Education

2002

MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT USA

1999

BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY USA

Solo Exhibitions

2020

Standard Deviations, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Walead Beshty: Industrial Uniforms, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy

2019

Abstract of A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY USA

THREE PICTURES, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Walead Beshty, MAMCO, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

2018

Walead Beshty: Aggregato, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy

Equivalents, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA

2017

Open Source, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY USA

Transparencies, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016

Automat, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

2015

Disponibles, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico

Walead Beshty, Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, NY USA

Walid AlBeshti, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA

2014

Marginalia, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

Gastarbeiten, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench, The Barbican Center, London, UK

Performances Under Working Conditions, Petzel, New York, NY USA

Selected Bodies of Work, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA

2013

Fair Use, The Power Station, Dallas, TX USA

Walead Beshty, Le 8 rue Saint-Bon, Paris, France

2012

Travel Pictures, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

2011

PROCESSCOLORFIELD, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA

A Diagram of Forces, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden / Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain

Securities and Exchanges, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Diapositives, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2009

Legibility on Color Backgrounds, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC USA

Pulleys, Cogwheels, Mirrors, and Windows, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI USA (Ex. cat)

Popular Mechanics, Wallspace, New York, NY USA

Passages, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA USA

Production Stills, Thomas Dane, London, UK

2008

Science Concrète, China Art Objects Galleries / Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Industrial Pictures, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2007

The Grey Cloth, Das Institut im Glaspavillon/Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany

2006

The Maker and the Model, Wallspace, New York, NY

Hammer Project: Walead Beshty, EMBASSY! (a dismal science waiting room), including “24 hour Armageddon: A Cold War Slumber Party”, a 24 hour film screening of Disaster Films., The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA USA

2005

Parks, Hotels & Palaces, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA USA

2004

The Body-Body Problem, Wallspace, New York, NY USA

The Phenomenology of Shopping and Dead Malls, curated by Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY USA

2002

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT USA

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2014

Crystal Voyager, collaboration with Kelley Walker, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY USA

Hardbody Software, collaboration with Kelley Walker, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

2012

I’m thinking how happy I am: Lutz Bacher, Walead Beshty, Euan Macdonald, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA USA

2010

Later Layer, collaboration with Johnston Marklee Architects, Istituto Italiana di Cultura, Los Angeles, CA USA

2009

Plug n Play, Walead Beshty & Karl Haendel, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Walead Beshty, Karl Haendel, Patrick Hill, curated by Betty Nguyen, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA

Walead Beshty, Kelley Walker, Christopher Williams, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA USA

2008

Walead Beshty & James Welling, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL USA

Group Exhibitions

2020

All in One, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland

The Unruly Apparatus, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

La Photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction, Frac Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France, Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France, and Micro Onde centre d’art, Vélizy-Villa coublay, France, Micro Onde centre d’art, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France

A Possible Horizon, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL USA

Terminal, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

The Spread, De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

When We First Arrived, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, D.C USA

Haptic Feedback, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

2019

OPEN HOUSE: Gala Porras-Kim, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

From Day to Day, De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL USA

Second Hand, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, The United Arab Emirates

Encountered Error, Société d’Électricité, Brussels, Belgium

Aichi Triennale: Taming Y/Our Passion—curated by Meruro Washida, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Murakami vs Murakami, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway

Occupational Hazards—curated by Alexandra Stock, apexart, New York, NY USA

Out of the Box, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL USA

Baggage Claims, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN USA

Modus Operandi: Contemporary Photography from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa FL USA

2018

Media Networks, curated by Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern, London, UK

More/Less, De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL, USA

Tubologie: nos vies dans les tubes, curated by KVM, Ju Hyun Lee and Lodvic Burel, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, France

FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH USA

Always Different, Always the Same. An Essay on Art and Systems, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland

PICTURE FICTION: Kenneth Josephson and contemporaray photography, MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL USA

FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH USA

The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA USA

Baggage Claims, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC USA

2017

Force and Form, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL USA

ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Saettle, WA USA

All the Names, curated by Rui Mateus Amaral, Scrap Metal, Toronto, Canada

Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA USA

An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH USA

E X I T, curated by Adam Carr, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

UNPACKING: The Marciano Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA USA

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY USA

Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970s to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Black Magic — curated by Andreas Duscha, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2016

Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL USA

65 Works Selected by James Welling, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY USA

Abstract/Object, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL USA

New Matter: Recent Forms of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Das Loch, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Fine Young Cannibals, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY USA

Making & Unmaking—curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

The Artists’ Library, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA USA

Pièces-Meublés, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France

Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph—Curated by Geoffrey Batchen, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

The Space Between, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA USA

El Orden Natural De Las Cosas, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection, Yokohama Art Museum, Japan

2015

All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (Ex. cat.)

Everything Must Go, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland

Blind Architecture, curated by Douglas Fogle, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, WA USA

New Skin, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

Arrêter de me copier, FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkirk, France

Selections from MOCA’s Permanent Collection, curated by Helen Molesworth, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Artists at Work, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA

A Blind Man in His Garden, POOL at LUMA/Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland

After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH USA (Ex. cat.)

Threads: A Fantasmagoria about Distance, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, 10th Kaunas Biennial, M.K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

No Place Like Home: Selections from the Sue and John Wieland Collection of Contemporary Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT USA

Old News (again), curated by Jacob Fabricius, Le Centre National Édition Art Image, Chatou, France

Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon

An Imprecise Science, curated by Alexia Glass-Kantor with Talia Linz, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

Atopolis, Wiels at Mons 2015, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium (Ex. cat.)

Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (Ex. cat.)

75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN USA

Revelations: Experiments in Photography, Media Space, Science Museum, South Kensington, UK

Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY USA (Ex. cat.)

Works on Paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

Linear Abstraction, curated by Alexandra Sachs and Aaron Levi Garvey, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA USA

Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia / Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, Australia / Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, Australia / Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, Australia / Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, Australia / Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia / Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia / Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, Australia / Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, Australia

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, curated by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (Ex. cat.)

2014

Melting Walls: The Babel Trilogy, curated by Sarit Shapira, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Beneath the Surface, De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL USA

Blackout, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Crystal Voyager, collaboration with Kelley Walker, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY USA

Hardbody Software, collaboration with Kelley Walker, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Looking at Process, De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL USA

A World of Its Own: Photographic Processes in the Studio, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, curated by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg City, Luxembourg (Ex. cat.)

Batalhão de Telegrafistas, curated by Fernando Oliva and Tobi Maier, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil

Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, curated by Joshua Chuang, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA

Metal, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK

Trouble with the Index, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA USA

Comic Future, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH USA

2013

Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA

Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX USA

California Landscape into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA USA (Ex. cat)

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, curated by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. USA (Ex. cat.)

More American Photographs, curated by Jens Hoffman, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA USA (Ex. cat.)

LAT. 41° 7’ N., LONG. 72° 19’ W, organized by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY USA

Somos Libres, La mirada de Mario Testino en el mundo del arte contemporaneo, MATE, Lima, Peru

Recordings Section IV : Lens Drawings, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

On the matter of abstraction (figs. A & B) & Walead Beshty: Untitled (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University: Waltham, Massachusetts, February 12 - June 9, 2013), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University: Waltham, Massachusetts, MA USA

Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands

Ange de l’Histoire, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

Fragile, Le Stanze del Vtro, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy

POST, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Pattern: Follow the Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA

White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes, with Johnston Marklee Architects, Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT USA

More American Photographs, curated by Jens Hoffman, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH USA (Ex. cat.)

0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC USA

Correspondences, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

2012

The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL USA

Only part of us will ever touch parts of others, curated by Timothee Chaillou, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (Ex. cat.)

Architects, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA USA

The Revolution Must Be Made Little by Little, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil

Inaugural Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA

9th Shanghai Biennale 2012, Walead Beshty, Los Angeles Pavilion, Shanghai, China (Ex. cat.)

OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA USA

Theatre of Thought, Bonnefantenmusem, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Ami Barak, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria

Troubling Space: The Summer Sessions, curated by Helga Just Christoffersen and Natasha Llorens, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

More American Photographs, curated by Jens Hoffman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO USA (Ex. cat.)

Inside Out and From the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH USA

Abstract Everyday – Everyday Abstract, curated by Matthew Higgs, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY USA

When Attitudes Became Forms, Becomes Attitude, curated by Jens Hoffman, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA USA (Ex. cat)

Status, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland

Affective Turns?, organized by Phil Chang, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA USA

I Think and That is All I Am, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

Out of Control, NEST, The Hague, The Netherlands

Devouring Time, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA USA

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY USA

2011

Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Antidote 7, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France

Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries at the Henry Art Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA

The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA USA

More American Photographs, curated by Jens Hoffman, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA USA (Ex. cat)

the boy who robbed you a few minutes before arriving at the ball, curated by Kelley Walker, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Elements of Chance, 2011 Montréal Biennale, Montréal, Canada (Ex. cat.)

After Images, curated by Fionn Meade, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (Ex. cat.)

Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, University of Essex, Colchester, UK (Ex. cat.)

Black Swan: The Exhibition, curated by Dominic Sidhu, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA

The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT USA

Anti-Photography, curated by Duncan Woolridge, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK

Catalogue of the Exhibition, curated by Bob Nickas, Triple V, Paris, France

2010

Bedtime for Bonzo, curated by Matthew Porter, M+B, Los Angeles, CA USA

Pleated Blinds, curated by Ory Dessau, Petach Tikva Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (Ex. cat)

Let’s Dance, Musee d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France (Ex. cat)

Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA

Milk Drop Coronet: Exhibitions on the Virtuosity of Thingness, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC USA

On Mistakes, Restrictions, Failures - and other positive things, Gesellschaft Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany

At Home / Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, curated by Matthew Higgs, Center for Curatorial Studies Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY USA (Ex.cat)

The Traveling Show, La Colleccion Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico

I Want to See How You See, Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (Ex. cat)

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Performance/Video, curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY USA / Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (Ex.cat)

Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, Barbara Kasten, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL USA (collaboration with Karl Haendel)

Photogenic, Blanket, Vancouver, Canada

De Rigueur, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

A Very, Very Long Cat, Wallspace, New York, NY USA

2009

Radical Autonomy, Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France

Noise, curated by Negar Azimi, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon

Proposal (Nacht Und Tråume) for Stavanger, curated by Vincent Honoré, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway

Hyperborean Manners, Rob Tufnell, London, UK

New Photography: 2009, curated by Eva Respini, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

Radical Autonomy, curated by Arno van Roosmalen, Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art Contemporain, St. Nazaire, France

Prune—Abstracting Reality, curated by Kathy Ryan, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Elements of Photography, curated by Michael Green, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL USA

FIVE: Walead Beshty, Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Sterling Ruby, and Kelley Walker, Baibakov Projects, Moscow, Russia

Still Revolution: Suspended in Time, curated by David Liss and Bonnie Rubenstein, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ontario, Canada

Our Mirage, Art:Concept, Paris, France

Phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Altermodern: The Tate Triennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London, UK

The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY USA

A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY USA

Photography in the Abstract, curated by Maureen Mahony, Lora Roberts Gallery, Austin, TX USA

To Be Determined, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY USA

The Photographic Object: between sculpture and photography, curated by Clare Grafik, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK

2008

Now You See It, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO USA (Ex. cat)

Objects of Value, curated by Rene Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL USA

The World Is All That Is The Case, curated by Arthur Ou, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY USA

2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA USA

Estacion, Tijuana, Mexico (Ex. cat)

Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany (Ex.cat)

Signs of the Time, curated by Elisabeth Sussman, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA

The Light of the Virgo, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA USA

The sickness of the hunting, curated by Gilbert Perlein, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France (Ex. cat)

Word Event (After George Brecht), curated by Maxine Kopsa and Roos Gortzak, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Los Angeles Confidential, curated by Sandra Patron, Centre d’ Art Contemporain, San Léger, France

Open Sky, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria

No Room, curated by Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time, Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany

Please Stay Out We’re Open, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL USA

2008 Biennial Exhibition, curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA (Ex. cat)

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY USA

Past-Forward, curated by Vincent Honoré, Project Space 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (Ex. cat)

Le Retour, Nice & Fit, Berlin, Germany

The Unfair Fair, 1:1 Projects, Rome, Italy (Ex. cat)

2007

Recent Acquisitions, the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY USA

From a Distance, curated by Vincent Honoré, Wallspace, New York, NY USA

Meanwhile in Baghdad, curated by Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL USA

I am Eyebeam, organized by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL USA

Anything You Want: Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, Annette Kelm, Pump House Gallery, London, UK

88:88, The Project, New York, NY USA

Concrete Works, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY USA

Radiant City, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA USA

Between Two Deaths, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (Ex. cat)

Imaging & Imagining California, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA USA

The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life, curated by Peter Zellner, UCR Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA USA

The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle and Renaud Proch, La Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico, and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

Secretariat, curated by Geof Oppenheimer, Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA USA

Out of Body, Level B Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY USA

Hammer Contemporary Collection Part I, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Spectral Evidence, curated by Steven Lam, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA

Title TBA, curated by Efrat Shalem, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2006

Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY USA

The California Biennial, curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Karen Moss, and Rita Gonzalez, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA USA (Ex. cat)

Chaos or Control, Perloff Hall, curated by James Welling, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

Dice Thrown (will never annul chance), curated by Joåo Ribas and Becky Smith, Bellwether, New York, NY USA

Walead Beshty, Roe Etheridge, Philip Lorca-diCorcia, Stephen Shore, Christopher Williams, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Bunch Alliance, and Dissolve, curated by Public Holliday Projects, Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati, OH USA (Ex cat.)

Spectral Evidence, Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY USA

Bringing the War Home, curated by Drew Heitzler, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York/ QED, Los Angeles, CA USA

Walead Beshty, Kim Fisher, John Pylypchuk, Pae White, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA USA

Studio City, curated by Efrat Shalem. Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel /Pescali & Sprovieri, London, UK

2005

The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography, curated by Christina Kukielski, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA

Champion Fine Art: 2003-2005, curated by Drew Heitzler and Flora Wiegmann, Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA USA

The Back Room, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle and Renaud Proch, Los Angeles, CA USA

Rub out the Word, curated by Michael Wilson, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY USA

Gallery Exchange, (with China Art Objects Galleries), Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Precious Moments, curated by Josh Kline, Joymore, Brooklyn, NY USA

Post No Bills, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY USA

Bebe le Strange curated by Rachel Uffner and Barb Choit, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY USA

Sugartown, Participant Inc., New York, NY USA

Bucolica, Wallspace, New York, NY USA

Walead Beshty, Sean Landers, Erlea Maneros, JP Munroe, and Andy Ouchi, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA USA

The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists, curated by Daniel Kunitz & Joåo Ribas, Phillips, de Pury & Company, New York, NY USA

What Once Passed For Future or Landscapes of the Living Dead, curated by Magali Arriola, Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA USA

The February Show, curated by Chris Lipomi, Los Angeles, CA USA

Manufactured Self, curated by Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary vPhotography, Chicago, IL USA

2004

UPSTREAM: Idea Drawings, curated by Chris Lipomi, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

Inaugural Exhibition, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA USA

Buy American, curated by Joe Scanlan, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France

Cool Intentions, curated by Alex Israel, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA USA

Behind Closed Doors, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY USA

Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, curated by Rachel R. Lafo, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA USA (Ex. cat)

2003

Photography For People; For Us, Wallspace, New York, NY USA

Ad Hoc Artists Committee to End Israeli West-Bank Occupation, Knitting Factory, New York, NY USA

Anti-Social, curated by Mark Wyse, Wallspace, New York, NY USA

Control, Escape, Delete, curated by David Hilliard, Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO USA

Photo ID, curated by Titia Hulst, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY USA

Special Projects

2018

Special skateboard editions to support the work of The Skateroom, NGO Skateistan, and The Rural Changemakers

2016

Special commission, RxArt, Center for Advanced Care at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL USA

Project, “ . . . ,” for the publication House Is a House Is a House Is a House: Architectures and Collaborations of Johnston Marklee, ed. Reto Geiser (Berlin: Birkhäuser).

2015

Symposium, Step into Liquid: Art and Art-History in the Post-Fordist Era—organized by Walead Beshty, with Rachel Heidenry and Eloise Maxwell on the occasion of Walead Beshty, Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY. Panel 1: Digitalization and the Aesthetics of Distribution; moderator: Tim Griffin, speakers: Claire Bishop, Bettina Funcke, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Ruba Katrib. Panel 2: Performativity and Methodology; moderator: Janet Kraynak, speakers: Alexander Alberro, Alex Kitnick, Robert Slifkin, and Christopher Wood.

Old News #9.5, Walead Beshty, Old News is a newsprint edition presenting a selection of articles and pictures from newspapers and magazines by international artist. Published on the occasion of Old News (again)—curated by Jacob Fabricius, Le Centre National Édition Art Image, Chatou, France.

2010

Day & Night, curated by Charlotte Sprogoe and Jesper Elg, public works group exhibition (in conjunction with the Danish Arts Council and the Municipality of Copenhagen on the occasion of the 2010 Copenhagen Photo Festival), Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

Billboard Project, Dust (2007-2008), 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, March 16 - April 18, 2009, Los Angeles, California, 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA USA. Site-specific billboard at 2640 South La Cienega Boulevard,* Los Angeles, CA USA (in conjunction with Passages, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA USA)

Docent Workshop, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC USA. Workshop with museum docents creating cyanotype photograms on the grounds of the Sculpture Garden (in conjunction with Legibility on Color Backgrounds,* Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC USA)

2006

Film Screening, “24 hour Armageddon: A Cold War Slumber Party”, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2006), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007), Kadist Foundation, Paris, France (2007), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2008) (24-hour film screening of disaster films)

Collections

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

The Art Institute of Chicago, IL USA

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD USA

The Francis Lehmann Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY USA

FRAC Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France

The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA USA

The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY USA

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL USA

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL USA

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA USA

The Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, NY USA

The Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL USA

The Rose Art Museum, Brandies University, Walthan, MA USA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA USA

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI USA

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT USA

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN USA

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK