Education
2002 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1999 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Securities and Exchanges, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, September 24 - November 20, 2011, in collaboration with Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA Diapositives, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium, September 9 - October 15, 2011
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA Walead Beshty, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, February 18-tbd
2009 Legibility on Color Backgrounds, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Pulleys, Cogwheels, Mirrors, and Windows, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (Ex. cat) Popular Mechanics, Wallspace, New York, NY Passages, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA Production Stills, Thomas Dane, London, UK
2008 Science Concrète, China Art Objects Galleries/Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Industrial Pictures, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2007 The Grey Cloth, Das Institut im Glaspavillon/Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany
2006 The Maker and the Model, Wallspace, New York, NY Hammer Project: Walead Beshty, EMBASSY! (a dismal science waiting room), Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Parks, Hotels & Palaces, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2004 The Body-Body Problem, Wallspace, New York, NY The Phenomenology of Shopping and Dead Malls—curated by Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010 Later Layer, collaboration with JohnstonMarklee Architects, Istituto Italiana di
Cultura, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Plug n Play, Karl Haendel & Walead Besthy, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Walead Beshty, Karl Haendel, Patrick Hill —curated by Betty Nguyen, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA Walead Beshty, Kelley Walker, Christopher Williams, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Walead Beshty & James Welling, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Devouring Time, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, February 17 – April 7, 2012
I Think and That Is All That I Am," Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 20- March 3, 2012
Out of Control, NEST, the Hague, Netherlands, January 29 – March 4, 2012
2011
Antidote 7, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, October 6, 2011 - January 7, 2012
More American Photographs, Curated by Jens Hoffmann, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, October 4 – December 17, 2011, Travels to MCA Denver, March 1 – June 3, 2012; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, January 26 – April 7, 2013
The Boy Who Robbed You a Few Minutes Before Arriving at the Ball, Curated by Regina Fiorito and Kelley Walker, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, July 2 – September 3, 2011
2010 Bedtime for Bonzo, M + B, Los Angeles, CA Pleated Blinds—curated by Ory Dessau, Petach Tikva Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (Ex. cat) Let's Dance, Musee d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France (Ex. cat) Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 31, 2010-January 31, 2011. Milk Drop Coronet: Exhibitions on the Virtuosity of Thingness, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria On Mistakes, Restrictions, Failures - and other positive things, Gesellschaft Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany At Home/ Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, curated by Matthew Higgs, Center for Curatorial Studies Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (Ex.cat) The Traveling Show, La Colleccion Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Performance/Video —curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (Ex.cat) Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, Barbara Kasten, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL – (collaboration with Karl Haendel) Photogenic, Blanket, Vancouver, Canada De Rigueur, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France A Very, Very Long Cat, Wallspace, New York, NY
2009 Radical Autonomy, Le Grand Café, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France Noise—curated by Negar Azimi, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon Proposal (Nacht Und Tråume) for Stavanger —curated by Vincent Honoré, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway Hyperborean Manners, Rob Tufnell, London, UK New Photography: 2009—curated by Eva Respini, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Radical Autonomy—curated by Arno van Roosmalen, Le Grand Café, Centre d'Art Contemporain, St. Nazaire, France Prune—Abstracting Reality —curated by Kathy Ryan, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Elements of Photography—curated by Michael Green, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL FIVE: Walead Beshty, Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Sterling Ruby, and Kelley Walker, Baibakov Projects, Moscow, Russia Still Revolution: Suspended in Time—curated by David Liss and Bonnie Rubenstein, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ontario, Canada Our Mirage, Art:Concept, Paris, France. Phot(o)bjects—curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Altermodern: The Tate Triennial—curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, The Tate Britain,London, UK The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY Photography in the Abstract—curated by Maureen Mahony, Lora Roberts Gallery, Austin, TX To Be Determined, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY The Photographic Object: between sculpture and photography—curated by Clare Grafik, The Photographer's Gallery, London, UK
2008 Now You See It—curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Aspen Art Museum,Aspen, CO (Ex. cat) Objects of Value—curated by Rene Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL The World Is All That Is The Case—curated by Arthur Ou, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY 2008 California Biennial—curated by Lauri Firstenberg, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA/Estacion, Tijuana, Mexico (Ex. cat) Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany (Ex.cat) Signs of the Time—curated by Elisabeth Sussman, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Light of the Virgo, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA the sickness of the hunting—curated by Gilbert Perlein, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (Ex. cat) Word Event (After George Brecht)—curated by Maxine Kopsa and Roos Gortzak, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Los Angeles Confidential—curated by Sandra Patron, Centre d' Art Contemporain, San Léger, France Open Sky, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria No Room–curated by Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time, Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany Please Stay out We're Open, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 2008 Biennial Exhibition—curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Ex. cat) Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection—curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY Past-Forward—curated by Vincent Honoré, Project Space 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (Ex. cat) Le Retour, Nice & Fit, Berlin, Germany The Unfair Fair, 1:1 Projects, Rome, Italy (Ex. cat)
2007 Recent Acquisitions, the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY From a Distance—curated by Vincent Honoré, Wallspace, New York, NY Meanwhile in Baghdad—curated by Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL I am Eyebeam—organized by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Anything You Want: Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, Annette Kelm, Pump House Gallery, London, UK 88:88, The Project, New York, NY Concrete Works, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY Radiant City, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA Between Two Deaths—curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (Ex.cat) Imaging & Imagining California, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport,CA The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life—curated by Peter Zellner, UCR Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA The Backroom—curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle and Renaud Proch, La Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico, and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France Secretariat—curated by Geof Oppenheimer, Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA Out of Body, Level B Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY Hammer Contemporary Collection Part I, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Spectral Evidence—curated by Steven Lam, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Looking Back: The White Columns Annual—curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY The California Biennial—curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Karen Moss, and Rita Gonzalez, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (Ex. cat) Chaos or Control Perloff Hall—curated by James Welling, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Dice Thrown (will never annul chance)—curated by Joåo Ribas and Becky Smith, Bellwether, New York, NY Walead Beshty, David Korty, Jon Pylypchuk, Pae White, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Walead Beshty, Roe Etheridge, Philip Lorca-diCorcia, Stephen Shore, Christopher Williams, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium Bring the War Home—curated by Drew Heitzler, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York/ QED, Los Angeles Walead Beshty, Kim Fisher, John Pylypchuk, Pae White, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Studio City, Tel Aviv, Israel—curated by Efrat Shalem. Traveling to Pescali & Sprovieri, Tal Esther Gallery, London, UK
2005 The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography—curated by Christina Kukielski, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Champion Fine Art: 2003-2005—curated by Drew Heitzler and Flora Wiegmann, Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA The Back Room—curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle and Renaud Proch, Los Angeles, CA Rub out the Word—curated by Michael Wilson, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY Gallery Exchange, (with China Art Objects Galleries), Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Precious Moments—curated by Josh Kline, Joymore, Brooklyn, NY Post No Bills—curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY Bebe le Strange—curated by Rachel Uffner and Barb Choit, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY Sugartown, Participant Inc., New York, NY Bucolica, Wallspace, New York, NY Walead Beshty, Sean Landers, Erlea Maneros, JP Munroe, and Andy Ouchi, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists—curated by Daniel Kunitz & Joåo Ribas, Phillips, de Pury & Company, New York, NY What Once Passed For Future or Landscapes of the Living Dead—curated by Magali Arriola, Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA The February Show—curated by Chris Lipomi, Los Angeles, CA Manufactured Self—curated by Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2004 UPSTREAM: Idea Drawings—curated by Chris Lipomi, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Inaugural Exhibition, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA Buy American—curated by Joe Scanlan, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France Cool Intentions—curated by Alex Israel, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA Behind Closed Doors, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art—curated by Rachel R. Lafo,DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (Ex. cat)
2003 Photography For People; For Us, Wallspace, New York, NY Ad Hoc Artists Committee to End Israeli West-Bank Occupation, Knitting Factory, New York, NY Anti-Social—curated by Mark Wyse, Wallspace, New York, NY Control, Escape, Delete—curated by David Hilliard, Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO Photo ID—curated by Titia Hulst, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2010 Day & Night—curated by Charlotte Sprogoe and Jesper Elg, public works group exhibition (in conjunction with the Danish Arts Council and the Municipality of Copenhagen on the occasion of the 2010 Copenhagen Photo Festival), Copenhagen, Denmark
Site-specific billboard installations
2009
Billboard Project, Dust (2007-2008), 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, March 16 - April 18, 2009, Los Angeles, California, 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Site-specific billboard at 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA (in conjunction with Passages, LA>
Docent Workshop, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Workshop with museum docents creating cyanotype photograms on the grounds of the Sculpture Garden (in conjunction with Legibility on Color Backgrounds, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC)
2006
Film Screening, "24 hour Armageddon: A Cold War Slumber Party", Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2006),
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007), Kadist Foundation, Paris, France (2007), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2008)
24-hour film screening of disaster films
CURATION
2010 Sunless, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2007 There is Always a Background/CMYK, Curated project of magazine based works for Cabinet Magazine, Fall
2006 The Gold Standard -- co-curated with Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 24 Hour Armageddon: A Cold War Slumber Party, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (In conjunction with Embassy!)
2005 Invisible Hands and The Common Good, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA. Participating Artists: Joe Scanlan, Stephen Shore, Kelley Walker, James Welling, Eric Wesley, and Carey Young Pictures Are The Problem, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY. Participating Artists: Øystein Aasan, Shannon Ebner, Isa Genzken, Chris Lipomi, Erlea Maneros, Emily Newman, Jesse Reed, Martha Rosler, Erika Vogt, Kelley Walker, and Lawrence Weiner.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2008-
Associate Professor of Fine Art, Core Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Graduate Art Department, Pasadena, California.
Graduate Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
2007-2008
Visiting Professor in Residence, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Graduate Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
2006-2007
Visiting Professor (Department of Art) California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
Visiting Faculty, Roski Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Visiting Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Lecturer (Department of Art) University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Curatorial Board Member, Art 2102, Los Angeles, California.
2005-2006
Full-time Visiting Faculty (Department of Art) California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
Visiting Faculty (Department of Critical Studies) California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
Lecturer (Visiting Faculty, Department of Art) University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
2004-2005
Lecturer (Visiting Faculty, Department of Art) University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Visiting Artist (Department of Art) California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
Lecturer (Department of Art) University of California, Irvine.
2003-2004
Lecturer (Department of Art) University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Lecturer (Department of Art) University of California, Irvine, California.
Visiting Artist (Department of Art) California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
2002-2003
Lecturer (Department of Art) University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), Department of Art History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
GUEST LECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST POSITIONS
2010
Fellowship and Artist Lecture, Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow, Pilara Foundation, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Juror, McKnight Fellowship for Photographers, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
In Conversation: Walead Beshty and Eva Respini, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Artist Lecture, MassArt Photography Lecture Series, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Symposium, "Is Photography Over?", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. with Vince Aletti, George Baker, Jennifer Blessing, Charlotte Cotton, Geoff Dyer, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Okwui Enwezor, Peter Galassi, Corey Keller, Douglas Nickel, Trevor Paglen, Kathy Ryan, Blake Stimson, and Joel Snyder
Symposium, "Blurring the Lines: Art, Architecture and Design", Third Annual Dallas Design Symposium, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. Moderator: Jeremy Strick, with Terence Riley, James Carpenter, Sharon Johnston & Mark Lee
Roundtable Discussion, "Uncertain Objects: A Panel Discussion on the Confluence of Art, Design, and Architecture", Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA. Moderator: Helen Varola, with Sharon Johnston & Mark Lee, and T Kelly Mason
2009
Artist Lecture, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Artist Lecture, John Morton Lecture in Photography, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Artist Lecture, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
In Conversation: Walead Beshty and Jacob Proctor, (On the occasion of Pulleys, Cogwheels, Mirrors, and Windows), University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Roundtable Discussion, "After Materiality and Style" (On the occasion of The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, Museum of Modern Art, New York), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Moderator: Aram Moshayedi, with Carter Mull, Erika Vogt, and Elad Lassry
In Conversation: Walead Beshty and Evelyn Hankins, (On the occasion of Legibility on Color Backgrounds), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Artist Lecture, Paul Branch Lecture Series, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2008
Walead Beshty and James Welling in Conversation: Whitney Biennial Lecture Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, All School: Graduate School of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007
Panel Discussion, "Meanwhile in Baghdad," The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Panel Discussion, "The De-Instrumentalization of Avant-Garde Aesthetics" (On the occasion of Lazalo Moholy-Nagy and Joseph Albers: From the Bauhaus to the New World), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, Zentrum fur Kunst und Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Artist Lecture, Kadist Foundation, Paris, France
Artist Lecture, Graduate Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Artist Lecture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Artist Lecture, Graduate Lecture Series, Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA
Artist Lecture, Graduate Lecture Series, University of California, Irivine, Irvine, CA
2006
Artist Lecture, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA
Roundtable Discussion, "Chaos or Control", UCLA School of Architecture and Design, Los Angeles, CA. With George Baker, Eve Fowler, Arthur Ou, and James Welling
Symposium, "Fear", California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Artist Lecture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2005
Artist Lecture, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Visiting Artist Lecture, Handtman Photography Lecture Series, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Visiting Artist Lecture (School of Art), Otis, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture (School of Art), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Artist Lecture (Department of Art), Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA
Panelist, UCLA Juried Exhibition, with Barbara Drucker, Lauri Firstenberg, and Lari Pittman, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Symposium, SPE West (Conference on the Western Landscape),
University of Nevada, Reno. Delivered the lecture, "City Without Qualities: Photography, Cinema, and the Post-Apocalyptic Ruin."
Artist Lecture (Department of Art), Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA
Panelist, UCLA Juried Exhibition, with James Welling, Mary Kelley and Mari Eastman, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Guest Critic (Undergraduate Senior Project Review), Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Artist Lecture (Digital Media Seminar), Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Artist Lecture in the History of Photography (Advanced Photography), Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
The Francis Lehmann Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY.
FRAC Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France.
The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA.
The Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, NY.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI.
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.