
John Waters
lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland
1946 Born in BaltimoreEducation
Graduated from Boy’s Latin School, Maryland (K-12)
Prizes and Awards
1997 Jack Smith Lifetime Achievement Award, Chicago Underground Film Festival
1999 Filmmaker on the Edge Award, Provincetown International Film Festival
2003 Coper Wing Tribute Award, Pheonix Film Festival
2004 Stephen F. Kolzak Award, GLAAD Media Awards
2017 Ian McLellan Hunter Award, Writer’s Guild Award
2017 Timeless Star Award, Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association
| feb 02 - apr 21 2019 | Indecent Exposure | Wexner Center of the Arts,
Ohio |
| sep 21 2016 - jan 22 2017 | Black Box: Kiddie Flamingos | Baltimore Museum of Modern Art,
Baltimore, USA |
| aug 14 - nov 01 2015 | How much can you take? | Kunsthaus Zurich |
| jul 01 - aug 15 2015 | Beverly Hills John | Sprüth Magers London |
| jan 10 - feb 14 2015 | BEVERLY HILLS JOHN | Marianne Boesky Gallery,
New York |
| sep 05 - sep 14 2014 | Fifty Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take? | Film society of Lincoln Center,
New York |
| feb 07 - apr 12 2014 | Bad Director’s Chair | Sprüth Magers Berlin |
| oct 01 - nov 26 2011 | John Waters | Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans |
| mar 15 - apr 14 2011 | John Waters: Neurotic | McClain Gallery,
Houston |
| may 27 - jul 10 2010 | John Waters: Rush | Rena Bransten Gallery,
San Francisco |
| jan 20 - feb 27 2010 | John Waters: Versailles | C. Grimaldis Gallery,
Baltimore |
| aug 14 - sep 15 2009 | John Waters: Neurotic | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| apr 11 - may 22 2009 | John Waters: Rear Projection | Gagosian Gallery,
Los Angeles |
| apr 03 - may 02 2009 | John Waters: Rear Projection | Marianne Boesky Gallery,
New York |
| oct 11 2008 - jan 11 2009 | Artistically Incorrect: The Photographs and Sculpture of John Waters | Laumeier Sculpture Park,
St. Louis |
| jul 12 - aug 18 2007 | John Waters | Rena Bransten Gallery,
San Francisco |
| oct 07 - oct 28 2006 | John Waters: Eat Me | Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans |
| oct 06 - dec 11 2006 | John Waters: Unwatchable Series | 21c Museum Hotel,
Louisville |
| jun 16 - jul 06 2006 | John Waters | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| apr 21 - may 20 2006 | John Waters: Unwatchable | Marianne Boesky Gallery,
New York |
| apr 21 - may 20 2006 | John Waters: Unwatchable | de Pury & Luxembourg Gallerie,
Zurich |
| mar 03 - apr 01 2006 | John Waters | The University of Alabama at Birmingham - The Visual Arts Gallery,
Birmingham |
| oct 30 2005 - jan 15 2006 | John Waters: Change of Life | Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach |
| jun 17 - jul 07 2005 | Condemned | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| may 21 - sep 04 2005 | John Waters: Change of Life | The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh |
| jan 08 - feb 26 2005 | John Waters: Greatest Hits 1994-2004 | Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans |
| may 29 - aug 22 2004 | John Waters: Change of Life | Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland |
| apr 01 - may 08 2004 | Last Call; Photographs and Sculpture | Greg Kucera Gallery,
Seattle |
| feb 07 - may 02 2004 | John Waters: Change of Life | New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York |
| nov 20 2003 - jan 03 2004 | Flop | Rena Bransten Gallery,
San Francisco |
| jul 10 - aug 15 2003 | Hair In The Gate | Portfolio Group-Salon Privé,
Santa Fe |
| jun 18 - jul 06 2003 | Hair In The Gate | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| feb 21 - mar 22 2003 | Hair In The Gate | American Fine Arts CO.,
New York |
| - 2003 | John Waters | Jurgen Becker,
Hamburg |
| nov 01 - dec 01 2002 | Straight to Video | C. Grimaldis Gallery,
Baltimore |
| jun 06 - jun 29 2002 | Low Definition: Photographs and Sculpture | Greg Kucera Gallery,
Seattle |
| jun 01 - jul 19 2002 | John Waters | Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans |
| feb 25 - may 04 2002 | John Waters: Retard | Galleria Emi Fontana,
Milan |
| feb 14 - mar 16 2002 | Straight to Video | Rena Branston Gallery,
San Francisco |
| dec 08 2001 - jan 19 2002 | John Waters | Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin,
Paris |
| jun 21 - jul 31 2001 | John Waters | Galeria Marta Cervera,
Madrid |
| nov 17 - dec 30 2000 | Straight to Video | American Fine Arts CO.,
New York |
| jun 11 - jul 31 2000 | John Waters | Georg Kargl Fine Arts,
Vienna |
| apr 01 - apr 29 2000 | John Waters | Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans |
| dec 10 1999 - jan 10 2000 | Low Definition | Parco Gallery,
Tokyo |
| jun 18 - jul 01 1999 | Low Definition | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| jun 05 - jul 31 1999 | Director’s Cut | Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin,
Paris |
| jun 02 - aug 21 1999 | John Waters: Photograph | Wexner Center for the Arts,
Columbus |
| may 20 - jun 19 1999 | My Little Movies: Photographic Works | Aeroplastics Contemporary,
Brussels |
| nov 07 - nov 28 1998 | Low Definition | American Fine Arts CO.,
New York |
| jun 18 - jul 31 1998 | Marks | Gavin Brown’s Enterprise,
New York |
| jun 20 - jul 26 1997 | Director’s Cut | PaceWildenstein MacGill,
Los Angeles |
| jun 07 - jun 30 1997 | John Waters | Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans |
| may 20 - may 24 1997 | John Waters | Galleria Emi Fontana,
Milan |
| apr 25 - may 30 1997 | My Little Movies | Galerie Christian Nagel,
Cologne |
| nov 09 - nov 30 1996 | Director’s Cut | American Fine Arts CO.,
New York |
| apr 22 - may 20 1995 | My Little Movies | American Fine Arts CO.,
New York |
| may 13 - nov 26 2017 | 57th Venice Biennale: Viva Arte Viva | A.o., John Waters | 57th Biennale,
Venice |
| mar 16 - apr 15 2017 | The Intricacies of Love | A.o., John Waters | Bronx Art Space,
New York, USA |
| sep 17 - oct 29 2016 | Ill Seen lll Said | A.o., John Waters | White Flag Projects,
St. Louis, USA |
| jul 22 - aug 11 2016 | Catastophe, curated by John Waters | John Waters | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown, USA |
| may 28 - sep 04 2016 | Allure [frz. style, elegance] – Photograph from the Susanne von Meiss Collection | A.o., John Waters | C|O Berlin, D |
| apr 15 - may 28 2016 | Home Improvements, curated by John Waters | John Waters | Fraenkel Gallery,
San Francisco, USA |
| mar 18 - aug 21 2016 | L’image vole (The stolen image) | A.o., John Waters | Fondazione Prada,
Milan, I |
| mar 18 - may 07 2016 | These American Lives | A.o., John Waters | Rena Bransten Projects,
San Francisco, USA |
| feb 07 - may 08 2016 | New Arrivals: Maryland Artists | A.o., John Waters | The Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore, USA |
| jul 11 - aug 15 2015 | Queer Fantasy | A.o., John Waters | OHWOW,
Los Angeles |
| feb 08 - may 03 2015 | The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin deWoody Collects | A.o., John Waters | Norton Museum,
West Palm Beach |
| jan 26 - mar 26 2015 | Side Show | A.o., John Waters | Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art,
New Haven |
| jan 12 2015 - apr 23 2014 | Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation | A.o., John Waters | Boca Museum of Art,
Boca Raton |
| jan 09 - jan 13 2015 | PRIVATE! A SMALL COLLECTION | A.o., John Waters | Werkschau photo15 |
| nov 14 2014 - jan 10 2015 | Reinging Cats and Dogs | A.o., John Waters | Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco |
| mar 15 - may 18 2014 | Wörter als Türen in Sprache, Kunst, Film | A.o., David Lamelas, John Waters | Künstlerhaus KM - Halle für Kunst & Medien,
Graz |
| sep 07 - sep 28 2013 | More Than A Likeness | A.o., John Waters | McClain Gallery,
Houston, Texas |
| sep 06 - oct 25 2013 | (con)TEXT | A.o., John Waters | Sharon Arts Center,
Manchester |
| mar 08 - jun 16 2013 | Brilliant Disguise | A.o., Cindy Sherman, John Waters | Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans |
| sep 04 2012 - jan 06 2013 | Art=Text=Art | A.o., Ed Ruscha, John Waters | Zimmerli Art Museum - Rutgers,
New Brunswick |
| sep 08 - oct 22 2011 | Word Up! | A.o., John Waters | Benrimon Contemporary,
New York |
| aug 17 - oct 16 2011 | Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists | A.o., John Waters | University of Richmond Museum,
Richmond |
| jul 29 - sep 30 2011 | PULP: Work on Paper/Works with Paper | A.o., John Waters | Beta Pictoris Gallery,
Birmingham |
| jun 11 2011 - jul 29 2012 | Absentee Landlord: Curated by John Waters | A.o., John Waters | Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis |
| apr 02 - may 08 2011 | Notes on Notes on Camp | A.o., John Waters | Invisible Exports,
New York |
| feb 20 - may 15 2011 | Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960 | A.o., John Waters | Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore |
| oct 15 2010 - jan 09 2011 | Ordinary Madness | A.o., John Waters | Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh |
| oct 09 2010 - sep 04 2011 | What Makes Us Smile | A.o., John Waters | American Visionary Art Museum,
Baltimore |
| aug 15 - sep 30 2010 | A Total Trash Show | A.o., John Waters | A440,
San Francisco |
| jun 25 - jul 15 2010 | Night | A.o., John Waters | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| jun 20 - sep 26 2010 | Funny Bones: Humor in Contemporary Art | A.o., John Waters | John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan |
| may 05 - jul 11 2010 | Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation | A.o., John Waters | Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery,
Los Angeles |
| feb 13 - apr 03 2010 | Think Pink | A.o., John Waters | Gavlak Gallery,
Palm Beach |
| oct 17 2009 - jan 31 2010 | Unnatural Rubber | A.o., John Waters | The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh |
| jul 02 - aug 08 2009 | Decline and Fall | A.o., John Waters | Rena Bransten Gallery,
San Francisco |
| jul 01 - aug 22 2009 | Summer ’09 | A.o., John Waters | C. Grimaldis Gallery,
Baltimore |
| may 29 - aug 30 2009 | The Making of Art | A.o., John Waters | Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt |
| may 02 - jun 27 2009 | Practice, Practice, Practice | A.o., John Waters | Lora Reynolds Gallery,
Austin |
| feb 18 - apr 04 2008 | REGIFT | A.o., John Waters | Swiss Institute Contemporary Art,
New York |
| - 2008 | .meta | A.o., John Waters | Linfield Gallery/Linfield College,
Oregon |
| dec 03 2007 - jan 27 2008 | Season's Greetings - Contemporary Photography | A.o., John Waters | de Pury & Luxembourg Gallerie,
Zurich |
| sep 01 - nov 18 2007 | A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art | A.o., John Waters | Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum,
New Brunswick |
| jun 15 - jul 07 2007 | Eliminate | A.o., John Waters | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| jun 01 - sep 03 2007 | Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art | A.o., John Waters | Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale |
| apr 27 - jun 10 2007 | Dialogues & Attitudes | A.o., John Waters | Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Budapest |
| jan 20 - apr 29 2007 | Celebrity | A.o., John Waters | Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
Scottsdale |
| oct 29 2006 - jan 15 2007 | Defamation of Character | A.o., John Waters | P.S. 1 MoMA,
New York |
| sep 09 - dec 31 2006 | Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art | A.o., John Waters | The Contemporary Museum,
Honolulu |
| sep 01 - oct 29 2006 | Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture | A.o., John Waters | University of Virginia Art Museum,
Charlottesville |
| jun 10 - sep 10 2006 | Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art | A.o., John Waters | Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Canada |
| jun 08 - aug 12 2006 | Not Gay Art Now | A.o., John Waters | Paul Kasmin Gallery,
New York |
| mar 18 - apr 22 2006 | As Good As Your Next Gig | A.o., John Waters | Walter Maciel Gallery,
Los Angeles |
| feb 04 - apr 09 2006 | Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art | A.o., John Waters | Cultural Center,
Chicago |
| feb 04 - apr 16 2006 | 100 Artists See God | A.o., John Waters | Cheekwood Museum of Art,
Nashville |
| jan 19 - mar 11 2006 | Hollywood Boulevard | A.o., John Waters | Fortes Vilaça Gallery,
Sao Paulo |
| jan 04 - jan 28 2006 | Through the Lens II | A.o., John Waters | C. Grimaldis Gallery,
Baltimore |
| nov 19 - dec 24 2005 | The Comeback Exhibition | A.o., John Waters | Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans |
| sep 30 - nov 20 2005 | (No Title) | A.o., John Waters | Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College,
Reading |
| jun 17 - jul 23 2005 | POST NO BILLS | A.o., John Waters | White Columns,
New York |
| jun 09 - sep 04 2005 | 100 Artists See God | A.o., John Waters | Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,
Virginia Beach |
| apr 08 - jun 11 2005 | Photographic Works | A.o., John Waters | Jürgen Becker,
Hamburg |
| jan 20 - feb 26 2005 | Waters and Watercolours | A.o., John Waters | Georg Kargl Fine Arts,
Vienna |
| nov 19 2004 - jan 09 2005 | 100 Artists See God | A.o., John Waters | Institute of Contemporary Arts,
London |
| oct 22 - nov 18 2004 | Election | A.o., John Waters | American Fine Arts CO.,
New York |
| aug 04 - sep 07 2004 | Drunk vs. Stoned | A.o., John Waters | Passerby at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise,
New York |
| aug 01 - oct 03 2004 | 100 Artists See God | A.o., John Waters | Laguna Art Museum,
Laguna |
| jul 18 - sep 05 2004 | Planet B | A.o., John Waters | Bregenzer Kunstverein,
Austria |
| jul 18 2004 - jan 09 2005 | Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque | A.o., John Waters | Site Santa Fe,
Santa Fe |
| jul 15 - aug 20 2004 | Summer ’04 | A.o., John Waters | C. Grimaldis Gallery,
Baltimore |
| jul 15 - sep 06 2004 | Summer Group Show | A.o., John Waters | Portfolio Group-Salon Privé,
Santa Fe |
| jun 10 - jul 31 2004 | I Am The Walrus | A.o., John Waters | Cheim and Read,
New York |
| mar 07 - jun 27 2004 | 100 Artists See God | A.o., John Waters | The Contemporary Jewish Museum,
San Francisco |
| oct 18 - nov 15 2003 | My People Were Fair And Had Cum In Their Hair (But Now They’re Content to Spray Stars From Your Boughs) | A.o., John Waters | Team Gallery,
New York |
| jan 11 - feb 08 2003 | Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition | A.o., John Waters | Gavin Brown’s Enterprise,
New York |
| jul 02 - aug 16 2002 | Something, Anything | A.o., John Waters | Matthew Marks Gallery,
New York |
| jun 16 - aug 18 2002 | Sans Consentement | A.o., John Waters | CAN-Centre d’Art Neuchåtel,
Switzerland |
| apr 26 - may 26 2002 | Enough About Me | A.o., John Waters | Momenta Art,
Brooklyn |
| apr 19 - may 24 2002 | Hair Stories | A.o., John Waters | Adam Baumgold Gallery,
New York |
| apr 13 - jun 09 2002 | Screen Memories | A.o., John Waters | Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito,
Toyko |
| - 2002 | Art Downtown | A.o., John Waters | 25 Broad Street,
New York |
| nov 10 2001 - jan 01 2002 | Boomerang (Collector’s Choice Series) | A.o., John Waters | Exit Art,
New York |
| may 04 - jun 03 2001 | Skank | A.o., John Waters | Winkleman Gallery,
Brooklyn |
| - 2001 | (No Title) | A.o., John Waters | American Fine Arts, Co. at PHAG,
New York |
| - 2001 | (No Title) | A.o., John Waters | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| - 2000 | A Two Year Old Girl Choked To Death Today On An Easter Egg | A.o., John Waters | Hallway Gallery,
London |
| - 2000 | (No Title) | A.o., John Waters | Albert Merola Gallery,
Provincetown |
| - 1999 | Dope. An XXX-Mas Show | A.o., John Waters | American Fine Arts, Co.,
New York |
| - 1999 | Photographs by Painters, Sculptors and a Filmmaker | A.o., John Waters | Thomas Segal Gallery,
Baltimore |
| jun 07 - aug 30 1998 | Pop-Surrealism | A.o., John Waters | The Aldrich: Art Contemporary Museum,
Ridgefield |
| - 1998 | When Worlds Collide | A.o., John Waters | Center for Contemporary Art,
Glasgow |
| - 1998 | Peep Show | A.o., John Waters | Vaknin Schwartz,
Atlanta |
| apr 05 - jun 08 1997 | Photo-Op | A.o., John Waters | Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati |
| jan 31 - mar 15 1997 | Someone Else With My Fingerprints | A.o., John Waters | David Zwirner Gallery,
New York |
| - 1997 | Edith Has a Fit | A.o., John Waters | 4th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art,
Lyon, France |
| - 1997 | Essence d’un sens (Sentir du regard) | A.o., John Waters | Passage de Retz,
Paris |
| dec 02 - dec 23 1996 | Current Trends in Cross-Over Art | A.o., John Waters | Paterson Museum,
Paterson |
| - 1996 | Dope. An XXX-Mas Show | A.o., John Waters | American Fine Arts, Co.,
New York |
| - 1996 | Summer Group Show | A.o., John Waters | American Fine Arts, Co.,
New York |
| - 1996 | Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life | A.o., John Waters | Spiral Garden 1F,
Tokyo |
| jul 08 - jul 29 1995 | Summer Group Show | A.o., John Waters | American Fine Arts, Co.,
New York |
| - 1992 | Our Town | A.o., John Waters | Aperture Gallery,
New York |