Exhibition History

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2010s

2012
Der Mensch und seine Objekte (Man and His Objects), Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (25 February–29 April)
Irving Penn, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (12 June–2 September)
Another London, Tate Britain, London, England (27 July–16 September)

2011
John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (23 January–17 April). Catalog.
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (9 February–19 June); traveled to Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (22 February–20 May 2012)
ADAA: The Art Show (at The Park Avenue Armory), Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (2–6 March)
Food for Thought: A Group Exhibition, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (31 March–14 May)
Portraits in Serie: Fotografien eines Jahrunderts (Portraits in Series: A Century of Photographs), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (1 April–17 July). Catalog.
L’objet photographique, une invention permanente (The Photographic Object: A Permanent Invention), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (20 April–19 June)
Irving Penn: Radical Beauty 1946–2007, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (30 June–20 August)
Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (19 July–9 October). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Carrère Gallery, Forbes Galleries, New York, NY (10 September 2011–before 3 February 2012)
Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan (16 September 2011–8 April 2012). Catalog.
Ichundichundich. Picasso im Fotoporträt (MemyselfandI: Photographic Portraits of Picasso), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (24 September 2011–22 January 2012)
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W. M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (1 October 2011–19 February 2012)
Vanity: Mode Fotografie aus der Sammlung F. C. Gundlach (Vanity: Fashion Photography from the F. C. Gundlach Collection), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (21 October 2011–1 April 2012)
Irving Penn: Le Noir et Blanc légitimé (Irving Penn: Black and White Legitimacy), Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France (3 November 2011–12 January 2012)
Irving Penn: Ethnos, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich, Germany (2 December 2011–28 January 2012). Catalog.
Winter Joy, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (16 December 2011–25 February 2012)

2010
Irving Penn: A Tribute, Gun Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (15–30 January)
Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (23 January–13 March), in partnership with Balloon Contemporary, Chicago, IL
C’est la vie! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst (That’s life! Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst), Museé Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris, France (3 February–28 June)
Irving Penn Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, England (18 February–6 June). Catalog.
In the Vernacular, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (6 February–31 May)
Small Trades, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (5 March–24 April)
Great Photographs of the 20th Century: Staged and Startled, Hasted Kraeutler, New York, NY (25 March–1 May)
“We Want Miles”: le jazz face à sa légende (“We Want Miles”: Miles Davis vs. Jazz), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (30 April–29 August)
Irving Penn, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France (5 May–25 July)
Lebenslust und Totentanz (Lust for Life and Dance of Death), Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria (18 July–7 November)
Flirting with Bling, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (10 August–20 September)
Looking Forward, Looking Back: An Exhibition to Honor 50 Years at the Pace Gallery, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (17 September–23 October)
El silencio de los objectos (The Silence of the Objects), Teneriffe Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (19 September 2010–6 January 2011)
Irving Penn: Archæology, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (28 October 2010–15 January 2011)
Icon/Effigy, Pace Primitive, New York, NY (4 November–23 December)
After a Fashion: Classic, Humorous, Subversive…, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL (5 November–30 December)
Autour de l’extrême (Around the Extreme), Maison Europèenne de la photographie, Paris, France (10 November 2010–30 January 2011)
El Cuerpo Inventado (The Invented Body), Teneriffe Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (17 November 2010–13 February 2011)

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2000s

2009
Contradictions in Black and White, Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, New York, NY (8 January–28 February)
Extreme Beauty in Vogue, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy (7 March–10 May). Catalog.
Åter till Verkligheten: Fotografi ur Moderna Museets Samling (Reality Revisited: Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (9 May–20 September)
A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (11 July–20 September)
Immaginare New York. Fotografie dalla collezione del MoMA (Picturing New York: Photographs from MoMA's Collection), Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy (11 July–11 October)
Irving Penn: Small Trades, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (9 September 2009–10 January 2010); traveled to Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France (5 May–25 July 2010); and Museé l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (10 September 2010–23 January 2011)
Irving Penn: Banquet, Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France (15 October 2009–16 January 2010)
Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium (23 October 2009–16 January 2010)
Irving Penn: A Tribute, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (31 October–13 December)
Irving Penn, 1917–2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (25 November 2009–3 June 2010)
Something for Everyone, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (2 December 2009–16 January 2010)

2008
Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY (18 January–13 April)
De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1900–1950 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1900–1950), Museo Picasso, Málaga Spain (opened 18 February) in collaboration with the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; see also De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1950–2000 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1950–2000) (2008)
Irving Penn: Vessels, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (21 February–29 March)
In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (8 March–15 June)
Street and Studio: an Urban History of Photography, Tate Britain, London, England (22 May–31 August); and Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (11 October 2008–11 January 2009)
De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1950–2000 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1950–2000), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain (5 June–14 September) in collaboration with the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; see also De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1900–1950 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1900–1950) (2008)
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (12 June–7 September); co-organized by Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM (26 September 2008–1 February 2009)
Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City, Selections from the Charles Cowles Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (21 September–30 November)
Mujeres en Plural (Women in Plural), Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain (22 October 2008–4 January 2009)
Food, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (27 November–23 December 2008 and 5 January–17 January 2009)

2007
Irving Penn: In Flower, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (11 January–17 February)
Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (20 January–6 May)
On Death and Dying: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (25 January–3 March)
When Color Was New, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (24 February–29 April)
Selections from the Isadore and Kelly Friedman Bequest, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (11 April–3 June)
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (11 May–9 September), co-organized by National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (19 October 2007–2 March 2008); traveled to California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (26 June–14 September 2008); Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI (25 October 2008–1 March 2009; Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (4 April 2009–14 June 2009); Morven Museum and Garden, Princeton, NJ (4 July–27 September 2009); Museum of African American History, Boston, MA (17 October 2009–10 January 2010); Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA (30 January–25 April 2010); African American Performing Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (15 May–8 August 2010); Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL (28 August–21 November 2010); DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL (11 December 2010–6 March, 2011); National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH (26 March–19 June 2011); Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA (9 July–1 October 2011); North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, NC (6 November 2011–15 January 2012); Historical Society of Saginaw County—Castle Museum and Annex, Saginaw, MI (4 February–29 April 2012)
Photography Now, Hackelbury Fine Art, London, England (September–October)
Irving Penn, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (19 September–3 November)
Photographic Formalities: From Ansel Adams to Weegee, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (28 September 2007–6 January 2008)
Mode: Bilder (Fashion: Pictures), NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany (17 November 2007–24 March 2008)
Flower Power, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (22 November 2007–12 January 2008)
Irving Penn, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany

2006
La construction de l’autre: Les archives de l’imagination, Une sélection issue des collections du Fotomuseum de la Province d’Anvers (The Construction of the Other: The Archives of Imagination, a Selection from the Collection of the FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen), BOZAR (Palais de Beaux-Arts), Brussels, Belgium (19 January–12 March)
Sans Regard: La Collection Dancing Bear de W. M. Hunt (Without Regard: The Dancing Bear Collection of W. M. Hunt), Museé l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (23 February–5 June); traveled to Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (16 February–15 April 2007)
American Icons, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (14 May–25 June)
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (30 August–16 September); traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (5 October–25 November)
Now and Then, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (opened 13 September)
The Heartbeat of Fashion—Sammlung F. C. Gundlach (The Heartbeat of Fashion: The F. C. Gundlach Collection), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (27 September 2006–7 January 2007)
Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (7 October 2006–14 January 2007)
Fashion Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (18 November 2006–25 March 2007)
Naturalezas Silenciosas, Fundación Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografia (Silent Nature, The Ordóñez-Falcón Foundation of Photography), Centre d’art la Panera, Lérida, Spain (7 July–24 September)

2005
Daguerreotype to Digital: Photographs from the Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (22 January–31 July)
Figuratively Speaking: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (5 February–30 October)
Blumenmythos: Von Vincent van Gogh bis Jeff Koons (Flower Myth: van Gogh to Jeff Koons), Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (27 February–22 May)
Recent Acquisitions 2005: Some Versions of the Portrait, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (11 March–5 June)
Pas Moi Sans Eux: Colecciòn Pierre Borhan (No Me without Them: The Collection of Pierre Borhan), Fundaciòn Foto Colectania (16 March–4 April)
Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (19 June–2 October)
Artists Interrogate—Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (7 July–9 October)
Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (13 August–6 November). Catalog.
From the Source, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (10 September–22 October)
Editat/Exposat. La fotografia, del llibre al museu (Published/Exhibited: Photography, From the Book to the Museum), Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (16 September–4 December) in collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Private Pictures: Photography from Arizona Collections, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (24 September 2005–8 January 2006)
From Darkroom to Digital: Photographic Variations, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (19 November 2005–26 February 2006)
Rostros y Máscaras: Fotografías de la Colección Ordóñez-Falcón (Faces and Masks: Photographs from the Ordóñez-Falcón), Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani, Museu Fundación Juan March  (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca, Spain (29 November 2005–18 February 2006); traveled to Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain (3 March–28 May 2006)
Irving Penn: Ethnographic, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (8 December 2005–21 January 2006)
De la comtesse De Castiglione á Cindy Sherman (From the Countess of Castiglione to Cindy Sherman), New Galerie de France, Paris, France

2004
Irving Penn: Present Concerns, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (29 January–20 March)
Why Not Live for Art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (26 May–11 July)
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (4 June–8 September); traveled to Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (24 November 2005–26 March 2006); Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany (20 May–30 July 2006); Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (21 September–31 October 2006); and Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (22 December 2006–4 March 2007)
Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (12 June–3 October)
Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (10 July–28 November); traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (6 January–5 March 2005); and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (6 October–5 November 2005)
Tváří v tvář (Face to Face: The F. C. Gundlach Collection), Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic (30 September–4 December)
About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (9 October 2004–16 January 2005)
Dahomey (1967), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (16 October 2004–17 January 2005); traveled to Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (14 January–14 March 2004); and Nihon Mingeikan, Tokyo, Japan (21 August–26 September 2004)
Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen—Auktion und Ausstellung (Deichtorhallen at 15—Auction and Exhibition), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (28 October–9 November). Catalog.
[Untitled exhibition], Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2003
The Human Form Divine: The Body as Seen by the Camera, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (8 February–1 June)
[Untitled exhibition of photographs by Irving Penn and drawings by Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn], Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (8 February–4 May). Catalog.
Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (7 March–19 April)
Artists Photographed by Irving Penn, Wildenstein Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (24 March–25 April)
Вглядываясь в фотографии 125 фотографий из собрания Музея современного искусства, Нью-Йорк(Looking at Photographs: 125 photographs from the Museum of Modern Art), New York, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (21 June–31 August)
Künstlerphotographien—Berühmte Photographen portraitieren berühmte Künstler (Artist Photographs—Famous Photographers’ Portraits of Famous Artists), Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany (18 October–18 November)
A Clear Vision—Photographic Works From the F. C. Gundlach Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (29 October 2003–2 January 2004)

2002
Dancer: 1999 Nudes by Irving Penn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (12 January–12 May) traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (as Irving Penn Nudes 1 June–6 October); co-organized with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (17 March–16 June); traveled to Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (18 September–20 October)
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949–50, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (15 January–21 April); traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (as Irving Penn Nudes 1 June–6 October); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (22 March–10 August 2003)
Irving Penn: Still Life in Color 1947–2001, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (17 January–23 February)
Irving Penn circa 1948, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (7 March–27 April)
Irving Penn, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (19 April–16 June)
Irving Penn, Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France (18 September–2 November)

2001
Irving Penn: Still Lifes for the Printed Page, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (13 May–15 July); traveled to Villa Ghirlanda, Milan, Italy (2 October–19 December); Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (12 January–7 April 2002); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (19 April–30 June 2002); and Fundación Barrié, La Coruña, Spain (September–November 2002). Catalog.
Dressing Up: Photographs of Style and Fashion, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (10 November 2001–20 January 2002)
The Nature of Still Life, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2000
Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (29 January–4 June)
The Public Portrait: Photographs by Edward Steichen, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (9 July–22 October)
About Faces, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (7 September–28 October)
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (4 November 2000–28 January 2001). Catalog.

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1990s

1999
Ur Karin och Lars Halls Fotografiska Samling (From the Karin and Lars Halls Photographic Collection), Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (6 June–31 October)
New and Unseen, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY (1–25 September)
Process, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (9 September–23 October)
Ghosts in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (16 October 1999–17 January 2000). Catalog.
Augenblick und Endlichkeit: Das von der Photographie geprägte Jahrhundert—Werke aus der Sammlung Gruber (Instant and Finite: A Century of Photographs from the Gruber Collection), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (27 November 1999–19 March 2000)
Irving Penn Regards the Works of Issey Miyake, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (24–28 December 1999). Catalog.

1998
Irving Penn, Museum Colecctiones ICO, Madrid, Spain
Issey Miyake Making Things, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, France (13 October 1998–28 February 1999); traveled to Ace Gallery, New York, NY (1999); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (29 April–20 August 2000). Catalog.

1997
Irving Penn: Photographs from the Years 1949–1950, Ehlers Caudill Gallery Ltd., Chicago, IL (18 April–21 June)
Irving Penn: Photographs, Wildenstein Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (20 May–30 June)
Irving Penn: “Le Bain” (Irving Penn: “The Bath”), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (19 November 1997–8 February 1998). Catalog.
Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (22 November 1997–1 February 1998); traveled to State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (1 March–16 May 1998); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (18 June–6 September 1998); Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany (6 October 1998–21 February 1999); Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA (28 July–10 October 1999); Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (11 November 1999–23 January 2000); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (25 March–4 June 2000); and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (13 September–5 November 2000)
Irving Penn: The Small Trades (1950), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (26 November–24 December)
Irving Penn, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (6 December– 18 January 1997)
Irving Penn, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
Irving Penn, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

1996
Fringes, PaceWildensteinMacGill Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (15 March–20 April); traveled to PaceWildensteinMacGill Gallery, New York, NY (11 April–11 May); and Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (1–31 May). Catalog.
The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (28 September–1 December)
Haute Culture: Images of Couture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1995
Seeing Things, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (5 January–4 February)
Irving Penn, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (8 March–22 April) Irving Penn, Fotografier. En donation till minne av Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (Irving Penn, Photographs: A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (26 December 1995–3 March 1996); traveled to Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden (23 March–19 May 1996); National Media Museum (or National Museum for Photography Film and Television), Bradford, England (28 June or 2 August–1 September 1996); Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium (13 September–19 November 1996); Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (29 November 1996–26 January 1997); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (7 February–27 April 1997); Provincial Museum, Bolzano, Italy (9 May–27 June 1997). Catalog.

1994
Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (16 January–27 March)
Irving Penn N.Y., Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (3 March–16 April)
Irving Penn, Musee d'art et d'histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland (20 May–15 August). Catalog.
Fashion Photography: Avedon, Hiro, Penn, Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland booth at ART Basel 25 (15–20 June)
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (4 December 1994–5 March 1995); traveled to The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA (17 May–9 July 1995); and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (29 October 1995–14 January 1996). Catalog.
Masterpieces of Fashion Photography, James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY (8 December 1994–14 January 1995)

1993
Festival de Cinema Against AIDS: Photography Exhibition, Hotel Martinez, Cannes, France (13–24 May)
Irving Penn: Una Collezione Privata (Irving Penn: A Private Collection), Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland; traveled to Musee d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg, Germany (20 May–15 August 1994)
Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (24 July–17 October)

1992
On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue, New York Public Library, New York, NY (4 April–1 August). Catalog.
rving Penn Poster Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Tokyo Japan

1991
Nature Morte, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (4–29 June) Irving Penn Selected Photographs, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (13 July–13 August)
Photographie-Sculpture (Photography-Sculpture), Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (October–November)
Irving Penn 1948, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (24 October–30 November)
Irving Penn: Portraits in a Corner, 1948,

1990
The Small Trades, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (24 January–25 February)
Detached Realism: The Works of Claudio Bravo and Irving Penn, Forbes Galleries, New York, NY (6 February–1 June)
The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (9 February–7 April); traveled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (13 May–17 June). Catalog.
Irving Penn Master Images, National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (30 March–19 August); traveled to Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (15 December 1990–10 February 1991); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (30 March–25 May 1991); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (by 27 August–17 November 1991); and Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (closed 23 February 1992). Catalog.
Other Ways of Being: 100 Photographs 1948–1971, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (30 March–28 April). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Fourteen Cigarettes, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (5 September–20 October)
Irving Penn, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (7 September–20 October)
Irving Penn: Platinum Test Materials, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (4 November 1990–13 January 1991); traveled to Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (Spring 1998)
Hommage à Bettina (Homage to Bettina), JGM Galerie, Paris, France (9–24 November)
Irving Penn: Vintage Prints form the series “Earthly Bodies” 1949–1950, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (6 December 1990–19 January 1991)

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1980s

1989
The Modernist Still Life—Photographed, Gallery 210, University of Missouri-Saint Louis, MO (20 February–17 March); traveled to Gallery of Art, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (21 April–19 May); Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO (3 June–2 July). Catalog.
Irving Penn Photographs 1949–1975 / Peter Feldstein Large Scale Cibachromes, Vibeke Levy Fine Arts, New York, NY (19 September–30 October)
Nio mästarfotografer (Nine Masters of Photography), Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden (25 September–29 October). Catalog.
Mode in der Fotografie: 1898/1990 (Fashion in Photography: 1989/1990), Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria

1988
The Art of Persuasion: A History of Advertising Photography, International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (23 January–19 March 19); traveled to International Center of Photography, New York, NY (19 March–7 May 1988). Catalog.
Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (27 February–1 May)
Issey Miyake Poster Exhibition/i.i.i., Ginza Graphi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (6–25 June). Catalog?.
Artists and Authors, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, in collaboration with Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (5 October–12 November 1988)
Color Photographs 1947–1977, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, in collaboration with Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (5 October–12 November 1988)
Issey Miyake A ŪN, organized by Miyake Design Studio in association with Musèe des Arts Dècoratifs, Paris, France (5 October–31 December). Catalog.
Cranium Architecture, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (1 December 1988–14 January 1989); traveled to Gallery COA, Tokyo, Japan (30 October–30 November 1990[?]). Catalog.

1987
Irving Penn Retrospective, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (14 January–8 March); traveled to Museum Folkgang, Essen, Germany (2 August–6 September)
Les Stars de la Photo; Une exposition des Publications Condè Nast (The Stars of Photography Through the Eyes of Condegrave; Nast Publications), Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France (5 April–3 May)
Irving Penn, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1986
Irving Penn Photographs, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (21 January–8 March)
Irving Penn, Sporting d'hiver de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco (22 March–13 April). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (25 May–6 July)
A Breath of Light: The Contemporary Platinum Print, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (21 June–7 September); traveled to Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center/Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (11 April–17 May 1987)

1985
merican Images: Photography 1945–80, Barbican Gallery, London, England (10 May–30 June). Catalog.
An Exhibition of Fashion Photographs, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA (by 9–27 July)
Cincinnati Collects, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (5 October–29 December)
Shots of Style, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (9 October 1985–19 January 1986?); traveled in Britain
Self-Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (7 November 1985–7 January 1986)

1984
Photographers and Authors: Portraits of Twentieth-Century Writers from the Carleton College Collection, Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (Summer 1984 and every few years since); traveled to Anchorage Museum of Art and History, Anchorage, AK (by 12 September–18 October 1987); and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (15 May–10 July 1988). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA (11 September–6 October) [in conjunction with MoMA retrospective]
Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (12 September–27 November); traveled to Yurakucho Art Forum, Tokyo, Japan (5–24 April); National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan (28 April–11 June 1985); Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (24 September–15 December 1985); Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (9 October–8 December 1986); University Art Museum, Berkley, CA (22 January–16 March 1986); Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Madrid, Spain; La Fundació Joan Miró I l’Institut d’Estudis Nord-americans, Barcelona, Spain (3 June–12 July 1987; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2 August–6 September 1987); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (19 September–1 November 1987); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humbleback, Denmark (9 January–14 February 1988); Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (25___–9 October 1988); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (1988); and Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy (1988). Catalog.
Meisterwerke der Fotokunst: Sammlung Tillman und Vollmer (Masterworks of Photography: Collection of Tillman and Vollmer), Cologne, Germany

1983
Personal Choice: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (23 March–22 May). Catalog.
Glamour and Fashion, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (20 April–3 July). Catalog.
Phototypes: The Development of Photography in New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (4 May–3 June)
Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (10 June–4 September); traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (1 October–27 November); Wellesley College Museum, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, MA (27 January–25 March 1984). Catalog.
Photographs from Detroit Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (4 October–27 November). Catalog.
19th and 20th Century Master Photographers , Artspace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL (18 November 1983–22 January 1984)
Group exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

1982
Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (26 February–9 May); traveled to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (20 May–2 July); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (4 August–13 September); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (19 November 1982–9 January 1983); and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (22 February–18 April 1983). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Recent Still Life, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (8 September–2 October); traveled to Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (3 December 1982–11 January 1983). Catalog.

1981
Irving Penn: Photographs (on Assignment of Vogue), Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (27 February–31 March)
Irving Penn, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C. (18 April–9 May)
Les choix de l’œil: la photographie depuis 1940 (Choices of the Eye: Photography since 1940), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montr&egacute;al, Montréal, Canada (12 November 1981–3 January 1982); traveled to Musee du Bas-Saint Laurent, Rivère-du-Loup, Canada (1982)
[Untitled exhibition], Ferens Art Gallery, Yorkshire, England; traveled to Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, England; Castle Museum, Nottingham, England; and Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
Platinum Prints, Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI

60 Photos, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England

1980
Earthly Bodies, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (4 September–1 October); traveled to Photography Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Galerie Gerlad Pitzer, Paris, France; Canadian Centre of Photography and Film, Toronto, Canada (10 January–28 March 1981); and Galleri Camera Obscura, Stockholm, Sweden (19 September–30 October 1981); Philadelphia College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (25 January–18 February 1982)
Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (28 September–13 November); traveled to International Center of Photography, New York, NY (23 May–6 July); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (14 December–28 February 1981); The Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA (30 March–3 May 1981); and Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (7 August–13 September 1981). Catalog.
[Untitled exhibition], Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
Kultur Technik und Kommerz, Die Photokina-Bilderschauen 1950–1980 (Culture Technology and Commerce, The Photokina Fair 1950–1980), Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany

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1979
Irving Penn, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Presence of Portraits, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Photography als Kunst 1879–1979 (Photography as Art 1879–1979), Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria; traveled to Neue Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; and Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
[Untitled exhibition], The Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL

1978
Tusen och en bild/A Thousand and One Pictures, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1 April–3 September). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA (27 September–29 October)
Irving Penn Platinum Prints, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (opened 3 May)
Masters of the Twentieth Century, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Graham Nash Collection, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA. Catalog.

1977
Street Material, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (27/29 April–26 June)
The History of Fashion Photography, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (25 June–2 October); traveled to Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (18 November 1977–8 January 1978); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (3 March–16 April 1978); Cincinnati Art Institute, Cincinnati, OH (18 May–31 July 1978); and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (30 August–30 September 1978). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals—Images 1947–1975, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (9 September–11 October); traveled to Galleri Camera Obscura, Stockholm, Sweden (3 November–16 December); School of Design, Art Center, Pasadena, CA (closed 1 April 1978); Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake, City, UT (2 November–2 December 1979); Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (1–30 April 1980); Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS (16 May–15 June 1980); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (9 September–5 October 1980); Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle, WA (16 October–16 November 1980); Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (15 January–15 February 1981); Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID (1–30 March 1981); Marlborough Fine Art, London, England (20 May–20 June 1981); PPS Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (28 August–28 September 1981); and CCD Gallerie Dusseldorf, Germany (October–16 November 1981). Catalogs.

1976
Modern Portraits: The Self and Others, organized by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York, NY for display at Wildenstein and Company, New York, NY (20 October–28 November). Catalog.
Benefit exhibition, MacDowell Colony, Inc., Peterborough, NH (c. 26 October)
Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen and their Successors, organized by the American Federation of Arts, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (14 November 1976–2 January 1977); traveled mainly in the United States until c. November 1978; and Winnipeg Art Gallery (6 May–18 June 1978). Catalog.
100 Master Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Foto Sequenties (Photograph Sequences), Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Group exhibition, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY

1975
The Photographer and the Artist, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (7 February–6 March)
I Platini di Irving Penn: 25 Anni di Fotografia (Irving Penn Platinum Plates), Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (3 April–31 May); traveled to Photographers’ Gallery, London, England (01–31 October). Catalogs.
Photography Within the Humanities, Symposium and Exhibition, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (c. April)
Irving Penn: Recent Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (19 May–3 August); traveled to Faculty Office Building Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR (6 December 1975–4 January 1976)
Color Photography, Inventors and Innovators 1850–1975, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (11 November 1975–11 January 1976). Catalog.
Fashion Photography: Six Decades, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; traveled to Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY [as a scaled-down version of the Hofstra exhibition selected by the curator] (opened by 28 December); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1974
50 Years of Photography: Women Observed, As Seen in Vogue 1924–1974, Saks Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor Gallery, New York, NY (closed 26 October); traveled to Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (3 March–29 March 1975)

1972
Alexey Brodovitch and His Influence, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (7 April–2 May) in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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1960s

1968
Photography as Printmaking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (19 March–27 May)

1967
Photography in the Twentieth Century, organized by but not shown at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY for National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (opened February); traveled in Canada 30 July 1967–18 February 1968
Photography in the Fine Arts V, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (15 March–11 June)

1966
Recent Still Life, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (23 February–4 April)

1965
Photography in the Fine Arts, Museum Director's Selections from the PFA collection for the Kodak Pavilion at 1965 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, NY (20 May–16 June)
Glamour Portraits, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2 August–19 September)
11 Photographers: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY (closed 20 June); possibly traveled to Munich International Salon of Photography, Munich, Germany

1964
The Photographer's Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (27 May–23 August)
Photography ‘64, organized by the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY for the New York State Exposition, Syracuse, NY; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (7 January–3 February 1965). Catalog.

1963
Die großen Fotografen dieses Jahrhunderts (The Great Photographers of this Century), Photokina, Cologne, Germany

1962
Exhibition and benefit, Auditorium, Karen Horney Clinic, New York, NY (17 November–2 December)

1961
Photographs by Irving Penn, organized by but not shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; traveled through 1965(?) including to: Philadelphia, PA; Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (15 June–28 July 1963)
Photography in the Fine Arts III, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (14 June–3 September 1961); Purchases from PFA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (5 October); Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (20 October–3 December); Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (30 November–1 December); Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (17 December 1961–14 January 1962); The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (4–28 January); Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN (28 January–20 February 1962); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (11 February–11 March 1962); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (9–25 March 1962); Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (30 March–22 April 1962); Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI (1–22 May 1962); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA (6 May–3 June 1962); Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (2–30 July 1962); Wadworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (5 July–5 August 1962); Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (20 August–2 September 1962); City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (25 September–21 October 1962); Art Association, Atlanta, GA (7–30 November 1962); Museum of Art, Providence, RI (21 November–23 December 1962); Art Museum, Wichita, KS (6–27 January 1963); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (13 January–3 February 1963); Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (17 February–13 March 1963); Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (19 March–14 April 1963); Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH (30 March–21 April 1963); Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN (14 June–7 July 1963); Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (1–30 September 1963); M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (n.d.)
Photographs and Etchings: The World on Silver and Copper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (5 October 1961–c. 5 April 1962)
Protection to the Worker, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Fair, Poznan, Poland

1960
Portraits from The Museum's Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (4 May–5 July, reinstalled 6 July–18 September)
Photography in the Fine Arts II, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (20 May–4 September); traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (7 September–2 October); Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI (9 September–9 October); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (12–30 October); City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (26 October–13 November); Art Center School, Los Angeles, CA (19 November–3 December); Whittier College, Whittier, CA (5–14 December); Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (2–22 January 1961); Art Center, La Jolla, CA (4–25 January 1961); Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL (3–27 February 1961); Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC (19 March–16 April 1961); Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI (15 April–15 May 1961); University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (1–22 May 1961); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (4–25 June 1961); Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (15 July–5 August 1961); Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (16 July–16 August 1961); Atlanta Art Association, Atlanta, GA (3 or 4–22 September 1961); Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (5–26 September or 2 October 1961); Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi, TX (1–31 October); Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (15 October–12 November 1961); William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO (3–23 or 10–31 December 1961); Tucson Fine Arts Association, Tucson, AZ (10 December 1961–14 January 1962); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (14 January 1961–11 February 1962); M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (4–25 February 1962); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (4–25 March 1962); University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (14 March–4 April 1962); Ripon College, Ripon, WI (10–30 April 1962); Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (19 or 25 April–13 or 21 May 1962); Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (29 May–17 June); Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (10 June–1 July 1962); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (8–31 July 1962); Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN (22 July–16 August 1962); Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (1–30 November 1962); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA (23 December 1962–23 January 1963); Wustum Museum, Racine, WI (24 February–17 March 1963); Rahr Public Museum, Manitowac, WI (7–28 April 1963). Catalog.
Photographs by Irving Penn, Moran Gallery, The Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY (9 September–1 October)
Photographs by Irving Penn, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, NY (6–31 December)

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1950s

1959
9 fotografer frân USA (9 Photographers from the U.S.A.), Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden (4–22 April?); traveled in Sweden
Photography in the Fine Arts, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (8 May–7 September); traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA (as Is Photography an Art? 16 October–29 November); J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; The Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH; Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI; Atlanta Art Association, Atlanta, GA; Tampa Art Institute, Tampa, FL; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (c. May 1960); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA; Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA; Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA: Waynesboro Chapter of the Virginia Museum, Waynesboro, VA; Emma Willard Art Gallery, Troy, NY; Carnegie Institute of Art Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA; Poor Richard Club, Philadelphia, PA; Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (27 August –25 September 1960); Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan; Winchester Chapter of the Virginia Museum (June 1961); Highlands Art Festival, Abingdon, VA (August 1961); Ball State Teacher’s College, Muncie, IN (1–26 October 1961); Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, NC (12 November–9 December 1961); Midland Art Association, Midland, MI (14 January–11 February 1962); The Museum of Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX (1 March–10 April 1962); Whittier College, Whittier, CA (29 April–20 May 1962). Catalogs.
La Biennale di Venezia della Fotografia (Venice Biennale of Photography), Venice, Italy (June–November?)
Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (opened 9 November). Catalog.

1958
37th Annual Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, New York, NY (April?)
Photographs from the Museum Collection on View, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (26 November 1958–18 January 1959)

1955
The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (24 January–8 May); traveled to 38 countries in four iterations/copies through 1965. Catalog.

1954
Photokina, Cologne, Germany (3–11 April). Catalog.
33rd Annual Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, New York, NY (June?)

1951
A Half-Century of Color 1900–1950, 4th Biennial Exhibition of Color Photography and Reproduction, American Museum of Photography, Philadelphia, PA (15 March–12 April); traveled to Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (7 February–4 March); Erie Public Museum, Erie, PA (21 April–5 May); and Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (10–28 September). Catalog.

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1949
Leading Photographers, organized by but not shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; traveled until c. 1954

1948
In and Out of Focus, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (6 April–11 July); traveled to Frankfurt, Germany through the Fine Arts Section, Information Centers Branch, HICOG [High Commission for Occupied Germany, a U.S. Family Housing area]
27th Annual Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY (June)

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Undated

Irving Penn Vintage Prints, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL (9 September–29 October)
Irving Penn Photographs 1947–1986, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (7 December–17 January)

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The Art Institute of Chicago