, CA

  Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA

  Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000,The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

  Depicting Absence/Implying Presence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

   Exurbia, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA

Blind Date, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
Show Time, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 Walker Evans & Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

  Ditto, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999-2000 MOMA 2000: Modern Starts: People, Places, Things, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1999 An American Century of Photography, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Pure Products of America, (three person show) Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Icons: Magnets of Meaning, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

  Backyards, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

  Rethinking Topographics, Gallery Ram, Santa Monica, CA

1996 Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1995 Facing Eden, 100 Years of Landscape Art, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Seeing Things: Photographs from1844 to 1995, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

1994 Gesture and Pose: Twentieth Century Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

   New Work, New Directions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1993 Critical Landscape, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
1991 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1989 Picturing California: A Century of Photographic Genius, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1987 Photographs from the Last Decade, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1984 Photography in California: 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1983 Twentieth Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY, and Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1981 American Landscapes: Photographs from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1975 New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Britain