1991 Nancy Burson;GalerieMiche`le Chomette, Paris, France
1992 Faces; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas;
traveled to Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado;
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Contemporary
Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Nancy Burson and David Kramlich: The Age Machine;
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New
York
1993 Nancy Burson; Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York,
New York
University of Rhode Island, Fine Arts Center Gal-
leries, Kingston, Rhode Island
1996 Nancy Burson: Volte-Face; Espace VanGogh;Rencon-
tres Internationales de la photographie, Arles, France
1997 Nancy Burson; Museum of Contemporary Photogra-
phy, Chicago, Illinois
1998 Nancy Burson: Portraits; Forum for Contemporary
Art, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 There’s No Gene for Race(billboard); Creative Time,
New York, New York
2002 Focus on Peace: A project of Lower Manhattan Cul-
tural Council in Partnership with Creative Time; New
York, New York
Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson; Grey
Art Gallery, New York New York; traveled to Blaffer
Gallery, Houston, Texas; Weatherspoon
Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
North Carolina; PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain
Group Exhibitions
1985 Identity; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1987 Fake; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
New York
1988 Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photo-
graphs; Carpenter Center, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
The Spiral of Artificiality; Hallswalls Contemporary
Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
1989 Image World: Art and Media Culture; Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, New YorkThe Photography
of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s; Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of American Art, Washing-
ton, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illi-
nois; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Photography Now; Victoria and Albert Museum, Lon-
don, England
1990 The Indomitable Spirit; International Center of Photo-
graphy, New York, New York: Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Sotheby’s, New
York, New York
1991 Power: Its Myths, Icons and Structures in American
Culture, 1961–1991; Indianapolis Museum of Art, India-
napolis, Indiana; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Rich-
mond, Virginia; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
1992 In Vitro: De Les Mitologies de la Fertilitat als Limits de
la Ciencia; Fundacio ́Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x IMMORTAL; Institute of Con-
temporary Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, and traveling
Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age;
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New
York, New York, and traveling
Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing; De-
Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massa-
chusetts
1995 Photography After Photography: Memory and Repre-
sentation in the Digital Age; Aktionsforum Ptraterinsel,
Munich, Germany, and traveling
1996 Counterculture: Alternative Information from the Un-
derground Press to the Internet; Exit Art, New York,
New York
1997 The Nineties: A Family of Man?; Forum d’Art Con-
temporain, Casino Luxembourg
In the Realm of Phantoms, Photographs of the Invisi-
ble; Museum Abteiberg, Mo ̈nchengladbach, Germany;
Kunstalle Krems, Austria; and Fotomuseum Win-
terthur, Switzerland
1998 In Your Face; Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
In Visible Light, Photography and Classification in Art,
Science, and the Everyday; Museum of Modern Art,
Oxford, England
1999 Ghost in the Shell:Photography and the Human Soul,
1850–2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, California
2000 Le Sie`cle du corps: Photographies 1900–2000; Muse ́e
de L’Elyse ́e, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Human Race Machine; London Millennium
Dome, London, England
2002 photoGENEsis: Opus; Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, California
The Other Face: Metamorphosis of the Photographic
Portrait:Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
Time Framed; Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
2003 Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American
Self; International Center of Photography, New York,
New York
Geometry of the Face; Royal Library, National
Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark
Suture: An Exhibition of ‘‘Medical Photographs’’; Ste-
phen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art; Cen-
ter for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland,
Baltimore, MarylandSelected Works
First Beauty Composite, 1982
Warhead I(55% Reagan, 45% Brezhnev, less than 1% each
of Thatcher, Mitterand, and Deng), 1982
Mankind(Oriental, Caucasian, and Black, weighted accord-
ing to current population statistics), 1983–1985
Etan Patz Update (Age 6 to Age 13), 1984
Untitledseries (portraits of persons with Apert Syndrome),
early 1990s
Aged Barbie, 1994BURSON, NANCY