1985 John Pfahl Photography; Media Center Gallery, Web-
ster University, St. Louis, Missouri
1986 John Pfahl: Photography from Three Series; Anderson
Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, Virginia
Niagara River and Falls: A Contemporary View;Bus-
caglia-Castellani Art Gallery of Niagara University,
Niagara Falls, New York
1987 John Pfahl: Color Work; Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chi-
cago, Illinois
Power Places; International Museum of Photography,
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1988 Altered Landscapes; Fotografie Forum Frankfurt,
Frankfurt, West Germany
Arcadia Revisited: Niagara River and Falls from Lake
Erie to Lake Ontario; Visual Studies Workshop Gallery,
Rochester, New York, and traveled to Rochester Mu-
seum and Science Center, Rochester, New York; Center
Gallery, Jamestown Community College, Olean, New
York; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, Florida;
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain,
Connecticut
1990 A Distanced Land: The Photographs of John Pfahl;
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and
traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;
The High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; The Friends of
Photography, San Francisco, California; Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1994 John Pfahl: American Waterfalls; International Museum
of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New
York
1997 Niagara Sublime; Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland,
Ohio
Altered Landscapes; International Center of Photo-
graphy, Midtown Gallery, New York, New York
Permutations on the Picturesque; Robert B. Menschel
Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
2002 Extreme Horticulture; Bell Gallery, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island
Group Exhibitions
1971 60’s Continuum; International Museum of Photogra-
phy, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1976 Photographie: Rochester, NY; American Cultural Cen-
ter, Paris, France
Photo/Synthesis; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1977 The Great West: Real/Ideal; University of Colorado,
Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
Upstate Color: Michael Bishop, Phil Block, John
Pfahl; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
1978 Group Show: Color Photographs; The Friends of
Photography Gallery, Carmel, California
1979 Divola/Henkel/Parker/Pfahl; Visual Studies Work-
shop, Rochester, New York
Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s; Santa Barbara
Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Fabricated to be Photographed; San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
American Photography of the ‘70s; Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Object, Illusion, Reality; California State University,
Fullerton, Art Gallery, Fullerton, California
1980 Reasoned Space; Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Photography: Recent Directions; DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Zeitgenossische Amerikanische Farbphotografie; Gal-
erie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne, Germany
Aspekte Amerikanischer Farbfotografie; Spectrum
Photogalerie, Kunstmuseum Hannover, Hannover, Ger-
many
1981 The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography; Ever-
son Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Contemporary Color Photography; Chrysler Museum,
Norfolk, Virginia
Three Photographers: Barboza, Callis, Pfahl; Laguna
Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
American Photographers and the National Parks; New
York Public Library, New York, New York
1982 Color as Form: A History of Color Photography; Inter-
national Museum of Photography, George S. Eastman
House, Rochester, New York
Dyed Images: Recent Work in Dye Transfer; The
Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
1983 Photographes et paysages, XIX-Xxeme siecles; Centre
national d’art et de culture George S. Pompidou, Paris,
France
1984 Color in the Summer; Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, New York
Construire les paysages de la photographie; Caves
Sainte Croix, Metz, France
1985 American Images; Barbican Art Gallery, London,
England
Images of Excellence; International Museum of Pho-
tography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New
York
Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photo-
graphy; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, California
1986 Views and Visions: Recent American Landscape Photo-
graphy; International Center of Photography, New
York, New York
Photography: A Facet of Modernism; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1987 Photographs Beget Photographs; Minneapolis Institute
of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Von Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung; Museum
Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1945; Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Visual Paradox: Truth and Fiction in the Photographic
Image; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
Wisconsin
1989 On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred Fifty
Years of Photography; National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., and Art Institute of Chicago, Chi-
cago, Illinois, and traveled to Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1990 The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography
in the Age of Questioning; International Museum of
Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New
York
1992 Changing Visions of the American Landscape: From
Ansel Adams to Robert Adams; Michener Museum, Doy-
lestown, Pennsylvania
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American
Landscape Photography; National Museum of American
Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.PFAHL, JOHN