At the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2002,
an exhibition of theNew Industrial Parks, Irvine
California series asserted a relationship between
architecture and photography that Baltz has seen
since the beginning of his career. Baltz’s concept of
architecture is that it is the most prominent and
enduring material artifact produced by the dialectic
of nature and culture, and his practice attempts to
formalize this theoretical stance by producing
architectural photographic experiences.
DANIELLESchwartz
Seealso:Abbott, Berenice; Adams, Robert; Archi-
tectural Photography; Becher, Bernd and Hilla;
Evans, Walker; Sheeler, Charles; Shore, Stephen
Biography
Born in Newport Beach, California, September 12, 1945.
San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A. 1969; Claremont
Graduate School, M.F.A. 1971. Begins association
with Castelli Graphics, New York, 1971. Part-time
Instructor, Pomona College, Claremont, 1970–1971; Vis-
iting Lecturer in Art, University of California, Davis,
1981; Regent’s Visitor in Art, University of California,
Santa Cruz, 1982; Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence 1983; Visiting Associate Pro-
fessor of Art, University of California Riverside and
Santa Cruz, and University of Victoria, British Colum-
bia, 1984; Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts,
Winter 1992 and 1998; Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut, Spring 1992 and 1999; Ecole nationale
supe ́rieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, Fall 1992; Hochschule
fu ̈r Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland, Fall 1993; Ecole
supe ́rieure d’Art et de Design, Reims, France, 1994–
1995; Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, April, 1995; Uni-
versity of Go ̈teburg, Sweden, 1995; Royal College of Art,
London, 1998 and 1999; Visiting Professor, Hochschule
fu ̈r Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main, 1999–2001 Profes-
sor, Instituto Universitario di Architecture de Venezia.
Recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Fellow-
ship 1973, 1977; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Fellowship, 1977; Professor of Photography,European
Graduate SchoolinSaas-Fee, Switzerland, 2002. Living
in Paris and Zagreb, Croatia.
Individual Exhibitions
1971 Castelli Graphics, New York, New York
1972 George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1974 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1975 PhiladelphiaCollegeofArt,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1976 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Corcoran Ga-
llery of Art, Washington, D.C., Baltimore Museum of
Art, Baltimore, Maryland, La Jolla Museum of Con-
temporary Art, La Jolla, California
1985 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
1986 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1987 Galerie Espace L’Orient, Paris, France, Tokyo Insti-
tute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Japan
1991 RuleWithout Exception: P.S. 1, Long Island City, New
York
1992 La Ronde de Nuit: Seibu Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Stedelijk Mu-
seum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1995 Works 1979–1994: Lousiana Museum of Modern Art,
Humlebaek, Denmark
1998 Lewis Baltz: the Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies,
Ronde de Nuit: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, California
2002 Lewis Baltz: Park City, Contemporary Photographs:
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut
New Industrial Parks, Irvine California: Canadian
Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Lewis Baltz: Nevada and Other Photographs: Prince-
ton Art Museum, Princeton, New JerseyGroup Exhibitions
1975 New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered
Landscape; International Museum of Photography and
Film, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1977 La Photographie cre ́atrice au XXe Siecle; Muse ́e
national d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, France
1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since
1960. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
and toured the United States, 1978–1980
1979 American Images: Cocoran Gallery of Art, Washing-
ton, D.C., and traveling to the International Center of
Photography, New York, New York; Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, Texas: Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Indianapolis Museum of
Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1980; American Academy,
Rome, Italy, 1981
1982 Slices of Time: Oakland Art Museum, California, and
traveling to the Security Pacific National Bank, Los
Angeles, California
1984 Photography in California 1945–1980: San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, and
traveling to the Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Cor-
coran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York; High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, Georgia; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany;
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of
Photographic Art, San Diego, California
1985 American Images: Barbican Art Gallery, London,
England, and toured Britain
1986 The Real Big Picture: Queens Museum of Art, Queens,
New York
1987 Photographs and Art 1946–1986: Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1990 Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960–1990: ICA,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 Wasteland: Rotterdam Biennial III, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands
1993 Critical Landscapes: Metropolitan Museum of Photo-
graphy, Tokyo, Japan
1999 The American Century: Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York
2000 Visions from America: Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York
2003 Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-centuryBALTZ, LEWIS