biography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Lives and works in New York City, U.S.A.

1951 Born in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Education

1979 Yale University, New Haven, M.F.A.
1976 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Post Graduate Certificate
1975 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Diploma

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

1980 Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1986 Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1987 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1997 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, shortlist
1998 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, Life Magazine, Style Essay
1989 Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
2001 Infinity Award for Applied Photography
2001 International Center of Photography

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Bertelsmann Music Group, New York
Banesto Corporation, Madrid
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
DG Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main
Dreyfus Corporation, New York
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid
Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
Gemente Museum, Helmond
George Eastman House, Rochester
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pecci Museum, Prato
National French Foundation for Contemporary Art (FNAC)
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

feb 18 - apr 14 2019	(No Title)	TRAMPS, New York
apr 02 - may 02 2015	East of Eden	David Zwirner, New York
may 02 - jun 21 2014	Hustlers	Sprüth Magers Berlin
apr 29 - jul 05 2014	Philip-Lorca DiCorcia: III International Photography Award	Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid
feb 14 - jun 04 2014	Philip-Lorca DiCorcia	The Hepworth Wakefield
oct 05 2013 - jan 19 2014	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg
sep 25 - nov 16 2013	East of Eden	David Zwirner Gallery, London
sep 10 - nov 03 2013	Hustlers	David Zwirner Gallery, New York
jun 20 - sep 08 2013	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main
may 13 - jun 18 2011	Roid	Sprüth Magers London
mar 31 - apr 26 2009	Family and Friends	Grand Manezh, Moscow
may 23 - sep 14 2008	Philip Lorca diCorcia	LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
2007	(No Title)	Amsterdam Foam Fotographiemuseum
2007	(No Title)	Boston The Institute of Contemporary Art
2007	(No Title)	Paris Galerie Almine Rech
nov 30 2006 - jan 27 2007	(No Title)	Sprüth Magers Munich
2006	Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour	London The Victoria & Albert Museum
2006	Strange Drug	Brussels Galerie Rodolphe Janssen
2006	Artist's Choice: Herzog & de Meuron, Perception Restrained	New York City Museum of Modern Art
2006	Flight from the Dark Side	Tokyo Art Tower Mito
2006	Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain	Williamstown Williams College Museum of Art
2006	Youth of Today	Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle
2006	Conversations/ Hadith	Beirut Galerie Sfeir-Semler
2006	Something of the Night: Imagining the City 1875-2005	Leeds Leeds City Art Gallery
2006	Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert	Queens P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
2006	Fashination	Bradford National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
2006	Acting Out: Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography	Iowa City University of Iowa Museum of Art
2006	Projet Cone Sud	Santiago de Chile Centro Cultural Mattucana 100
2006	toured South American
2006	Central Station, collection Harald Falckenberg	Paris Maison Rouge - Foundation Antoine de Galbert
jan 28 - apr 16 2005	(No Title)	Sprüth Magers Cologne
2005	(No Title)	Paris Galerie Almine Rech
2005	(No Title)	Milan Monica deCardenas
2005	(No Title)	Madrid Helga deAlvear
2005	(No Title)	Venice Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
2005	(No Title)	Cologne Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers
2005	(No Title)	London Gagosian Gallery
2005	(No Title)	Paris Galerie Almine Rech
2005	(No Title)	New York City PaceWildenstein
2004	Fashionation	Stockholm Moderna Muséet
2004	Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990	New York City Museum of Modern Art
2004	Making Faces: The Death of the Portrait	London Hayward Gallery
2004	Pandemic: Imaging AIDS	Philadelphia Philadelphia Art Alliance
2003	(No Title)	New York City PaceWildenstein
2003	(No Title)	London Whitechapel Art Gallery
2003	Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography	Boston Institute of Contemporary art
2003	Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance	Liverpool Tate Liverpool
2003	Affinities...Now and Then	Kansas City Art Institute H&R Block Artspace
2003	Archive and Simulation	Lisbon Centro Cultural de Belém
2003	Uneasy Spaces	Santa Fe SITE Santa Fe
2003	Strangers, Triennial Exhibition	New York City International Center of Photography
2003	Terrain Vague The Contemporary	Atlanta Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
2003	Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography	Boston Institute of Contemporary art
2003	Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography	Winterthur Fotomuseum
2002	(No Title)	Milan Monica De Cardenas
2002	(No Title)	Paris Galerie Almine Rech
2002	The Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize	London The Photographer's Gallery
nov 08 - dec 23 2001	(No Title)	Sprüth Magers Munich
2001	(No Title)	New York PaceWildenstein
2001	(No Title)	Munich Galerie Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers
2001	(No Title)	London Gagosian Gallery
2001	Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography	London White Cube2
2001	Open City: Street Photographs since 1950	Oxford Museum of Modern Art
2001	(No Title)	Manchester The Lowery
2001	(No Title)	Washington Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
2001	Instant City	Prato Pecci Museum
2000	(No Title)	Hannover Sprengel Museum
2000	(No Title)	Houston Lawing Gallery
2000	(No Title)	Mexico City Galeria OMR
2000	Quotidiana	Rivoli Castello di Rivoli
2000	The Shape of the World/The End of the World	Milano Comune di Milano
2000	Hybridity, Photofestival	Arles
2000	(No Title)	Winterthur Fotomuseum
1999	(No Title)	New York PaceWildenstein
1999	(No Title)	Paris Galerie Almine Rech
1999	(No Title)	Tokyo Art Space Ginza
1999	A Frame of Mind	Groningen Noorderlicht Photofestival
1999	(No Title)	Miami Museum of Contemporary Art
1998	(No Title)	Brussels Galerie Rodolphe Janssen
1998	Hustler/Streetwork	Madrid Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia
1998	Streetwork	Paris Galerie Almine Rech
1998	Streetwork	New York PaceWildensteinMacGill
1998	Take the A Train	New York Howard Greenberg Gallery
1998	Icons	Salzburg Galerie Fotohof
1998	In the City	Rouen Exposition au FRAC Haute-Normandie
1998	Situacionismo	Mexico un grupo de fotografias, Galeria OMR
1997	Streetwork	Cologne Galerie Klemens Gasser und Tanja Grunert
1997	Hollywood Pictures, 1990-92	Los Angeles PaceWildenstein
1997	Making it Real, Independent Curators Incoporated	Ridgefield Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
1997	(No Title)	Portland Portland Museum of Art
1997	(No Title)	Reykjavik Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum
1997	(No Title)	Charlottesville Bayly Art Museum
1997	The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize	London Royal College of Art
1997	Tak and diCorcia	Helmond GementeMuseum
1997	Family and Friends	Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography
1996	StreetWork	New York PaceWildensteinMacGill
1996	(No Title)	Naples Theoretical Events
1996	Hollywood	Cologne Galerie Klemens Gasser
1996	(No Title)	London The Photographer's Gallery
1996	Photos Leurres	Paris Galerie AgnËs B.
1996	Pictures of Modern Life	Tours
1995	(No Title)	Geneva Art & Public
1995	(No Title)	Cologne Galerie Klemens Gasser
1995	The Boston School	Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
1995	After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography	Seattle Henry Art Gallery
1995	(No Title)	Seattle University of Washington
1995	(No Title)	San Francisco Ansel Adams Center
1995	(No Title)	Portland Portland Art Museum
1995	La Vie, L'Amour, La Mort	Paris Galeries Photo, Montparnasse and Crit-La Defense
1995	Adieu, Les FrontiËres!	Geneva Art & Public
1994	Portraits of America	Tokyo Nikon Salon
1994	(No Title)	Osaka Nikon Salon
1994	Down Town	Rotterdam Netherlands Photo Institute
1994	Present/Future	Atlanta Jackson Fine Art
1994	Flesh and Blood	Edinburgh Fotofeis
1994	(No Title)	San Francisco Ansel Adams Center for Photography
1994	(No Title)	Eindhoven Foto Manifestabe
1994	Photographs by Nan Goldin and Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Boston Robert Klein Gallery
1993	Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Trade	Lyon Centre Culturel du Rocher
1993	Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Photographs 1982-1992	New York Wooster Gardens
1993	Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Strangers	New York The Museum of Modern Art
1993	Strangers and Others	Lisbon Galeria Palmira Suso
1993	Family Matters	Tempe Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University
1993	Daydream Nation	New York Luhring Augustine Gallery
1993	Under Age: Photographs of Children	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1992	Our Town	New York Burden Gallery
1992	The Sexual Self	Cologne Galeria Tanja Grunert
1992	Les Enfants Terribles	New York Wooster Gardens
1992	New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions	Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1992	More Than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection	New York Museum of Modern Art
1991	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	London The Photographer's Gallery
1991	Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort	New York The Museum of Modern Art
1991	(No Title)	Baltimore Baltimore Museum of Art
1991	(No Title)	Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1991	(No Title)	Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
1991	Drawings, Prints and Photographs: A Summer Selection	New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1991	Get Real	Toronto Art Gallery of York University
1990	Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing	New York Artists Space
1987	Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography	Baltimore Baltimore Museum of Art
1987	New Photography 2	New York he Museum of Modern Art
1985	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Fotographie	Milan Zeus Arts
1985	Seduction: Working Photographs	New York White Columns
1977	Color '77-Seven Contemporary Photographers, Enjay	Boston Gallery of Photography

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

feb 22 - nov 10 2019	Auf der Kippe. Eine Konfliktgeschichte des Tabaks	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck
feb 22 - nov 10 2019	Auf der Kippe - Eine Konfliktgeschichte des Tabaks	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck
jan 27 - apr 14 2019	A Days Work	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Sammlung Schroth
feb 21 - aug 23 2015	Framing Desire	A.o., Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cindy Sherman	The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
feb 27 - may 11 2014	Infinite City	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Zabludowicz Collection, London
feb 18 - jun 14 2014	ToledoContemporánea	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	San Marcos church Toledo, Spain
feb 08 - jan 05 2014	Selection From the Permanent Collection	A.o., Hanne Darboven Estate, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cindy Sherman	Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A.
dec 19 2013 - mar 23 2014	The Polaroid Years	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
oct 26 2013 - may 18 2014	Light My Fire	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman	Art Gallery of Ontario
oct 03 2013 - feb 09 2014	L'oeil Photographique	A.o., Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky, Jean-luc Mylayne, Cindy Sherman	FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand
sep 10 - dec 14 2013	City of Disappearances	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
may 21 - sep 11 2011	Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera	A.o., Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
oct 30 2010 - apr 17 2011	Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera	A.o., Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
sep 25 2010 - jan 16 2011	Realism The Adventure of Reality	A.o., Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky	Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
sep 03 - nov 07 2010	10.000 Lives	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Peter fischli david Weiss, Cyprien Gaillard, Cindy Sherman	Gwangju Biennial, Korea
jun 11 - sep 05 2010	Realism The Adventure of Reality	A.o., Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky	Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
may 28 - sep 19 2010	Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera	A.o., Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Tate Modern, London
jan 23 - may 24 2010	Realism The Adventure of Reality	A.o., Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky	Kunsthalle Emden, Emden
nov 15 2009 - apr 03 2010	We are the world. Figures & Portraits	A.o., Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha	Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City
oct 09 2009 - jan 10 2010	Morality	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Witte de With, Rotterdam
oct 03 2008 - feb 15 2009	Western Motel, Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art	A.o., Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Ed Ruscha	Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
jun 12 - jun 26 2008	Looking Back	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Karen Kilimnik	Mireille Mosler Ltd. New York
jun 05 - sep 14 2008	De lo humano. Fotografía internacional 1950-2000	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cindy Sherman	Sevilla CAAC
mar 22 - jun 01 2008	Baby. Picturing the ideal human 1840- now	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam
sep 07 - nov 25 2007	Foto.Kunst - Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Essl	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky	Klosterneuburg/Vienna Essl Museum
2007	Mapping the City	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum
jul 19 - sep 27 2006	Die Liebe zum Licht	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stephen Shore	Kunstmuseum Celle
2006	So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin	Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago
2006	New York, New York	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Monaco The Grimaldi Foundation
2005	Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman	Turin Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
jun 04 - jul 31 2004	Portraits	Vito Acconci, Alighiero Boetti, Robert Crumb, Philip-Lorca diCorcia	New York Esso Gallery and Books
2004	Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman	London Whitchapel Art Gallery
2004	2004 Carnegie International	Robert Crumb, Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum of Art
jul 26 - aug 31 2003	Shadow and Light	Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Peter Doig, Olafur Eliasson, Martin Fengel, Peter fischli david Weiss, Dan Flavin, Sylvie Fleury, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Thomas Grünfeld, Andreas Gursky, Stefan Hirsig, Jenny Holzer, Axel Kasseböhmer, Stefan Kern, Karen Kilimnik, Astrid Klein, Louise Lawler, Anne Loch, Paul Morrison, Jean-luc Mylayne, Bruce Nauman, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Manuel Ocampo, Nam June Paik, Hirsch Perlman, Elizabeth Peyton, Lari Pittman, Barbara Probst, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Paul Sietsema, Rosemarie Trockel, James Turell, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Rachel Whiteread, Christopher Wool, Martin Wöhrl	Sprüth Magers Salzburg
jun 05 - sep 07 2003	Cruel and Tender	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia, William Eggleston, Andreas Gursky, Stephen Shore	London Tate Modern
apr 25 - oct 18 2003	20th Anniversary Show	A.o., John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Thea Djordjadze, Peter fischli david Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Axel Kasseböhmer, Karen Kilimnik, Astrid Klein, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Jean-luc Mylayne, Nina Pohl, Richard Prince, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Andrea Zittel	Sprüth Magers Cologne
feb 01 - mar 26 2003	Affinities... Now and Then	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore	Kansas City Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute
2003	Cruel and Tender: Photographs of the Twentieth Century	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	London Tate Modern
2003	Cruel and Tender: Photographs of the Twentieth Century	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Cologne Museum Ludwig
mar 09 - apr 14 2001	Settings and Players - Theatrical ambiguity in American photography	A.o., Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore	London White Cube
1998	Emotions and Relations	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin	Hamburg Hamburger Kunsthalle
1998	Tell Me a Story: Narration in Contemporary Painting and Photography	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Paris Centre National D'Art Contemporain de Grenoble Expander, PlateFforme d'exposition proposée par Bloc- Notes Espace Gan Dia
1997	1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibition	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Lari Pittman, Richard Prince	New York Whitney Museum of American Art
1995	Alieu, Les Frontieres!	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Geneva Art & Public
1995	3. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen Dicht am Leben/Close to Life	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky, Richard Prince
1994	Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time)	Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Prince
1993	Prospect 93	A.o., John Currin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sylvie Fleury	Frankfurt Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle
1990	Acceptable Entertainment	Philip-Lorca diCorcia
1977	Contemporary Photography VI	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Cambridge Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
1977	Recent Work by Twelve Photographers	Philip-Lorca diCorcia	Andover Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy