A.B. in studio art, 1970; Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut, M.F.A. in photography, 1973; Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, S.M. in management science, 1981. Instructor of
photography at the University of Nevada, 1975–1976.
Became associated with Janet Borden Gallery, New
York, 1987. Received Polaroid Corporation Artist
Support Grants, 1987–1989; National Endowment for
the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship, 1990–1991; John
Simon Guggenhiem Foundation Fellowship, 1995; Prix
du Livre de Photographie, Le Prix du Livre-Images, les
Rencontres, Arles, France, 1997. Resides in New York,
New York.Selected Individual Exhibitions
1977 Carpenter Center of Visual Arts; Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941–44;
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California
1977 International Museum of Photography; George East-
man House, Rochester, New York
1985 Modern Romance; Founders Gallery, University of
California, San Diego, California
1986 Laurence Miller Gallery; New York, New York
Clarence Kennedy Gallery; Polaroid Corporation,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1987 University Art Museum; California State University,
Long Beach, California
Desire; Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
1993 The Friends of Photography; Ansel Adams Center,
San Francisco, California
Die Nibelungen; The Vienna State Opera and Galerie
H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria
The Wild West; Gene Autry Western Heritage Mu-
seum, Los Angeles, California, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art; Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
Pastrays Gallery; Yokohama, Japan
1994 Center for Creative Photography; Tucson, Arizona
The Photographers’ Gallery; London, England
Bibliothe`que nationale de France; Paris, France
1995 University Art Gallery; University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
1997 David Levinthal: 1975–1996; International Center of
Photography, New York, New York
Playing with History; Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia Museum of Judaica; Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania
Holocaust Museum; Houston, Texas
1999 Girlfrind! The Barbie Sessions; San Jose Museum, San
Jose, California, and traveling to Norton Museum of Art,
West Palm Beach, Florida; The Museum at the Fashion
Institute of Technology, New York, New York; Salina
Art Center, Salina, Kansas; Birmingham Museum of Art,
Birmingham, Alabama; South Carolina State Museum,
Columbia, South Carolina
XXX: New Photographs;BaldwinGallery,Aspen,Colorado
2001 Small Wonders: World in a Box; Detroit Institute of
Art, Detroit, Michigan
2002 David Levinthal: Disquieting Tales from Toyland;
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Blackface; Alexandria Museum of African American
Culture, Alexandria, Virginia
Selected Group Exhibitions
1983 In Plato’s Cave; Marlborough Gallery, New York, New
York
1985 BC Space; Laguna Beach, California
1986 SignsoftheReal;WhiteColumns,NewYork,NewYork
1987 Avant-Garde in the Eighties; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Fabrications; International Center of Photography,
New York, New York
1988 The Constructed Image II; Jones Troyer Gallery,
Washington, D.C.
1989 Surrogate Selves: David Levinthal, Cindy Sherman, Laurie
Simmons; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the
1980s; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., and traveling
Theatergarden Bestiarium; The Institute of Contem-
porary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, New York
1990 Rethinking American Myths; Atrium Gallery, Univer-
sity of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Devil on the Stairs; Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Museum,
Newport Beach, California
Des Vessies et des Lanternes; La Botanique, Brussels,
Belgium; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1991 More than One Photography; Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Interpreting the American Dream; (James Casebere,
David Levinthal, Richard Ross), Galerie Eugen Lendl,
Graz, Austria
1992 American Made: The New Still Life; Iestan Museum of
Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Edward Hopper and the American Imagination; Whit-
ney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Representations of Auschwitz: 50 Years of Photo-
graphs, Paintings, and Graphics; Auschwitz-Birkenau
State Museum, Oswiecim, Poland
Taking Pictures: People Speak About the Photographs
That Speak to Them; 2InternationalCenterofPhotography,
Midtown,NewYork,andtravelingtoTheFriendsofPhoto-
graphy, San Francisco, California; Washington Project for
the Arts, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
Georgia; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Califor-
nia; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
FineArtsGallery,VanderbiltUniversity,Nashville,Tennes-
see; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona;
Louisiana Art and Science Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1996 The Imaginary Real; The Museum of Fine Arts, Hous-
ton, Texas
Prospect 96; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1997 Devoir de Me ́moire; Rencontres Internationales de la
Photographie, Arles, France
Making it Real; Independent Curators Incorporated,
New York, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut, and traveling to: Reykjavik
Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland
Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Bayly Art Museum,
Charlottesville, Virginia; Bakalar Gallery, Boston, Mas-
sachusetts; and Emerson Gallery, Clinton, New Jersey
1999 Images for an Age: Art and History at the Center for
Creative Photography; The University of Arizona, Tuc-
son, Arizona
MoMA 2000: Open Ends; Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New YorkLEVINTHAL, DAVID