Gregory Crewdson

Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He attended John Dewey High School, graduating early.

As a teenager, he was part of a power pop group called The Speedies that hit the New York scene. Their song, “Let Me Take Your Foto” proved to be prophetic to Crewdson’s future career. In 2005, Hewlett Packard used the song in advertisements to promote its digital cameras.

At Purchase College, State University of New York, he enrolled in a Photo 101 class taught by Laurie Simmons on a whim, and fell in love with the medium. He went on to study with Jan Groover before graduating. He then received his MFA in Photography at the Yale School of Art, where he is now a professor and director of graduate studies in Photography. In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. The film series followed the construction and the behind-the-scenes explanation from Crewdson himself of his thought process and vision for his pieces of his collection Beneath the Roses.

Crewdson is represented by Gagosian Gallery.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
  • Gregory Crewdson: An Eclipse of Moths, Galerie Templon, Paris (Grenier Saint-Lazare), 3e, Paris, France
  • Gregory Crewdson: An Eclipse of Moths, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
2019
  • Gregory Crewdson, Paris London Hong Kong, West Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2017
  • Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun, Torun, Poland
  • Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
  • Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2016
  • Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines, Galerie Templon, Paris (rue Beaubourg), 3e, Paris, France
  • Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines, Gagosian Gallery, New York (21st Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
2015
  • Gregory Crewdson: Dream House, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
2011
  • Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Rome, Italy
2010
  • Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, White Cube, London (Mason’s Yard), St. James’s, London, UK
  • Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, Gagosian Gallery, New York (980 Madison Avenue), Upper East Side, New York, USA
2009
  • Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Villa Kast), Salzburg, Austria
  • Gregory Crewdson, Galerie Templon, Paris (rue Beaubourg), 3e, Paris, France
2008
  • Gregory Crewdson, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, California, USA
  • Gregory Crewdson, White Cube, London (Mason’s Yard), London, UK
  • Gregory Crewdson, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, Chelsea, New York, USA
2007
  • Gregory Crewdson 1985 – 2005, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Rome, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Since Unveiling: Selected Acquisitions of a Decade, The Broad, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Masters of Photography: The Garner Collection, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
  • American Photography, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
2020
  • Vantage Points, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
  • Home: Live. In Room, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2019
  • Fiction and Fabrication, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
2018
  • A Journey That Wasn’t, The Broad, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • About Photography, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
2017
  • Making Home: Contemporary Works From the DIA, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA
  • VV.AA. Displays of Affection II: Imagine the Future, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
  • Arcadia, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Modes of Behavior towards People When Affection Plays a Part. Klein Collection, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2016
  • Human Condition, Michael Lett, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • Blasted Allegories: Photography as Experience, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Spring Show, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • Into the Night Modern and Contemporary Art and the Nocturne Tradition, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • Open House Selections from the John and Sue Wieland Collection, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
2015
  • Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York, USA
  • This is What Life is About. Narratives of Progress, Freedom and Self-fulfillment in Today’s Capitalism—Works MUSAC Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Leon, Spain
  • Continuum, The Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, New York, USA
  • 20 Years-20 Shows: Spring, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2014
  • The New York Times Magazine Photographs, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
  • American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  • Disturbing Innocence, The FLAG Art Foundation, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Fierce Creativity, Pace New York (32 East 57th Street), 57th Street, New York, USA
  • Acquisition Trust: Celebrating Thirty Years of Building a Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
  • The New York Times Magazine Photographs, Aperture Foundation, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Edward Hopper and Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
  • Collection Platform, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2013
  • Collection Platform 4: Emotion and Technology, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • At the Window: The Photographer’s View, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Little Boxes: Photography and the Suburbs, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Aberrance and Artifice: The Norton Collection, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Collection Platform 4: Emotion and Technology, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • HEIMsuchung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Gregory Crewdson and O. Winston Link: American Darkness, Danziger Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Concrete: Photography and Architecture – Jubilee Exhibition 1, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2012
  • An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2011
  • Collectors’ Favorites, Cohen Gallery, Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Animaux/Animots, Frac à Carquefou, Carquefou, France
  • Collection Platform 1: Circulation, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2010
  • Duane Hanson and Gregory Grewdson: Ordinary Life, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • The Art of Point of Contact, The Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, New York, USA
  • They Knew What They Wanted, Ratio 3, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Nuit Blanche, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Meet me Inside, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Meet Me Inside, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
2009
  • What’s Neu? Recent Additions to the Neuberger Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
  • Fatal Attraction: Diana And Actaeon – The Forbidden Gaze, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
2008
  • Photographic Works: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Cohan and Leslie, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
2007
  • Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens and Weiner, Hofstra University Museum, Hampstead, New York, USA

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