toria and Albert Museum, The J. Paul Getty Mu-
seum, and the Princeton Art Museum.
JuliaDolanSeealso:Arbus, Diane; Erotic Photography; His-
tory of Photography: the 1980s; Sander, August;
Weegee
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, September 13, 1939. Enlisted
in the U.S. Army, 1961–1964; worked as a technical
sergeant, photographer, and photo technician. Attended
Cooper Union, New York, B.F.A. 1974; University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, M.F.A. 1986.
Received a CAPS Grant in photography from the New
York State Council on the Arts, 1974; Columbia Uni-
versity poetry fellowship, 1974; Ford Foundation Grant,
1977; National Endowment for the Arts grants, 1982,
1984, 1986, 1992; Maine Photographic Book Competi-
tion, Book of the Year award for the Twelvetrees Press
MonographJoel-Peter Witkin, 1986; International Cen-
ter of Photography Award, 1988; Cooper Union Distin-
guished Alumni Citation, 1988; Chevalier des Artes et
Lettres award, 1990; National Endowment for the Arts
and American Center in Paris residency grant, 1993;
Cooper Union Augustus Saint Gaudens Medal, 1996.
Living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Individual Exhibitions
1972 The Cooper Union School of Art; New York, New
York
1976 The University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New
Mexico
1980 Projects Studio One; New York, New York
1982 Galerie Texbraun; Paris, France
1983 Fraenkel Gallery; San Francisco, California
Stedeljik Museum; Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kansas City Art Institute; Kansas City, Missouri
1984 Pace/MacGill Gallery; New York, New York
1985 Forty Photographs; San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, California; The Museum of Con-
temporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago,
Illinois; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York;
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Galerie Watari; Tokyo, Japan
1986 Museum of Fine Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico
1987 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; La Jolla,
California
1988 Hippolyte Photographic Gallery; Helsinki, Finland
Rotterdam Biannale; Rotterdam, Netherlands
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Madrid, Spain
1989 Fahey/Klein Gallery; Los Angeles, California
Palau Solleric; Palma, Spain
1990 Fraenkel Gallery; San Francisco, California
1991 Hamiltons Gallery; London, England
The Museum of Modern Art; Haifa, Israel
1992 University of Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Fotograficentrum; Stockholm, Sweden
1993 Catherine Edelman Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
Picture Photo Space; Osaka, Japan
1994 Galerie Mokka; Reykjavı ́k, Iceland
1995 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York, New
York
1996 Photology Gallery; Milan, Italy
1998 Hanlim Museum; Seoul, Korea
1999 Camera Work Gallery; Berlin, Germany
2000 Hoˆ tel de Sully; Paris, France
2000 Athens School of Fine Arts; Tavros, GreeceSelected Group Exhibitions
1959 Great Photographs from the Museum Collection;
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1968 Two Americans; University of Manchester, Manche-
ster, England
1972 Curator’s Choice; The Witkin Gallery, New York,
New York
1973 Biennial of Photography; Lisbon, Portugal
1976 Exhibition of American Photography; Andromeda Gal-
lery Ltd., New York, New York
1977 Photoerotica; Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco,
California
1978 Contemporary Photographers from New Mexico; Ari-
zona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1980 Eccentricities; California Institute of the Arts, Valen-
cia, California
1981 Marked Photographs—15 Photographers; Robert
Samuel Gallery, New York, New York
1982 The Erotic in Photography; Cameravision, Los Angeles,
California
Form, Freud and Feeling; San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1983 Images Fabrique ́es; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
Personal Choice. A Celebration of Twentieth-Century
Photographs; Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
EnglandAshes to Ashes, Vision of Death; Alternative
Museum, New York, New York
1984 Content, A Contemporary Focus, 1974–1984; Hirsh-
horn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Human Condition; San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1985 The Sam Wagstaff Collection; International Center of
Photography, New York, New York
Extending Perimeters of Twentieth-Century Photogra-
phy; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fran-
cisco, California
1986 The Sacred and the Sacrilegious: Iconographic Images in
Photography; Photographic Resource Center, Boston
University, Boston, Massachusetts
Sacred Images in Secular Art; Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, New York
The Human Form; Centre national de la photographie,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1987 Photography and Art: Interaction since 1946; Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1987 Fabrication;HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,Massachusetts
1988 Life Magazine’s Celebration of 150 Years of Photogra-
phy; Nikon House, New York, New York
1989 The Photography of Invention; National Museum of
American Art, Washington, D.C.
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty
Years of Photography; National Gallery of Art, Smith-
sonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; traveled to Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CaliforniaWITKIN, JOEL-PETER