Lookmagazine, New York, 1957–1958. Freelance photo-
grapher, worked forVogue, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Scien-
tific American, and others, since 1958; first photo
sequences, 1966; writing on his photographs, 1974; paint-
ing on photographs, 1978. Recipient, Creative Artists
Public Service Award Grant, 1975; National Endowment
for the Arts Grant, 1976; Carnegie Foundation Photo-
graphy Fellow, Cooper Union, New York, 1977; Interna-
tional Center of Photography Infinity Award for Art,
1991; Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France,- Lives and works in New York City.
Selected Individual Exhibitions
1963 Underground Gallery; New York (also 1965, 1968)
1968 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1970 Museum of Modern Art; New York
1971 George Eastman House; Rochester, New York
1972 Museum of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico
San Francisco Art Institute
1973 Galerie Delpire; Paris
International Cultural Center; Antwerp, The Netherlands
Kolnischer Kunstverein; Cologne, Germany
1974 Frankfurter Kunstverein; Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie 291; Milan, Italy
School of Visual Arts; New York, New York
Light Gallery; New York, New York
1975 Texas Center for Photographic Studies; Dallas, Texas
Contemporary Arts Center; Columbus, Ohio
Nova Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Museum of Modern Art; Bogota, Colombia
Gemeentemuseum; Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Francis
1983 Galerie Watari; Tokyo, Japan
Duane Michals—Photographs/Sequences/Texts 1955–1984;
Museum of Modern Art; Oxford, England and traveling
1988 Someone Left A Message For You: Photographs by
Duane Michals; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Duane Michals Photographies; FRAC Aquitaine; Bor-
deaux, France
1989 Duane Michals Photographien 1958–1988; Museum fu ̈r
Kunst und Gewerbe; Hamburg, Germany and traveling
1990 Modern Art Center; Calouse Gulbenkian Foundation;
Lisbon, Portugal
The Duane Michals Show; Museum of Photographic
Arts; San Diego, California
Duane Michals: Portraits; Butler Institute of Ameri-
can Art; Youngstown, Ohio and traveling
1994 Duane Michals; Louisiana Museum; Humlebaek, Den-
mark
1995 DuaneMichals; Right Gallery; Kamakura, Japan and
traveling
1998 Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Madrid
Group Exhibitions
1959 Image Gallery; New York, New York
1966 American Photography: The 60’s; University of Ne-
braska; Lincoln, Nebraska
Towards a Social Landscape; George Eastman House;
Rochester, New York
1967 Twelve Photographers of the American Social Lands-
cap; Brandeis University; Waltham, Massachusetts
1969 Portraits; Museum of Modern Art; New York
1970 Being Without Clothes; Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Cambridge, Massachusetts
1974 Photography in America; Whitney Museum of Amer-
ican Art; New York
1977 La Photo Comme Photographie; Centre d’Arts Plas-
tiques Contemporain de Bordeaux; France
Documenta; Kassel, Germany
Kunsterphotoghen in XX Jahrhundert; Kestner-
Gesellschaft; Hannover, Germany
1978 Art about Art; Whitney Museum of American Art;
New York
1979 American Photography in the 70’s; Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1985 American Images, Photographs 1945–1980; Barbican
Art Gallery; London
Self-Portrait Photography 1840–1985; National Gal-
lery; London
1986 Photofictions—Subjective Setups; The Ffoto gallery;
Cardiff, Wales
1988 First Person Singular: Self Portrait Photography; High
Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia
1989 Invention and Continuity in Contemporary Photogra-
phy; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York
The Cherished Image: Portraits from 150 Years of
Photography; National Gallery of Canada; Ottawa,
Canada
Vanishing Presence; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis,
Minnesota and traveling
1990 The Indomitable Spirit; International Center of Photo-
graphy; New York and traveling
Word as Image: American Art 1960–1990; Milwaukee
Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1991 Motion and Documen—Sequence and Time: Eadweard
Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography;
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
and traveling
1997 Foto Text Text FotoFrankfurt Kunstverein; Frank-
furt, Germany
1999 From Camouflage to Free Style 2; Musee d’art mod-
erne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2000 Dreams 1900–2000: Science, Art and the Unconscious
Mind; Binghamton University Art Museum, SUNY;
Binghamton, New York and travelingSelected Works
The Spirit Leaves the Body, 1968
Fallen Angel, 1968
Sequences, 1973
Things Are Queer, 1973
Failed Attempt to Photograph Reality, 1975
Real Dreams: Photostories, 1977
Ceci n’est pas une photo d’une pipe, 1978
The Nature of Desire, 1986
Album: The Portraits of Duane Michals 1958–1988, 1988
Eros and Thanatos, 1992MICHALS, DUANE