Barbara Kasten
Born 1936, lives & works in Chicago, USA
Education
1970 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts
1959 B.F.A., University of Arizona
Forthcoming / Current Exhibitions
2013
‘Une Odyssée, 30 ans du Frac Champagne Ardenne’, Pommery, Reims (Nov)
2014
‘A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio’, MoMA, New York (Feb)
‘1980’s Style: Image and Design in The Dorsky Museum Collection’, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY (Feb)
2015
ICA Philadelphia, USA (Feb) - solo
Solo Exhibitions
2013
‘Scenes from Places Beyond’, Kadel Willborn, Dusseldorf
2012
‘Behind the Curtain’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
‘Tektonika: Barbara Kasten & Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt’, Kunstverein Nürnberg (2 person show)
‘Justin Beal & Barbara Kasten - Constructs, Abrasions, Melons and Cucumbers’, Bortolami Gallery, New York
2011
‘A Matter of Perspective’, Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe
‘Experimental Photography from the 70s’, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica
‘Ineluctable’, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
‘Constructions - Barbara Kasten and Alexandra Leykauf’, Carl Freedman Gallery, London
2010
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica
Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
2009
‘Through a Glass Darkly’, SubCity, Chicago
2007
Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
2006
Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
2004
Tampa Gallery of Photography, Florida
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica
2002
Art Museum, University of Memphis, Tennessee
2001
Gallery Luisotti, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2000
Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas
1999
John Weber Gallery, New York
Gallery Luisotti, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
1998
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
1997
Small Works Gallery, Las Vegas
1996
Gallery Luisotti, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, California
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1995
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Parchman Stremmel, San Antonio, Texas
1993
Place Sazaby/Gallery RAM, Los Angeles
1992
d.p. Fong and Spratt Gallery, San Jose, California
John Weber Gallery, New York
Tinglado 2, Tarragona, Spain
1991
PARCO Exposure Gallery, Tokyo
URBI et ORBI Galerie, Paris
Photo Forum, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Spirit Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990
John Weber Gallery, New York
Ehlers-Caudill Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1989
International Center of Photography Midtown, New York
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Krygier Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1988
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
1987
Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
John Weber Gallery, New York
Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles
Kimo Theater, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1986
Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo
Keihan Gallery, Osaka
John Weber Gallery, New York
1985
G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Vision Gallery, Boston
Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
‘Constructs’, Port Washington Library, Port Washington, New York
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
‘Exact Seeing’, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
‘Toward an Interconnectedness of All Things’, Wright State University, Dayton
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
1984
The Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Columbia College, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
John Weber Gallery, New York
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica
1983
Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, Texas
1982
Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
John Weber Gallery, New York
University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1981
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, New York
1977
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco
1976
Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, California
The Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, California
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
1972
Gallery of Sculpture, Warsaw
Group Exhibitions
2013
‘A Democracy of Images’: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
Mary Mary at 10 Northington Street, London
Prague Biennale 6, Prague
Museum of Modern Art & Western Antiquities Department of Light Recordings, Section IV: Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
‘The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography & Experimentation’, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, New York
‘Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America’, Milwaukee Art Museum
2012
‘Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now’, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln
‘Construct’, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2011
‘Experimental Photography from the 70s’, Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2010
‘Just a Matter of Time’, Galerie Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Monique Meloche, Chicago
‘In a Paperweight’, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
‘Let There Be Geo’, A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
‘Starburst: The History of Color Photography in the 1970’s’, The Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio
‘Picturing the Studio’, School of the Art Institute Sullivan Galleries
2009
‘Contemporary Abstractions’, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
‘Twilight’, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
‘Constructivismes’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
‘The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography’, Aperture Gallery, New York
‘Polaroid: Exp 09.10.09’, Atlas Gallery, London
2008
‘Re-Considering Color - Postmodern Classical II’, The City College, CUNY, New York
2006
Alinari National Museum of Photography, Polaroid Collection Florence
2004
‘In the Center of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones’, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
2003
‘American Perspectives’, Photographs from Polaroid Collection, Boston
2002
‘Through the Looking Glass’, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
‘Go On Being’, Our Blue Star, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
2001
‘Zeros and ones: Digital Photography’, College of St. Francis, River Forest, Illinois
‘Photograms from the 20th Century’, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico
‘City 2000’ - A project to document Chicago in the Year 2000”, Chicago Cultural Center
2000
‘Polaroid Collection’, Tokyo Metro Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
‘Architectural Constructs’, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
‘Exhibition Highlights, 1995-2000’, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
‘First Works’, Glass Curtin Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Anna Fox, Barbara Kasten, Seydou Keita, Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg, Museum of Contemporay Photography, Columbia College Chicago
‘Cameraless Images’, The Art Institute of Chicago
1999
‘Contemporary Classicism’, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
‘Marjorie & Leonard Vernon Collection’, Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara
‘Ancient History’, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Membership Print, Museum of Contempoary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
1998
‘Masterpieces of Photography from the Merrill Lynch Collection’, James A. Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
‘4 P-platinum, pixilated, pinhole, polaroid’, Caldwell College, New Jersey
‘Photograph’s Multiple Roles’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
1997
‘Connexions and Disconnexions: Filiaci, Kasten, Thomas & Tanger’, Nuova Icona, Venice
‘Eye of the Beholder’, Avon Collection, International Center of Photography, New York
1996
‘The Painted Photograph’, University of Wyoming, DeCordova Museum, Massachusetts
1995
‘This is A Set-Up: Fab Photo Fictions’, Bowling Green State University, Fine Art Center, Galleries, Bowling Green, Ohio
‘bit by bit, postphotographic imaging’, Hunter College, New York
‘Targeting Images, Objects + Ideas’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
‘Image de la mere’, Le Forum des Halles, Paris
1994
‘Experimental Vision: The Evolution of the Photograph’, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
‘The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable’, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
‘Seurat Grows Up’, Maine Coast Artist, Rockport, Maine
‘Portrait of My Mother’, French Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland; London
‘Defining Color’, TZ Art & Co., New York
‘Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age’, Aperture, Fashion Institute
of Technology, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; San Jose Museum of Art, California
‘Stilled Pictures-Still Life’, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
1993
‘American Made: The New Still Life’, Isetan Museum, Tokyo; Japan; Royal College of Art, London
1992
‘Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1980’, Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, California
‘Set and Setting’, Berland/Hall Gallery, New York
‘California, The Cultural Edge’, Directors Guild of America, California
‘New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1991
‘Site Work: Architecture in Photography Since Early Modernism’, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
‘To Collect the Art of Women’, Fine Arts Museum, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
1990
‘Constructed Spaces, Photographic Resource Center’, Boston Architectural Center, Boston
‘Das Konstruierte Bild’, Kunstverein München, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Forum
Bottchectruse, Bremen, Badischer Kunstverein
‘Focus on Photography 1980-1990’, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia
1989
‘The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980’s’, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
‘Abstraction in Photography’, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
‘Photographs from Private Twin Cities Collections’, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
1988
‘Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs’, International Center of Photography, New York
‘M. Anwal Kamal Collection of Art’, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
‘Selections 4, Photokina 88’, Polaroid Gallery, Cologne
1987
‘Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
‘The Composed Exposure’, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, California
‘ART AGAINST AIDS’, benefit for The American Foundation for AIDS Reserarch, New York
1986
‘Art and Advertising: Commercial Photography by Artists’, International Center of Photography, New York, US
‘Artists in Mid-Career’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Franicsco
1985
‘Images of Excellence’, International Museum of Photography at GeorgeEastman House, Rochester, New York
‘Paris-New York-Tokyo’, Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Tokyo
‘Extending the Perimeters of 20th Century Photography’, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
‘PHOTOGRAMS’, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan Wisconsin
1984
‘Photography in California: 1945 to the Present’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
‘Contemporary Constructs: 20 Los Angeles Photographers’, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies/Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
Barbara Kasten /Timothy Lamb, Film in the Cities Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota
1983
‘Big Pictures By Contemporary Photographers’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
‘Photographers invite Photographers’, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
‘Habitats’, The Clocktower, New York
‘An Artistic Conversation, 1931-1982: Poland/USA’, Dublin
‘In Color: Ten California Photographers’, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
‘Three-Dimensional Photographs’, Castelli Graphics, New York
1982
‘Color as Form: History of Color Photography’, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
International Museum of Photography at Eastman House, Rochester, New York
‘Studio Work: Photographs by Ten Los Angeles Artists’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1982
‘Poland USA Exchange’, ARC Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
‘20 x 24 Polaroid’, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C.
1981
‘Still Life’: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
‘Reasoned Spaces’, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
‘Contemporary Photographs’: Fernandez, Fulton, Kasten, Rome, Robert FreidusGallery, New York
1979
‘Attitudes: Photography in the l970’s’, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
‘Altered Photographs’, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS 1, Long Island City, New York
‘The New Season: 9 Contemporary Photographers’, Witkin Gallery, New York
‘Interchange’, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California
1977
‘Callis, Kasten, Zimmerman’, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
‘Point of View: Carson, Kasten, Preston, Wolf’, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1975
‘Gallery as Studio’, Scripps College, Claremont, California
1971
‘Photomedia’, Museum of Contemporary Arts and Crafts, New York
‘Photo Image in Printmaking’, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1970
‘California Photographers’, University of California, Davis, California