1997 The Phillips Collection; Washington, D.C.
2001 SelectedWorks;HemphillFineArts;Washington,D.C.
William Christenberry: Sculpture, Photographs, and
Drawings; Pace/MacGill Gallery; New York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
1977 Bill Christenberry—Walker Evans—Photographs;Long-
wood Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art; Boston
1978 The Presence of Walker Evans; Institute of Contem-
porary Art; Boston, Massachusetts
1979 American Photography of the Seventies; Art Institute
of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
Fotographie in Alltag Amerikas; Das Kunstgewerbe-
museum; Zurich, Switzerland
1982 Color as Form: A History of Color Photography; Inter-
national Museum of Photography, George Eastman
House; Rochester, New York
1983 Southern Fictions; Contemporary Arts Museum;
Houston, Texas
1985 American Images: Photography, 1945–1980; Barbican
Art Gallery; London
Color Roots—William Eggleston—William Christen-
berry; The Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation; New
York
1987 10 Photographes Americains Contemporains; Galerie
Zabriskie; Paris
Legacy of Light; International Center of Photogra-
phy; New York
1989 The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism;
Washington Project for the Arts; Washington, D.C.
New Southern Photography: Between Myth and Rea-
lity; The Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation; New
York
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of
the 1980s; National Museum of American Art, Smithso-
nian Institution; Washington, D.C.; Museum of Con-
temporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Deep South;20thRecontres Internationales de la
Photographie d’Arles; France
1990 Of Time and Place: Walker Evans and William
Christenberry; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth;
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas; Portland Museum of
Art, Maine; and The Friends of Photography, San
Francisco
Walker Evans, Amerika: Bilder aus den Jahren der
Depression; Lenbachhaus Sta ̈dtische Galerie; Munich,
Germany
1991 Motion and Document, Sequence and Time: Eadweard
Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography;
Addison Gallery of Art, Phillips Academy; Andover,
Massachusetts
1994 An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate
to Digital,The Hallmark Photographic Collection; Nel-
son-Atkins Museum of Art; Kansas City and traveling
American Studies; The Art Forum Praterinsel; Mu-
nich, Germany
Duchamp’s Leg; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis,
Minnesota
House and Home: Spirits of the South: Max Belcher,
Beverly Buchanan, and William Christenberry; Addison
Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; Andover,
Massachusetts; Georgia Museum of Art, University of
Georgia, Athens; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta,
Georgia; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham,
North Carolina; Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Worlds in a Box, organized by the South Bank Centre,
for the Arts Council of Great Britain, London (touring)
1995 Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with Alabama
Ties; Mobile Museum of Art; Mobile, Alabama
Civil Rights Now; Southeastern Center for Contem-
porary Art; Winston-Salem, North Carolina (travel-
ing)
The Insistent Subject: Photographing Time and Again;
The Museum of Contemporary Photography; Colum-
bia College, Chicago, IllinoisSelected Works
Side of Palmist Building, Havana Junction, Alabama, 1961
House, near Marion, Alabama, 1964
Church, Sprott, Alabama, 1971
Church between Greensboro and Marion, Alabama, 1973
Country Store with Gasoline Pumps, Emelle, Alabama, 1974
Child’s Grave with Rosebuds, Hale County, Alabama, 1975
Gourd Tree, Pickens County, Alabama, 1979
Kudzu with Storm Cloud, near Akron, Alabama, 1981
The Bar-B-Q Inn, Greensboro, Alabama, 1981
Red Building in Forest, Hale County, Alabama, 1983
Otis and Willie Mae Hicks’ Store, outside Greensboro, Ala-
bama, 1987
Southern Monument XVI, 1983-1986, 1987
Kudzu and House, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1989
Sign, near Carrollton, Mississippi, 1991
Providence Church, Perry County, Alabama, 1993Further Reading
Brownlee, Peter J. ‘‘Interview with William Christenberry.’’
The Southern Quarterly32 (1994): 89–94.
Christenberry, William.Southern Photographs. Millerton,
New York: Aperture Inc. 1983.
Christenberry, William, et al,In Response to Place: Photo-
graphs from the Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places.
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams, and essay by
Andy Grundberg. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001.
Christenberry, William, Max Belcher, and Beverly
Buchanan. House and Home: Spirits of the South,
with essays by Rebecca Walker and Jock Reynolds.
Andover, Massachusetts: Addison Gallery of Ameri-
can Art, 1994.
Gruber, J. Richard. William Christenberry: The Early
Years, 1954–1968. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 1998.
Gruber, Rick, and Heather Lustfelt.William Christenberry:
The Constructions and Related Drawings, 1961–1968.
(Exhibition Catalogue). Kansas City: University of Mis-
souri–Kansas City Gallery of Art, 1997.CHRISTENBERRY, WILLIAM