Education
1965
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA
1967
University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, IL, USA
Though originally trained in painting, William Wegman is known for his photographic images featuring dogs — primarily his own Weimaraners — in various costumes and poses, and with an array of props. Wegman embarked on a 12-year collaboration with his first dog, Man Ray, who appeared in numerous photographs and videos. In 1986 Wegman acquired a new dog, Fay Ray, beginning a second collaboration in which the artist began using a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid; Wegman’s cast would grow after Fay Ray gave birth to a litter. He has also produced artist books in which his dogs feature as the lead characters, as in his much-loved dog version of Cinderella.
William Wegman (b. 1943, Holyoke) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018), Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland (2017) and Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York (2017). Numerous retrospectives of Wegman’s work have toured Europe, Asia and the United States and his work has been collected by prestigious public and private collections worldwide.
My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray – and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA
University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, IL, USA
Writing by Artist, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
Art by Artist, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Painting by Artist, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
80s Music, MLIS Artotheque, Villeurbanne, France
Postcard Works, Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris, France
Being Human, Christchurch Art Gallery
Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Outside In, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, USA
Mondo Animale, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Vogue, Imago Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, USA
Cinderalla Polaroids, Galerie Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY, USA
Sit!, Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, VA, USA
Being Human, Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, Arles, France
Instant Miami, Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
Improved Photographs, Telfair Museums Jepson Center, Savannah, GA, USA
Please Stand By, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
Reel to Real, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA
Dressed and Undressed, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Postcard Paintings, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
Drawings, Magenta Plains Gallery, New York, NY, USA
New and Used Furniture 1972-2015, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Good Dogs on Nice Furniture, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
Artists Including Me, The Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; traveling to the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Good Dogs on Nice Furniture, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Good Dogs on Nice Furniture, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Cubism and Other-Isms, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, USA
Good Dogs on Nice Furniture, Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Good Dogs on Nice Furniture & Cubism and Other -Isms, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Cubism and Other -Isms, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Way Up in Maine: The Works of William Wegman, Emery Flex Gallery, Farmington, NM, USA
The Traveler, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, USA
He Took Two Pictures, One Came Out, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Photographs and Drawings from the 1970s, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Eureka: William Wegman Photographs 1970-1975, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Artists Including Me, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
Drawings for a Better Tomorrow and a Worse Yesterday, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY, USA
Hello Nature, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA; traveled to Artipelag, Varmdo, Stockholm, Sweden
Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
New Photos, Galerie Bugdahn Und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Some Tricks, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Polaroids 1987-1995, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fay, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL, USA
Family Combinations, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Inside/Outside, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Paintings, Photographs, Video, Chang Art, Beijing, China
Out of the Box, Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turners Falls, MA, USA
Artspace@Heutrans, Tanjon Pagar Distripark, Singapore
Unexpected Wegman, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Fay, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA
New Work, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dogs on Rocks, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, USA
Photographs, Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, ME, USA
Fay, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA, USA
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, USA
New Paintings, Robilant and Voena, London, UK
Wegman Outdoors, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
William Wegman and no Dogs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Black and White Photographs, Galerie Wouter van Leewen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Funney/Strange, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA; travelled to: Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA. The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
New & Improved (1974-2006), Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich, Germany
Man’s Best Friend: Photographs and Videos, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Strange But True, Hudson Guild, New York, NY, USA
Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, USA
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA
deprises et reprises :annotations, corrections et deplacements: 1969-2003, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France
Recent Paintings, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Recent Polaroids, Galerie Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Selected Polaroids From the Early Nineties, Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Charlotte Lund Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Recent Polaroids, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Centro Jose Guerrero, Diputacion de Granada, Spain; Artium, Vitoria, Spain
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Winston Wacter, Seattle, WA, USA
Galleria Cardi & Co, Milan, Italy
VB-valokuvakeskus photographic centre, Kuopio, Finland
Recent Polaroids, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
New Pigment Prints, Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Paintings, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
Reading Two Books, Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
William Wegman in the 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, Creative Time and Panasonic, New York, NY, USA
Indian in the Refrigerator and other printed works, Printed Matter, New York, NY, USA
Recent Work, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA
Roman Zenner, Stuttgart, Germany
Fashion Photographs…and More: Works on Paper and Video, 1970 to 2001, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Early Video / Recent Video, New Drawings / Earlier Paintings; Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Photo + Drawing + Video = William Wegman, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Savage, Portland, OR, USA
Early Drawings / Early Video, Recent Drawings / Recent Video, Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, NY, USA
Serie “La Iglesia”, Galeria De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Fashion Photographs, Contemporary Art Museum, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
Drawings, Photographs and Videos: 1970 – 2000, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
Fashion Photographs, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
A Brief Survey of Earlier Work, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
Fashion Photographs, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, USA
Early Works, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Pillsbury Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Photography, Video, Drawing and Painting, 1970 – 2000, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The McKinney Ave Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA
Canis Ecclesiorum, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, USA
Fashion Photographs, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Once Upon a Time: Contemporary Art for Children for Childrens Books, Cleveland
Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Art in the News, The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, FL, USA
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
Drawing, Video Painting, Photography, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA
Return of the Weimaraner, ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany
Durant-Dessert Gallery, Paris, France
Fashion Photographs, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
William Wegman, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden; Museet for Fotokunst,
Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense C, Denmark; Kiasma, Nykyaiteen Museo, Finland
PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY, USA
PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Saks Project Art, Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA
Recent Work, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
Strange But True, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA, USA
Fay’s Fairy Tales, Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
William Wegman, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museum “EKI,” Kyoto, Japan
Drawings 1973-1997, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Limousin, Limoges, France
Lost and Found, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Six Scenic Scenes, The Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Jay Gorney Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Paintings, Drawing, Photographs, Videotapes, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO, USA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, USA; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, USA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, USA; Austin Museum of Art, TX, USA; The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN, USA; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, USA; Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, USA; Art Center of Battle Creek, MI, USA (traveling 1996-1999)
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Galleri Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden
Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, USA
Fay, New York, April 1994, Photokina 96, Leverkusen, Germany
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
A William Wegman Primer: Shapes, Numbers and Alphabet, George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, USA
Photographs, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Weimar den Weimaranern, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
PaceWildenstein/MacGill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anderson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Kristina Wasserman Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
Campbell Contemporary Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA
David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Edition Julie Sylvester, New York, NY, USA
William Wegman, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Hamiltons, London, UK
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
William Wegman’s Cinderella, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Out of Doors, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA
William Wegman, Museo de Monterrey, Mexico
Fay’s Fairy Tales, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA; Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Field Guide to North America, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, USA
Paintings and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Outdoor Photographs, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, New York, NY, USA
Photographic Works 1969-76, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Limousin, Limoges, France
Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The History of Travel, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA; The Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH, USA
Galerie 36, Lucerne, Switzerland
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland; ICA, London, UK; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; ICA, Boston, MA, USA; Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
La Jolla Vista View, The Stuart Collection, University of San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Polaroids and Videos, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Thomas Soloman’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA, USA
New Paintings, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Photographs, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
Man Ray Commemorative Prints, Solo Gallery, New York, NY, USA
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Color Photographs, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Improved Photographs, Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Instant Miami, Lowe Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Local Boy Makes Good, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Videoworks, Institute of Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA, USA
Wegman’s Photographs from the Ed Ruscha Collection and Wegman’s Videotapes: Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
$19.84, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, USA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Locus Solus, Genoa, Italy
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Wegman’s World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA; De Cordova & Dana Museum & Park, Lincoln, MA, USA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, IL, USA; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Selected Works 1970-79, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, CO, USA; Aspen Center for Visual Arts, Aspen, CO, USA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, UK
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
Mayor Gallery, London, UK
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
112 Greene Street, New York, NY, USA
Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Francoise Lambert and Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Situation Gallery, London, UK
Pomona College of Art, Pomona, CA, USA
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
William Wegman