www.jameswelling.net

Born 1951, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.

Selected Press

Art & Object, 6 Sensational Viewing Room Shows Across the Americas, Paul Laster, 26 May 2020
Los Angeles Times, James Welling’s ‘Choreograph’ a bold dance between the real and the abstract, Deborah Vankin, 19 February 2016
The New Yorker
, Bodies in Space: James Welling’s “Choreograph”, Andrew Boynton, 9 November 2015

Education

1969

Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

1971

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA.; BFA, MFA.

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Thought Objects, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

2022

Iconographia, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan

2021

ARIAS, New York, NY, USA
Cento, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Museum of Contemporary Arts of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Hornu, Belgium
Metamorphosis, David Zwirner, Hong Kong

2020

Choreograph, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
The Earth, the Temple and the Gods, Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2019

Planograph, Maureen Paley, London
Seascape by James Welling, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, USA
Transform, David Zwirner, New York, NY

2018

Choreograph, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

2017

Seascape, David Zwirner, New York
Metamorph, LOGIN, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder,
Vienna
James Welling: New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Metamorphosis, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium (C)
Metamorphosis, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria (C)
Chronology, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2016

Choreograph, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Chronograph, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

2015

Choreograph, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA

2014

Diary of Elizabeth & James Dixon/Connecticut Landscapes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicgo, USA [catalogue forthcoming]

2013

James Welling: The Mind on Fire, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (C)
James Welling: Monograph, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA (C)
James Welling: Monograph, Hammer Museum, LA, California
James Welling: Autoograph, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland.
James Welling: Open Space, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts

2012

Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA (C)
James Welling: The Mind on Fire, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (C)
Overflow, David Zwirner, New York.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Japan (C)

2011

Glass House, Maureen Paley, London.
Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain.

2010

James Welling Photographs The Phillip Johnson Glass House, The Four Seasons Restaurant, New York, USA.
Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain.
Glass House, Maureen Paley, London, UK.

2009

Notes on Color, Wako Works Of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France.
Hapax Legomena, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Picturing the Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.

2008

James Welling, Works 1980 – 2008, David Zwirner, New York, USA.
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
James Welling, Galerie Nächt St. Stephen Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria.

2007

Maureen Paley, London, UK (C)
David Zwirner, New York, USA (C)
Flowers, 2005, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, USA.

2006

James Welling: New Photographs, WAKO Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Galerie Nelson, Paris, France.
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium.
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA.

2005

James Welling: New Work, David Zwirner, New York, USA.
James Welling: New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.

2004

New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Agricultural Works, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, USA (C)
California, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria.

2003

James Welling: Los Angeles, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, USA.
James Welling: New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy.

2002

James Welling Abstract, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (C)
James Welling Abstract, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA.

2001

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.

2000

New Abstractions and Photographs from the Seventies, Galerie Xavier Hufkens,Brussels, Belgium.
New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA.
James Welling: 1974-1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, U.S.A; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA.
New Abstractions, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
Galerie Nelson, Paris, France.
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, USA.

1999

New Abstractions, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
Photographs 1981-98, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, USA.
Galerie Barbara Gross, Münich, Germany.
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.

1998

1981, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium.
Light Sources, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland.
Galerie Nelson, Paris. France.
Forum: James Welling, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA.
Early photographs 1976-1985, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, USA.

1997

Eastern Window, Haus Editions, Antwerp, Belgium.
Light Sources, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA.
Light Sources, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Light Sources, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium.
Light Sources, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

1996

Calais Lace Factories, Camden Arts Center, London, UK.

1995

Whitney Center, Hamden, USA.
Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany.
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
The Ugly America, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, USA.
Módulo / Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal.
Project room, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA.

1994

Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
Photographs from the 90’s, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.
James Welling: Photographs from the 90’s, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France.
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria.
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA.

1993

Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (C)
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium.
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Calais Lace Factories, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA.
Usines de Dentelle, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France (C)

1992

Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France.
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA.
Musée de la Roche sur Yon, La Roche sur Yon, France.
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Limoges, France (C)
Künstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (C)
The Gangplank, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, USA.

1991

Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA.

1990

Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France.
Les Voies Ferrées / St. Etienne et la Plaine du Forez, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France (C)
Sous-Sol, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel, Geneva, Switzerland (C)

1989

Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, USA.
Photography and Abstraction, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, USA, (C).
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria (C)

1988

Feature Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon, France.
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA.
Johnen & Schüttle, Cologne, Germany.
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, USA.

1987

Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France.
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, USA.
Feature, Chicago, USA.

1986

Cash/Newhouse, New York, USA.

1985

Cash/Newhouse, New York, USA.

1984

CEPA, Buffalo, USA.

1982

Metro Pictures, New York, USA.

1981

Metro Pictures, New York, USA.

1976

Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, USA.

1973

Project, INC, Cambridge, USA.

Two Person Exhibitions

2022

Dark Matter: Thomas Ruff, James Welling, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

2018

Materials and Objects: James Welling and Zoe Leonard, Tate Modern, London (collection display)

Group Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2024

Witnesses: James Welling / Chris Welsby, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA
Three American Painters, Then and Now, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Seeing Climate Change?, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

2023

God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
60 Years of Collecting, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS Amherst, Amherst, USA
50th Anniversary, Selections from Light Work Collection, Everson Museum of Art, New York, USA

2022

Colour Code, McEvoy Foundation of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
A Family Story, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Social Photography X, Carriage Trade, New York, US
50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection, Everson Museum of Art, New York, US
Carpets, BravinLee Programs, New York, US
Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Wild Thoughts – A Look at a Photographic Collection, Le Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France

2021

Back Grounds: Impressions Photographiques IV, Peter Freeman, Inc, New York, NY, USA, [organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément]
Europe: Ancient Future, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria
Selections: Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USATrue Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany (touring exhibition)Social Photography IX, carriage trade, New York, NY, USA

2020

La Photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction, Frac Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France, touring: Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France, and Micro Onde centre d’art, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (C)
In Focus: Platinum Photographs, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
SOUTHLAND, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Alles echt! - Werke aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Lìxià, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, China
Faculty Print Show, Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ, USA
In Focus: Platinum Photographs, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Where Art Might Happen, The Early Years of CalArts, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

2019

Living in a Lightbulb, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Fiction and Fabrication: photography of architecture after the digital turn, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal (C)
Now is the Time, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
The Scent of Images, work from the olorVISUAL collection, Barcelona, Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
The Invention of a World: Photographs from the Robelin Collections, FRAC Auvergne, Auvergne, France
Nullpunkt Der Orientierung: Fotografie Als Verortung Im Raum, Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
The Collection (1): Highlights for a Future, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
Where Art Might Happen, The Early Years of CalArts, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Painting with Light, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA

2018

Materials and Objects: James Welling and Zoe Leonard, Tate Modern, London, UK
Still Life: Obstinacy of Things, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Wunderkammer, Esbjerg Museum of Contemporary Art, Esbjerg, Denmark
Groundings, Musuem of Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Scent of Images, work from the olorVISUAL collection, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
By The Sea, MARQUEE PROJECTS, New York City, New York, USA
Résonance (partie 2), FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA (C)
In This House, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Jack Goldstein: Under Water Sea Fantasy, 1301PE, Los Angeles, California, USA
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, London, UK
Une collection de photographies, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Just So Stories, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Showroom, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
As You Like it, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, California, USA

2017

The Disappearing, Karg Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial: MAKE NEW HISTORY, Water Tower Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA USA
The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY, USA
Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California USA
Photographic Objects, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Thread Benefit Exhibition, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA
Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA
Polaroids: The Disappearing, Karg Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2016

Fotografia ’80 – ’90 – ‘2000, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, USA
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York. USA
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment, Elizabeth Dee, New York, USA
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA USA
A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, USA
In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, US
Retro-spective: Analog Photography in a Digital World, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, US
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Cámara de Maravillas/ Camera of Wonders, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lux: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, NY USA
Refenestration, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, USA
Open Spaces | Secret Places. Works From The Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR), Brussels Belgium
Pandora’s Box: Jan Dibbets on Another Photography, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM/ARC), Paris France
De toi à la surface, FRAC – Ile-de-France – Le Plateau, Paris, France
Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections,
Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada

2015

Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. (C)
Cámara de Maravillas, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York, USA
The Human Apparatus, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Selections, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
MetaModern (travelling), Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Illinois, USA, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona , Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergan, Norway. (C)

2014

Fiona Banner selects from the V-A-C Collection, Stamp Out Photographie, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Another, Once Again, Many Times More, Martos, New York, USA
Back grounds: Impressions Photographiques (2), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Staring at the Sun, Griffin Editions, Blind Spot Lab, New York
What is a Photograph? International Center of Photography, New York. (C)
The Will to Architecture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2013

Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
The Black Mirror, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles (curated by James Welling)
Endless Bummer II/Still Bummin’, Marlborough Gallery, New York
The Estate, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Looking Forward: Gifts of Contemporary Art from the Patricia A. Bell Collection, Montclair Art, Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art, Center, College, Poughkeepsie, New York [itinerary: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida]. (C)
Tenth Anniversary Show, Wallspace, New York
Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2012

101 Collection: Route 3, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA.
The Permanent Way, Apexart, New York, USA.
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, USA. Travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston.

2011

Anti-Photography, Focal Point and The Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK.
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
New Space, New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Stairway to Heaven, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.
Sunless, curated by Walead Beshty, Thomas Dane, London.
The Artist’s Museum, MOCA, Msueum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

2010

The City Proper (curated by), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
Connecticut, D’Amelio Terras, New York.
Group Show, BravinLee programs, New York
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead, MAK Center for Art + Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, (21 commissioned art works exhibited on billboards throughout Los Angeles)
Self-fulfilling Prophecies, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA.

2009

The Edge of Vision, Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
The Pictures Generation, 1974 – 1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (C)
Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.
Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA.

2008

Espèces D’Espace, Magasin: Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France.
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, USA.
No Room, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Untitled (Vicarious) Photographing The Constructed Object, Gagosian, New York, USA.
When it’s a Photograph, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA. (C)
Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.

2007

Concrete Works, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA.
Paint It Blue: Works from the ACT Art Collection/ Siegfried Loch, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Real Life, Artist’s Space, New York, USA.
Global Anxieties, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, USA.
Les Temps Modernes: Collection du Frac Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France.
End(s) of Photography: Modeling the Photographic, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, USA.
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal.
L.A. Desire (Part 1), Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA.
15 Years, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2006

Double Exposure, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium.
The Eighties: Topology, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (C)
The Gold Standard, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA.
Sixteen Tons, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Our Town: Architecture in Art, Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, USA.
Verde, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Canada.
TomorrowLand: CalArts in Moving Pictures, touring exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, USA.
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, USA.
It’s not a photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA.
The Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (C)
Studio City, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA.
Joshua White, Los Angeles, USA.

2005

Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France.
The Photograph in Question, von Lintel Gallery, New York, USA.
Theorema. Une collection privée en Italie, la collection d’Enea Righi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France.
Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati. USA.

2004

In America; William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, James Welling, Sutton Lane, London, UK.
Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, U.S.A. curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston.
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA.
Art History: Photography References Painting, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA.
Likeness: Portraits by Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute and Independent Curators International, San Francisco; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, USA. (C)
Double Exposure: A Portfolio of Photographic Diptychs, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.
Spread in Prato, Prato, Italy.

2003

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
Auction for Photographic Education in Afghanistan, Christies, New York, USA.
Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York, USA.
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
Stéphane Couturier – Philippe De Gobert – Matthias Hoch – Bernard Voïta – James Welling, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.
Imaging the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA.
Back Grounds – Impressions, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA.
Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, USA.
Rethinking Photography/Narration and Reduction in Photography, Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria.
Artist’s Gifts, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA.

2002

Art Downtown: New Photography Wall St Rising, New York, USA.
Remarks On Color, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA.
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Saidye
Bronfman Centre for the Visual Arts, Montreal, Canada, curated by Gregory Salzman
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA.
Fold, Drapery in Contemporary Visual Culture, City Gallery, Leicester, UK.
Visions from America, Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
Painting Matter, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA.
Hot and New in 2002: A Print and Photography Exhibition and Sale, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah
Photography by Gallery Artists, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Acquiring Taste, Real Art Ways, Hartford
Fotografie, Landschaften, Towntown, Abstractions, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Ballpoint Inkings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
Transform the World 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2001

This is not a photograph, University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla [itinerary: Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; DePaul University, Chicago; Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton]

2001

Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna
Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York; curated by Julie Baranes.
This Side of Paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery.
W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France; curated by Robert Nickas
At Home, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York; curated by Stephanie Theodore
Kaye Donachie, Maureen Gallace & James Welling, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Next Wave Prints, Elias Fine Art, Allston
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London

2000

As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; curated by Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon and Stephen Melville [catalogue]
Black & White, Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York
Photo Art Photo, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Light-heeled, light-handed: Edward Ruscha, Julius Schulman, James Welling, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany: curated by Lynne Cooke
Los Angeles, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, Cologne
A Changing Summer Group Exhibition, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Sharon Lockhart / James Welling, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

1999

Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell
Sequences, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Plain Air, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenössisches Kunst zeit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Gallery Artists, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
Schöpfung. Diösanmuseum, Munich [catalogue]
Multiplicity, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Welling, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

1998

Stare, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Exterminating Angel, Ghislaine Husenot, Paris
Nouvelles acquisitions, 97, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Art that happens to be photography, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
L’Hypothèse du tableau volé, Musée d’art moderne et contemporaine, Geneva
Sequences, Edition Schellman, New York
Launch of the New Evergreen Review, 644 Broadway, New York
TransFiction 1, Charim Klocker, Vienna
The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture & Film, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; curated by Steve Wolfe
From the Heart: The Power of Photograph – A Collector’s Choice, Art Museum of Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; curated by Adam D. Weinberg
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative
Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson [itinerary: I.C.P., New York et al]
Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Utz, A Collected Exhibition, Lennon Weinberg, New York; curated by Stephanie Theodore
Paul Strand / James Welling, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan / Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, [catalogue]

1997

Track Records, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario [itinerary: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver; The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta; Centre culturel Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke; Centre d’exposition de Durmmondville, Durmmondville]
Kunst… Arbeit, Südwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, Selections from the Permanent
Collection; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1997

Contemporary Collections 97, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles
Surface Auction, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles
Heaven, P.S.1, Long Island City
Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Bring your own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam [CD catalogue]
Photographie d’une collection, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignements, Paris [catalogue]
About Painting: Eggleston, Gerber, Gursky, Kalpakjian, Polidori, Welling, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Density or the unimaginable museum / discontinuity / synchrony / presence, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan; curated by Denys Zacharopoulos
Ausstellung 10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Someone else with my fingerprints, David Zwirner, New York; curated by Wilhelm Schürmann.

1996

Muse [x] Editions: recent publications, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Evident: New Landscape Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery, London;curated by Andrew Cross
Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA’s Permanent Collection, 1975-96, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York (and benefit auction at Christie’s)
Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Rudolf Stingel, James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Deep Surface, Pace Wildenstein McGill, Los Angeles
Ab Fab, Feature, Inc., New York
Swag & Puddle, The Work Space, New York; curated by Mary Jones & Janice Krasnow
Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfürter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt; curated by Peter Weiermair, (C)

1995

Drawings and Photographs, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Uta Barth, Candida Hofer, Andreas Gursky, James Welling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
New Acquisitions: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Multiples, Art Metropole, Toronto
Summer Group Exhibition, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
The Reflected Image, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy; curated by Antonella Soldaini & Paolo Colombo [catalogue]
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Museum, Seattle [catalogue]
Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Romantico Contemporaneo, Castello di Beutivaglio, Bologna
Fact and Fiction: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum at Champion, Stanford
Abstract Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Blind Spot, McKinney Arts Center, Dallas
Strung into the Apollonian Dream, Feature Gallery, New York

1994

Géométries, Galerie du TNB, Rennes
L’Amour Toujours, Le Carré / Musée Bonnat, Bayonne
Transport, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA; curated by Helen Miranda Wilson [catalogue]
G7, Theoretical Event, Naples
Werkstattquartier, Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna
David Deutsch, Douglas Blau, James Welling, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography, Friends of Photography, San Francisco [catalogue]
The Abstract Urge, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, [catalogue]
The Evolution of the Photogram since 1919, The Denver Art Museum, Denver [catalogue]
Experimental Vision, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, [catalogue]
Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; [itinerary: L’Usine, Dijon; and traveling] co-organized by Robert Nickas and On Kawara [catalogue]
The World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles; curated by Douglas Blau
Gaylen Gerber, Angela Grauerholz, James Welling, Galerie Nächst St.
Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna

1993

Nettverk, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, [catalogue]
The Sublime Void, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp [catalogue]
Oeuvres du Patrimoine Contemporain Régional, L’Usine, Dijon
Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rosemarie Trockel, James Welling, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Image First: Eight Photographers for the 90’s, Laura Carpenter Fine Arts, Santa Fe
October Portfolio One, Metro Pictures, New York
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Galleri F15 Alby, Moss

1992

Documenta IX, Kassel [catalogue]
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Rodney Graham, Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Skulpturen-Fragmente, Wiener Secession, Vienna [catalogue]
Une seconde pensée du paysage, Domaine de Kerguehennec
Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne

1991

Les Grandes Lignes, Gare de l’Est, Paris [catalogue]
Vom Verschwinden der Dingle aus der Fotographie, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna [catalogue]
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, James Welling, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Photographing L.A. Architecture, Turner / Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Fariba Hajamadi, Hirsch Perlman, James Welling, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica
Photography 1980 – 1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver and Aspen
Galerie Nelson, Lyon

1990

The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York
Johnen & Schüttle, Cologne
Perspectives on Place, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego
Le Diaphane, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, [catalogue]
Une autre affaire, Centre National des Arts Plastiques DRAC de Bourgogne, Dijon, [itinerary: Maison Fyot, Le Consortium, Dijon]
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, [catalogue]

1989

Troy Brauntuch, Matt Mullican, James Welling, Kent Fine Arts, New York
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, [itinerary: Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond]
Studio Guenzani, Milano
Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, [catalogue]
Pathetique, Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, West Germany; curated by Ronald Jones
International Camera, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA; curated by Bing Wright
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [catalogue]
Diagrams & Surrogates, Shea & Baker Gallery, New York; curated by Saul Ostrow

1988

Bi National: American Art of the Late 80’s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [itinerary: Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf] [catalogue]
Hybrid Neutral, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence Museum, New York; curated by Collins & Milazzo
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum Museum, Stockholm; curated by Collins and Milazzo
Galerie Lelong, New York
Schlaf der Vernunft, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, [catalogue]
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Utopia Post Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, [catalogue]
Implosion, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, [catalogue]
Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1987

Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; curated by Jerry Saltz [catalogue]
Photo Mannerisms, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia; curated by Klaus Ottman
Malerei-Wandmalerei, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, [catalogue]
Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Prince, James Welling, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
Photography and Art, Interactions since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, [catalogue]
Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York
The Ironic Sublime, Galerie Albrecht, Munich
Art Against AIDS, Baskerville & Watson, New York
New Locations, Jamie Wolff, New York, [catalogue]
Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Fariba Hajamadi, Gerhard Merz, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Lemieux, Kruger, Nagy, Welling, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
New Photography, Feature, Chicago

1986

Rodney Graham / James Welling, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver
Barbara Ess, Ian Wallace, James Welling, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Particulars, Baskerville & Watson, New York
Poetic Resemblance, Lougelton Gallery, New York
Picture Perfect, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Paravision, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles
Vikky Alexander, Annette Lemieux, Allan McCollum, James Welling, Cash/Newhouse, New York

1985

JAA Benefit, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Blow-Up, Feature, Chicago
Weird Beauty, The Palladium, New York
Final Love, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, James Welling, Metro Pictures, New York
A Summer Selection, Castelli Uptown, New York
P, 303 Gallery, New York
Seduction : Working Photographs, White Columns, New York

1984

Ailleurs et Autrement, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris [catalogue]
Natural Genre, Florida State University, Tallahassee, [catalogue]
Still Life in Photography, Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam, [catalogue]
Cash Gallery, New York
Allan McCollum / James Welling, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent, Nature Morte, New York
Artists’ Call, Metro Pictures, New York

1983

In Plato’s Cave, Marlborough Gallery, New York, [catalogue]
Artificial Miracles, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver

1982

Trouble in Paradise, A+M Artworks, New York
Natural History, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Love is Blind, Castelli Photographs, New York
Photograph, Metro Pictures, New York
On Location, Texas Gallery, Houston
Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, [catalogue]
Pictures and Promises, The Kitchen, New York
Erweitertre Fotografie, Weiner Secession, Vienna

1980

Opening Group Exhibition, Metro Pictures, New York
Pictures in New York Today, P.A.C., Milan, [catalogue]

1979

Imitation of Life, Hartford Art School, Hartford

1978

The New West, The Kitchen, New York

1976

Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, [catalogue]
Evening of Works, LAICA, Century City

1975

Indian Summer, Project INC., Cambridge

1974

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita

1972

Newick, Osher, Welling, Hewlitt Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg

Awards & Fellowships

2016

Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award

2014

Infinity Award International Center of Photography

2009

Pilara Foundation Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow

2007

International Association of Art Critics Award of Excellence to James Welling/First Place/Best Show in a Commercial Gallery Nationally for James Welling, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

1999

DG BANK-Förderpreis Fotografie, Sprengel Museum Hannover

1986

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

1985

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Lectures & Conversations

2023

Tina Barney: The Beginning with James Welling, Rizolli Bookstore, New York, USA, 11 September 2023
Bridget Alsdord: “Gawkers”, response by James Welling, Princeton University School of Architecture, New Jersey, USA, 11 April 2023

2022

Perspectives on Dawoud Bey with James Welling, Brandywine River Museum of Art, 21 July 2022 (online talk)

2021

The Week in Art, The Art Newspaper, podcast

2020

Online Artist's Talk: James Welling, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, USA (online talk)
IMAGES 2020 Gallery Talk with James Welling, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guildford, CT, USA (online talk)

2019

Totally Tuesday Talk: James Welling, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

2015

James Welling and Alex Klein “In Dialogue”, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA
Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA
Outside the Box Gallery Talks: James Welling on “Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld”, New Museum, New York, USA

2014

After Andrew Wyeth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
James Welling, International Center of Photography, New York

2012

Hard Cases: Art form, medium, and appreciative kind – Themes from the work of Dominic McIver Lopes, University of Warwick, Coventry, England (conference)
James Welling: The Mind on Fire, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England
James Welling: A Window on Wyeth, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford,
Connecticut

2011

James Welling, Auerbach Lecture, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
UCLA Department of Art Lecture: James Welling, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2010

James Welling: Artist Talk, Newman Lecture on Contemporary Photography, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota (on the occasion of the exhibition New Pictures 3: JamesWelling, Glass House)

2009

Artist’s Talk with James Welling, Aperture Foundation, New York
Conceptual Art and Photography: James Welling in Conversation with Jan Dibbets, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2008

James Welling in Conversation with Walead Beshty, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (on the occasion of the 2008 Whitney Biennial)

2007

Conversations with Artists: James Welling, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
A New Luminism, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Visiting Artist Program presents James Welling, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

2005

James Welling on Andy Warhol, Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, New York

2001

James Welling in Conversation with Michael Fried, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Teaching

1995

Area Head of Photography, Department of Art, UCLA

1995

Visiting Lecturer, Visual Art Program, Department of Architecture, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Spring Semester

2012

Lecturer with the Rank of Professor in the Program in Visual Arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton

Films Produced By Artist

2004

Executive Producer, independent feature film, Easy:

  • Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
  • Official Selection, Dramatic Competition, Sundance Film Festival

Curatorial Projects

2018

Unbecoming, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

2016

65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

2013

The Black Mirror, curated by James Welling and Diane Rosenstein, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2010

The City Proper, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2008

Anthony Hernandez, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

2007

Films Around Photography, film screening organised by James Welling, Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2006

Chaos or Control, Perloff Hall, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2002

Anti-Form: New Photographic Work from Los Angeles, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, USA

1989

Materiality, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

Solo Exhibition Catalogues & Monographs

2017

James Welling: Metamorphosis, Prestel, Munich, 2017

2015

Things Beyond Resemblance, The Brandywine River Museum of Art, DelMonico Books | Prestel (C)

2014

James Welling: Diary/Landscape. Art Institute of Chicago. (C)
James Welling: The Mind on Fire. Texts by Jane McFadden, Nigel Price, Anthony Spira, Jan Tumlir, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, and James Welling. Prestel, Munich. (C)

2013

James Welling: Monograph. Texts by James Crump, Mark Godfrey, and Thomas Seelig. Interview with the artist by Eva Respini. Aperture, New York. (C)

2012

James Welling: The Mind on Fire. Texts by Tamie Boley and James Welling. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England (exh. pub.)
James Welling: Wyeth . Interview with the artist by Patricia Hickson. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut (exh. pub.)
James Welling: Wyeth . Text by James Welling. Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. (C)

2010

Frolic Architecture . Text by Susan Howe. Images by James Welling. The Grenfell Press, New York [limited edition]
James Welling: Glass House. Text by Noam M. Elcott. Interview with the artist by Sylvia Lavin. Damiani, Bologna, Italy

2009

Light Sources, SteidlMack, London.
James Welling, Gelatin Photographs 1-12, 1984, republished on the occasion of The Pictures Generation, 1974 – 1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

2007

New York, NY. David Zwirner. James Welling: Flowers, 2007. Text by Lynne Tillman and James Welling.

2004

Welling, James & Welling, Will, Agricultural Works & Insect Chorus, Minetta Brook, 2004.

2002

Welling, James, (essay by Rosalyn Deutsche), James Welling – Abstract, Palais Deas Beaux-Arts / Art Gallery Of York University, 2002.

2001

Welling, James, Untitled 1981, Galerie Daniel Bucholz, Köln, 2001.

2000

Welling, James, James Welling: Photographs 1974 – 1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

1999

Welling, James, James Welling – New Abstractions, Sprengel Museum Hannover, 1999.

Selected Books & Group Exhibition Catalogues

2019

Welling, James, James Welling on Andrew Wyeth, in: Jori Finkel, It Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires Artists, Prestel, 2019, p.110

2018

Bickers, Patricia, ed.,Talking Art 2: Art Monthly Interviews with Artists Since 2007, London, Ridinghouse
Atkins, Katherine and Kelly Kivland (eds.) Artists on Andy Warhol, New York, Dia Art Foundation

2016

Promesse du Bonheur: Poems by Michael Fried. Photographs by James Welling, David Zwirner Books / nonsite.org, 2016

2015

Darkroom Alchemists. Getty Publications, Los Angeles. (C) [forthcoming]
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergan, Norway (C)

2014

What is a Photograph? Texts by George Baker, Geoffrey Batchen, Hito Steyerl, and Carol Squiers. International Center of Photography and DelMonico Books/Prestel Verlag, New York. (C)

2013

The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation. Texts by Peter Buse and Mary-Kay Lombino. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York and Prestel Verlag, New York. (C)

2012

Pacific Standard Time: Kunst in Los Angeles, 1945-1980. Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, and Rani Singh. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
is Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s. Texts by Johanna Burton, Bill Horrigan, Elisabeth Lebovici, Helen Molesworth, et al. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut. (C)

2011

25 Years/25 Artists. Julie Saul Gallery, New York (C) Collection Vanmoerkerke. Rispoli Books, Brussels
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path. Edited by Hans de Wolf. Bozarbooks, Brussels and Ludion, Antwerp. (C)
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path/El sendero sinuoso. Edited by Hans de Wolf. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (C)
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs. Texts by Jordan Bear, Rhoda Eitel-Porter, et al. Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980. Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, and Rani Singh. Getty Publications, Los Angeles

2010

Jack Goldstein. Text by Klaus Görner, Chrissie Iles, and Shepherd Steiner. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and Walther König, Cologne. (C)
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present. Edited by Lynne Cooke, Douglas Crimp, and Kristin Poor. Texts by Johanna Burton, Lynne Cooke, Douglas Crimp, Glenn Ligon, Danny Lyon, Lytle Shaw, Juan A. Suarez, Lena Sze, and David Wojnarowicz. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. (C)
Modern Views: Inspired by the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson
Glass House. Texts by Phyllis Lambert and Sylvia Lavin. Assouline, New York
Nachleben. Text by Fionn Meade. Goethe Institut, New York (exh. pub.)

2009

60 Innovators shaping our creative future. Texts by Charlotte Cotton, Emma Dexter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, James Welling, et al. Thames & Hudson, London
1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future? Edited by Cathérine Hug, Gerald Matt, and Thomas Meißgang. Texts by Synne Genzmer, Cathérine Hug, Helmut Lethen, Gerald Matt, Thomas Mießgang, Mikhail Ryklin, and Martin Walkner. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna and Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany. (C)
The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Text by Paul Virilio. Semiotext(e), Los Angeles [cover]
Can I Come Over To Your House: The First Ten Years of the Suburban. Texts by Michelle Grabner, Annika Marie, and Michael Newman. The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois. (C)
The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. Text by Lyle Rexer. Aperture, New York (C)
Verbania, Italy. (C)
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984. Text by Douglas Eklund. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (C)

2008

Espèces d’espace: Les Années 1980, Première Partie. Texts by Yves Aupetitallot, Hal Foster, Maria Garzia, et al. Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France. (C)
Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix. Texts by Elein Fleiss, Kim Gordon, and Rolan Groenenboom. Walther König, Cologne. (C)
This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Texts by Ann Goldstein, Rebecca Morse, and Paul Schimmel. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. (C)
Whitney Biennial 2008. Texts by Henriette Huldisch, Shamim M. Momin, and Rebecca Solnit. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (C)

2007

Atlas: de l’art contemporain à l’usage de tous. Text by Denis Gielen. Musée des Arts
Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection. Texts by Albano Silva Pereira, João Oliveira Rendeiro, and Delfim Sardo. Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
Like Color in Pictures. Text by James Welling. Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado
Paint It Blue: ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch. Text by Roland Spiegel. Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany. (C)
Private/Public. Text by Mark Kremer. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Viewfinder. Edited by Tamara Moats. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. (C)

2006

Catalog L.A.: Birth of an Art Capital 1955-1985. Text by Catherine Grenier. Editions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (C)
Dark Places. Text by Joshua Decter. Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California Os anos 80: Uma topologia/The 80s: A Topology. Texts by Antonio Cerveira Pinto, João Fernandes, Ulrich Loock, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Alexandre Melo, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Bernardo Pinto da Almeida, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Denys Zacharopoulos. Museu Serralves, Porto. (C)
Sixteen Tons: UCLA Department of Art Faculty. The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles. (C)

2005

London, United Kingdom. Thames & Hudson. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, 2005. Texts by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
New York, NY. Metropolis Magazine. Looking at Los Angeles, 2005. Texts by Linda Dishman, Marla Hamburg Kennedy, Cindy Olnick, Ben Stiller, and David L. Ulin.
Paris, France. Passage du Retz, Paris. D’une Image qui ne Serait pas du Semblant: La
Photographie Ecrite 1950-2005, 2005. Text by Anne Tronche.

2004

Arles, France. Analogues. Semaine N° 15: Cimaise et Portique, Albi: Kendell Geers: Sexus, 2004. Text by Jackie-Ruth Meyer
New York, NY. Sotheby’s. Choice Art: Planned Parenthood Auction for Choice, 2004.Philadelphia, PA. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. The Big Nothing, 2004.
Roslyn Harbor, NY. Nassau County Museum of Art. Saluting the American Spirit through Art, 2004.

2003

Cambridge, MA. MIT Press. The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, 2003, pp 95, 97-98. Text by Martha Buskirk.
London, UK. Laurence King Publishing, Ltd. Photography, A Cultural History, 2003. p. 429. Text by Mary Warner Marien.
London, UK. Phaidon. Art and Photography, Text by David Campany. [illustration p. 156]
Minneapolis, MN. Walker Art Center. The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82, 2003. Text by Douglas Fogle. pp. 317-20.
New York, NY. Edition Schellmann. Double Exposure, 2002.
New York, NY. Refco Group, Ltd. Subjective Realities: Works from the Refco Collection of Contemporary Photography, 2003. pp. 242-243. Text by Adam Brooks.

2002

Hartford, CT. Real Art Ways. Acquiring Taste, 2002. Text by Steven Holmes.
London, UK. Laurence King Publishing. Photography: a Cultural History, 2002.
New York, NY. Minetta Brook. Watershed, The Hudson Valley Art Project, 2002. Text by Alain Cueff.
Stuttgart, Germany. Arnoldsche. Die Kunst der Abstrakten Fotografie, 2002. Text by Gottfried Jager.

2001

Dôle, France. Musée de Beaux-Arts. W, 2001.
New York. NY. Pamela Auchincloss / Arts Management. this is [not] a photograph, 2001. Text by A. D. Coleman.
Sarah J Rogers. Text by Michael Fried.

1999

Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany. Hatje Kantz Verlag. Schöpfung, 1999. Text by Petra Giloy-Hirtz.

1998

Luzern, Switzerland. Kunstmuseum Luzern. James Welling, 1998. Text by Ulrich Loock. p.43-51.
New York, NY. Edition Schellman. Sequences, 1998. Text by Susan Tallman.
San Francisco, CA. Fraenkel Gallery. Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture & Film, 1998. Text by Steve Wolfe.
Tuscon, AZ. Center for Creative Photography. Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, 1998. Text by James Hamilton-Paterson.

1997

Columbus, OH. Wexner Center for the Arts. Staging Surrealism, 1997. Text by Mary Ann Caws
Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Oakville Galleries, Canadian Museum of Contemporary
Photography. Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography, 1997. Texts by Marnie Fleming et al.

1996

Frankfurt, Germany. Frankfurter Kunstverein. Prospect 96, 1996. Text by Peter Weiermair.
Ghent, Belgium. Imshoot Uitgevers. Light Sources, 1996.

1995

Tokyo, Japan. Wako Works of Art. The Photographic Invisible: James Welling, 1995. Text by Minoru Shimizu

1994

Chicago, IL. Arts Club of Chicago. “The Solid Geometry of Sight,” James Welling, 1994. Text by Janet Abrams.
Lynchburg, VA. Maier Museum of Art. Transport, 1994. Text by Helen Miranda Wilson.
Niwot, CO. Roberts Rinehart. Experimental Vision, The Evolution of the Photogramsince 1919, 1994. Text by Charles Hagen.
Seattle, WA. University of Washington Press. After Art: Rethinking 150 Years ofPhotography, 1994. Text by Andy Grundberg.
Wolfsburg, Germany. Cantz. James Welling: Wolfsburg, 1994. Texts by Uta Grosenick and James Welling

1993

Antwerp, Belgium. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. The Sublime Void, 1993.
Calais, France. Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais. Usines de Dentelle, 1993. Text by James Welling.
Rotterdam, Netherlands. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. Collection Modern Art, Boymans-van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, Inventory of works acquired between 1985-1993, 1993.
Tokyo, Japan. Wako Works of Art. James Welling, Photographs 1977-1993, 1993. Text by Michiko Kasahara.

1992

New York, NY. Edition Cantz/Abrams. Documenta IX, 1992. Text by Denys Zacharopoulos.
Oslo, Norway. Kunstnernes Hus. James Welling, Photographs, 1992. Text by David Deitcher.
Rochechouart, France. Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart. James Welling, 1992.

1991

New York NY. IN Publishing. The Artist Project: Portraits of the Real Art World/New York Artists 1981-1990, 1991. Text by Peter Bellamy.
Vienna, Austria. Österreichisches Fotoarchiv im Museum Moderner Kunst, VomVerschwinden Der Dinge Aus Der Fotografie, The Disappearance of Things, 1991. Text by Suzanne Neuberger.

1990

Bern, Switzerland. Kunsthalle Bern. James Welling: Photographs 1977-1990, 1990. Texts by Ulrich Loock et al.
Geneva, Switzerland. Ecole supérieure d’art visual. James Welling: 19 Photographs 1980, 1990.
Minneapolis, MN. Minnesota University Press. Photography at the Dock, 1990. Text by Abigail Solomon-Godeau.
Saint-Etienne, France. Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne. Les Voies Ferrees: Saint-Etienne et la Plaine du Forez, 1990.

1989

Cambridge, MA. MIT Press. A Forest of Signs, 1989. Text by Ann Goldstein.
New York, NY. Hunter College Art Gallery, Photography and Abstraction, 1989. Text by Rosalind Krauss.
New York, NY. Shea and Beker Gallery. Diagrams & Surrogates, 1988. Text by Sol Ostrow,
Vienna, Austria. Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder. James Welling, 1989. Text by David Joselit.

1988

Boston, MA. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Utopia Post-Utopia, 1988. Texts by Fredric Jameson et al.

1987

Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA. University of California Press. The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century 1987. [cover illustration]

1985

Buffalo, NY. CEPA. James Welling: Gelatin Photographs 1-12, 1985.

1983

New York, NY. Marlborough Gallery, In Plato’s Cave, 1983

Bibliography

2024

Welling, James, Bernd & Hilla Becher, brooklynrail.org, March 2024
–––, University Galleries presents Witnesses: James Welling / Chris Welsby, news.illinoisstate.edu, 29 February 2024
Shorris, Michael, James Welling: Thought Objects, brooklynrail.org, February 2024 Issue
Slifkin, Robert, James Welling with Robert Slifkin, brooklynrail.org, February 2024 Issue, in print: p. 52
Yablonsky, Linda, Crisis vs utopia: New York shows of Richard Mosse and James Welling take photography to its limits, theartnewspaper.com, 30 January 2024
Jager, Hiroshi, David, A Closer Look at James Welling and John Wesley, Two Artists Who Defy Classification, nysun.com, 11 January 2024

2023

Temblador, Alex, How to Celebrate Dallas Arts Month in April, texashighways.com, 4 April 2023
Palmer Alberts, Kate, James Welling Recasts the Ancient World, aperture.org, 9 March 2023

2022

Welling, James, Icestorm, 2001, brooklynrail.com, December 22 – January 2023, p. 77
Taft, Catherine, James Welling, Artforum, November 2022, pp. 194-195
Van Den Broeke, Teo, Glass House by James Welling, NYC, wallpaper.com, 28 October 2022
McGee, Celia, A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West, nytimes.com, 14 July 2022
Balasz, Tatac, At Regen Projects, James Welling’s Camera Reanimates Images of Greek and Roman Busts, widewalls.ch, 2 July 2022

2021

Abad, Mario, Clothing Stores Are the New Art Gallery, papermag.com, 2 April 2021
Bindman, Jennifer, SoHo Favorite Arias New York Debuts James Welling Photography Exhibit, lofficielusa.com, 8 April 2021
Beard, Mary, Twelve Caesars, Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern, Princeton University Press, USA, 28 September 2021
Cain, Stephanie, A fashion designer’s first brick-and-mortar store rides the pandemic roller coaster, fortune.com, 19 May 2021
Caley Newcott, Sean, At Arias, a James Welling Exhibition, nytimes.com, 22 April 2021
Dinan, Michael, Local Business Q&A: Design Store of The Glass House, newcanaanite.com, 30 November 2021
Joyner, Sean, Julius Schulman Institute Director Barbara Bestor featured in L.A. Times’ International Women’s Day honorary roundup, archinect.com, 5 March 2021
Joyner, Sean, Lee Bey receives the 2021 Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award, archinect.com, 17 May 2021
Luke, Ben, The Week in Art (podcast), theartnewspaper.com, 16 April 2021
Nordstrom, Leigh, Arias New York Launches Photography Exhibition With Artist James Welling, wwd.com, 31 March 2021
Valentine, Victoria L., Brenna Youngblood is Now Represented by Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, culturetype.com, 12 January 2021
Westall, Mark, Brenna Youngblood Now Represented By Roberts Projects, fadmagazine.com, 9 February 2021
–––, Art meets nature at the Brandywine, chaddsfordlive.com, 31 July 2021
–––, James Crump – The Art for Home Interview, artspace.com, 1 September 2021
–––, Let loose after lockdown: London’s best gallery shows, theartnewspaper.com, 16 April 2021
–––, New York’s Metro Pictures Gallery to Permanently Close, artforum.com, 7 March 2021

2020

Basciano, Oliver, John Baldessari: the giant prankster who torched artworld pretension, theguardian.com, 6 January 2020
Cascone, Sarah, Who Went Shopping at Frieze Los Angeles? We Buttonholed J.Lo and A-Rod, Usher, Leonardo DiCaprio and Other Famous Names at the Fair, news.artnet.com, 14 February 2020
Chao, Mary, George Eastman Museum reopens, hoping for staycationers to visit, eu.democratandchronicle.com, 27 July 2020
Cotton, Charlotte, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, 2020, p. 128
Finkel, Jori, John Baldessari, Who Gave Conceptual Art a Dose of Wit, Is Dead at 88, nytimes.com, 5 January 2020
Halle, Howard, New York galleries are creating online viewing rooms to exhibit art, timeout.com, 19 March 2020
Hutton, Belle, How to Get Your Culture Fix in the Age of Social Distancing, anothermag.com, 17 March 2020
J. Kushner, Daniel, Contemporary Classical | ‘It Can’t Not Be Dance Music’, rochestercitynewspaper.com, 17 September 2020
Kalai, Leonidas, John Baldessari’s Legacy, art-critique.com, 10 January 2020
Kornbluth, Jesse, This Home in New Jersey’s Horse Country Is a Inviting as It Is Dazzling, yahoo.com, 24 June 2020
Kurutz, Steven, Joseph Bartscherer, Rigorously Conceptual Photographer, Dies at 65, nytimes.com, 6 September 2020
Laster, Paul, 6 Sensational Viewing Room Shows Across the Americas, artandobject.com, 26 May 2020
Martin, Hannah, Step Inside Photographer Jason Schmidt’s New Quarantine Project: His Own Home, architecturaldigest.com, 24 November 2020
Mun-Delsalle, Y-Jean, Elena Soboleva, Director of Online Sales At David Zwirner Gallery, On The Importance Of Integrating The Digital And Physical Realms, forbes.com, 13 November 2020
Ponti, Aimsel, Things to Do: See some art, do some yoga, catch a film and visit with animals, pressherald.com, 14 September 2020
Quach, Hoa, San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art Announces Digital Art Auction , timesofsandiego.com, 1 September 2020
Rafferty, Rebecca, Rochester Fringe announces 2020 lineup, rochestercitynewspaper.com, 25 August 2020
Spevak, Jeff, George Eastman Museum rejoins Rochester’s culture scene, wxxinews.org, 24 July 2020
Spiegelman, Nadja, From Catherine Opie, a Visual Diary of the Recent Past, nytmes.com, 10 July 2020
Stathis, Katherine, Calendar preview: A summer switcheroo, rochestercitynewspaper.com, 15 July 2020
Zilkha, Bettina, The Art Show Gala Preview Shows High Quality Works, Raises $1 Million for Henry Street, forbes.com, 1 March 2020
–––, ARTnews in Brief: Hauser & Wirth Names Marc Payot as President – and More from January 10, 2020, artnews.com, 6 January 2020
–––, Faculty Print Show, presented by the Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts, planetprinceton,com, 1 February 2020
–––, Getty Presents Rare Platinum Photographs, finebooksmagazine.com, 18 January 2020
–––, IMAGES Statewide Photography Contest Goes Digital, newtownbee.com, 4 April 2020
–––, Online – It can’t not be dance music: new music inspired by the art of James Welling, eastman.org, 4 September 2020
–––, Shoreline Arts Alliance accepting submissions now for online show, greenwichtime.com, 7 April 2020
–––, TRNK digitalizes furniture by international designers for new online exhibition, news.yahoo.com, 18 May 2020
–––, Victoria Sambunaris To Receive The 2020 Julius Shulman Institute Excellence In Photograpy Award, prnewswire.com, 21 December 2020

2019

Finkel, Jori, It Speaks To Me, pp. 110-111,163.
Ziots, Megan, Dallas’ New Showcase Arts Hotel Opens With Stunning Works and Plenty of Surprise Perks, papercitymag.com, 3 December 2019
Welling, James, James Welling on Andrew Wyeth, in: Jori Finkel, It Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires Artists, Prestel, 2019, p.110.
–––, CalArts’ Early Years Subject of Exhibition in Germany, scvnews.com, 10 September 2019.

2018

Battista, Kathy, Picturing, Talking Art 2: Art Monthly Interviews with Artists Since 2007, London, Ridinghouse
Bickers, Patricia, ed.,Talking Art 2: Art Monthly Interviews with Artists Since 2007, London, Ridinghouse
Egeland, Vetle, James Welling on his photo ‘1538’, documentjournal.com, 13 June 2018
McKeough, Tim, Fuzzy Thinking: Artist-Designed Rugs, NY Times, 4 October 2018.
Wolf, Denise (ed.), The Photographer in the Garden, Aperture, New York, 2018, pp.62-63.
–––, Destination Art: 500 Artworks Worth the Trip, Phaidon, 2018, pp113.

2017

Slifkin, Robert, James Welling: Metamorphosis, Artforum, January 2017, 114.
Eliel, Carol S., Artists on Art: James Welling on László Moholy-Nagy, unframed.lacma.org, 15 June 2017.

2016

Vankin, Deborah, James Welling’s ‘Choreograph’ a bold dance between the real and the abstract, latimes.com, 19 February 2016.
Slifkin, Robert, James Welling, artforum.com, February 2016.
Welling, James, Undergrad Project, Gagarin, Issue 33, 2016.

2015

Moss, Hilary, James Welling, Now in Technicolor, nytimes.com, 17 November 2015.
Boynton, Andrew, Bodies in Space: James Welling’s “Choreograph”, newyorker.com, 9 November 2015.
Carter, Cathy, Artist James Welling talks Andrew Wyeth at Brandywine River Museum, delawarepublic.org, 28 October 2015.
Crimmins, Peter, Photographer unites homage to Andrew Wyeth with exploration of color at Chadds Ford, newsworks.org, 28 July 2015.
Ebony, David, Destination Art: James Welling and Pennsylvania’s Brandywine River Valley, artinamericamagazine.com, 17 August 2015
Greenberger, Alex, People Who Live In Glass Houses: James Welling on His Andrew Wyeth-Inspired Photographs, artnews.com, 18 August 2015
Griffin, Jonathan, Out of the Light into the Shadows, Tate Etc., Spring 2015, pp. 84-93
Herschdorfer, Nathalie, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography, 2015, pp 418
Murg, Stephanie, Different vistas: James Welling channels Andrew Wyeth for Brandywine show, wallpaper.com, 18 August 2015
Sawyer, Drew, James Welling’s Wyeth Series at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, documentjournal.com, 14 August 2015.
–––, Defining photography: a vain quest?, artmediaagency.com, 25 March 2015
–––, Things Beyond Resemblace: James Welling Photographs, chaddsfordlive.com, 24 July 2015.

2014

Pollack, Maika. What is a Photograph? at the International Center of Photography and ‘AWorld of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio’ at the Museum of Modern Art. New York Observer 17 February 2014, B4

2013

Chang, Phil. Cache, Active: Conversation with James Welling. Aperture, Spring 2013 pp.141, 147
Feeney, Mark. James Welling: an interest in the interstitial, bostonglobe.com 23 February 2013
Fried, Michael, Previews: James Welling: Monograph Artforum January 2013, p.81
Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín. Welling’s Wyeth, Afterall Spring 2013, pp.20-32
Merjian, Ara H. James Welling, Frieze January/February 2013, p.158
Pfarrer, Steve. Hybrid images: On view at UMass, James Welling works combine painting, sculpture, photography, amherstbulletin.com 27 February 2013
Risch, Conor. Tour de Force, Photo District News March 2013 pp.46-50
Rosen, Steven. Welling: Photos of a Lifetime, cincinnati.com , 25 January 2013
Spira, Anthony. James Welling: The Mind on Fire, Afterall, Spring 2013 pp33-41
Zhong, Fan. Photo Op. W February 2013, p.114

2012

Bush, Bill. Now Isn’t That Spacial?: This Artweek.LA. huffingtonpost.com 28 February
Carmichael, Elisa. Showtime, The Art Street Journal August 2012 pp.28-45
Dunne, Susan.Welling Photos An Homage To Wyeth, Hartford Courant 25 March 2012 G1-G2
Falconer, Morgan. Homespun Heroics, The World of Interiors ,October 2012 pp.106-11
Feitelberg, Rosemary. Scene, WWD, 11 September 2012, p.2
Feßler, Anne Katrin. Neue Perspektiven: In Wien blicken Künstler auf moderne Architektur, Monopol February 2012 p101
Heuer, Megan. James Welling: David Zwirner. Art in America November 2012 p.164
McQuaid, Cate. Exhibits revisit, reprise works of Andrew Wyeth, The Boston Globe 17 April 2012
Rexer, Lyle. James Welling: ‘Wyeth,’ Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. photographmag.com 11 June 2012
Robertson, Rebecca. Wyeth Redux. ARTnews, April 2012, p. 27
Rosenberg, Karen. James Welling: Overflow, The New York Times, 19 October 2012, C27
Sholis, Brian. James Welling: David Zwirner, Artforum November 2012, p.275
Suqi, Rima. Q & A: Images from Wyeth’s World, Paint Splatters and All, The New York Times, 23 August 2012, D2
Welling, James. The Artists’ Artists. Artforum, December 2012, p.116
Wilson, Michael. Odd Couples, New York Observer 29 October 2012, B9
Woodward, Richard. Where Painting and Photography Blur, The Wall Street Journal 27 December 2012, D6
James Welling: The Mind on Fire at MK Gallery, aestheticamagazine.com, 31 August

2011

McLean-Ferris, Laura, Anti-Photography, Art Review, April 2010, p.112.
Stillman, Steel, In The Studio: James Welling, Art In America, cover & pp.54-61.
Tsitsovits, Yannis, Stained Glass: James Welling at Maureen Paley, undercurrentmagazine.com, 24 April 2011.
Welling, James, Art In Los Angeles, Artforum, October 2011, p.283.

2010

Archey, Karen, James Welling, Map, Summer 2010, p.81.
Grabner, Michelle, James Welling, Artforum, February 2010, pp.207-208.
Witkovsky, Matthew, Another History, Artforum, March 2010, pp.212-221.
rbert, Martin, Sunless, Frieze, November-December 2010, pp.133-134.
puya, Paul Mpagi, Glass House, PIN-UP, Spring-Summer 2010, p.18.

2009

Fowle, Kate, The Pictures Generation: 1974-84, Frieze, Summer 2009, pp.184-185.
Lobel, Michael, Previews: The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, Artforum, January 2009, p.108.
Welling, James, Untitled, Degrades Series, 2004, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2009.

2008

Elcott, Noam M, The Shadow of the World, Aperture, Spring 2008, pp.30-39.
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Pluk, October 2008, pp.32-33.
Untitled (Vicarious), The New Yorker, 20 October 2008.

2007

“Goings On About Town: Flower Power,” New Yorker, 23 April 2007, pp.8, 15.
Saltz, Jerry, Has Money Ruined Art?, New York Magazine, 15 October 2007, pp. 36-40.
Scwabsky, Barry, The 80’s: A Topology, Artforum, Summer 2007, pp.488-489.

2006

Davis, Tim, “Galleries Uptown“, New Yorker, March 2006.
Gray, Emma, “LA Confidential.” artnet.com (August 2006)
Grosz, David. “Taking abstraction to its logical extreme.” The New York Sun, 13 June 2003.
Jones, Kristin M. “Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures.” Frieze, Issue 101 (Summer 2006).
“All Things Cow at Hudson River Museum.” The Journal News, 23 June 2006.
“Roman à Clef: James Welling.” The New York Times Real Estate Magazine, Fall 2006.
“Untitled.” Blind Spot, Issue 32, 2006.
Lawler, Louise, „James Welling“, Bomb, Spring 2006, p22.
O’Reilly, Sally, “Pescali & Sprovieri“, Freize, June 2006, p272.
“What’s On“, The Art Newspaper, No. 174, November 2006, p11.

2005

Kitamura, Katie, “Review, James Welling, Regen Projects”, Pluk, Issue 24, May – June 2005, p37.
unsigned, “Alumni News.” Carnegie Mellon: School of Art- Newsletter, (Fall 2005, p.5.
unsigned, “Flowers.” Blind Spot, Issue 30, (2005), pp. cover – 7.
unsigned, “Galleries—Chelsea: The Photograph in Question.” The New Yorker (July 11 & 18, 2005), p. 20.
unsigned, “Don’t Miss! James Welling, ‘New Work.’” Time Out New York, (Apr. 14-20, 2005), p. 65.
unsigned, “The Marc Look: The New Eyewear Line from Marc Jacobs,” Vitals, (Spring 2005), p. 38.
unsigned, “Galleries—Chelsea: James Welling.” The New Yorker (April 25, 2005), p. 22.
unsigned, “Galleries – Chelsea: ‘The Photograph in Question.” The New Yorker (July 11 & 18, 2005), p. 20.
Elcott, Noam M. “James Welling, ‘New Work’.” Time Out New York, Issue No. 499 (April 21-27, 2005), p. 83.
Harris. “Pick Hit: James Welling.” Village Voice (April 20-26, 2005), p. 43.
Kunitz, Daniel. “Arts & Letters: Gallery-Going” The New York Sun (April 14, 2005), p. 17.
Mack, Joshua. “James Welling.” Modern Painters (June 2005), p. 114.
Pühringer, Alexander. “Bilder von der Dinglichkeit der Welt.” frame, (May/June 2005), pp. 66-74.
Trembley, Nicholas. “L’explorateur” Numéro (May 2005), pp. 32-33.
O’Reilly Sally, “100 Artists See God“, Art Monthly, February 2005, p16-17.

2004

Abrams, Janet, “The Solid Geometry of Sight,” catalogue for James Welling at The Arts Club of Chicago, (March 16 – April 23, 1994).
Deitcher, David, “The Last Picture Show,” Artforum, (February 2004), p. 144.
Estep, Jan, “The Last Picture Show,” Frieze, (March 2004), pp. 97-98.
Fallon, Roberta, “’The Big Nothing’ In Phillie,” artnet, (March 2004).
Golden, Deven, “James Welling,” BOMB, (Spring 2004), pp.46-53.
Kimmelman, Michael, “Artists Who Just Say No. To Everything,” The New York Times, (June 25, 2004), p. 229.
Ristic, Ivan. “James Welling: Der Photograph als Medium,” Eikon, issue 45, (2004), pp. 34-38.
Sheets, Hilarie, “Armand Hammer’s Orphan Museum Turns Into Cinderella in Los
Angeles,” The New York Times. (October 6, 2004), p. E1, 9.
unsigned, “The Big Nothing,” e-flux, 30, (April 2004).

2003

Aletti, Vince. “Voice Choices/Photo: Imaging the Abstract,” Village Voice, (May 21, 2003), p. 92
Fulco, Elisa. “In Mostra: James Welling,” Flash Art, (June/July 2003), p. 154
Ghezzi, Rosella. “Vernici: James Welling,” Vivi Milano, (March 19, 2003).
Grosz, David, “Still Painting’s Sidekick,” The New York Sun, (March 6, 2003), p. 16
Horak, Ruth, “Rethinking Photography I + II, Fotohof edition, Saltzburg
Immer, Silvia. “James Welling: Galleria Raffaella Cortese,” ESPOARTE, (April/May 2003), p. 24
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: James Welling, Los Angeles,” The New York Times, (September, 19 2003), p. E39
Memeo, Francesca. “La Mostra,” La Stampa, (April 4, 2003).
Miles, Christopher, “James Welling: Regen Projects,” Artforum, (June, 2003), p. 194, ill.
Newhall, Edith. “Art: Photography, City of Angles,” New York Magazine, (September 8, 2003), p. 170
Ollman, Lea, “Bitter Nature of Human Nature,” LA Times, (May 2, 2003).
Pola, Francesca. “James Welling,” Segno : Attualità Internazionali d’Arte Contemporanea, (May/June 2003)
Princenthal, Nancy, “A 10-Part Hello Along the Hudson,” NY Times, (May 11, 2003), p. 20
Schmerler, Sarah. “Don’t Miss: James Welling, Los Angeles,” Time Out New York, (September 11-18, 2003), p. 89
Treace, Bonnie Myota. “Rising to the Challenge”, Tricycle (Ill. by James Welling) (Spring 2003), pp. 40, 42, 45
Tumlir, Jan. “The 1980’s: Part Two”, Interview with James Welling, Artforum, (April 2003), pp. 216, 217, 255.
Welling, James. “An Excerpt from Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia.” X, vol. 5, no. 4, (2003), pp. 4-7.
unsigned. “Galleria Raffaella Cortese,” Sur La Terre, No. 14, (Summer 2003)
unsigned. “James Wellling,” Exhibart.onpaper, (May 2003)
unsigned. ”James Welling,” That’s Art, No. 41, (April 2003)

2002

Kohno, Haruko, “A gallery responds to 9/11,” Daily Yomiuri, (Jan 31 2002)
Lambrecht, Luk, “De waarheid volgens James Welling,” De Morgen, Brussels, (April 25 2002)
Mahoney, Robert. “Justine Kurland, Catherine Opie, Martha Rosler and James Welling at Gorney Bravin + Lee”, Time Out New York, (27 June – 4 July 2002), p. 56
Milroy, Sarah “Playful Pictures of Light and Texture”, The Globe and Mail, (Nov. 29, 2002), p. R4
Tillman, Lynne, “This is Not It, D. A. P”, New York, p. 177
Tumlir, Jan. “Previews: James Welling, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles”, Artforum, (Jan. 2002), p. 72
Ziegler, Ulf “Zwischen Begriff und Gegenstand: James Welling abstrake Fotografien seit 1975,” Frankfurter Rundschau, (August 17, 2002)
unsigned, “een ode aan het licht,” De Standaard, Brussels, (March 7, 2002)

2001

Egan, Maura. “Prize Matters.” Details, (January/February 2001), pp. 124-131. [photos by Welling]
Fried, Michael, gallery talk, MoCA, Los Angeles (unpublished)
Intra, Giovanni. “Reviews: James Welling at MoCA”, artext, (Aug. – Oct. 2001), p. 77
Jones, Kristin M. “James Welling at Gorney Bravin + Lee”, Frieze, (May 2001), pp. 99-100
Joselit, David. “Surface Histories: The Photography of James Welling,” Art in America, (May 2001), pp. 136-143
Knight, Christopher. “The Melancholy Process, History of Photography,” Los Angeles Times, (May 8,2001)
Lin-Eftekhar, Judy. “Photographer captures surreal landscapes, luminous scene,” UCLA Today, (April 10,2001).
Loreto Mondloch, Katie. “Review: James Welling at MoCA, LA”, Tema Celeste, (September-October 2001), p.85
Manroe, Candace Ord. “The Art of the Stairway.” Traditional Home, (March 2001), pp. 148-149. [ill.]
Mitchell, Roger, Savage Baggage, (cover photograph by James Welling) The Figures, Great Barrington, MA
Myers, Holly. “Light”, LA Weekly, (20-26 July, 2001), p. 47
Rogers, Sarah J. “James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999,” The Contemporary, (March/April/May 2001), pp. 8-9. [illustration]
Rowley, Alexandra, Turn Shake Flip, Eyestorm, New York, p. 41
Tillman, Lynne. “Portfolio: James Welling,” Artforum, (May, 2001), pp. 139-143
Welling, James, portrait of Wolfgang Tillmans in Details, (January, 2001), pp. 124, 127.
Zellen, Jody. “Mining the Photographic Process,” dArt International, (Winter 2001), p.40
unsigned. “James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999.” The Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, (June/July/August 2001), pp. 2, 8.
unsigned. “James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999,” UCLA Spotlight, (Sept. 25, 2001).

2000

Giuliano, Mike, “James Welling Finds the Complexity.” City Paper Baltimore, (September 6, 2000), p.37
Brooke Schleifer, Kristen, “James Welling: New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies,” Art on Paper, (July-August 2000), p.58, ill.
Ollmans, Leah, “Ambiguous Artifacts: James Welling and Sharon Lockhart,” Los Angeles Times, (Friday, March 3 2000)
Relyea, Lane, “Review: James Welling at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH,” Artforum, (September, 2000), p. 171
Welling, James, “Los Angeles Photographs, 1976-78,” October, Issue 91, Winter, p.81-100
Welling, James, “Photography in the ‘00s,” UCLA, (Summer 2000), pp.38-43
Yates, Christopher A. Yates, “From bright to brooding,” Columbus Dispatch, (May 21, 2000)

1999

Hirsch, Faye, “Working Proof: James Welling”, Art On Paper, (Mar.-Apr., 1999), p.56
“Rethinking Genres in Contemporary Photography,” Art On Paper, (January-February 1999), p.33
Solomon, Deborah, “How to Succeed in Art,” New York Times Magazine, (June 27, 1999), pp.38-41,ill.
Schmerler, Sarah, “Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue,” Time Out / New York, (July 22-29, 1999) p.80
Sonna, Birgit, “Der Janusköpfige: James Welling…,” Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), (Dec. 6, 1999)

1998

Aletti, Vince, “Photo Short List: James Welling,” Village Voice, (Sept. 29, 1998), p.73
Cotter, Holland, “James Welling, Early Photographs: 1976-1985,” The New York Times, (October 16,1998), p.E-37
Grynsztejn, Madeleine. “James Welling.” forum, no. thirty-seven, (1998).
Miller, Donald, “Intense photographic images recall Pittsburgh’s gritty past,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,(November 28, 1998), p.D-8
Shearing, Graham, “New light on the familiar: James Welling…,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, (November 19, 1998), p.27
Squiers, Carol, “A Slice of Light”, Artforum, (January 1998), pp. 76-79.
Wahler, Marc-Olivier. “L’hypothèse du tableau volé”, Art Press, (October 1998)

1997

Aletti, Vince, “Photo Short List: James Welling,” The Village Voice, (Mar 18, 1997), p.11
Fink, Barbel, “James Welling,” Camera Austria, issue #59/60, pp.70-80
Mitchell, Charles Dee, “James Welling at Jay Gorney,” Art in America, (July 1997), p.92
Schmerler, Sarah, “James Welling, Light Sources’,” TimeOut/New York, (March 20- 27,1997), p.47
Squiers, Carol, “James Welling,” Grand Street, issue #61, pp.169
Welling, James, “Railroad Towns,” Grand Street, issue #61, pp.160-168 (photo portfolio in“All-American” issue)

1996

Berriolo, Elana & Flexner, Roland, “Art in the Folds,” New Observations, issue #110, p.45
Cross, Andrew, “Evident”, Great: The Magazine of The Photographers’ Gallery, London, (November/December 1996), p.6-7
Cross, Andrew, “New Landscapes: Axel Hütte & James Welling,” Creative Camera, (October/November 1996), p.8-17
Frank, Peter, “James Luna, Allan Sekula, Deep Surface,” L. A. Weekly, (August 23-29, 1996)
Pagel, David, “Meditations on Morality and the Depiction of Space,” Los AngelesTimes, (Aug. 22, 1996).
Silver, Joanne, “Photography Distills Nature,” Boston Sunday Herald, (January 7, 1996), p. 42
Williams, Gilda, “Evident / The Photographers’ Gallery,” Art Monthly, (December 1996)
“James Welling.” Bomb, No. 54, (Winter 1996), pp. 14-15.

1995

Aletti, Vince, “Voice Choices: James Welling,” Village Voice, (Dec. 19, 1995), p.10
Auerbach, Lisa Anne, “James Welling: Regen Projects,” Artforum, (March 1995)
Bonetti, David, “Gallery Watch: Rena Bransten Gallery,” San Francisco Examiner, (September 22, 1995), p.C-7
Grundberg, Andy, “James Welling”, The New York Times, (September 30, 1995)
Grundberg, Andy, “Beyond Description: Content in Today’s Photography, Independent Curators: New York, broadsheet
Medeiros, Margarida, “James Welling: Módulo”, Publico, (January 14, 1995)
Medeiros, Margarida, “Paisagens e interiores”, Publico, (January 7, 1995)
Schwarzwalder, Rosemarie, Klares Programm: Galerie Arbeit Heute, Lindinger+Schmid,Regensburg, P.77
Servetar, Stuart, “Art”, New York Press, (December 13-19, 1995), p. 76
unsigned, L’Immagine Riflessa, Prato: Museo Pecci, unpaginated
unsigned, Whitney Center Pieces, Volume 2, No. 2, Whitney Center: Hamden, Fall

1994

Battarra, Enzo, “La teoria? E’ un gioco di eventi,” il Giornale di Napoli, (June 30, 1994)
Grundberg, Andy, “Who are the Most Underrated and Overrated Artists?” Art News, New York, (February 1994)
Karmel, Pepe. “Out of the Ghetto,” Artnews, (April 1994)
Smith, Roberta, “Group Shows of Every Kind…,” The New York Times, (Feb. 25, 1994)
Thorkildsen, Asmund, Nettverk. Network, The Olympic Collection 94, Oslo: De norske Bokklubbene AS, p. 87

1993

Balau, R.&’m.James Welling: Laces Factories. Forum International, no. 19, (Oct-Nov 1993), p. 142.
Cassiman, Bart (Ed.,) The Sublime Void. Antwerp: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, pp. 10-11, 125, 208-209, 260-261
Demarty, Marie-Pierre, “Welling entre dans l’usine,” Nord Littoral, Calais, (April 16 1993)
Hagen, Charles, “James Welling,” The New York Times, (May 14, 1993)
Hume, Christopher, “Industrial Photography,” The Toronto Star, Toronto, (Jun. 10, 1993)
Upshaw, Reagan, “James Welling at Jay Gorney,” Art in America, (December 1993)
“James Welling Railroad Photographs,” Blind Spot, Issue 1, (1993)

1992

Ament, Deloris, Tarzan, “Through the lens of history,” The Seattle Times, (Sep. 24, 1992)
Hackett, Regina, “Familiar scenes are shot with cold perfection,” Seattle Post-Inteligencer, (Sep. 24, 1992)
Michaels, Walter Benn, “Photography as Art,” unpublished paper delivered at Photography and Art, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, (April 1992)
Smallwood, Lyn, “Shooting the rails,” Seattle Weekly, (September 30, 1992)

1991

Aletti, Vince. “James Welling,” The Village Voice, (May 7 1991)
Messler, Norbert. “James Welling: Wunder der sichtbaren Welt,” Noema Magazine, (May 1991)
Schjeldahl, Peter, “At the Salon of April,” The Village Voice, (May 14, 1991)
unsigned, “Grandes Lignes, quand l’art entre en gare,” Beaux-Arts (1991), pp. 46-47

1990

Bianchi, Pado, “James Welling: Photography 1977-1990 at the Kunsthalle Bern,” Kunstforum, (November/December 1990)
Cueff, Alain, “Et Welling Aussi”, Beaux-Arts, #75, (January 1990), pp. 68-75
Loock, Ulrich, “Meanings at Our Disposal,” Parachute, (October / December 1990)
Raczka, Robert, “James Welling at Beaver College,” New Art Examiner, (February 1990)
Trippi, Laura, “Interview,” Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New York: New Museum (1990)
Troncy, Eric, “James Welling,” Flash Art, Milan, (October 1990)
Van den Boogerd, Dominic, “James Welling: Feiten en Ficties van de Fotographie,” Metropolis M, No. 5, (October 1990), pp. 44-4

1989

Decter, Joshua, “James Welling at Jay Gorney Modern Art,” Flash Art, (January/February 1989)
Faber, Monika, “Gallery Talk, 28 April 1989,” Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, unpublished
Haus, Mary, “150 Years of Photography,” Artnews, #4, Vol. 88, (Apr. 1989), pp. 162-163
Nesweda, Peter, “The Yearning of a Society Without History,” Der Standard, (May 10, 1989)
Princenthal, Nancy, review, The Print Collector’s Newsletter, vol XX, No. I, (March –April 1989)
Prodhon, Francoise-Claire, “James Welling at Samia Saouma, Paris,” Flash Art (1989)
Scheuer, Daniel, “150th at f2 Snapshots of Contemporary Art Photography,” Center Quarterly: A Journal of Photography and Related Arts, vol. II, Number 1
unsigned, Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, published for Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, and Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
unsigned, “James Welling at Beaver College,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, (October 26, 1989)

1988

Bankowsky, Jack, Flash Art, (Spring 1988)
Collins, Tricia and Milazzo, Richard, “Art at the End of the Social,” Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum: Malmo, 1988. pp. 79-88
Fairbrother, Trevor, Bi National: American Art of the Late 80’s, Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988.
Grundberg, Andy, The New York Times, (March 25, 1988)
Grundberg, Andy, “Camera Culture in a Postmodern Age,” Photography and A Interactions Since 1946, New York: Abbeville Press, P. 225
Hoy, Anne H., Fabrications-Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs, New York: Abbeville Press, 1988
Johnson, Ken, Art in America, (July 1988), pp. 135-136
Joselit, David, “Saying the Unsayable,” Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, “Beyond the Simulation Principle,” Welling, James, “Catalogue Proposal, 1987, Utopia Post
Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography, MIT Press: Cambridge, pp. 2, 13, 37, 55, 71,73, 85, 103, 105
Krauss, Rosalind, “A Debate on Abstraction,” Photography and Abstraction, (May 1988)
Linsley, Robert, “In Pursuit of the Vanishing Subject: James Welling and Rodney Graham,” C Magazine, (Winter 1988)
Morgan, Robert, review, Arts Magazine, (Dec. 1988)
Ramsey, Ellen, “Rodney Graham, James Welling,” Vanguard, (February 1988)
unsigned, Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective, Stockholm: Moderna Museet, pp. 152-155

1987

Grundberg, Andy, “Camera Culture in a Postmodern Age,” Photography and Art: 1946-86, Los Angeles, CA, LA County Museum of Art, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987, p. 225
Ottman, Klaus, “The Spectacle of Chaos”, Flash Art (1987)
Relyea, Lane, review of show at Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, L.A. Weekly, (May 1987)
unsigned, “Untitled (Man, School, Shoe),” Skeptical Belief (s), Chicago: The Renaissance Society 1986 Collins, Tricia and Milazzo, Richard, “James Welling: Party Favors,” Kunstforum International, (March/April/ May 1986)
Decter, Joshua, review, Arts, (February 1986)
Foster, Hal, “Signs Taken for Wonders,” Art In America, (May 1986)
Welling, James, “Gelatin Photographs,” File Magazine, #26: (X-mas 1986)
____, “Galgiani’s Image”, to accompany “Simple Conjunctions,” an installation by Phillip Galgiani, San Francisco Museum of Art 1984 Gintz, Claude, Ailleurs et Autrement, Paris: ARC
Grundberg, Andy, “The Fall from Grace of a Spiritual Guru,” The New York Times,(September 2, 1984), p. 19
Grundberg, Andy, The New York Times, (March 2, 1984)
Johnson, Ken, “James Welling at Christine Burgin,” Art in America, (July 1984)
Collins, Tricia & Milazzo, Richard, Hybrid Neutral, catalogue for traveling exhibition
Salle, David & Welling, James, “Images that Understand Us: A Conversation with David Salle and James Welling,” LAICA Journal, #40, (Fall 1984)
Wallis, Brian (Ed.,) Art after Modernism, Rethinking Representation, Boston: David R. Godin, pp. 78, 80, 168
Welling, James, “Abstract,” Effects-Magazine for New Art Theory, #2

1983

Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, In Plato’s Cave, New York: Marlborough Gallery, (Oct- Nov. 1983)

1982

Cook, Scott, Natural History, New York: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, unpaginated
Grundberg, Andy, “In Today’s Photography Imitation Isn’t Always Flattery,” The New York Times, (Nov 14, 1982), p. H31.
Owens, Craig, “Back to the Studio”, Art In America, (January 1982)
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, “Playing the Fields of the Image,” After Image, (Summer 1982)
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, “In Plato’s Cave,” In Plato’s Cave, New York: Marlborough Gallery

1981

Lifson, Ben, “Collage à Trois,” The Village Voice, (April 8-14, 1981), p. 92

1980

Welling, James, Performance Anthology, critical writings, ed. Carl Loeffler, San Francisco: Contemporary Arts Press
Thornton, Gene, “Narrative Works—And Arbus,” The New York Times, (September 1980)

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
City Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Fondation Belgacom, Brussels, Belgium
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
KPN Collection, The Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
Musée d’Art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, Roche-sur-Yon, France
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Olympic Collection, Oslo, Norway
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, USA