born 1947 in New York, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Project Room: Stephen Shore, Instagram
303 Gallery, NYC

2019
Stephen Shore, Sprüth Mager, Los Angeles, California, USA
Master of Photography: Stephen Shore, Photo London, London, UK

2017
Stephen Shore, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2016
Stephen Shore, C/O, Berlin, GER
Stephen Shore, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, NL
Stephen Shore, Camera, Centro Italiano per Fotografia, Turin, IT

2015
Stephen Shore, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Gijón, March 26 – June 14, 2015
Espace Van Gogh, Les Recontres d’Arles, Arles, July 6 – September 20, 2015
This retrospective, organized by the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, is the largest retrospective exhibition ever mounted of Stephen Shore’s work. The exhibition spans a body of work beginning in 1960 (some of Shore’s earliest photographs), to more recent work shot in 2013. The show will travel to Arles, Berlin, Turin, and Amsterdam. The catalog is available in Spanish, English, French, German, and Italian editions.
Stephen Shore, Warhol Underground, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, July 1 – November 23, 2015
Stephen Shore, Hyper America/Landscape – image – reality, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, April 10 – August 30, 2015
Stephen Shore, This Place, Tel Aviv Museum of Art May 14 – September 6, 2015
Stephen Shore, Jane and Louise Wilson, Conflict, Time, Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, April 10 – July 5, 2015

2002
The Velvet Years, Städtisches Museum am Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Stephen Shore Unpublished Uncommon Places 1973–1978, CONRADS, Duesseldorf (cat.)

2001
Stephen Shore Uncommon Places, CONRADS Düsseldorf

2000
303 Gallery, NYC
The Velvet Years, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia

1999/2000
American Surfaces, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany (1999)
catalog: Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, Germany (2000)

1998/1999
Stephen Shore: Photographs, 1973-1993
CRAF, Villa Cini, Spilinbergo, Italy (1998)
Galeria D’Arte Contemporeneo di Comune di Venezia
Musei Comunali, Rimini, Italy
Palazzo Civico, Rubiera, Italy
Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (1999)

1997
Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Photographic Resource Center, Boston

1996
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

1995
Stephen Shore: Photographs, 1973-1993
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, catalog
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
PaceWildensteinMacGill, NYC

1992
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

1990
Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France

1985
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson

1984
Art Institute of Chicago

1983/1989
Pace/MacGill Gallery, NYC

1982
Arco Center for the Visual Arts, L.A.

1981
Ringling Museum, Sarasota
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

1980
LIGHT Gallery, L.A.

1977
Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
1976
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington

1972/73/75/77/78/80
LIGHT Gallery, NYC

1971
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Radical Space, Center for Contemporary Ar5t Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO, Italy
American Photography, Albertina, Vienna
slowly bathing in almost still waters, Jiri Svestka Prague, Prague

2020
Festival Images Vevey 2020, Vevey, Switzerland
Velvetnirvana, Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, Portugal
Alien Landscape, 303 Gallery, New York, USA
Joint Gesture, CONRADS, Düsseldorf, Germany

2019
Land__Scope: Photographic works from Roni Horn to Thomas Ruff in the DZ BANK Art Collection, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, GER
The World Exists to Be Put On A Postcard: artists’ postcards from 1960 to now, British Museum, London, UK
This Place, Jewish Museum, Berlin, GER

2018
American Dream. American Realism 1965-2017, Kunsthalle Emden, GER
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
The Flaneur: From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, GER

2016
This Place, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Magical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK
An Agreeable State of Uncertainty, Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, CAN

2015
HyperAmerica, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
This Place, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Conflict, Time, Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
The Order of Things, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
In the Garden, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Warhol Underground, Centre Pompidou Metz, France

2014
Constructing Worlds, Barbican Art Centre, London
This Place, DOX, Prague [Traveling to Tel Aviv Museum, Brooklyn Museum]
Time, Conflict, Photography, Tate Modern, London
Edward Hopper and Photography, Whitney Museum of Art. NYC
Only The Good Ones:The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

2013
Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America, Milwaukee Art Museum
More American Photographs, Wexner Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Everyday Epiphanies, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA

2012
Installation from the photography collection, MoMA, NYC

2011
More American Photographs, Wattis Art Museum, San Francisco
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, Art Institute of Chicago

2010
Starburst, Cincinnati Museum of Art; Princeton Art Museum
New Topographics, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; LA County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam.

2009
Into the Sunset, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Edward Hopper & Co., Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Shoot, Parco, Tokyo, Japan

2008
When Color Was New, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Mobile Art, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York

2007
Installation from the photography collection, MoMA, NYC
Hidden in Plain Sight, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Second View: Amerikanische Fotografie, Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg, Germany
Views – In Passing, from 1930 until Today, Albertina, Vienna

2006
Installation of the photography collection, MoMA, NYC
On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Trans Emilia, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Where We Live, Getty Museum, LA

2005
The American Dream, Kunsthalle Manheim, Germany
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2005, Photographers’ Gallery, London
Trans Emilia, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2004
Social Creatures, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Inside Out, Whitney Museum, NYC
Arti & Architectura 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa

2003
Cruel and Tender the Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London/ Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat.)

2000
How You Look at It, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany (cat.)
Identificazione di un Paesaggio, Vega Parco Scientifico Technilogico, Marghera, Italy
Places as Landscape, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Settings & players White Cube Jay Jopling, London

1999
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, NYC
Andy Warhol: Photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
The American Century, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum, New York
The Promise of Photography, P.S.1, New York
Photographic Innovators, 1840s-1990s, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1998
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Andy Warhol: A Factory, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria;
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium;
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (1999)

1997
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Capturing Time, J. Paul Getty Museum, LA

1996
Breuer\\’s Whitney, Whitney Museum, NYC

1995
American Studies, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich

1992
Flora Photographica, South Bank Art Centre, London

1991
The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, NYC (traveling)

1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, National Gallery, Washington, DC; Art Institute of Chicago

1987
Nuovo Paesaggio Americano, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

1985
American Images, 1945 -1980, Barbican Gallery, London
Images of Excellence. Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection (traveling)

1982
Counterparts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC [traveling]
International Photography, 1920 – 1980, Austrailian National Gallery, Canberra

1980
Mirrors and Windows, Museum of Modern Art, NYC [traveling]
American Images, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; International Center of Photography, NYC;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
Acquisitions 1973 – 1980, George Eastman House, Rochester

1979
American Photography in the 70\\’s, Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

1977
Court House, MoMA & Art Institute of Chicago

1976
100 Master Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (traveling)

1975
New Topographics, George Eastman House, Rochester [traveling]

1973
Landscape/Cityscape, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C.; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C.; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C.; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Louisville Art Museum, KY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; The Art Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., N.Y.C,; Atlantic Richfield Corporation, L.A.; Chase Manhattan Bank, N.Y.C.; DG Bank, Frankfurt, Germany; Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA; Seagram Collection, N.Y.C.; Siemens, Munich, Germany; Sohio Corporation, Cleveland, OH.

BOOKS
Stephen Shore Uncommon Places 50 Unpublished Photographs, Verlag der Galerie Conrads, Duesseldorf/Edition Mennour, Paris, 2002
American Surfaces, Stephen Shore, Schirmer/Mosel, 1999
The Nature of Photographs, Stephen Shore, Johns Hopkins, 1998
The Velvet Years: Warhol\\’s Factory, 1965-1967, Stephen Shore, Thunder\\’s Mouth, 1995
Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973-1993, intro. by James Enyeart, Schirmer/Mosel
Stephen Shore: Luzzara, Stephen Shore, Arcadia Edizioni,1993
The Gardens at Giverny, Stephen Shore, Aperture, 1983
Uncommon Places, Stephen Shore, Aperture, 1982
Andy Warhol, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1968

PUBLICATIONS (6 OR MORE PLATES)
Cruel and Tender, The Real in Twentieth-Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London / Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2003
Artist Project Stephen Shore in Tate Arts and Culture, may/june 2003
How You Look at It, Thomas Weski and Heinz Liesbrock, Thames and Hudson, 2000
Indentificazione di un Paesaggio, Sandro Mescola, Silvana Editoriale, 2000
Andy Warhol: Photography, Christoph Heinrich, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1999
Andy Warhol, A Factory, Germano Celant, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 1998
Edward Hopper und die Fotographie, G.-W. Költzsch & H. Liesbrock, DuMont, 1992
Nuovo Paesaggio Americano , Paolo Constantini, ed., Edizioni Electa, 1987
American Independents, Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, 1987
The Capitol in Albany, intro. by William Kennedy, Aperture, 1986
Architecture in Continuity, Sherban Cantacuzino, ed., Aperture, 1985
New Color/New Work, Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, 1984
Annie on Camera, Anne Hoy, Abbeville Press, 1982
The New Color Photography, Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, 1981
“The Framing of Stephen Shore”, Tony Hiss, American Photographer, Feb. 1979
American Images, Renato Danese, ed., McGraw/Hill, 1979
Court House, Richard Pare, ed., Horizon Press, 1978
Photography Year/1977, Time-Life Books, 1977
“Stephen Shore”, Camera, Jan. 1976