Born: Denver CO, October 29, 1931

Military Service: US Marine Corps Fighter Pilot, 1953-1957

Master of Arts Degree: University of California at Los Angeles, 1960

Currently residing at Chicago IL

One-Person Exhibitions
60 exhibtions since 1964, including:

Major retrospective exhibion at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, 1999. Exhibition will be circulated to: _________________________________

Major exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester NY, 1976. Exhibition was circulated to: Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA; Frederick S. Wight Galleries, UCLA, Los Angeles CA

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

Ezell Gallery, Chicago IL

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Fotoforum, University of Kassell, West Germany

Light Gallery, New York NY

Light Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York NY

Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena CA

Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL

Sunny Gate Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Witkin Gallery, New York NY

Group Exhibitions
330 group exhibitions since 1964, including:

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Barbicon Center, London, England

Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany

International Center for Photography, New York NY

Kyoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA

Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Oakland Museum, Oakland CA

Whitney museum of American Art, New York NY

Publications

Recto/Verso, a portfolio of 12 photograms, published by Landweber/Artists, Berkeley CA, 1988

Docudrama, 1986

He/She, 1980

Heinecken, a major monograph edited by James Enyeart, Friends of Photography, Carmel CA and Light Gallery, New York NY, 1980

Vary Cliché, 1978

Are You Rea, a portfolio of 25 lithographs, 1968

Just Good Eats…, 1971

Manmag, 1969

Formal Teaching Experience

University of California at Los Angeles Department of Art (photography and related media), 1960–1991. Chairman of 45 MFA. thesis committees, 1964–1991. Initiated graduate program in photography, 1964. Appointed Professor of Art, 1975. Vice Chairman UCLA Department of Art, 1979–1980. Chair, UCLA Department of Art, 1988–1989. Professor Emeritus, July 1991.

Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL, spring 1983

Columbia College, Chicago IL, spring 1983

Harvard University, summer 1971

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, fall 1970

San Francisco Art Institute, summer 1970

State University of New York, Buffalo, summer 1969

Informal Teaching Experience

Visiting artist, workshops, juror, and lecturer extensively in USA, 1967–present

Presentations in conjunction with exhibitions at Photography in France, Paris, France, and Fotographica ‘92, Breda, The Netherlands, 1992

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Sunny Gate Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1989

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1986

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1984

Presentations in conjunction with exhibitions at Fotoforum, University of Kassell, GDR, and Royal College of Art, London, England, 1983

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at UNCA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1981

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Werkstadt fur Photographie, Berlin, GDR, 1979

Presentations in conjunction with exhibitions at Venecia, Venice, Italy and Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, 1979

Fellowships, Grants, Awards

UCLA Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, 1960–present

Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education, 1992

Polaroid Corporation grants to use 20" × 24" camera, 1984, 1985, 1988

National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist's Grant, 1977, 1981, 1986

Members' Award, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, 1984

Photographer of the Year, Friends of Photography, Carmel CA, 1985

Guggenheim Fellowship in Art, 1976

Professional Activities

Work and writings have been reproduced in numerous national and international publications.

Substantial acquisitions and archive maintained at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ. Archive was initiated in 1979 and has continued to collect representative works.

Curated 3 major exhibitions at Frederick S. Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1968, 1976, 1985.

Personal library held at the UCLA Art Library, Los Angeles CA

Served as Chair of the Society for Photographic Education, 1971 & 1972.

Represented in the United States by Pace/Wildenstein/MacGill Gallery, New York NY and Los Angeles CA

Collections
50 permanent public collections and numerous private collections
The Recto/Verso portfolio has been acquired by the following:

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Bank of America / Security Pacific Bank Collection

Carnation Collections, Los Angeles CA Center for Creative Photography, Tucson AZ

Kiyosato Museum, Kiyosato, Japan

Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago IL

Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

University of Colorado, Boulder CO

University of Maryland, Catonsville MD

 


Contact
Victor Landweber
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