Solo exhibitions

2024

(Pre)History Lessons, or: How [Have] Can People Live Together?

2023

Broken Waves Sky, Good Weather, Chicago

Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York

2021

Oreilles Internaxionales, Basel

2020

Kai Matsumiya, New York

2017

Kai Matsumiya, New York

2004

Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva

If You See Something, Say Something, Gallery 2, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

M-Projects, Paris

2002

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

2000

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1998

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1997

Gallerie Nelson, Paris

1995

Galerie Analix, B & L Polla, Geneva

1990

Magnascanner 3000, Project Room, Paula Allen Gallery, New York

Selected group exhibitions

2025

Pressure: Tony Cokes, Liz Deschenes, Craig Kalpakjian April 26–June 21, 2025, Good Weeather, Chicago

2022

The Commercial Show, Oreilles Internaxionales, Basel

Art Basel OVR:2021; Feb 9-12

2021

“Missing Target”, Kai Matsumiya, New York

Greene Naftali Gallery, East Hampton, NY

From Disco to Disco, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2019

Distance of the Moon, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Standalone, Craig Kalpakjian & Andrew Ross, Kai Matsumiya, New York

In Real Life: Koenig & Clinton

Carriage Trade, New York

2018

Photography to End All Photography, Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark

Walking Point, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2017

Truth Bistro, Kai Matsumiya, New York

2016

The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Don't Make a Scene, Kai Matsumiya, New York

Foundation Barbin, Kai Matsumiya, New York

2015

An Expanded Field of Photography, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA

Works on Paper, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2014

Vertigo, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York

The Optical Unconscious / Das Optische Unbewusste, Organized by Bob Nickas, Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland

2013

Drone: The Automated Image, Le Mois De La Photo a Montreal, Vox centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal

2012

After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Blind Cut, curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York

2011

14 & 15, 885 Third Ave, New York

Entertainment, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2010

Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual, selected by Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York

The Evryali Score, curated by Olivia Shao, David Zwirner, New York

2008

Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Digital With Monument, Silver Shed, New York

2007

Bring The War Home, organized by Drew Heitzer, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, and QED, Los Angeles

The Happiness of Objects, The Sculpture Center, New York

2006

Slow Burn, curated by Jonah Freeman, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva

Middle Ground, Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York

2005

Vanishing Point, The Wexner Center For The Arts, Columbus, OH

The Elated Pedestrian, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles

Out of Place, The UBS Art Gallery, New York

2004

Photography Reborn, Ramapo College, New Jersey

Villette numérique 2004, Parc De La Villette, Paris

2003

Filme: Sarah Morris, Darren Almond, Paul Morrison, Craig Kalpakjian, Haluk Akakçe, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

The Affair is Over: photography by gallery artists, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Nown, curated by Michele Thursz, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh

2002

Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Bitstreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Situated Realities, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

2001

010101: Art In Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

2000

Scanner, curated by Larry Rinder, CCAC Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco

Dusk, curated by David Hunt, I-20 Gallery, New York

Architectural Constructs in Contemporary Photography, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

NYC Projects, Delfina Gallery, London

The Constructed Real, Elias Fine Art, Boston

1998

Super Freaks - Post Pop & The New Generation II: Odyssey

1995

Derek Jarman, Craig Kalpakjian, Julia Sher, Andrea Rosen, New York

1992

The Real Thing

1991

Decorous Beliefs curated by Kenny Schachter, Natalie Rivera, New York

1990

Devon Dikeou, Graham Durward, Craig Kalpakjian, Paula Allen Gallery, New York

Brut 90, White Columns, New York

Societal Images, White Columns, New York

1989

American Fine Arts, Co. / Colin De Land Fine Art

Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Art Institute of Chicago, New York

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Yvonne Force & Leo Villareal, New York

Tom Ford & Richard Buckley, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Jane Furse & John Friedman, New York

Group Lhoist Collection, Belgium

Olivier Renaud-Clémont, New York

Sebastian Sainsbury, London

Kenny Schachter & Ilona Rich, London

Hedi Slimane, Paris

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