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James Welling

James Welling pushes the limits of photography with his continued exploration of the medium. Since the mid 1970’s he has explored photographic representation using an exhaustive range of photographic technologies and processes. Welling has created traditional gelatin silver prints, chromogenic prints, Polaroids, and digital pigment prints using cameras ranging from an 8 x 10 view camera to a digital point and shoot. In his recent photograms, he has used no camera at all.


Welling's work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others. He was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and in Documenta IX in 1992.

Born 1951
Hometown Hartford, CT
Lives and Works Los Angeles, CA
Education
MFA/BFA, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA, 1974
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1971
Permanent Collection

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Representing Galleries

David Zwirner, New York, NY
Donald Young, Chicago, IL
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan / Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Gallerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
Maureen Paley, London, England
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

SHOWS

Marian Goodman Gallery

Paris
Jan 25 2017 - Mar 02 2017

James Welling

Elizabeth Dee

New York
Oct 29 2016 - Dec 17 2016

Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment

CLAMP

New York
Jul 25 2016 - Sep 03 2016

Everything’s Coming Up Roses!

Yancey Richardson Gallery

New York
Jul 14 2016 - Aug 20 2016

LUX

Frac Ile-de-France

Paris
Apr 02 2016 - Apr 10 2016

De toi à la surface Avec

David Zwirner


Nov 18 2015 - Jan 30 2016

Choreograph
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