2013
Zhong, Fan, "Photo Op," W Magazine, p. 114, February 2013
Feeney, Mark, "'James Welling': An Interest in the Interstitial," Boston Globe, February 23, 2013
Rosen, Steven, "James Welling: From Sonic Youth Album Covers to Phillip Johnson's Glass House," Huffington Post, March 9, 2013
2012
Malandrinha, "James Welling's Youth!," What Art Online, December 2012
Sholis, Brian, "James Welling: David Zwirner," Artforum, November 2012, p. 275
Heuer, Megan, "James Welling: David Zwirner," Art in America, November 2012, p. 164
2011
McLean-Ferris, "James Welling: Glass House," Art Review, Summer 2011, p.71.
Welling, James, "Art in Los Angeles," Artforum, October 2011, p. 283 (ill.)
Stillman, Steel, "In the Studio: James Welling with Steel Stillman," Art in America, February 2011, pp. 54- 61.
2010
Buckley, Richard, "L.A. à l'art libre," Vogue Paris, December 2010, p. 240-247 (ill)
Shore, Stephen, "James Welling puts five questions to Stephen Shore," Modern Painters, February 2010, pp. 28-39 (ill.)
Ou, Arthur, "500 Words: James Welling," www.artforum.com, January 26, 2010,
http://www.artforum.com/words/#entry24743
Finkel, Jori, "On eve of LACMA survey, John Baldessari talks about his history teaching—and past students flash back too," June 19, 2010,
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/06/john- baldessari-making-art-and-arists.html
Grabner, Michelle, "James Welling: Donald Young Gallery," Artforum, February 2010, pp.207- 208 (ill.)
Moses, Nalina, "James Welling: New Visions of the Glass House," www.planet-mag.com, February 24, 2010, http://www.planet-mag.com/2010/art/nalina-moses/james-welling/
Mizota, Sharon, "Glass House, over time" Los Angeles Times, pp. D15, February 26, 2010
Civin, Marcus, "Glass Houses," ArtSlant.com, February 23, 2010, http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/14670
Van den Broeke, Teo "Glass House by James Welling, NYC" Wallpaper.com, March 23, 2010, http://www.wallpaper.com/art/4374
Walker, Alissa, "Staining the Glass House: James Welling Colors in Philip Johnson's Masterpiece" FastCompany.com, February 28, 2010,
http://www.fastcompany.com/1565567/staining-the-glass-house- james-welling-colors-in-between-the-lines-of-philip-johnsons-master
2009 Sigler, Jeremy, "Pencil of Nature," Modern Painters, April 2009, pp. 56-59 (ill.)
Kotz, Liz, "The Medium and the Messages," Artforum, October 2009, pp. 67-68
2008
Welling, James, "Joseph Bartscherer," Bomb, Spring 2008, pp. 70-8, ills.
Bryant, Eric, "The Indecisive Image," ArtNews, March 2008, pp. 112-2, ill.
Elcott, Noam M., "The Shadow of the World: Jim Welling's Cameraless and Abstract Photography," Aperture, #190, Spring 2008, 30-38, ills.
Ostrow, Saul, "James Welling at David Zwirner," Art in America, January 2008, p. 124-5, ill.
2007
Dowell, Kathy Aron, "James Welling: Questioning The Frame," Next Level, Edition, 11, 2007, pp. 70-5, ills.
Gielen, Denis, Atlas of Contemporary Art for Use by Everyone, published by Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, Tournai, Belgium, August 2007, pp. 28, 385, ill.
Schwabsky, Barry, " 'The 80s: A Topology," Artforum, Summer 2007, pp. 488-9, ill.
Welling, James, "Notes on Color," Like Color in Pictures, published by Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, 2007, pp. 69-72
2005
Mack, Joshua, "James Welling," Modern Painters, June 2005, p. 114, ills
Trembley, Nicolas, "L'explorateur," Numéro, May 2005, pp. 32-33, ill.
"Galleries-Chelsea: James Welling," The New Yorker, April 25, 2005, p. 22 Elcott, Noam M., "James Welling, 'New Work'," Time Out New York, no. 499, April 21 – 27, 2005, p. 83, ill.
Harris, "Pick Hit: James Welling," Village Voice, April 20 – 26, 2005, p. c43, ill.
"James Welling, 'New Work'," Time Out New York, no. 498, April 14 – 20, 2005, p. 65, ill.
Welling, James, "Larry Burrows, Hue Reburial, 1969," ARTnews, February 2005, p. 119, ill.
2004
Sheets. Hilarie M., "Armand Hammer's Orphan Museum Turns Into Cinderella in Los Angeles," The New York Times, October 6, 2004, pp. B1 & B9
Golden, Deven, "James Welling," Bomb, Spring 2004, pp. 46 –53, ills.
Drohojowska-Philip, Hunter, "Laurels too late," Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2004, p. E53
2003
Johnson, Ken, New York Times, "James Welling; Los Angeles" September 19, 2003, p. B37
Miles, Christopher, Artforum, "James Welling: Regen Projects," June, 2003, p. 194, ill.
Tumlir, Jan, "80's Then." Artforum, April 2003, pp. 216–217, ills.
Ollman, Leah, Los Angeles Times, "Many Ways to Read a Photograph," May 2, 2003, p. E20
2001
Loreto, Katie Mondloch, "James Welling," Tema Celeste, September-October 2001, p. 85, ill.
Joselit, David, "Surface Histories: The Photography of James Welling," Art in America, May 2001, pp. 136- 143, ills.
Tillman, Lynne, "James Welling," Artforum, May, pp. 139 - 143, ills.
Jones, Karen, "James Welling," Frieze, May, pp. 99 - 100, ill.
Knight, Christopher, "The Melancholy Process, History of Photography," Los Angeles Times, May 8, p. F2, ills.
Zellen, Jody," Mining the Photographic Process," dArt International, Volume 4, No. 1, winter, pp.40, ill.
Aronson, Steven M.L., Architectual Digest, September 2001, p. 249 (ill. only)
2000
Relyea, Lane, "James Welling: Wexner Center for the Arts," Artforum, September, 2000, p. 171, ills.
Aletti, Vince, "James Welling," The Village Voice, October 3, p. 158
McNatt, Glenn, "Truth, Wonder and Photography," The Baltimore Sun, September 14, p. 1E
Giuliano, Mike, "James Welling Finds the Complexity in the Commonplace," City Paper (Baltimore), September 6, 2000, p. 37, ill.
Yates, Christopher A., "From Bright to Brooding, Welling's use of light runs the spectrum," Columbus Dispatch, May 21, 2000, ills.
"James Welling; Photographs, 1974-1999," Artforum, May, 2000
Welling, James, "Los Angeles Photographs 1976-78," October 91, Winter, 2000, pp. 81 - 100, ills.
Brooke Schleifer, Kristen, "James Welling: New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies," Art on Paper, July - August, 2000, p. 58, ill.
Ollmans, Leah, "Ambiguous Artifacts: James Welling and Sharon Lockhart," Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 3, 2000, Calendar F3
1999
Schmerler, Sarah, "Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue," Time Out New York, July 22 - 29, 1999, p. 80, ill.
"James Welling," Wexner Center for the Arts, 1999-2000 Season, pp. 100-101, ill.
Solomon, Deborah, "How to Succeed in Art," New York Times Magazine, June 27, 1999, pp. 38-41, ill.
"Working Proof: James Welling," Art on Paper, March-April, 1999, p.56, ill.
1998
Miller, Donald, "Intense photographic imagesrecall Pittsburgh's gritty past."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 28, 1998, p. D8, ill.
Shearing, Graham, "New Light on the Familiar," Pittsburgh Tribune Review, November 19, 1998, p.27, ill.
Cotter, Holland, "James Welling, 'Early Photographs: 1976 - 1985'," The New York Times, October 16, B35, ill.
Squiers, Carol, "A Slice of Light," Artforum, January, 1998, pp. 76-79, ills.
1997
Mitchell, Charles Dee, "James Welling at Jay Gorney," Art in America, July, p.92 Aletti, Vince, "Photo Short List: James Welling," The Village Voice, March 18, p. 11
Schmerler, Sarah, "James Welling, 'Light Sources'", Time Out New York, March 20-27, ill.
Squires, Carol, "James Welling," Grand Street, issue #61, pp. 160-8 (appreciation in "All-American" issue)
Welling, James, "Railroad Towns," Grand Street, issue #61, pp. 160-168 (photo portfolio in "All American" issue)
1996
Williams, Gilda, "Evident/The Photographers' Gallery", Art Monthly, London, December Cross, Andrew, "Evident," Great: The Magazine of The Photographers' Gallery, London, November/December, pp. 6-7
Cross, Andrew, "New Landscapes: Axel Hutte & James Welling," Creative Camera, London, October-November, pp. 8-17
Berriolo, Elana & Flexner, Roland, "Art in the Fokis," New Observations, Issue #110, p. 45
Frank, Peter, "James Luna, Allati Sekula, Deep Surface," L.A. Weekly, August 23-29
Pagel, David, "Meditations on Morality and the Depiction of Space," The Los
Angeles Times, August 22
Silver, Joanne, "Photography Distills Nature," Boston Sunday Herald, January 7, p. 42
1995
Grundberg, Andy, "Beyond Description: Content in Today's Photography," Independent Curators, New York, broadsheet
Unknown, L'Immagine Rifleash, Museo Pecci, Prato, unpaginated
Aletti, Vince, "Voice Choices: James Welling," Village Voice, December 19, p.10
Servatar, Stuart, "Art," New York Press, December 13-19, p. 76
Unknown, Whitney Center Pieces, Volume 2, No. 2, Whitney Center: Hamden, Bali
Grundberg, Andy, "James Welling," The New York Times, September 30
Bonetti, David, "Gallery Watch: Rena Bransten Gallery," San Francisco
Examiner, September 22, p. C-7
Auerbach, Lisa Anne, "James Welling: Regen Projects," Artforum, March
Medeiros, Margarida, "James Welling: Module," Publico, Lisboa, January 14
Medeiros, Margarida, "Paisageris e interiores," Publico, Lisboa, January 7
1994
Abrams, Janet, "The Solid Geometry of Sight," James Welling, Chicago:
Arts Club of Chicago, 1994
Battarra, Enzo, "La teoria? R un ginon di eventi," il Giornale di Napoli, June 30
Grundberg, Andy, "Who are the Most Underrated and Overrated Artists?" Art News, New York, February
Karmel, Pepe, "Out of the Ghetto," Artnews, April
Smith, Roberta, "Group Shows of Every Kind...," The New York Times, February 25
Thorkildsen, Asmund, Nettverk. Network, The Olympic Collection '94, De norske Bokklubbene AS: Oslo, p. 87
Wilson, Helen Miranda, Transport, Maler Museum of Art: Lynchburg, p.11
1993
Upshaw, Reagan, "James Welling at Jay Gorney," Art in America, December
1992
Deitcher, David, "Out of the Past," James Welling, Photographs, published by Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Thorkildsen, Asmund, "Forward," James Welling, Photographs, published by Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1990
Bianchi, Pado, "James Welling: Photography 1977-1990 at the Kunsthalle Bern," Kunstforum, November/December
Cueff, Alain, "Et Welling Aussi," Beaux Arts, #75, January
Loock, Ulrich, "Meanings at Our Disposal," Parachute, November/December
Raczka, Robert, "James Welling at Beaver College," New Art Examiner, February van den Boogerd, Dominic, "James Welling," Metropolis M, No. 5, October
1989
Decter, Joshua, "James Welling at Jay Gorney Modern Art," Flash Art, January/February
Goldstein, Ann, "Baim to Williams", A Forest of Signs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Haus, Mary, "150 Years of Potography," Artnews, April
Joselit, David, James Welling, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Nesweda, Peter, "The Yearning of a Society Without History," Der Standard May 10
Ostrow, Sol, Diagrams & Surrogates, Shea and Beker Gallery, New York, NY
Princenthal, Nancy, review, The Print Collector's Newsletter, vol XX, No. 1, March-April
Prodhon, Francoise-Claire, review, "James Welling at Samia Saouma, Paris," Flash Art
Unknown, "James Welling at Beaver College," The Philadelphia Enquirer, October 26
1988
Bankowsky, Jack, review, Flash Art, Spring
Fairbrother, Trevor, interview, Bi National: American Art of the Late 80's, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Johnson, Ken, review of show at Christine Burgin, Art in America, July
Kraus, Rosalind, "A Debate on Abstraction," Photography and Abstraction, May
Linsley, Robert, 'In Pursuit of the Vanishing Subject: James Welling and Rodney Graham," C magazine, Winter
Morgan, Robert, review, Arts Magazine, December
Ramsey, Ellen, "Rodney Graham, James Welling," Vanguard, February
1987
Ottman, Klaus, "The Spectacle of Chaos," Flash Art
Relaya, Lane, review of show at Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, L.A. Weekly, May
1986
Collins, Tricia and Milazzo, Richard, "James Welling: Party Favors," Kunstforum International, March/April/May
Decter, Joshua, review, Arts, February
Foster, Hal, "Signs Taken for Wonders," Art in America, May
Unknown, "Gelatin Photographs," File Magazine, #26
Welling, James, "Galgiani's Image," to accompany "Simple Conjunctions," an installation by Phillip Galgiani, San Francisco Museum of Art
1984
Grundberg, Andy, review, The New York Times, March 25
Johnson, Ken, review of show at Christine Burgin, Art in America, July
Unknown, Hybrid Neutral, curated by Collins & Milazzo, travelling exhibition
Unknown, "Images that Understand Us: A Conversation with David Salle and
James Welling," LAICA Journal, #40, Fall
Welling, James, "Abstract," Effects-Magazine for New Art Theory, #2
1983
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, In Plato's Cave, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, October-November
1982
Cook, Scott, Natural History, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Owens, Craig, "Back to the Studio," Art in America, January
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, "Playing the Fields of the Image," After Image, Summer
SELECTED SOLO & GROUP CATALOGUES, MONOGRAPHS AND GENERAL PUBLICATIONS
2013
Monograph, James Welling: Monograph, published by Aperture, New York, Spring 2013
2012
Catalogue, This Will Have Been, published by Yale University Press on the occasion of the exhibition, 2012, p.126-127
2010
Monograph, James Welling: Glass House, published by Damiani, Bologna, Italy, 2010
Catalogue, Cooke, Lynne and Douglas Crimp, Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present, published by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia: Madrid, 2010.
100 Masterpieces of Photography, edited by Quentin Bajac and Clement Cheroux, published by Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2010
2008
Catalogue, Whitney Biennial 2008, co-published by Whitney American
Museum of Art, New York, NY and Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 248-9, ills
2007
Catalogue, James Welling: Flowers, published by David Zwirner, New York, NY, 2007
2006
Ellipse Foundation: Contemporary Art Collection, published by Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal, Oct 2006,
Catalogue, The 1980s: A Topology, curated by Ulrich Loock, published by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal, 2006
No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, edited by Grancesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig, published by D.A.P., 2006, p. 400, ill.
Catalogue, Los Angeles 1955-1985, published by Centre Pompidou and Panama Musées, Paris, France, 2006, pp. 288-9, ill.
Catalogue, Dark Places, curated by Joshua Decter, published by Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California, 2006, pp. 19, ill.
2005
Kraus, Chris, Jan Tumlir, and Jane McFadden, L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, published by Black Dog Publishing, London, England, 2005, p. 165, ills.
2004
Artist Book, Agricultural Works & Insect Chorus, published by Minetta Brook 2004
Catalogue, 100 Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, published by Independent Curators International, New York, NY, p. 64, ill.
Catalogue, Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, published by CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, p. 52-53, ill.
Hamburg Kennedy, Marla and Ben Stiller, Looking at Los Angeles, published by Metropolis Books, 2004, p. 96, ill.
2003
Catalogue, Art and Photography, published by Phaidon, London, England, 2003, pp. 156, ill.
Catalogue, Subjective Realities: Works from the Refco Collections of Contemporary Photography, essay by Dave Hickey, published by Refco Group, Ltd., New York, NY, 2003
Catalogue, The Last Picture Show, published Walker Art Center, Minnapolis, MN, 2003, pp. 317-320
2002
Monograph, James Welling Abstract, published by Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Acquisitions 1992-2001, musee departemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, pp. 106, 107, ills.
2001
Monograph, James Welling: Untitled, 1981, published by Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Muller "James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999," The Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, June/July/August 2001, pgs. 2, 8, ills.
2000
Monograph, James Welling: Photographs 1974 - 1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, edited by Sarah J. Rogers, essay by Michael Fried, ills.
Catalogue, Contemporary Photographs, Group Lhoist Collection, edited by Jacqueline de Ponton D'Amecourt, ills.
1999
Catalogue, James Welling: New Abstractions, Sprengel Museum Hannover, essay by Alain Cueff, ills.
1998
Catalogue, James Welling, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, essay by Ulrich Loock, ills.
Catalogue, Dust Breeding; Photographs, Sculpture & Film, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Steve Wolfe, ill.
1996
James Welling: Light Sources, Gent, Imshoot, Uitgevers
1995
Schwarzwalder, Rosemarie, Klares Programm Galaria Arbeit Heute, Lindinger + Schmid, Regensburg, p. 77
Shimizu, Minoru, "The Photographic Invisible: James Welling and the Ontology of Photographic Expression," The Photographic Invisible: James Welling, published by Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
1994
Grundberg, Andy, "Photography Beside Itself," After Art: Rethinking 150
Years of Photography, University of Washington, Seattle and London, pp. 16, 116
Grosenick, Uta and Welling, James, James Welling: Wolfsburg, published by Cantz, Wolfsburg, Germany
Grosenick, Uta, "James Welling," Timing Up, published by Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Hagen, Charles, "Photograms Today, The Essence of Process," Experimental Vision. The Evolution of the Photogram since 1919, Roberts Rinehart: Niwot, pp. 80-81
1993
Kasahara, Michiko, "Refusal and Temptation to Interpret," James Welling, Photographs 1977-1993, published by Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan Michaels
Walter Benn, "The Shape of the Photograph," published by Emily Carr, College of Art, Vancouver Welling, James, Usines de Dentelle, published by Le Channel, Scene National de Calais, Calais, France
Michaels, Walter Benn and Queloz, Catherine, James Welling, published by Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Welling, James, James Welling: Les Voies Ferrees, St. Etienne et la Plan du Forez, published by Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, St. Etienne, France
19 Photographs, 1980, published by Sous-Sol, Ecole Superieure d'Art, Visuel, Geneva, Switzerland
1989
Krauss, Rosalind, Photography and Abstraction, published by Hunter College Art Gallery , New York, NY
Scheuer, Daniel, "150th at f2 Snapshots of Contemporary Art Photography," Center Quarterly: A Journal of Photography and Related Arts, vol. II, Number 1
Unknown, Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, published for Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, and Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1988
Fairbrother, Trevor, interview, Bi National: American Art of the Late 80's, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Grundberg, Andy, review, The New York Times, March 25
McCarthy Gauss, Kathleen, Photography and Art Interactions Since 1946, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Hoy, Anne H., Fabrications-Staged, Altered and Appropriated Photographs, published by Abbeville Press, New York, NY
Joselit, David, James Welling, published by Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria "Saying the Unsayable," Utopia Post Utopia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1987
Grundberg, Andy, "Camera Culture in a Postmodern Age," Photography and Art: 1946-1986, published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Unknown, "Untitled (Man, School, Shoe)," Skeptical Belief (s), published by The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL