- Adjunct Professor of Photography 1971–1979 and
Mellon Lecturer in Photography, 1977, Cooper Union,
New York. Associate Professor of Photography, Prince-
ton University, New Jersey, since 1977. Recipient of John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1971 and 1979.
Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York, 1976;
St. Louis Art Commission Grant, 1977; National Endow-
ment for the Arts Grant, 1978; National Endowment for
the Arts Grant, with Colin Westerbeck, 1978; National
Endowment for the Humanities, 1980; Photographer of
the Year Award, Friends of Photography, Carmel, Cali-
fornia, 1981. Works as freelance commercial photogra-
pher; lives in New York.
Individual Exhibitions
1966 George Eastman House; Rochester, New York
1968 My European Trip; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1974 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia
1978 Cape Light; Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachu-
setts
1979 Saint Louis and the Arch; Saint Louis Art Museum; St.
Louis, Missouri
1979 Photographs; Akron Art Museum; Akron, Ohio
1980 Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam, Netherlands
1981 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Fran-
cisco, California
1981 University of Oregon Museum of Art; Eugene, Oregon
1982 Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Cape
Cod, Massachusetts
1985 A Summer’s Day; Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong
Kong, China (traveled to Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, New York; Minnesota Museum of Art, St.
Paul, Minnesota; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Geor-
gia; Art Forum Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan;
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California)
1989 The White Nights; Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts;
Cleveland, Ohio
1991 A Summer’s Day; Art Forum Museum of Modern Art;
Tokyo, Japan
1992 Atlanta and the Atlantic Center; IBM Permanent
Installation; Atlanta, Georgia
1994 Joel Meyerowitz: On the Street, Color Photographs,
1963–1973; Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
2001 Joel Meyerowitz ‘‘Looking South: New York City
Landscapes, 1981-2001’’; Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery;
New York, New York
2002 After September 11: Images from Ground Zero;
Museum of the City of New York; New York, New
York (traveled worldwide)
Group Exhibitions
1963 The Photographer’s Eye; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1967 Photography in the 20th Century; National Gallery of
Canada; Ottawa, Canada (toured Canada and the Uni-
ted States, 1967–1973)
1968 Ben Shultze Memorial; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1970 Portraits; Museum of Modern Art; New York, New
York (traveled worldwide)
10 Americans(atExpo ’70); Osaka, Japan
1971 New Photography U.S.A.; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York (toured the United States and Canada)
1977 Inner Light; Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachu-
setts
American Photography; Philadelphia Museum of Art;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since
1960 ; Museum of Modern Art; New York, New York
The Spirit of the New Landscape; Bowdoin College
Museum; Brunswick, Maine
1979 American Images: New Work by 20 Contemporary
Photographers; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
(traveled to International Center of Photography, New
York, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Texas; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Min-
nesota; Indianapolis Institute of Arts, Indianapolis,
Indiana; American Academy, Rome, Italy)
1981 American Photographers and the National Parks; Cor-
coran Gallery; Washington, D.C. (traveled to Minnea-
polis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
A Sense of Order; Institute of Contemporary Art;
University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Inside Spaces; Museum of Modern Art; New York,
New York
The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography;
Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, New York
1982 Color as Form: A History of Color Photography; Interna-
tional Museum of Photography, George Eastman House;
Rochester New York
International Photography 1920–1980; National Gal-
lery of Australia; Canberra, Australia
1983 Response to Nature; Tisch Hall of Fine Arts, New York
University; New York, New York
Color in the Street; California Museum of Photogra-
phy; Riverside, California
Views and Vision: Recent American Landscape Photo-
graphy; International Center of Photography; New
York, New York
1984 Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Land-
scape; Whitney Museum of American Art; New York,
New York
1985 American Images 1945–1980; Barbican Center; Lon-
don, England
Light; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San
Francisco, California
A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton; Princeton Art
Museum; Princeton, New Jersey
The Nude in Photography; Munich State Museum;
Munich, Germany
1986 City Light; International Center of Photography; New
York, New York
1988 Legacy of Light; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture
Garden; Lincoln, Massachusetts
Evocative Presence; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
Houston, Texas
1989 On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty
Years of Photography; National Gallery of Art; Washing-
ton, D.C. and Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
(and traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, California)
1991 Pools; Moscow Art Museum; Moscow, Russia
1992 The Art of the Real: Edward Hopper and Photography;
Volksmuseum; Essen, Germany
1994 Bystander: The History of Street Photography; Art
Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois (traveled to San
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