The peculiar photographic opus of Gregory Crewdson is inclined in the mysteries behind the porch or closed doors of idealized American suburban homes. Namely, the inhabitants of these homes are dealing with anxiety, manias, and are usually found in some rather bizarre situations. Similar to the illustrious and ephemeral motion pictures aesthetics, the photographs of Crewdson represent the other kind of reality. At the same time, his works are a cynical comment on the mythomania and common places of representation.
Gregory Crewdson was born in 1962, in Park Slope, a neighborhood in Brooklyn. He attended John Dewey High School, graduating early and as a teenager was part of a punk rock group called The Speedies. Interestingly, their hit song Let Me Take Your Foto anticipated what would Crewdson become later in life. Soon after, he received a BA from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1985 and an MFA in photography from Yale in 1988. Also, Gregory Crewdson has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Cooper Union, Vassar College and Yale University where he works as a professor at present.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Crewdson’s bizarre photographs are usually taken in American small towns. The very choice of the theme seems to lay in the two presumptions. The first one is the picture of idealized home inherited from the consumerism, especially the mechanism of affluent society of the 50’s, and the other one being the critique of American babbitry. As a matter of fact, the artist is articulating states of loneliness, alienation, apathy, resignation, mystery, identity, desire, memory and imagination throughout the works of Gregory Crewdson. The dystopic landscapes are not narratives as such since they are just a fragments handed to the observer to solve them like a puzzle.
The photographs of Gregory Crewdson are elaborately staged and lit using crews familiar with motion picture production and lighting large scenes using motion picture film equipment and techniques. The artist carefully captures the moments of disconnect through the portraits of people lost in thought, isolated and inaccessible, both to each other and to the viewer. The final result is almost perfect – the colors are rather accentuated, the composition is balanced right. Exactly that contrast of technical perfection and highly dramatic atmosphere captured is the main quality of Crewdson’s work.
The influence of motion pictures in Crewdson’s work is notable, so the references to certain movies are present. The artist has cited that the films Vertigo, The Night of the Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blue Velvet, and Safe had the huge impact on him, while the atmosphere on the paintings of Edward Hopper, photographs of Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman and surrealism moved him greatly. Perhaps, the most important influence can be traced in the work the great Italian director Federico Fellini who shot most of that film on the sets at Cinecittà studios in Rome. It is no coincidence that Crewdson, on his first overseas film shoot, shot the series Sanctuary at the very same location. Apparent fascination is also present in his photographs in the series Beneath the Roses which are a cynical American form of famous Fellini’s film Dolce Vita.
One of his most famous series under this title is located in anonymous townscapes. The photographs depict strange situations of forest clearings, desolate streets and house interiors as sites of the enigma. On a stormy night, a man in a business suit stands beside his car, holding out a hand to the cleansing rain in apparent mystification, while a woman is sitting still next to her newborn in a house with open doors. The scenes are atmospheric and provoking and can be read differently. The coordinates of time and place are erased, so the post-catastrophic associations are inevitable.
The latest series titled Cathedral of the Pines is named after a rural trail near Gregory Crewdson’s home in Massachusetts, a converted Methodist church and firehouse. The site where he found the inspiration to make these new pictures inspired him greatly with its lurk and dark atmosphere. The photographs are accompanied by an essay by Alexander Nemerov, who addresses the work in relation to the American past, focusing in particular on the way the images draw space and time down to ceremonial points.
During the years, the artist has received numerous awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship and the Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Crewdson has published several books of his photographs including Hover with ArtSpace Books, Dream of Life with the University of Salamanca, Spain, Twilight and Beneath the Roses with Abrams and a Retrospective book of his work, entitled Gregory Crewdson from 1985 to 2005. In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. The whole opus of Gregory Crewdson is committed to examining The American middle-class nightmare through hyper-realist stylizations. Despite the works being reminiscent of cinema and even fashion editorials, their concise socially charged agenda makes them profoundly deep and of high artistic quality.
Featured image: Portrait of Gregory Crewdson on the set – image courtesy of Pinterest
All images used are for illustrative purposes only
Year | Name of the exhibition | Museum/Gallery | Solo/Group |
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2015 | Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines | Gagosian Gallery, New York | solo |
2016 | Human Condition | John Wolf Art Advisory & Brokerage, Los Angeles | group |
2015 | River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home | Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY | group |
2015 | Fireflies, part of 20 Years/20 Shows: SPRING | SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | solo |
2014 | Gregory Crewdson: Fireflies. Wave Hill | Bronx, NY | solo |
2014 | FIERCE CREATIVITY | Pace Gallery, New York, NY | group |
2014 | Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior | Red Bull Studios, New York, NY | group |
2014 | Disturbing Innocence | The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY | group |
2014 | The New York Times Magazine Photographs | Aperture, New York, NY | group |
2014 | Carte Blanche à Christian Lacroix | Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France | group |
2014 | BAD THOUGHTS | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | group |
2014 | Who shall deliver us from the Greeks and Romans | Galeri Mana, Turkey | group |
2013 | Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place | City Gallery, Wellington | solo |
2013 | Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place | IMA, Brisbane | solo |
2013 | Photographic Eye | FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand | group |
2013 | Traumwelten | Galerie Supper, Baden Baden | group |
2013 | Panorama. Landscapes 2013-1969 | Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City | group |
2013 | MISE-EN-SCENE | Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul | group |
2012 | Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place | CCP, Melbourne | solo |
2012 | Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place | Stenersen Museum, Oslo | solo |
2011 | Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place | Royal Library, Copenhagen | solo |
2011 | Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary | Contact Gallery, Toronto | solo |
2011 | Seoul Photo Festival | Seoul, Korea | group |
2011 | Contact Photography Festival | Toronto | group |
2011 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Yvon Lambert, Paris & New York | group |
2010 | Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary | White Cube, London | solo |
2010 | Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary | Gagosian, New York | solo |
2010 | There is Something About These Pictures: Works from Collection Museum Frieder-Burda | Baden- Baden | group |
2009 | Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris | solo |
2009 | Tears of Eros | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid | group |
2009 | Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon – The Forbidden Gaze | Compton Verney, Warwickshire | group |
2009 | Of Other Spaces | Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio | group |
2009 | FORMAT09 International Photography Festival | QUAD, Derby | group |
2009 | Ophelia | Museum voor Moderne Kunst / mmka, Arnhem, The Netherlands | group |
2008 | Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses | White Cube, London | solo |
2008 | Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | solo |
2008 | Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses | Gagosian, Los Angeles, CA | solo |
2008 | Gregory Crewdson: Beneath The Roses | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH | solo |
2008 | Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005 | Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague | solo |
2008 | Photographic works to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts | Cohan and Leslie, New York | group |
2008 | Summer in the City 2008 | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA | group |
2008 | Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The Implications of Image) | Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City | group |
2008 | Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | group |
2008 | Photoscapes | Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York City | group |
2008 | Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object | Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY | group |
2008 | A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Henry Buhl Collection | The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL | group |
2007 | Fireflies | Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY | solo |
2007 | Drawing on Hopper: Gregory Crewdson/Edward Hopper | Williams College Museum of Art, Williams, MA | solo |
2007 | Gregory Crewdson: 1985 | DA2. Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca | solo |
2007 | Family Pictures | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | group |
2007 | Contemporary Photography and the Garden - Deceits and Fantasies | Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York | group |
2007 | A House is not a Home | Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY | group |
2007 | A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art | Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ | group |
2007 | “Dream & Trauma. Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection | Athens” Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK, Vienna, Austria | group |
2007 | EXISTENCIAS | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain | group |
2007 | Foto.Kunst: Contemporary Photography From the Essl Collection | Kunst Der Gegenwart, Essl Museum, Klosterneburg, Austria | group |
2007 | Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now! | National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia | group |
2007 | Mockumentaries | Winston Watcher, New York, NY | group |
2007 | Jano. La doble cara de la fotografía | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid | group |
2007 | Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens and Weiner | Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY | group |
2007 | Summer Show | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA | group |
2007 | the BIG picture | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh | group |
2007 | Vertigo: II Secolo Di Arte Off-Media Dal Futurismo Al Web | Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna | group |
2006 | Gregory Crewdson: Fotografien 1985-2005 | Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur | solo |
2006 | Fireflies | Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY | solo |
2006 | The Magic Hour of Twilight | The Victoria and Albert Museum, London | group |
2006 | New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film and Video | Grimaldi Forum, Monaco | group |
2006 | Before the Camera | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL | group |
2006 | Into Me/Out of Me | KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | group |
2006 | Major Photography Show: A Donation by the Caisse des Dépôts | Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | group |
2006 | Complicit! Contemporary American Art & Mass Culture | University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA | group |
2006 | Dark | Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, NL | group |
2006 | Garden Paradise | The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York, NY | group |
2006 | Into Me/Out of Me | P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY | group |
2006 | I Love the Blurbs | Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY | group |
2006 | Fictions Abound | Fotogallery, Cardiff | group |
2006 | Light in August | Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA | group |
2006 | Photography Portfolio I & II | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY | group |
2006 | Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre | National Gallery of Canada, Canada | group |
2005 | Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005 | Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover | solo |
2005 | Beneath the Roses | Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | solo |
2005 | Beneath the Roses | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | solo |
2005 | Beneath the Roses | White Cube, London, | solo |
2005 | Beneath the Roses | Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece | solo |
2005 | Twilight | First Center, Nashville, TN | solo |
2005 | Suspended Narratives | Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX | group |
2005 | Power of Places: The Berkshires | Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA | group |
2005 | Highlights New Acquisitions | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA | group |
2005 | The World is a Stage. Stories Behind Pictures | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | group |
2005 | My Own Cinema | Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France | group |
2005 | I Never Thought What You Were Telling Me Was True or a Product of Your Imagination | Galeria Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain | group |
2005 | Contemporary Photography in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT | group |
2005 | Speaking with Hands | Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao | group |
2005 | 4. gegenwartig: Geschichtenzerzahler | Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany | group |
2005 | The Real Ideal, Utopian Ideals and Dystopian Realities | Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust, Sheffield | group |
2005 | Embracing the Present: The USB Art Collection | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ | group |
2004 | Ghost Stories. The Disembodied Spirit | Austin Museum of Art, TX | group |
2004 | Dreamwavers | Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | group |
2004 | Dwelling | Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY | group |
2004 | Behind Closed Doors, Collectors Celebrate The Museum's Golden Anniversary | Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY | group |
2004 | Everything's Gone Green Photography and the Garden | The Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK | group |
2004 | Animals & Us. The Animal in Contemporary Art | Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY | group |
2004 | Big Photos | Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL | group |
2004 | Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection | Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | group |
2004 | Sets & Situations. A New Visions Series Exhibition | Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee | group |
2004 | Dream House | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France | group |
2003 | Gregory Crewdson. Dream House | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA | solo |
2003 | Not Afraid | Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL | group |
2003 | Undomesticated Interiors | Smith College of Art, North Hampton, MA | group |
2003 | Reality/Fiction: (Re)Constructing Representation | Jamaica Center Art & Learning, Jamaica, NY | group |
2003 | UnNaturally | USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | group |
2003 | Disembodied Spirits | Bowdoin Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME | group |
2003 | Passengers | Lisboa Photo, Lisbon, Portugal | group |
2003 | Family Ties. A Contemporary Perspective | Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA | group |
2003 | Twilight | Gimpel Fils, London, UK | group |
2003 | Yard | Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY | group |
2003 | Ed Rucha. Photographs: Recent Acquisitions Paintings and Sculptures | Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY | group |
2003 | Imperfect Innocence, The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection | PBICA - Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL | group |
2003 | Fantastic | Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA | group |
2003 | We Love Painting, The American Contemporary Art from Misumi Collection | Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan | group |
2002 | New Work 6: Gregory Crewdson, Twilight | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO | solo |
2002 | Gregory Crewdson | Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA | solo |
2002 | Gregory Crewdson | Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY | solo |
2002 | Gregory Crewdson, Twilight | White Cube, London, UK | solo |
2002 | Gregory Crewdson | Galleria D'Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy | solo |
2002 | Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures | Independent Curators International, New York, NY | group |
2002 | Contemporary American Photography 1970-2000, From the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea | group |
2002 | Archivo Pons Artxiboa, Erakusketa - Exposicion, 45.zk.No.45 | Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain | group |
2002 | Fictions. New Narratives in Contemporary Photography and Video | The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | group |
2002 | Vision From America: Photographs From the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 | The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | group |
2002 | Looking at America | Yale University Gallery, CT | group |
2002 | Moving Pictures | Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | group |
2002 | Art Downtown | Wall Street Rising, New York, NY | group |
2002 | Some Options in Realism | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Lobby Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | group |
2002 | A Thousand Hounds. A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography | UBS PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, NY | group |
2002 | Staged! Contemporary Photography Gregory Crewdson, Rosemary Laing, Sharon Lockhart | Contemporary Art, Worcester Art Museum, MA | group |
2002 | Situated Realities. Where Technology and Imagination Intersect | Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries, Baltimore, MD | group |
2001 | Gregory Crewdson: Photographs | SITE Santa Fe, NM, | solo |
2001 | The Reality Effect, Contemporary American Photography | Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY | group |
2001 | Photochrome, Current Contemporary Photography from New York City Galleries | Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Cannan, CT | group |
2001 | Bright Paradise | The First Auckland Triennial, University of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | group |
2001 | Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography | White Cube, London, UK | group |
2000 | Twilight | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | solo |
2000 | Early Work 1987-88 | Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina | solo |
2000 | Gregory Crewdson: Disturbed Nature | Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art Design, Vancouver | solo |
2000 | Larry Clark/ Gregory Crewdson | Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece | group |
2000 | Contemporary Group Show | Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium | group |
2000 | Gregory Crewdson, Vik Muniz, Hiroshi Sugimoto | Spark Inc. Tokyo, Japan | group |
2000 | The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden | Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainsville, FL | group |
2000 | Alfred Hitchcock | Musee des Beaux Arts De Montreal, Montreal, Canada | group |
2000 | Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection | High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA | group |
2000 | Photography Now | Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA | group |
2000 | Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art | Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA | group |
2000 | Collector's Choice | Exit Art, New York, NY | group |
2000 | Post-Historical Narrative in Contemporary Photography | Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,Waltham, MA | group |
2000 | The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden | Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL | group |
2000 | Art at MoMA since 1980 | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | group |
2000 | Open Ends: Sets and Situations | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | group |
2000 | A Beastie Boys Exhibition | Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY | group |
2000 | Before They Became Who They Are | Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY | group |
1999 | Twilight | Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK | solo |
1999 | Gregory Crewdson | Ginza Art Space, Shiseido Co, Tokyo, Japan | solo |
1999 | Surreal Suburbia | John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI | solo |
1999 | Affinities with Architecture | Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC | group |
1999 | Under/Exposed | Varldens Storsta Fotoutstallning, Stockholms Tunnelbana, Sweden | group |
1999 | Nature is not Romantic | The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY | group |
1999 | As Far as the Eye Can See | Atlanta College of Art Gallery/City Gallery at Chastain in Atlanta, Atlanta, GA | group |
1999 | Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography | New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ | group |
1999 | Threshold: Invoking the Domestic in Contemporary Art | John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI | group |
1999 | Summer SurReality | Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA | group |
1999 | Making It Real, (1997 - 1999) | Independent Curators International, New York, NY | group |
1999 | Botanica, Contemporary Art and the World of Plants | Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN | group |
1999 | WILDflowers | Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY | group |
1999 | Shot: Una Visione Americanam | Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy | group |
1999 | Animal Artifice | The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY | group |
1998 | Gregory Crewdson | Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA | solo |
1998 | Mise-en-Scene: A Selected Survey of Photographs | The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA | solo |
1998 | Gregory Crewdson | H&R Projects, Brussels, Belgium | solo |
1998 | Gregory Crewdson | Gallerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden | solo |
1998 | Twilight | Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | solo |
1998 | Espacio Uno | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | solo |
1998 | Mysterious Voyages | Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD | group |
1998 | The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Collier Schorr | Apex, New York, NY | group |
1998 | Pollution | Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy | group |
1998 | Telling Tales | The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia | group |
1998 | Exterminating Angel | Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France | group |
1998 | Pop Surrealism, organized by Harry Philbrick | Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT | group |
1998 | Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art | The Whiney Museum, New York, NY | group |
1998 | Spectacular Optical | Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY | group |
1998 | The New Surrealism | Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York, NY | group |
1998 | Veronica's Revenge | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | group |
1997 | Gregory Crewdson | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | solo |
1997 | Gregory Crewdson | Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH | solo |
1997 | Gothic | ICA, Boston, MA | group |
1997 | American Art Today: The Garden | The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL | group |
1997 | Nature Studies | Johnson County Community College, Santa Barbara, CA | group |
1997 | The Set Up | Barbara Farber Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands | group |
1997 | Unknown | 97 Kwangju Biennale, Korea, | group |
1997 | Surrealism | Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH | group |
1997 | Pictures This: Photographs from former and current faculty and staff of the Cooper Union School of Art | Cooper Union Foundation Building, New York, NY | group |
1997 | Des Fleurs en Mai, Oeuvres de la collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire | Maison Billaud, Fontenay-le-Comte, Pays de la Loire, France | group |
1997 | To Be Real | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA | group |
1997 | A Thin Line | Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Bard, NY | group |
1996 | Ginza Artspace | Shiseido Co., Tokyo, Japan | solo |
1996 | Everything That's Interesting Is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection | Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece | group |
1996 | Show and Tell | Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY | group |
1996 | Prospect 96 | Frankfurter Kunstverin, Frankfurt, Germany | group |
1996 | Nature/Culture and the Postmodern Sublime | Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard, NY | group |
1996 | Carl Von... | Boras Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden | group |
1996 | Perfect World | University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY | group |
1996 | Exposure | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | group |
1996 | Digital Gardens, The Power Plant | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | group |
1995 | Gregory Crewdson | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | solo |
1995 | Gregory Crewdson | Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | solo |
1995 | Gregory Crewdson | Jay Jopling / White Cube, London, UK | solo |
1995 | Gregory Crewdson | Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France | solo |
1995 | Gregory Crewdson | Gallerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden | solo |
1995 | Les Images du Plastir | Frac des Pays de la Loire, Galerie des Carmes, La Fleche, France | solo |
1995 | The Set-Up | Baumgartner Galleries, Washington D.C. | group |
1995 | Blind Spot | The MAC, Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, Dallas, TX | group |
1995 | 1995 Yamantaka Donation: An Exhibition of Photographs to Benefit Tibet House | Robert Miller, New York, NY | group |
1995 | Hetrick-Martin Institute Benefit | Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY | group |
1995 | Brave New World | Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | group |
1995 | Nature Studies: Gregory Crewdson, Adam Fuss, Hiroshi Sugimoto | Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS | group |
1995 | La Belle et La Bete | Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France | group |
1995 | The Friendly Village | Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI | group |
1995 | Confronting Nature, Silences Voices | California State University, Fullerton, CA | group |
1995 | On the Face of it, Fotofeis exhibition | City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland | group |
1995 | Fake Nature | City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA | group |
1995 | Nature Studies | University of Massachusetts at Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA | group |
1995 | Duchamp's Leg | Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL | group |
1995 | Faculty Work on Paper | Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT | group |
1995 | Photography at Berkeley Square | The City Bank Private Bank Collection, London, UK | group |
1994 | Gregory Crewdson | Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL | solo |
1994 | Unknown | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | group |
1994 | Animal Farm | Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | group |
1994 | Psycho-pathology of Everyday Life | Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | group |
1994 | Nature Studies | Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO | group |
1994 | A Garden | Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA | group |
1994 | New Work, New Directions 2 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | group |
1994 | Recent Photography Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection | Whitney, Museum of American Art, New York, NY | group |
1994 | Home Sweet Home and Other Fables | St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO | group |
1994 | Close Encounters | Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, AL | group |
1994 | Unknown | Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY | group |
1993 | Gregory Crewdson | Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL | solo |
1993 | Unknown | Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL | group |
1993 | Unknown | Elizabeth Koury, New York, NY | group |
1993 | Daydream Nation | Luhring Augustine, New York, NY | group |
1993 | Dirty Birds | Wooster Gardens, New York, NY | group |
1993 | All the World's a Stage | Marsha Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, NY | group |
1993 | Unknown | Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA | group |
1993 | The Bestiary | BlumHelman, New York, NY | group |
1993 | Picturing Ritual | The Center for Photography, Woodstock, | group |
1993 | Wit on Rye: Humor in Photography | Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY | group |
1992 | Gregory Crewdson | Houston Center for Photography, Houston, | solo |
1992 | Our Town | Burden Galley, New York, NY | group |
1992 | Set and Setting | Berland Hall Gallery, New York, NY | group |
1992 | Unknown | Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, LA | group |
1992 | Perverse Nature | Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA | group |
1992 | Unknown | White Columns, New York, NY | group |
1992 | Unknown | BlumHelman, New York, NY | group |
1991 | Gregory Crewdson | Portland School of Art, Portland, ME | solo |
1991 | Gregory Crewdson | BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY | solo |
1991 | Gregory Crewdson | Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | solo |
1991 | Unknown | John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY | group |
1991 | Pleasures and Terrors in Domestic Comfort | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | group |
1988 | Gregory Crewdson | Yale University, New Haven, CT | solo |