James Casebere

The artist

Born in 1953 in Michigan, USA, James Casebere lives and works in New York. The work produced by this pioneer of staged photography is a poetic commentary on our society, never referring to a clearly identifiable reality. The artist works using models, imaginary and standardised reconstructions of familiar buildings that he painstakingly creates in his studio then uses as the basis for his photographs. His images can have a paradoxical effect, their visual beauty often arousing feelings of discomfort and emptiness.

Exhibitions

On the Water’s Edge

January 11 - March 7, 2020
Paris - Beaubourg
Emotional Architecture

March 1 - April 14, 2018
Brussels
New Works

February 27 - April 12, 2014
Brussels
House

February 26 - April 9, 2011
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg
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November 8 > December 31, 2008
Paris - Beaubourg
Photographies récentes

June 4 - July 23, 2005
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in 1953 in Lansing, Michigan, USA
Residence	Lives and works in New York, USA
Education	1979 M.F.A., California Institute of Arts, California 1977 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, New York 1976 B.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minnesota 1971–73 Michigan State University, Michigan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2020	On the Water’s Edge, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2019	Built Images, Sean Kelly, Taipei, Taiwan On the Water’s Edge, Sean Kelly, New York
2018	Emotional Architecture, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium James Casebere, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
2017	James Casebere, Helga de Alvear Gallery, Madrid, Spain Emotional Architecture, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2016	After Scale Model : Dwelling in the Work of James Casebere, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium Fugitive, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2014	James Casebere, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia James Casebere, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium James Casebere : Scales and Dimensions, Cornell University, USA
2013	James Casebere, Selected Works 1995 – 2005, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

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2012	James Casebere, Architecture : entre illusion et nécessités, Rencontres d’Arles, Abbaye de Montmajour, France
2011	James Casebere, House, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Tunnels, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy Credit, Faith, Trust, Lisson Gallery, London, UK James Casebere : Photographies, Collégiale Notre Dame de Riberac, Riberac, France James Casebere : Enter Into, Galerie Pfriem, Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France
2010	House, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA NISJames Casebere, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2008	James Casebere, Galerie Templon, Paris, France Reality Check : Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zeland Gallery Ihn, Seoul, South Korea Galleria Marabini, Bologna & Milan, Italy
2007	James Casebere : The Levant, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA James Casebere : The Levant, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
2005	James Casebere, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France James Casebere, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2004	Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2003	James Casebere : mutable, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA James Casebere, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2002	James Casebere, SECCA, Winston Salem, ÉTATS-UNIS (traveling exhibition to Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Quebec, Canada James Casebere, Bernier Eliades Gallery, Athènes, Greece Picture Show – James Casebere, MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
2001	James Casebere, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA The Architectural Unconscious : James Casebere and Glen Seator, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia, USA Gallerie Tanit, Munich, Germany 2000 Lisson Gallery, London, UK The Architectural Unconscious : James Casebere and Glen Seator, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, USA James Casebere, Grant Selwyn, Beverly Hills, USA Prison/Dormitory/Dayroom : a collaborative project with students of S.M.U. at the Mac, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, USA 1999 Asylum, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK puis Centro Galego de Arte, Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela and Sainsbury Centre for Photography, Norwich, UK James Casebere : New Photographs, Windows Gallery, Brussels, Belgium James Casebere : Self Constructed Realities : 1975-1990, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA 1998 James Casebere : New Works, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany 1997 Jean Bernier, Athènes, Greece Angel Ho, New York, USA Windows Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA 1996 James Casebere : Model Culture, Photographs, 1975-1996. The Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, USA Galleria Galliani, Genoa, Italy Lisson Gallery, London, Great Britain, UK S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1995 Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA 1994 Galleria Galliani, Genoa, Italy Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA 1993 Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA 1991 Model Fictions : The Photographs of James Casebere, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, UK Gallerij Bruges La Morte, Bruges, Belgium James Hockey Gallery, WSCAD, Farnham, UK Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA James Casebere and Tony Oursler collaboration, Kunststichting Kanaal, Kortrijk, Belgium Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, USA The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, USA 1990 Galleria Facsimilie, Milan, Italy Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA Urbi et Orbi, Paris, France Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA 1989 Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Bruges, Belgium Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, USA The University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, USA 1988 Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Pennsylvania Station, New York, USA 1987 303 Gallery, New York, USA Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1985 Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, USA 1984 Diane Brown Gallery, New York, USA Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA 1983 St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island, USA 1982 EPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA 1981 Franklin Furnace, New York, USA 1979 Artists’ Space, New York, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023	Contours du Réel, Topographie de l’art, Paris, France
2022	Architectures impossibles, Musée des Beaux-arts, Nancy, France Exodes, Saint Raphaël, France
2021	Space Oddity, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2020	Blue., Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, USA Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2019	Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, USA Fiction & Fabrication: Architectural Photography after the Digital Revolution, Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal La stanza Analoga, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Paradise Lost, Gazing at Contemporary Urban Civilization and its Metaphor, Ludwig Galerie Saarlouis, Saarland, Germany Tableau and Transformation: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA
2018	Image Building : How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parish Art Museum ; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
2017	Window to Wall : Art from Architecture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA 11 artists through time, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Artists and Architecture : Projection/Convergence/Intersection, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA Ways of Seeing, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey

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2016	Still/Moving : Photographs and Video Art from the De Woody Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia With Open Eyes, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
2015	By the Book, Sean Kelly, New York, USA David Adjaye : Form, Heft, Material, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2014	Lifelike, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona HOMELAND [IN]SECURITY : VANISHING DREAMS, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA Me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany Disturbing Innocence, The Flag Art Foundation, curated by Eric Fischl, New York, USA No Place (Like Home), The University of Queensland Museum of Art, Brisbane, Australia Disturbing Innocence, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA
2013	Lifelike, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA
2012	James Casebere and Leandro Erlich : Lifelike, The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA James Casebere Architecture : entre illusion et nécessités Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Room in My Head : Staging Psychological Spaces, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA 20 in 2011, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Parcours : Songe d’une nuit d’été, Fragments d’un discours onirique, Domaine National de Chambord, Chambord, France Parcours : Songe d’une nuit d’été, Le somnambule, Centre d’Art la Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc, Thouars, France Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2011	After the Gold Rush : Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Conversations, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA Mannerism and Modernism : The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA Open Frame, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France Otherwordly, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, USA
2010	Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 15 ans de photographie, Galerie Alain le Gaillard, Paris, France Exposició al CCCB, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain Haunted : Contemporary Photography/Video Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA the 21st Century, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2009	Alternate Reality, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA Into the Sunset : Photography’s Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Pictures Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Paesagi dell’Invisibile, Galleria Traghetto, Rome, Italy Vague Terrain : Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, FLAG ART Foundation, USA
2008	Espèces d’espace, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France Extraordinary Rendition, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain Academia : Qui es-tu ?, Chapelle de l’Ecole nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France Aspects of Contemporary Color Photography, Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale, New York, USA Depletion : Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Invisible Rays : The Surrealism Legacy, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA Reality Check : Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Signs of the Time, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2007	Facade, Architecture, Space, Cook Fine Art, New York, USA Imagination becomes Reality, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany Art in the USA : 300 Years of Innovation, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain 2006 Extra-Ordinary : The Everyday Object in American Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA Second Biennale Internationale d’Art Contemporain de Seville, Seville, Spain Before the Camera, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA Helga de Alvear - Concepts for A Collection, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brasil New York, New York : Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Sublime Embrace : Experiencing Conciousness in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, USA Suspension, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, USA 2005 Bidibidobidiboo : Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Damage Done, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada Lux, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Melancholia, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Minimal in Architectural : Photography from the Origins to Present Day, Galerie 54, Paris, France Mirada Y Conceptos En La Collecion Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Art Contemporaneo, Badajos, Spain Mixed Meanings, Hidden Messages : Selection from the Wake Forest, University Art Collections, Charlotte & Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA Pictures, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea 2004 For Presentation and Display : Some Art of the 80s, Princeton University Museum, Princeton, USA Architecture Untethered, Numark Gallery, Washington, USA Dream Weavers, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA Architecture & Arts 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy Democratic Victory, Phillips, New York, USA Light and Atmosphere, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA Photography : Candida Hofer, Elger Esser, James Casebere, Baltimore, USA Sets + Situations, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, USA 2003 Faking Real, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA Whiteness, a Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, USA Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Spatial Emotion in Art and Architecture, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Palazzo delle liberta, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Conemporanea, Siena, Italy Arquitecturas Excéntricas, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain Constructed Realities, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA upon reflection...., Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA 2002 Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Cardinales, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain Doors : Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, USA Constructed Realities, curated by Barbara Bloemink, Grand Arts, Kansas City, USA Retrospectacle : 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, USA Visions from America : Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 2001 Images au Centre 01: Trompe l’oeil, Domaine national de Chambord, Chambord, France Realidad Construida, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain Size Matters, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA A Private Reading : The Book as Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, USA Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France Photo-Synthesis ; Recent Developments in Contemporary Photography, commissaire d’exposition : Donald Maxwell, Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, FL ; travelled to Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, USA Building, Dwelling, Thinking, Judy Goldman Fine Art, Boston, USA 2000 Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA Flash-Back, Barbara Farber/La Serre, Trets, France Open Ends : Architecture Hot and Cold, Sets and Situations, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Staged and Manipulated : Photographic Fictions from St Louis Collections, St Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA Making Pictures : Contemporary American Photography, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, USA Inside Out : Reality or Fiction?, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA Architectural Constructs in Contemporary Photography, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA Supermodel, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA Staged : Constructions of Reality in Contemporary Photography, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, USA James Casebere, Anna Gaskell, Jitka Hanzlova, Tim Macmillan, Tracey Moffat, The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2000, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK The Constructed Real : Photographs of non-existent places, Elias Fine Art, Allston, USA Insites : Interior Space in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, USA 1999 Full Exposure : Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, USA Built, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, USA James Casebere, Thomas Struth, Boyd Webb, George Lappas, Juan Muñoz, Thomas Schütte, Moshekwa Langa, Yan Pei-Ming, Cordy Ryman, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece Photography : An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA puis Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Nature of Light, Contemporary Art Museum, Venice, Italy Blind Spot, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, USA Mumia 911, PPOW, New York, USA Hindsight, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 1998 Blade Runner, Caren Golden Gallery, New York, USA A Sense of Place, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Then and Now, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Still...., Laurent Delay Gallery, London, UK Claustrophobia : disturbing the domestic in contemporary art, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (exposition itinérante) Where : Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT, USA Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, USA PhotoImage : Printmaking 60s to 90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA ; puis Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Internality Externality, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA Utz, Lennon, Weiner Inc., New York, USA Architectures en Jeux, Frac Centre, Orléans, France Embedded Metaphor ; commissaire d’exposition : Nina Felshin ; exposition itinérante ; John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota FL, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, Erza and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA 1997 Architecture as Metaphor, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Selections From the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Within These Walls, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK Portraits of Interiors, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Making it Real, Independent Curators Incorporated ; exposition itinérante ; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT, Kjarvaisstadir, Listastasafn Reykjavikur, The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Islande, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA Elsewhere, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA A Summer Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA Photographs & Prints, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, USA The Luminous Image, Alternative Museum, New York, USA Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA 1996 This is a Set Up : Fab Photo/Fiction, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria New Fall Faculty, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Harvard, USA Selections from the Niseson Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA After Dark : Nocturnal Images, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA Embedded Metaphor, Independent Curators Incorporated ; traveling show The House Transformed, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA McDowell Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and the Art Gallery at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA Campo, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy ; puis Torino, Italy, and Konstmuseum, Malmo, Sweden 1995 4 Photographers, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA Prison Sentences : The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, USA Artistes/Architects, Institute d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France ; puis Kunstverein, Munich, Germany ; Centre Culurel de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal ; Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria 1994 Building Dwelling Thinking : A Group Exhibition, Lowinsky Gallery, New York, USA Forecast : Shifts in Direction, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM House Rules, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, USA Imagini d’Affezione, Castello Monumentali di Lerici, Lerici, Italy Stilled Pictures-Still Life, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA The Subject is Architecture, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA 1993 American Made : The New Still–Life, Isetan Museum of Art and Hokkaido Obihito Museum of Art, Japan. Puis Royal College of Art, London, UK Collecting for the 21st Century : Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA Fabricated Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA From New York : Recent Thinking in Contemporary Photography, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA Kurswechsel, Michael Klein Gallery at Transart Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany Sampling the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA 1992 Interpreting the American Dream, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria. Puis Galerij ames van Damme, Antwerp, Belgium More Than One Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Une seconde pensée du paysage, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Locmine, France 1991 1986-1991: 5 Jaar De Lege Ruimte, Galerie de Lege Ruimte, Bruges, Belgium Constructing Images : Synapse Between Photography and Sculpture, Lieberman & Saul, New York, USA Puis Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa ; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson ; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1990 Anninovanta, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College and Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA The Liberated Image : Fabricated Photography Since 1970, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA Nightlights, APAC Centre d’Art Contemporain, Nevers, France 1989 Altered States, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, USA Beyond Photography, Krygier Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, USA New York Artists, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, USA Das Konstruierte Bild, Fotographie-Arrangiert und Inzeniert, Kunstverein München, Munich ; puis Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Munich ; Forum Bottcherstrasse, Bremen, Munich ; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Decisive Monuments, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, USA Encore II : Celebrating Fifty Years, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA Fauxtography, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, USA The Mediated Imagination, Visual Arts Gallery, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, USA Parallel Views, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands The Photography of Invention-American Pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Suburban Home Life : Plotting the American Dream, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA and The Whitney at Champion, Stamford, USA 1988 Complexity and Contradiction, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, USA Fabrication-Staged, Altered and Appropriated Photographs, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool, Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, USA Made In Camera, VAVD Editions, Stockholm, Sweden Plane Space : Sculptural Form and Photographic Dimensions, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK Playing For Real, Toys and Talismans, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton, puis Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK ; Chapter Arts, Cardiff, UK 1987 3 Americans, 3 Austrians, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria This is Not a Photograph : Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota ; puis Akron Art Museum, Akron ; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA Arrangements for the Camera : A View of Contemporary Photography, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA Bilder 30, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria CalArts : Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL ; puis Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, USA Cross-References : Sculpture into Photography, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Kunst Mit Photographie, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart, Germany Nightfire, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands Photography and Art : Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles ; puis The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale ; The Queens Museum, Corona Park, USA The Pride of Symmetry, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart, Germany Small Wonders, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, USA 1986 The Fairy Tale : Politics, Desire, and Everyday Life, Artists’ Space, New York, USA Foto Cliche, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Engalnd ; puis Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland James Casebere, Clegg & Guttman, Ken Lum, Galerie Bismarckstrasse, Cologne, Germany Milano Triennale, Milan, Italy Photographic Fictions, The Whitney at Champion, Stamford, USA Photographs, 303 Gallery, New York, USA Picture Perfect, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, USA The Real Big Picture, The Queens Museum, Corona Park, New York, USA Signs of the Real, White Columns, New York, USA Sonsbeek 86: International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem, Netherlands TV Generation, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, USA 1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA James Casebere, Jeff Koons, Larry Johnson, 303 Gallery, New York, USA Rounding Up the Usual Suspects, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA 1984 A Decade of New Art, Artists’ Space, New York, USA The Success of Failure, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, USA 1983 Art Park, Lewiston, USA Artists Use Photography, American Grafitti Gallery, Amsterdam, Hollande ; Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, USA Images Fabriquées, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France ; puis Museum voor Aktuel Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium In Plato’s Cave, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA 1982 The Fabricated Image, Delahanty Gallery, Dallas, USA Tableaux : Nine Contemporary Sculptures, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA 1981 Eight Contemporary Photographers, University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, USA Erweiterete Fotografie, Wiener International Biennale, Vienna, Austria The Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA Photo, Metro Pictures, New York, USA 1980 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA The Real Estate Show, Co-Lab, New York, USA The Staged Shot, Delahanty Gallery, Dallas, USA 1979 Fabricated to be Photographed, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco ; puis The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque ; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, ÉTATS-UNIS ; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA Southern California Invitational/Photo, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2004	NYC Department of Education, USA
1993	University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Six light-boxes installed in bus shelters, commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission, USA
1991	Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. A group of brass elements installed in terrazzo floor of main hall, commissioned by Minnesota Arts Board and Minnesota Historical Society, USA
1990	Kortrijk Station, Kortrijk, Belgium. Light-boxes installed in collaboration with Tony Oursler, commissioned by Kunststichting Kanaal
1988	Pennsylvania Station, New York, New York. Series of 11 light-boxes installed in station, commissioned by the Public Art Fund
1983	Staten Island Ferry Terminal, New York, New York. A series of light-boxes installed in the terminal, sponsored by New State Council on the Arts, Artists' Sponsored Project Grant. Art Park, Lewiston, New York. Light-box installed in Lewiston Park, commissioned by Art Park
1980	Poster Project in Lower Manhattan, New York, USA

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

	A.T.&T., South Plainfield, New Jersey
	Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
	Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
	Peter Alger Collection, New York, New York
	Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
	American Patrons of Tate, New York, New York
	Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

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	Bank of America, Newark, New Jersey
	Big Flower Press, New York, New York
	Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Capital Group, Los Angeles, California Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts Disney Collection, New York, New York Emily Fisher Landau Collection, New York, New York Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo per l’arte, Turin, Italy Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France General Mills Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany Goldman Sachs, New York, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Missouri High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Hughes and Luce, L.L.P. Collection, Dallas, Texas Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Jewish Museum, New York, New York Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mukha Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Nanjing Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Neuberger Berman LLC, New York, New York Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, New York Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana New School for Social Research, New York, New York Pacific Bell Collection, Los Angeles, California Pepsico Collection, Purchase, New York Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio Prudential, Newark, New Jersey Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts Revco Corporation, New York, New York San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom United Yarn Corporation, Wayne, New Jersey University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

AWARDS (SELECTION)

2019	American Academy in Rome, Abigail Cohen Rome Prize
2016	New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame Honoree
1995	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant
1994	New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1990	National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
1989	New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1986	National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship

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1985	New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1982	National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
1982	New York State Council on the Arts: Visual Artists Sponsored Project Grant

Press Release

Robb Report - avril 2020

James Casebere : portrait

Transfuge - janvier 2020

James Casebere - interview

Fabrice Gaignault

Libération.fr - janvier 2020

James Casebere, "J'étais trop rebelle pour devenir architecte""

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James Casebere
Gregory Crewdson
GROUP SHOW – CONTOURS DU RÉEL

Topographie de l’Art, Paris
From February 3 to April 5, 2023

As part of the group show Contours du réel at Topographie de l’Art, James Casebere and Gregory Crewdson will exhibit two artworks each from February 3, 2023.

James Casebere
GROUP SHOW – ARCHITECTURES IMPOSSIBLES

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, France
From November 19, 2022 to March 19, 2023

The work Blue House on Water #2 by James Casebere will be exhibited at the Beau-Arts de Nancy, as part of the exhibition Architectures impossibles, from November 19, 2022. The exhibition, curated by Sophie Laroche, brings together some fifty artists, bringing together more than 150 works of all kinds, from national and international institutions and private collections.

James Casebere
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – EXODES

Philippe Cognée, James Casebere - Exodes
ville de Saint-Raphaël
From July 1st to September 30, 2022

“ExodeS” is a particular cultural event because of its conception, invading, for one summer, a city rich in history and migrations since Antiquity. The exhibition is installed in temporary structures, taking possession of emblematic places and monuments, squares and gardens, unusual places, seashores where it is good to stroll, rest, look.

James Casebere
TABLEAU AND TRANSFORMATION: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION – GROUP SHOW

TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, TAMPA, FLORIDA From 20/06/2019 to 06/10/2019

“Tableau and Transformation” presents an overview of the Tampa Museum of Art’s holdings in 20th-century photography, a cornerstone of the Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition looks at how artists have used distinct darkroom effects and studio practices to create new narratives in photography. Artists such as James Casebere, Robert Cumming, Stephen Frailey, Sandy Skoglund, and William Wegman create constructed environments, often blurring the boundaries of truth and fiction in their images. Photographers Blythe Bohnen, Duane Michals, Arnulf Rainer, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman examine the transformation of one’s self as a means to explore identity, gender, and place. This exhibition features approximately 50 photographs with objects ranging in date from the mid-1960s to through the early 2000s, predominately drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection.

James Casebere
MODEL NATURES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY – GROUP SHOW

MUSEUM HAUS LUDWIG, SARRELOIS, ALLEMAGNE From 19/05/2019 to 25/08/2019

The international group exhibition “Model Natures” is dedicated to a fascinating area of contemporary photography: Iandscape. The exhibition presents impressive landscapes. But on closer inspection, it turns out that these are not photographs of actual landscapes, but deceptively real images of models.

James Casebere
MODELL-NATUREN IN DER ZEITGENöSSISCHEN FOTOGRAFIE – GROUP SHOW

KALLMAN-MUSEUM, ISMANING, GERMANYFrom 23/02/2019 to 05/05/2019

James Casebere
AFTER SCALE MODEL : DWELLING IN THE WORK OF JAMES CASEBERE – SOLO SHOW

BOZAR, BRUSSELS, BELGIUMFrom 06/17/2016 to 09/04/2016

Following a major retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, BOZAR opens its doors to James Casebere. This American photographer a pioneer of staged photogrpahy – studied with John Baldessari and obtained his Master of Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His work is marked by a profound interest in architecture. Yet rather than focusing his lens on the actual buildings, he makes scale models of them, which he then photographs. During the International Biennial of Photography Casebere presents an intricate ensemble of domestic interiors and settings in the antechambers of Victor Horta’s Centre for Fine Arts.

James Casebere
FUGITIVE – SOLO SHOW

HAUS DER KUNST, MUNICH, GERMANYFrom 02/15/2016 to 06/12/2016

With more than 70 works, the exhibition presents images drawn from all periods of the artist’s career. The survey includes recent large multi-panel and single-panel color photographic works; early black-and-white gelatin silverprints, dye destruction prints, waterless lithographs, and Polaroid prints. In addition, for the first time, Casebere shows working notebooks, a series ofcollages, and an extensive collection of never before exhibited Polaroid studies. For the exhibition in Haus der Kunst, Casebere realizes four new site-specific monumental works in the form of friezes in the gallery’s grand staircase.

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James Casebere Gregory Crewdson GROUP SHOW – CONTOURS DU RÉEL

James Casebere GROUP SHOW – ARCHITECTURES IMPOSSIBLES

James Casebere Philippe Cognée GROUP SHOW – EXODES

James Casebere TABLEAU AND TRANSFORMATION: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION – GROUP SHOW

James Casebere MODEL NATURES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY – GROUP SHOW

James Casebere MODELL-NATUREN IN DER ZEITGENöSSISCHEN FOTOGRAFIE – GROUP SHOW

James Casebere AFTER SCALE MODEL : DWELLING IN THE WORK OF JAMES CASEBERE – SOLO SHOW

James Casebere FUGITIVE – SOLO SHOW

James Casebere
Gregory Crewdson
GROUP SHOW – CONTOURS DU RÉEL

James Casebere
GROUP SHOW – ARCHITECTURES IMPOSSIBLES

James Casebere
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – EXODES

James Casebere
TABLEAU AND TRANSFORMATION: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION – GROUP SHOW

James Casebere
MODEL NATURES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY – GROUP SHOW

James Casebere
MODELL-NATUREN IN DER ZEITGENöSSISCHEN FOTOGRAFIE – GROUP SHOW

James Casebere
AFTER SCALE MODEL : DWELLING IN THE WORK OF JAMES CASEBERE – SOLO SHOW

James Casebere
FUGITIVE – SOLO SHOW