Walead Beshty
Born in London, England, 1976
Lives and works in Los Angeles CA
Education
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT, 2002
BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, 1999
Professorships
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA, 2008
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, 2007
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Addendum, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2021
Foreign Correspondence (October 1, 2012 - January 14, 2021), Galeria Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2020
Walead Beshty: Standard Deviations, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Industrial Portraits, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy
2019
Abstract of A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench, Petzel Gallery, New York NY
Three Pictures, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Walead Beshty, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2018
Aggregato, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
Equivalents, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2017
Open Source, Petzel Gallery, New York NY
Transparencies, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Automat, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Disponibles, Travesîa Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico
Walead Beshty, Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York NY
Walid AlBeshti, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2014
Marginalia, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Gastarbeiten, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
A Partial Disassembling of an Invention without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying around at Random All over the Workbench, Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, England
Performances Under Working Conditions, Petzel, New York NY
Selected Bodies of Work, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2013
Walead Beshty, 8 rue Saint-Bon, Paris, France
Fair Use, Power Station, Dallas TX
2012
Travel Pictures, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2011
PROCESSCOLORFIELD, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
A Diagram of Forces, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
A Diagram of Forces, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Securities and Exchanges, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Diapositives, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Legibility on Color Backgrounds, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Pulleys, Cogwheels, Mirrors, and Windows, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI
Popular Mechanics, Wallspace, New York NY
Passages, LAXART, Los Angeles CA
Production Stills, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2008
Science Concrète, China Art Objects Galleries / Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
Industrial Pictures, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2007
The Grey Cloth, Das Institut im Glaspavillon / Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany
2006
The Maker and the Model, Wallspace, New York NY
Hammer Project: Walead Beshty, EMBASSY! (a dismal science waiting room), Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
2005
Parks, Hotels & Palaces, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles CA
2004
The Body-Body Problem, Wallspace, New York NY
The Phenomenology of Shopping and Dead Malls, curated by Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY
Two and Three-Person Exhibitions
2014
Crystal Voyager, collaboration with Kelley Walker, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Hardbody Software, collaboration with Kelley Walker, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
2012
I’m thinking how happy I am: Lutz Bacher, Walead Beshty, Euan Macdonald, Western Bridge,
Seattle WA
2010
Later Layer, collaboration with Johnston Marklee Architects, Istituto Italiana di Cultura, Los Angeles CA
2009
Plug n Play, Walead Beshty & Karl Haendel, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
Walead Beshty, Karl Haendel, Patrick Hill, curated by Betty Nguyen, Noma Gallery, San Francisco CA
Walead Beshty, Kelley Walker, Christopher Williams, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles CA
2008
Walead Beshty & James Welling, The Suburban, Oak Park IL
Group Exhibitions
2024
Forthcoming: Space-Sight-Line, The Church Sag Harbor, Sag Harbor NY
THIS SIDE UP, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston TX
2023
All Crescendo, No Reward, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
2022
Sculptures, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York NY
A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920-2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Notes on Abstraction, Edition VFO, Zurich, Switzerland
2021
Inaspettatamente, Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
True Pictures?, Museum für Fotografie, Braunschweig, Germany [travelled to Kunstmuseum Wolfburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany]
There Is Always One Direction, de la Cruz Collection, Miami FL
If Time is Money, Are ATMs Time Machines?, Golden Eagle Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Cerámica Suro: A Story of Collaboration, Production, and Collecting in the Contemporary Arts, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Portable Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
Neo-Abstraction: Celebrating a Gift of Contemporary Art from John and Sara Shlesinger, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA
2020
Off Camera, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Terminal, curated by Aaron Lister, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Aotearoa, New Zealand
2021, Petzel Gallery, New York NY
La Photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès- Rouen, France
Downloadable, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, online exhibition
Community Board, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, online exhibition
The Technical Image, Capitan Petzel, Berlin, Germany, online exhibition
When We First Arrived, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington D.C.
Haptic Feedback, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2019
From Day to Day, de la Cruz Collection, Miami FL
Open House: Gala Porras-Kim, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Encountered Error, Société d’électricité, Brussels, Belgium
Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Triennale, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan
Second Hand, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, The United Arab Emirates
Occupational Hazards,curated by Alexandra Stock, apexart, New York NY
Out of the Box: Camera-less Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL
Baggage Claims, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN
Modus Operandi: Contemporary Photography from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa FL
2018
Media Networks, curated by Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern, London, England
More/Less, De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL, Miami FL
Tubologie: nos vies dans les tubes, curated by KVM, Ju Hyun Lee and Lodvic Burel, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, France
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum, Akron OH
Always Different, Always the Same: An Essay on Art and Systems, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland
une collection de photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL
Baggage Claims, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018, Fondation LUMA, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
2017
Murakami vs Murakami, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Force and Form, de la Cruz Collection, Miami FL
All the Names, curated by Rui Mateus Amaral, Scrap Metal, Toronto, Canada
Baggage Claims, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando FL
This Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Pivotal: Highglights from the Collection, Organe County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
EXIT, curated by Adam Carr, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York NY
100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art: The Barjeel Collection, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Black Magic, curated by Andreas Duscha, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Couleurs II, Galerie Robespierre, Grand-Synthe, France
UNPACKING: The Marciano Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles CA
2016
Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami FL
Abstract/Object, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
New Matter: Recent Forms of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Das Loch, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Show me your vital parts, Parts Project, The Hague, Netherlands
Surrogates, curated by Helga Pakasaar, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
The Artists’ Library, LAXART, Los Angeles CA
Fine Young Cannibals, Petzel Gallery, New York NY
Making & Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Pièces Meublés, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
Emanations: The Art of The Cameraless Photograph, curated by Geoffrey Batchen, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
The Natural Order of Things, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Space Between, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection —From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer—, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York NY
2015
All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
You've Got to Know the Rules ... to Break Them, De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami FL
Everything Must Go, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
Blind Architecture, curated by Douglas Fogle, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, curated byTodd Pavlisko, Cincinnati Arts Association’s Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati OH
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, New Skin, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Arrêter de me copier, FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkirk, France
The Art of Our Time, curated by Helen Molesworth, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Artists at Work, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
A Blind Man in His Garden, POOL at LUMA/Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH
Networked: Contemporary Art about Threads, Distance, History and Stories, Communities and Cabbage Storehouses, curated byNicolas Bourriaud,10th Kaunas Biennial, M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
No Place Like Home: Selections from the Sue and John Wieland Collection of Contemporary Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo UT
Old News (again), curated by Jacob Fabricius, Le Centre National Édition Art Image, Chatou, France
Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
An Imprecise Science, curated by Alexia Glass-Kantor with Talia Linz, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Atopolis, Wiels at Mons 2015, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Revelations: Experiments in Photography, Media Space, Science Museum, London, England
Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York NY
Works on Paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Linear Abstraction, curated by Alexandra Sachs and Aaron Levi Garvey, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA
Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia [travelled to: Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, Australia; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, Australia; Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, Australia; Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, Australia; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia; Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, Australia; Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, Australia]
2014
Melting Walls: The Babel Trilogy, curated by Sarit Shapira, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beneath the Surface, De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami FL
Blackout, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Looking at Process, De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami FL
A World of Its Own: Photographic Processes in the Studio, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Batalhão de Telegrafistas, curated by Fernando Oliva and Tobi Maier, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil
Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, curated by Joshua Chuang, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
Metal, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England
Trouble with the Index, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside CA
Comic Future, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH
2013
Le Futur commence ici, Frac Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France
Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
California Landscape into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa TX
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, curated by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. [travelled to: Musée d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria]
Elèves à l’oeuvre, Collège Victor Hugo, Somain, France
Somos Libres, MATE, Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru
Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiques: Department of Light Recordings: Section IV: Lens Drawings, curated by Jens Hoffman, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Lat. 41’ 7” N. Long. 72’ 19” W. curated by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, New York NY
Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
L’ange de l’Histoire, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
Fragile, Le Stanze del Vtro, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
POST, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pattern: Follow the Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI
0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
Correspondences, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes, with Johnston Marklee Architects, Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven CT
Walead Beshty: Untitled (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University: Waltham, Massachusetts, February 12–June 9, 2013), in conjunction with On the Matter of Abstraction (figs. A & B): Parallel Exhibitions of Post-War Non-Figurative Art from the Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
2012
The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach FL
Destroy Design–Modern Living, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Only part of us will ever touch parts of others, curated by Timothee Chaillou, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes, with JohnstonMarklee Architects, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
The Revolution Must Be Made Little by Little, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Inaugural Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
9th Shanghai Biennale 2012, Walead Beshty, Los Angeles Pavilion, Shanghai, China
OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Theatre of Thought, Bonnefantenmusem, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Ami Barak, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria
Troubling Space: The Summer Sessions, curated by Helga Just Christoffersen and Natasha Llorens, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Inside Out and From the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH
Abstract Everyday – Everyday Abstract, curated by Matthew Higgs, James Cohan Gallery, New York NY
When Attitudes Became Forms, Becomes Attitude, curated by Jens Hoffman, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA
Status, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Affective Turns?, organized by Phil Chang, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles CA
I Think and That is All I Am, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Out of Control, NEST, The Hague, the Netherlands
Devouring Time, Western Bridge, Seattle WA
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York NY
This Title is an Artwork of Mine: A Group Exhibition in a Book, curated by Mikkel Carl, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, Germany
2011
Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
Antidote 7, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France
Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries at the Henry Art Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
More American Photographs, curated by Jens Hoffman, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA [travelled to: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver CO; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH; California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside CA]
the boy who robbed you a few minutes before arriving at the ball, curated by Kelley Walker, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Elements of Chance, 2011 Montréal Biennale, Montréal, Canada
After Images, curated by Fionn Meade, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, University of Essex, Colchester, England
Black Swan: The Exhibition, curated by Dominic Sidhu, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City UT
Anti-Photography, curated by Duncan Woolridge, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, England
Catalogue of the Exhibition, curated by Bob Nickas, Triple V, Paris, France
2010
Accrochage #1, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Opéra de Lille, France
Bedtime for Bonzo, curated by Matthew Porter, M+B, Los Angeles CA
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Performance/Video, curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Pleated Blinds, curated by Ory Dessau, Petach Tikva Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Let’s Dance, Musee d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Vortexhibition Polyphonica: Opus III, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
On Mistakes, Restrictions, Failures—and other positive things, Gesellschaft Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro NC
One Fine Morning in May . . . , Gesellschaft Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
At Home / Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, curated by Matthew Higgs, Center for Curatorial Studies Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale- on-Hudson, NY
The Traveling Show, La Collección Júmex, Ecatepec, Mexico
I Want to See How You See, Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Performance/Video—curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, Barbara Kasten, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Photogenic, Blanket, Vancouver, Canada
De Rigueur, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
A Very, Very Long Cat, Wallspace, New York, NY
Bidoun Video 2010, Bidoun,Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2009
Radical Autonomy, Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
Noise, curated by Negar Azimi, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon
Proposal (Nacht Und Tråume) for Stavanger, curated by Vincent Honoré, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
Hyperborean Manners, Rob Tufnell, London, England
New Photography: 2009, curated by Eva Respini, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Radical Autonomy, curated by Arno van Roosmalen, Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art Contemporain, St. Nazaire, France
Prune – Abstracting Reality, curated by Kathy Ryan, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Elements of Photography, curated by Michael Green, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
October Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Because I Say So, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
FIVE: Walead Beshty, Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Sterling Ruby, and Kelley Walker, Baibakov Projects, Moscow, Russia
Still Revolution: Suspended in Time, curated by David Liss and Bonnie Rubenstein, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ontario, Canada
Our Mirage, Art:Concept, Paris, France
Phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Altermodern: The Tate Triennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, The Tate Britain, London, England
The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, Sculpture Center, Long Island City NY
A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
Photography in the Abstract, curated by Maureen Mahony, Lora Roberts Gallery, Austin TX
To Be Determined, Andrew Kreps, New York NY
The Photographic Object: between sculpture and photography, curated by Clare Grafik, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England
2008
Now You See It, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
Objects of Value, curated by Rene Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami FL
The World Is All That Is The Case, curated by Arthur Ou, Hudson Franklin, New York NY
2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Signs of the Time, curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
The Light of the Virgo, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles CA
the sickness of the hunting, curated by Gilbert Perlein, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Word Event (After George Brecht), curated by Maxine Kopsa and Roos Gortzak, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles Confidential, curated by Sandra Patron, Centre d’ Art Contemporain, San Léger, France
Open Sky, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria
No Room, curated by Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles CA
When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time, Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany
Please Stay Out We’re Open, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL
Whitney Biennial 2008, curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
Past-Forward—curated by Vincent Honoré, Project Space 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Le Retour, Nice & Fit, Berlin, Germany
The Unfair Fair, 1:1 Projects, Rome, Italy
2007
Two Years, Whitney Museum of Art, New York NY
From a Distance, curated by Vincent Honoré, Wallspace, New York NY
Meanwhile in Baghdad, curated by Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society, Chicago IL
I am Eyebeam, organized by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Anything You Want: Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, Annette Kelm, Pump House Gallery, London, England
88:88, The Project, New York NY
Concrete Works, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York NY
Radiant City, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles CA
Between Two Deaths, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Imaging & Imagining California, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA
The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life, curated by Peter Zellner, UCR Sweeney Gallery, Riverside CA
The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle and Renaud Proch, La Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico, and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Secretariat, curated by Geof Oppenheimer, Aftermodern, San Francisco CA
Out of Body, Level B Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York NY
Hammer Contemporary Collection Part I, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Spectral Evidence, curated by Steven Lam, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
World’s Largest Walkie Talkie Network, by Flora Wiegmann, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York NY
The California Biennial, curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Karen Moss, and Rita Gonzalez, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Studio City, curated by Efrat Shalem, Pescali & Sprovieri, London, England
Chaos or Control, curated by James Welling, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Dice Thrown (will never annul chance), curated by João Ribas and Becky Smith, Bellwether, New York NY
Walead Beshty, Roe Etheridge, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stephen Shore, Christopher Williams, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Bring the War Home, curated by Drew Heitzler, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York NY / QED, Los Angeles CA
Walead Beshty, Kim Fisher, John Pylypchuk, Pae White, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles CA
Studio City, curated by Efrat Shalem, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005
The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography, curated by Christina Kukielski, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Champion Fine Art: 2003–2005, curated by Drew Heitzler and Flora Wiegmann, Art 2102, Los Angeles CA
The Back Room, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, Los Angeles, CA
Rub out the Word, curated by Michael Wilson, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn NY
Gallery Exchange (with China Art Objects Galleries), Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Precious Moments, curated by Josh Kline, Joymore, Brooklyn NY
Post No Bills, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York NY
Bebe le Strange, curated by Rachel Uffner and Barb Choit, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY
Sugartown, Participant Inc., New York NY
Bucolica, Wallspace, New York NY
Walead Beshty, Sean Landers, Erlea Maneros, JP Munroe, and Andy Ouchi, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles CA
The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists, curated by Daniel Kunitz & João Ribas, Phillips, de Pury & Company, New York NY
What Once Passed for Future or Landscapes of the Living Dead, curated by Magali Arriola, Art 2102, Los Angeles CA
The February Show, curated by Chris Lipomi, Los Angeles CA
Manufactured Self, curated by Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL
2004
UPSTREAM: Idea Drawings, curated by Chris Lipomi, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Inaugural Exhibition, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles CA
Buy American, curated by Joe Scanlan, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Cool Intentions, curated by Alex Israel, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles CA
Behind Closed Doors, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY
Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, curated by Rachel R. Lafo, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA
2003
Photography For People; For Us, Wallspace, New York, NY
Ad Hoc Artists Committee to End Israeli West-Bank Occupation, Knitting Factory, New York NY
Anti-Social, curated by Mark Wyse, Wallspace, New York NY
Control, Escape, Delete, curated by David Hilliard, Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City MO
Photo ID, curated by Titia Hulst, Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY
Special Projects
2018
Special skateboard editions to support the work of The Skateroom, NGO Skateistan, and The Rural Changemakers
2016
Special commission, RxArt, Center for Advanced Care at Adocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Project, “ . . . ,” for the publication “House Is a House Is a House Is a House: Architectures and Collaborations of Johnston Marklee,” ed. Reto Geiser, Berlin: Birkhäuser
2015
Symposium, Step into Liquid: Art and Art-History in the Post-Fordist Era—organized by Walead Beshty, with Rachel Heidenry and Eloise Maxwell on the occasion of Walead Beshty, Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY. Panel 1: Digitalization and the Aesthetics of Distribution; moderator: Tim Griffin, speakers: Claire Bishop, Bettina Funcke, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Ruba Katrib. Panel 2: Performativity and Methodology; moderator: Janet Kraynak, speakers: Alexander Alberro, Alex Kitnick, Robert Slifkin, and Christopher Wood.
Old News #9.5, Walead Beshty, Old News is a newsprint edition presenting a selection of articles and pictures from newspapers and magazines by international artist. Published on the occasion of Old News (again)—curated by Jacob Fabricius, Le Centre National Édition Art Image, Chatou, France.
2010
Day & Night—curated by Charlotte Sprogoe and Jesper Elg, public works group exhibition (in conjunction with the Danish Arts Council and the Municipality of Copenhagen on the occasion of the 2010 Copenhagen Photo Festival), Copenhagen, DenmarkSite-specific billboard installations
2009
Billboard Project, Dust (2007–2008), 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, March 16–April 18, 2009, Los Angeles, California, 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CASite-specific billboard at 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA (in conjunction with Passages, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA)
Docent Workshop, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.Workshop with museum docents creating cyanotype photograms on the grounds of the Sculpture Garden (in conjunction with Legibility on Color Backgrounds, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.)
2006
Film Screening, “24 hour Armageddon: A Cold War Slumber Party,” Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2006), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007), Kadist Foundation, Paris, France (2007), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2008), Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2012), Power Station, Dallas, TX (2013)
24-hour screening of post-apocalyptic films from the Cold War-era
Curation
2018
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018, Fondation LUMA, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
2017
Picture Industry, Bard CCS Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
2016
Picture Industry, Systematically Open? New Forms for Contemporary Image Production, Fondation LUMA, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
2014
A Machinery for Living, Petzel, New York NY
Organized project in collaboration with Kelley Walker, under the auspices of Again, Once Again, Many Times More, curated by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY
2013
On the Matter of Abstraction (figs. A & B): Parallel Exhibitions of Post-War Non-Figurative Art from the Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, in collaboration with Rose Art Museum Director Christopher Bedford
Blind Spot Magazine, No. 46, guest editor
2010
Sunless, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2007
There is Always a Background / CMYK, curated project of magazine based works for Cabinet Magazine, Fall
2006
The Gold Standard—co-curated with Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY
2005
Invisible Hands and The Common Good, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
Public Collections
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Francis Lehmann Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Miami Museum of Art, Miami FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York NY
Pérez Art Museum Miami FL
Rose Art Museum, Brandies University, Waltham MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Tate, London, England
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI
United States Department of State Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
