Richard Misrach

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Los Angeles, California, 1949

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
Petrochemical America, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA

2013
Richard Misrach, The Pace Gallery-Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York City, NY

2012
The Desert Cantos, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach's Cancer Alley, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach's Cancer Alley, Canto Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Petrochemical America: Project Room, Aperture Foundation, NY

2011
Richard Misrach, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by Richard Misrach, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by Richard Misrach, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Richard Misrach: Photographs from the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

2010
UNTITLED (New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 2005), New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Richard Misrach: After Katrina, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Richard Misrach, Pace MacGill, New York, NY

2009
On the Beach, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Richard Misrach, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008
On the Beach, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
On the Beach, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Richard Misrach, Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
On the Beach, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2006
Richard Misrach: Chronologies, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Richard Misrach: Chronologies, Pace MacGill Gallery, New York, NY

2005
On the Beach, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Richard Misrach, Pace MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
Richard Misrach, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003
Richard Misrach, Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002
Richard Misrach, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Battleground Point, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

2001
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Skies & Heavenly Bodies, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Skies & Heavenly Bodies, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England

1999
Golden Gate Bridge Studies: View from My Front Porch, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Diputacion De Granada, Spain
Richard Misrach: Golden Gate, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998
Nuclear Legacies, Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, MA
Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Heavenly Bodies, Katherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1997
Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
New Work: Heavenly Bodies, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Skies & Heavenly Bodies, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Selections from the Desert Cantos, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selections from the Desert Cantos, Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA

1996
Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Skies, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Misrach: 17 Photographs, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings / Playboys, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

1995
Richard Misrach, International Festival For The Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Desert Canto XVIII: Skies, James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY (with Robert Mann Gallery)
Desert Canto XII: Clouds (non-equivalents), Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Salt Flats / Clouds, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY (with Robert Mann Gallery)
Dead Animals, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY
Pictures of Paintings, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994
Desert Canto XVIII: Skies, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Clouds, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
Clouds, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992
Desert Canto XII: Clouds (non-equivalents), Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Misrach: Photographs, Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Richard Misrach: The Playboys, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991
Bravo 20: A National Park Proposal, Ansel Adams Center, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
Bravo 20: A National Park Proposal, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Bravo 20: A National Park Proposal, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Bravo 20: A National Park Proposal, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Desert Canto XI: The Playboys, Fotomann Inc, New York, NY
Richard Misrach: The Figure and the Landscape, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Bravo 20: A National Park Proposal, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (traveling)
The Playboys, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selections from the Desert Cantos, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Pit, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
The Pit, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (traveling)
Desert Canto VI: The Pit, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England (traveling)

1989
The Pit, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
The Pit, Fotomann Inc, New York, NY
The Pit, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Richard Misrach: Photographs of the American Desert, Toledo Museum of Art, OH
Mark Klett / Richard Misrach, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

1988
Richard Misrach: Desert Cantos, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selections from Six Cantos, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Richard Misrach: 1975-1987, Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan
Desert Flood / Desert Seas, Jan Kesner Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Misrach, Las Palmas Museum of Art, Mallorca, Spain
Richard Misrach: Photographs of the American Desert, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Richard Misrach: Photographs of the American Desert, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Desert Cantos, National Gallery of Art, Wellington New Zealand (traveling)
Richard Misrach: Photographs of the American Desert, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Desert Cantos, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Richard Misrach, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Richard Misrach: Photographs of the American Desert, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

1987
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (traveling)
Richard Misrach: Photographs of the American Desert, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Richard Misrach: Photographs of the American Desert, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1986
Richard Misrach: Four Cantos, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
The Watson Gallery, Houston, TX

1985
Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, MN
Richard Misrach: Recent Work, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Richard Misrach: Recent Work, Light Gallery, New York, NY
Martin Gallery, Washington, DC

1984
Richard Misrach: A Decade of Photography, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Richard Misrach: Color Desert Landscapes, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1983
Richard Misrach: Recent Desert Photographs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1982
Guadalajara 82, Madrid, Spain

1981
Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1980
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1979
Richard Misrach: Night Desert Photographs, Musée National d' Art Moderne, Centre National d' Arts, Paris, France
Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1978
University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, OR

1977
Richard Misrach: Night Photographs, ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Misrach: Night Work, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1976
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1975
Two Views from the West: Roger Minick & Richard Misrach, ICP, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Gorgeous, Asia Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

2013
Un/Natural Color, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2012
Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado

2011
Face of Our Time, University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI
Museum of Desires, Ludwig Museum, Vienna, Austria
The Life and Death of Buildings, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
HERE, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA
Face of our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
ECO-ART, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland

2010
Art In Embassies, US Embassy, Paris, France
Disquieting Images, Milano Trieannale, Milano, Italy
Starburst, Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
In the Vernacular, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2009
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2008
Atomic Afterimage, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Sand: Shifting Boundaries/ Mutable Meanings, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

2007
Art in Embassies, United States Embassy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
On The Beach, Photology, Milano, Italy
Hot + Bothered: Looking at the Landscape, Thinking About the World, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
The Show on Vegas, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquire Pictures XIX, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006
Step Into Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco, CA

2005
Contemporary Desert Photography, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2004
Seventies Color Photography, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, NY

2003
Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970s To Now, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Rocks & Stones, Eugenio de Almeida Foundation, Evora, Portugal
Rocks & Stones, Photography Archive of the City of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

2002
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Art Downtown: Wall Street, New York, NY
The Culture of Violence: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2001
Photography & Perception: Exploring the Western Landscape, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1998
SEGRAP, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Light as Substance, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Works in Progress, The James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY
The Paving of Paradise, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

1997
The Great Outdoors, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
American Art Today: The Garden, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
The Heart Doesn't Break, It Stretches, Blind Spot, New York, NY

1996
Perpetual Mirage: The Desert West in Photographic Books & Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

1995
Pulp Fact, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England
Art Museum, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Seeing Things, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography (Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection), The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Landscape as Metaphor, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

1993
From Destruction to Reclamation: Art and the Environment in the Nineties (Bravo 20 National Park Installation), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Between Heaven and Home, National Museum of American Art, Smithonian Institution
Konstruktion Zitat, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, ICP, New York, NY

1992
This Sporting Life: 1878-1991, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

1991
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Nuclear Matters, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990
Whitney Museum Annex, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Myth of the West, Henry Art Gallery, WA

1989
L'Invention d'un Art, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Landscape As Thought: Lita Albuquerque & Richard Misrach, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Decade By Decade, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Fire Sites, Columbia College, New York, NY
Picturing California: A Century of Photographic Genius, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1986
Visions of the West, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ (traveling)

1985
Focus: Santa Barbara, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Mark Klett & Richard Misrach, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
An Eloquent Light: American Photography from 1945-1980, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England

1984
New Acquisitions: Recent Color, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Photography in California: 1945-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (traveling)
Construire Les Paysages de la Photographie, Metz, France
Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1982
California Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Flash: The Work of Diane Arbus, Weegee, Harold Edgerton, Mark Cohen, Larry Fink & Richard Misrach, R.I.T., Rochester, NY
American Landscape: Robert Adams, Paul Caponigro, Linda Connor & Richard Misrach, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

1981
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Landscape Photographers and America's National Parks: A Symbiosis (sponsored by National Parks Foundation), Washington, DC (traveling)

1980
Recent Color Photography, Stewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
Richard Misrach / Debra Bloomfield, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England
Photography's Recent Directions, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1979
Attitudes, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
American Images: New Work by Twenty American Photographers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (traveling)
Color: A Spectrum of Recent Photography — Part II: The Romantic Vision & Beyond, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Beyond Color, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1978
Mirrors & Windows, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (traveling)
Photographers in Mexico, Museo Nacional de Historia y de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico

1977
Night Landscape, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Summer Light, Light Gallery, New York, NY
Young American Photography, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (traveling)
Contemporary West Coast Photography, Australian Center for Photography (traveling)
Contemporary Photography, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

1973
Places, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX
ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Center National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Consolidated Freightways, Inc
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
de Menil Foundation, Houston, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Georgia Department of Power, Atlanta, GA
Gilman Paper Company, New York, NY
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
IBM, San Jose, CA
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Kalamazoo Institute for Fine Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seagram's, New York, NY
Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Shadai Gallery, Tokyo College of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Shaklee Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, IL
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Weatherspoon Art Musuem, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Western Electric, Chicago, IL