HENRY WESSEL BORN 1942 Teaneck, New Jersey 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 2007 Die Photographische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany 2007 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 2007 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA 2004 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA 2002 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1998 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 2006 "The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now)," Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA 2005 "The Anniversary Show," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 "Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise," Palm Springs Art Museum, CA 2004 "Landscape," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003-2004 "The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now)," California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2003 "Scenery," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 "American Standard (Para) Normality and Everyday Life," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY 2001 "Masterpieces of California Photography: Capturing Light, 1850-2000," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 2001 "Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California," Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA 2001 "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000," The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2001 "Depicting Absence/Implying Presence," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2001 "Exurbia," Gallery Luisotti, San Monica, CA 2001 "Blind Date," Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY 2001 "Show Time," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 "Walker Evans & Company," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2000 "Ditto," James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999-2000 "MOMA 2000, Modern Starts: People, Places, Things," Museum of Modern Art, NY 1999 "An American Century of Photography," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1999 "Pure Products of America," (three person show) Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY 1997 "Icons; Magnets of Meaning," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1997 "Backyards," Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY 1997 "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, CA 1995 "Facing Eden, 100 Years of Landscape Art," de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 1995 "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 1994 "New Work, New Directions," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1993 "Critical Landscape," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan (catalogue) 1991 "Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1989 "Picturing California: A Century of Photographic Genius," Oakland Museum, CA 1987 "Photographs from the Last Decade," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 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, New York, 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, 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 California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside 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 International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Madison Art Center, Madison, WI Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 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 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 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Seagram Collection, New York, NY Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Los Angeles, CA Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Britain Return to Artist's Page