James Welling
Born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

EDUCATION
1971-1974 B.F.A. and M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1969-1971 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 James Welling, Maureen Paley, London
2010 James Welling: Glass House, David Zwirner, New York
James Welling: Glass House, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
New Pictures 3: James Welling, Glass House, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
2009 Hapax Legomena, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
James Welling, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
James Welling, Maureen Paley, London
Notes on Color, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
2008 James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
James Welling, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
James Welling: Works 1980-2008, David Zwirner, New York
Walead Beshty & James Welling, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois [two-person exhibition]
2007 James Welling, David Zwirner, New York and Maureen Paley, London [catalogue]
James Welling: Flowers, Horticultural Society of New York
2006 James Welling, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
James Welling, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
New Series, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
2005 New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
New Work, David Zwirner, New York
2004 Agricultural Works/Insect Chorus, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New
Paltz, New York [itinerary: Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York; Hudson River
Museum, Yonkers, New York] [catalogue]
New Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
2003 California, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
James Welling, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Los Angeles, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
New Photographs, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo [two-person exhibition with Christopher Williams]
2002 Abstract, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Abstract, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels [itinerary: Art Gallery of York University, Toronto,
Canada] [catalogue]
2001 James Welling, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne [catalogue]
2000 New Abstractions, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
New Abstractions and Photographs from the Seventies, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Photographs, 1974-1999, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [itinerary: Baltimore
Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles] [catalogue]
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles [two-person exhibition with Sharon Lockhart]
Galerie Nelson, Paris
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
1999 New Abstractions, Sprengel Museum Hannover [catalogue]
Photographs 1981-98, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
Recent Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich
1998 1981, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Early Photographs 1976-1985, Leslie Tonkonow, New York
James Welling, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh [exhibition brochure]
James Welling, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne [catalogue]
Light Sources, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Paul Strand/James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
[catalogue] [two-person exhibition]
Galerie Nelson, Paris
1997 Eastern Window, Haus Editions, Antwerp
Light Sources, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Light Sources, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Light Sources, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
Light Sources, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
1996 Calais Lace Factories, Camden Arts Center, London
1995 New Photographs. Wako Works of Art, Tokyo [catalogue]
The Ugly America, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Jürgen Becker, Hamburg
Módulo-Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon
Project Room, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Whitney Center, Hamden, Connecticut
1994 James Welling, Arts Club of Chicago [catalogue]
James Welling, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
James Welling: Photographs from the '90s, Galerie Nelson, Paris
James Welling: Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany [catalogue]
Photographs from the '90s, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
1993 Calais Lace Factories, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
James Welling: Photographs 1977-1993, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo [catalogue]
Usines de Dentelle, Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Calais, France [catalogue]
Galeri F15, Moss, Norway [two-person exhibition with Mikael Levin]
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California [two-person exhibition with Rodney Graham]
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
1992 The Gangplank, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York [in cooperation with Jay Gorney]
James Welling, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart,
France [itinerary: Musée de la Roche sur Yon, La Roche sur Yon, France] [catalogue]
James Welling: Photographs, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo [catalogue]
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne [two-person exhibition with Candida Höfer]
1991 Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France [two-person exhibition with Christopher Williams]
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1990 Les Voies Ferrées: St. Etienne et la Plaine du Forez, Maison de la Culture et de la
Communication de St.-Etienne, St.-Etienne, France [catalogue]
Photographs 1977-1990, Kunsthalle Bern [catalogue] [two-person exhibition with Vikky
Alexander]
Sous-Sol, École Supérieure d'Art Visuel, Geneva [catalogue James Welling: 19 Photographs
1980]
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
1989 Photography and Abstraction, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New
York [catalogue] [two-person exhibition with Holly Wright]
Richardson Photographs/1988-89, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna [catalogue]
1988 Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France
Photographs, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York [in cooperation with Jay Gorney Modern Art]
Feature, Chicago
Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
1987 New Photographs and Paintings, Feature, Chicago
Paintings and Photographs, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
1986 Cash/Newhouse, New York
Coburg Gallery, Vancouver [two-person exhibition with Rodney Graham]
1985 First, Last, and Always, Cash/Newhouse, New York
1984 Gelatin Photographs 1-12, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York [catalogue published in 1985]
Cash/Newhouse, New York [two-person exhibition with Allan McCollum]
1983 Artificial Miracles, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver [two-person exhibition with Vikky
Alexander]
1982 Photographs, Metro Pictures, New York
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1981 Photographs, Metro Pictures, New York
1976 Polaroid Photographs, Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles
1974 Hair Helmet, University of California-Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, California
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1973 Project, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 Five Shows/Five Days, Fine Arts Building, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 25 Years/25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York [catalogue forthcoming]
Anti-Photography, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, England
Expo photo, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
Fabric is Form, Tilton Gallery, New York
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels [itinerary: Centro Galego de Arte
Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain] [catalogue forthcoming]
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, Morgan
Library & Museum, New York [catalogue]
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic., Murray Guy, New York
2010 25 or 30 Years Gallery Part III: Photography, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel
The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Bedtime for Bonzo, M + B, Los Angeles
The City Proper, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles [curated by James Welling]
Connecticut, D'Amelio Terras, New York
The Greenfell Press: Thirty Years of Collaborations, Knoedler & Company, New York
Group Show, BravinLee programs, New York
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead, MAK Center for Art + Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles [21 commissioned art works exhibited on billboards throughout Los Angeles]
Mark Grotjahn, Sol LeWitt, Alan McCollum, James Siena, James Welling, Bravin Lee, New York
Milk Drop Coronet, 30 Exhibitions on the Virtuosity of Thingness, Camera Austria, Graz
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid [catalogue]
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling, 1970–1976, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
Sunless, Thomas Dane Gallery, London To a Degree, Rational, Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy
2009 1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future? Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna [catalogue]
Can I Come Over To Your House: The First Ten Years of the Suburban, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois [catalogue]
The Chef's Theory, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles
The Edge of Vision, Aperture Foundation, New York [itinerary: Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Galerie Pangee, Montreal] [catalogue]
Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery
Flower Power, CRAA Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy [catalogue]
The Garden at 4 am, Gana Art New York
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jack Goldstein, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt [catalogue published in 2010]
Photography in the Abstract, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [curated by Douglas Eklund] [catalogue]
Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Werken, Fragmenten van een Collectie, STUK Kunstcentrum, Leuven, Belgium
2008 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [catalogue]
Anthony Hernandez, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California [curated by James Welling]
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Espèces d'éspace, Le Magasin Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France [catalogue]
The Eternal Network, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York
Group Show, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Implant, UBS Art Gallery, New York
Implant Redux, Horticultural Society of New York, New York
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Kavalierstart, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles [curated by Karin Higa]
No Room, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Pictures: Gerhard Richter, Andreas Slominski, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Welling, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Renaissance, Ferragamo USA, New York
Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE, St. Nazaire, France [itinerary: Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid] [catalogue]
Stephen Prina, James Welling, B. Wurtz, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery, New York
When It's a Photograph, Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York
2007 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones, Orchard, New York
Concrete Works, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal [catalogue]
Elusive Subjects, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco
End(s) of Photography: Modeling the Photographic, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
Global Anxieties, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
L.A. Desire, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Les Temps Modernes: Collection du Frac Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France
Method, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Paint It Blue: ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany [catalogue]
Private/Public, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam [catalogue]
Real Life, Artists Space, New York
Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, New York
Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle [catalogue]
Wako Works of Art: 15 Years, Part I, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
2006 666: An Exhibition Organized by Jan Tumlir, University of Southern California Roski School ofFine Arts, Los Angeles
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California [catalogue]
Double Exposure, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels
The Gold Standard, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
It's Not A Photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
The Los Angeles Art Scene: 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris [catalogue Catalog L.A.: Birth of an Art Capital 1955-1985]
The Materialization Of Sensibility: Art And Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles [curated by Slater Bradley]
Mystique de la Couleur, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
Os anos 80: Uma topologia/The 80s: A Topology, Museu de Serralves, Porto [catalogue]
Our Town: Architecture in Art, Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, New York
Sixteen Tons: UCLA Department of Art Faculty, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Studio City, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv [itinerary: Pescali & Sprovieri, London]
TomorrowLand: CalArts in Moving Pictures, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [itinerary: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
Verde, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
William Eggleston, James Welling, Stephen Wilks, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2005 Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Early Work, David Zwirner, New York
Enchanté Château, Château d'Arenthon, Alex, France
Intuition Box, Curator's Office, Washington, D.C.
L'Invention du Paysage, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Franche-Comté, Musée des Beaux-
Arts de Lons-le-Saunier, Lons-le-Saunier, France
Paper, Groups and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Photographies, Galerie Nelson, Paris
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Theorema: Une collection privée en Italie, la collection d'Enea Righi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
2004 100 Artists See God, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida [itinerary: The Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London;
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Albright College
Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee] [catalogue]
Art History: Photography References Painting, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Bell, Book, and Candle, Hayworth, Los Angeles
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [catalogue]
Double Exposure: A Portfolio of Photographic Diptychs, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
D'une image qui ne serait pas du semblant, La photographie écrite, 1950-2005, Passage de Retz, Paris [catalogue published in 2005]
Éblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris [catalogue]
In America: William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, James Welling, Sutton Lane, London
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco and Independent Curators International, New York [itinerary: McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Dalhousie University
Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, California; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia] [catalogue]
Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Spread in Prato, Prato, Italy
2003 Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Artists' Gifts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Double Exposure, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York
Imaging the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York
Imprimés: Stéphane Couturier, Philippe De Gobert, Matthias Hoch, Bernard Vïota, James Welling, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Inaugural Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota [itinerary: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland] [catalogue]
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Print Publishers Spotlight: Edition Schellmann, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Rethinking Photography/Narration and Reduction in Photography, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Rethinking Photography III. Die Relativierung des Objektbezuges in der zeitgenössischen
Fotografie, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
2002 Acquiring Taste, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut [catalogue]
Art Downtown: New Photography, Wall Street Rising, New York
Back Grounds: Impressions photographiques, Galerie Nelson, Paris [itinerary: Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York]
Ballpoint Inkings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, New York [exhibition brochure published in 2003]
Fold: Drapery in Contemporary Visual Culture, City Gallery, Leicester, England [catalogue]
Fotografie, Landschaften, Towntown, Abstractions, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Hot and New in 2002: A Print and Photography Exhibition and Sale, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Painting Matter, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Photography by Gallery Artists, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto [itinerary: Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Visual Arts, Montréal]
Remarks On Color, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Transform the World 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [catalogue]
2001 As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [curated by Philip
Armstrong, Laura Lisbon, and Stephen Melville] [catalogue]
At Home, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York [curated by Stephanie Theodore]
Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York [curated by Julie Baranes]
Interim Art, Maureen Paley, London
Kaye Donachie, Maureen Gallace & James Welling, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Nature in Photography, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Next Wave Prints, Elias Fine Art, Allston, Massachusetts
this is [not] a photograph, University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California
[itinerary: Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; DePaul
University, Chicago; Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania] [catalogue]
This Side of Paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dôle, France [curated by Robert Nickas] [catalogue]
2000 Black & White, Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York
A Changing Summer Group Exhibition, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Light-heeled, Light-Handed: Edward Ruscha, Julius Schulman, James Welling, Kölnischer
Kunstverein, Cologne [curated by Lynne Cooke]
Los Angeles, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne
Maison, Portraits Singuliers, Galerie du Petit Château, Sceaux, France
Mises en jeu, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon
Photo Art Photo, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
1999 Gallery Artists, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenössisches Kunst Zeit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,Wolfsburg, Germany
Los Angeles, Sabine Kunst Maximilian Verlag & Philomene Magers Projekte, Munich
Multiplicity, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Plain Air, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, Iowa
Schöpfung, Diözesanmuseum, Munich [catalogue]
Sequences, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan RosemarieSchwarzwälder, Vienna
1998 Art that Happens to be Photography, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture & Film, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco [catalogue]
Exterminating Angel, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
From the Heart: The Power of Photograph: A Collector's Choice, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé, Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
Launch of the New Evergreen Review, 644 Broadway, New York
Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Nouvelles Acquisitions, 97, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona [itinerary: International Center of Photography, New York] [catalogue]
Sequences, Edition Schellmann, New York [catalogue]
Stare, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
TransFiction 1, Galerie Charim Klocker, Vienna
Utz: A Collected Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
1997 10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern [catalogue]
About Painting: Eggleston, Gerber, Gursky, Kalpakjian, Polidori, Welling, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Bring your own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam [CD catalogue]
Contemporary Collections '97, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Density or the Unimaginable Museum/Discontinuity/Synchrony/Presence, Domaine de
Kerguéhennec, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan, France [curated by Denys Zacharopoulos]
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Heaven, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NewYork
Kunst...Arbeit: Aus Der Sammlung Südwest Landesbank, Südwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart, Germany [catalogue]
Photographie d'une collection, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignements, Paris [catalogue]
Someone else with my fingerprints, David Zwirner, New York [curated by Wilhelm Schürmann] [itinerary: Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich; August Sander Archiv/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; Kunstverein München, Munich; Kunsthaus Hamburg] [catalogue]
Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [catalogue]
Track Records, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada [itinerary: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Centre Culturel l'Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; Centre d'Exposition de Drummondville, Drummondville, Canada] [catalogue]
1996 100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Ab Fab, Feature Inc., New York
Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
Changing Summer Group Show, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Deep Surface, Pace Wildenstein MacGill, Los Angeles
Evident: New Landscape Photography, Photographers' Gallery, London
Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA's Permanent Collection, 1975-96, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Rudolf Stingel, James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Muse [x] Editions: Recent Publications, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfürter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt [curated by Peter Weiermair] [catalogue]
Swag & Puddle, The Work Space, New York [curated by Mary Jones and Janice Krasnow]
1995 Abstract Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle [catalogue]
Blind Spot, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings and Photographs, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fact and Fiction: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut
New Acquisitions: An Exhibition of Artists' Books and Multiples, Art Metropole, Toronto
The Reflected Image, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy [curated by Antonella Soldaini and Paolo Colombo] [catalogue]
Romantico Contemporaneo, Castello di Bentivoglio, Bologna
Strung into the Apollonian Dream, Feature Inc., New York
Summer Group Exhibition, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Uta Barth, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, James Welling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1994 The Abstract Urge: Recent Photographs Beyond Description, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco [curated by Andy Grundberg] [catalogue]
Content and Discontent in Today's Photography, Friends of Photography, San Francisco [catalogue]
David Deutsch, Douglas Blau, James Welling, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Experimental Vision: The Evolution of the Photogram since 1919, Denver Art Museum, Colorado [catalogue]
G7, Theoretical Event, Naples
Gaylen Gerber, Angela Grauerholz, James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Géométries, Galerie du TNB, Rennes, France
L'Amour Toujours, Le Carré, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France
Pictures of the Real World: In Real Time, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York [curated by Robert Nickas and On Kawara] [itinerary: L'Usine, Dijon] [catalogue]
Transport, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia [curated by Helen Miranda Wilson] [catalogue]
Werkstattquartier, Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna
The World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
1993 Group Show, Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Calais, France
Group Show, Galleri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway
Group Show, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Image First: Eight Photographers for the '90s, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jean-Marc Bustamante, Rosemarie Trockel, James Welling, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
October Portfolio One, Metro Pictures, New York
Oeuvres du Patrimoine Contemporain Régional, L'Usine, Dijon
Nettverk, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo [catalogue]
The Sublime Void, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Antwerp [catalogue]
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel [catalogue]
Rodney Graham, Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Une seconde pensée du paysage, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France
Skulpturen-Fragmente, Vienna Secession, Vienna [catalogue]
Specs/Photography Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Studio Guenzani, Milan
1991 Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, James Welling, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Fariba Hajamadi, Hirsch Perlman, James Welling, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Group Show, Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France
La revanche de l'image, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva
Les Grandes Lignes, Gare de l'Est, Paris [catalogue]
Photographing L.A. Architecture, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Photography 1980-1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver and Aspen, Colorado Vom Verschwinden der Dingle aus der Fotografie, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna [curated by Monica Faber] [catalogue]
1990 Figures et Lectures, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Group Show, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York
Le Diaphane, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France [curated by Denys Zacharopoulos] [catalogue]
Perspectives on Place, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, California
Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris [curated by Régis Durand]
1989 Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York [itinerary: Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia]
Attitudes Photographiques Dans les Collections du Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Nord
Pas-de-Calais, College D'Annoellin, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
Diagrams & Surrogates, Shea & Baker Gallery, New York, New York [catalogue]
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Group Show, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
International Camera, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
Materiality, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York [curated by James Welling]
Pathetique, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [catalogue]
Troy Brauntuch, Matt Mullican, James Welling, Kent Fine Art, New York
Une autre Affaire, Maison Fyot, Le Consortium, Dijon [itinerary: Centre National des Arts Plastiques Frac de Bourgogne, Dijon]
Galerie Matteo Remolino, Turin
1988 Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden [curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo] [catalogue]
Bi National: American Art of the Late 80s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [itinerary: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf] [catalogue]
Das Licht von der Anderen Seite, Teil II Fotografie, Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne [itinerary:PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg]
Group Show, Galerie Lelong, New York
Group Show, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence
Museum, New York [curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo]
Photography and Abstraction, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York [catalogue published in 1989]
Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Schlaf der Vernunft, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel [catalogue]
Selected, Feature, Chicago
Utopia Post-Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston [catalogue]
A Visible Order: Contemporary Still Life Photography, Otis/Parsons Exhibition Center, Los Angeles
1987 Art Against AIDS, Baskerville & Watson, New York
Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago [catalogue]
Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Prince, James Welling, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs, International Center of Photography, New York [catalogue]
Fariba Hajamadi, Gerhard Merz, James Welling, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York
Implosion, Moderna Museet, Stockholm [catalogue]
The Ironic Sublime, Galerie Albrecht, Munich
Lemieux, Kruger, Nagy, Welling, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Malerei-Wandmalerei, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz [catalogue]
New Locations, Jamie Wolff, New York [catalogue]
New Photography, Feature, Chicago
New Work, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Nuovi territory dell'arte, Europe/America, Fondazione Michetti, Milan
Photo Mannerisms, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
Photography and Art: Interactions since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [catalogue]
Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York [catalogue]
Sex, Death, & Jello, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1986 Barbara Ess, Ian Wallace, James Welling, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Group Show, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Paravision, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Particulars, Baskerville & Watson, New York
Picture Perfect, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Poetic Resemblance, Hallwalls, New York
Poetic Resemblance, Lougelton Gallery, New York
Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Vikky Alexander, Annette Lemieux, Allan McCollum, James Welling, Cash/Newhouse, New York
A Visible Order, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York
1985 Blow-Up, Feature, Chicago Final Love, Cash/Newhouse, New York
JAA Benefit, Cash/Newhouse, New York
Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, James Welling, Metro Pictures, New York
P, 303 Gallery, New York
Seduction: Working Photographs, White Columns, New York
A Summer Selection, Castelli Uptown, New York
Weird Beauty, The Palladium, New York
Xerox: States of Art, Todd's Copy, New York
1984 Ailleurs et Autrement, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris [catalogue]
Artists' Call, Metro Pictures, New York
Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent, Nature Morte, New York
Group Show, Cash Gallery, New York
Natural Genre, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida [catalogue]
Still Life in Photography, Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam [catalogue]
1983 Artificial Miracles, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
In Plato's Cave, Marlborough Gallery, New York [catalogue]
1982 Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California [catalogue]
Natural History, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York [catalogue]
On Location, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Photograph, Metro Pictures, New York
Pictures and Promises, The Kitchen, New York
Trouble in Paradise, A+M Artworks, New York
Wiener Internationale Biennale: Erweiterte Fotografie 5, Vienna Secession
Worlds Apart, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont
1981 Love is Blind, Castelli Photographs, New York
1980 Likely Stories: an exhibition of narrative works, Castelli Graphics, New York Pictures in New York Today, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan [catalogue]
1979 Imitation of Life, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut
Opening Group Exhibition, Metro Pictures, New York [with Brauntuch, Goldstein, Lawson, Levine, Longo, Prince, Sherman, Simmons, Zwack]
Remembrances for Tomorrow, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh [exchange exhibition with Artists Space, New York]
1978 Beyond the Photograph, Cultural Arts Center, Sylmar, California The New West, The Kitchen, New York
1976 Evening of Works, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California [catalogue]
1975 Indian Summer, Project Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
1974 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valenica, California
Performances – Matt Mullican, Ilene Segalove, David Salle, James Welling, Welling-Salle Studio, Venice, California
1972 Newick, Osher, Welling, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Videoworks from the California Institute of the Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1971 Newick, Osher, Welling, Woodlawn Gallery, Pittsburgh
Second Annual Carnegie-Mellon Film Festival, Pittsburgh
1969 Scholastic Magazine's 42nd National High School Art Exhibition, Climax of the 1969 Scholastic
Art Awards Program, Union Carbide Exhibition Hall, New York

MONOGRAPHS & SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2010 James Welling: Glass House. Text by Noam M. Elcott. Interview with the artist by Sylvia Lavin. Damiani, Bologna, Italy
James Welling: Light Sources, 1995-2005. SteidlMACK, London [forthcoming]
2007 James Welling: Flowers. Interview with the artist by Lynne Tillman. David Zwirner, New York (exh. cat.)
2004 Agricultural Works & Insect Chorus. Texts by James Welling and Will Welling. Minetta Brook, New York (exh. cat.)
2002 James Welling: Abstract. Text by Rosalyn Deutsche. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (exh. cat.)
2001 James Welling – Untitled, 1981. Edited by Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller. Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (exh. cat.)
2000 James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999. Edited by Sarah J. Rogers. Texts by Michael Fried and Sarah J.
Rogers. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (exh. cat.)
1999 James Welling: New Abstractions. Text by Alain Cueff. Sprengel Museum Hannover (exh. cat.)
1998 James Welling. Text by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (exh. bro.)
James Welling. Text by Ulrich Loock and James Welling. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (exh. cat.)
James Welling: Photography. Kunstmuseum Bern
Paul Strand/James Welling. Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (exh. cat.)
1996 James Welling: Light Sources. Imschoot Uitgevers, Ghent
1995 The Photographic Invisible: James Welling. Text by Minoru Shimizu. Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
1994 James Welling. Text by Janet Abrams. Arts Club of Chicago (exh. cat.)
James Welling: Wolfsburg. Texts by Uta Grosenick and James Welling. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
1993 James Welling, Photographs 1977-1993. Text by Michiko Kasahara. Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
Usines de Dentelle. Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, Calais, France (exh. cat.)
1992 James Welling. Texts by Jean-Marc Prévost and Laura Trippi. Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France (exh. cat.)
James Welling: Photographs. Text by David Deitcher. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (exh. cat.)
1990 James Welling: 19 Photographs 1980. École Supérieure d'Art Visuel, Geneva (exh. cat.)
James Welling: Photographs 1977-1990. Texts by Ulrich Loock, Walther Benn Michaels, and Catherine Quéloz. Kunsthalle Bern (exh. cat.)
Les Voies Ferrées: St.-Étienne et la Plaine du Forez. Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de St.-Étienne, St.-Etienne, France (exh. cat.)
1989 A Debate on Abstraction: The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College. Texts by Susan Edwards, Vincent Longo, Maurice Berger, and Rosalind Krauss. Hunter College, New York (exh. cat.)
James Welling. Text by David Joselit. Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (exh. cat.)
1985 James Welling: Gelatin Photographs 1-12. CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York (exh. cat.) [exhibition in 1984]

SELECTED BOOKS & GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2011 25 Years/25 Artists. Julie Saul Gallery, New York (exh. cat.) [forthcoming]
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs. Texts by Jordan Bear, Rhoda Eitel-Porter, et al. Morgan Library & Museum, New York (exh. cat.)
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path. Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (exh. cat.) [forthcoming]
2010 Jack Goldstein. Text by Klaus Görner, Chrissie Iles, and Shepherd Steiner. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and Walther König, Cologne (exh. cat.) [exhibition in 2009]
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present. Edited by Lynne Cooke, Douglas Crimp, and Kristin Poor. Texts by Johanna Burton, Lynne Cooke, Douglas Crimp, Glenn Ligon, Danny Lyon, Lytle Shaw, Juan A. Suarez, Lena Sze, and David Wojnarowicz. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
Madrid (exh. cat.)
Modern Views: Inspired by the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson
Glass House. Texts by Phyllis Lambert and Sylvia Lavin. Assouline, New York
2009 1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future? Edited by Cathérine Hug, Gerald Matt, and Thomas Meißgang. Texts by Synne Genzmer, Cathérine Hug, Helmut Lethen, Gerald
Matt, Thomas Mießgang, Mikhail Ryklin, and Martin Walkner. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
and Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany (exh. cat.)
60. Innovators shaping our creative future. Texts by Charlotte Cotton, Emma Dexter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, James Welling, et al. Thames & Hudson, London
The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Text by Paul Virilio. Semiotext(e), Los Angeles [cover]
Can I Come Over To Your House: The First Ten Years of the Suburban. Texts by Michelle Grabner, Annika Marie, and Michael Newman. The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois (exh. cat.)
The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. Text by Lyle Rexer. Aperture, New York (exh. cat.)
Flower Power. Text by Andrea Busto. CRAA Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy (exh. cat.)
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984. Text by Douglas Eklund. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (exh. cat.)
2008 Espèces d'espace: Les Années 1980, Première Partie. Texts by Yves Aupetitallot, Hal Foster,
Maria Garzia, et al. Le Magasin Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (exh. cat.)
Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix. Texts by Elein Fleiss, Kim Gordon, and Rolan Groenenboom.
Walther König, Cologne (exh. cat.)
This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Texts by Ann Goldstein, Rebecca Morse, and Paul Schimmel. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)
Whitney Biennial 2008. Texts by Henriette Huldisch, Shamim M. Momin, and Rebecca Solnit.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (exh. cat.)
2007 Atlas: de l'art contemporain à l'usage de tous. Text by Denis Gielen. Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection. Texts by Albano Silva Pereira, João Oliveira Rendeiro, and Delfim Sardo. Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal (exh. cat.)
Like Color in Pictures. Text by James Welling. Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado
Paint It Blue: ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch. Text by Roland Spiegel. Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany (exh. cat.)
Private/Public. Text by Mark Kremer. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (exh. cat.)
Viewfinder. Edited by Tamara Moats. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (exh. cat.)
2006 Catalog L.A.: Birth of an Art Capital 1955-1985. Text by Catherine Grenier. Editions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (exh. cat.)
Dark Places. Text by Joshua Decter. Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California (exh. cat.)
Os anos 80: Uma topologia/The 80s: A Topology. Texts by Antonio Cerveira Pinto, João Fernandes, Ulrich Loock, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Alexandre Melo, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Bernardo Pinto da Almeida, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Denys Zacharopoulos. Museu Serralves, Porto (exh. cat.)
Sixteen Tons: UCLA Department of Art Faculty. The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)
2005 Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. Texts by Hal Foster, Rosalind
Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. Thames & Hudson, London
D'une image qui ne serait pas du semblant, La photographie écrite, 1950-2005. Text by Anne Tronche. Passage du Retz, Paris (exh. cat.) [exhibition in 2004]
L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles. Texts by Chris Kraus, Jan Tumlir, and Jane
McFadden. Black Dog Publishing, London
2004 100 Artists See God. Texts by John Baldessari, Meg Cranston, and Thomas McEvilley.
Independent Curators International, New York (exh. cat.)
The Big Nothing. Texts by Tanya Leighton, Paula Marincola, Ingrid Schaffner, and Bennett
Simpson. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (exh. cat.)
Éblouissement. Texts by Régis Durand and Dominique Baqué. Ministére de la Culture, Jeu de Paume, Paris (exh. cat.)
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists. Texts by Matthew Higgs, Kevin Killian, and David Robbins. CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco and Independent Curators International, New York (exh. cat.)
Looking at Los Angeles. Edited by Marla Hamburg Kennedy, Ben Stiller. Metropolis, New York
Semaine N° 15: Cimaise et Portique, Albi: Kendell Geers: Sexus. Text by Jackie-Ruth Meyer. Analogues, Arles, France
2003 Art and Photography. Text by David Campany. Phaidon Press, London
The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art. Text by Martha Buskirk. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Double Exposure. Edition Schellmann, New York (exh. bro.)
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-82. Text by Douglas Fogle. Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (exh. cat.)
Subjective Realities: Works from the Refco Collection of Contemporary Photography. Text by Adam Brooks. Refco Group, Ltd., New York
2002 Acquiring Taste. Text by Steven Holmes. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut (exh. cat.)
Die Kunst der Abstrakten Fotografie. Text by Gottfried Jager. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, Germany
Fold: Drapery in Contemporary Visual Culture. Texts by Gen Doy, Fran Lloyd. City Gallery,Leicester, England (exh. cat.)
Photography: A Cultural History. Text by Mary Warner Marien. Laurence King Publishing, London
This is Not It. Texts by Lynne Tillman. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001. Texts by Sylvia Wolf and Andy Grundberg. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Prestel, Munich (exh. cat.)
Watershed, The Hudson Valley Art Project. Text by Alain Cueff. Minetta Brook, New York
2001 As Painting: Division and Displacement. Texts by Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon, and Stephen Melville.
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio and MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (exh. cat.)
this is [not] a photograph. Text by A. D. Coleman. Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management, New York (exh. cat.)
W. Text by Robert Nickas. Musée de Beaux-Arts, Dôle, France (exh. cat.)
1999 Schöpfung. Texts by Josef Brandner, Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Jochen Hörisch, Peter Neuner, Peter B. Steiner,
and Reinhard Steiner. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany (exh. cat.)
1998 Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture & Film. Text by Steve Wolfe. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (exh. cat.)
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography. Text by James Hamilton-Paterson.
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona (exh. cat.)
Sequences. Text by Susan Tallman. Edition Schellmann, New York (exh. cat.)
1997 10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern. Texts by Toni Stooss and Herbert Brandl. Kunsthalle Bern (exh. cat.)
Bring your own Walkman. W139, Amsterdam (CD exh. cat.)
Kunst...Arbeit: Aus Der Sammlung Südwest Landesbank. Text by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany (exh. cat.)
Photographie d'une collection. Caisse des Dépôts et Consignements, Paris (exh. cat.)
Staging Surrealism. Text by Mary Ann Caws. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (exh. cat.)
Someone else with my fingerprints. Texts by Hanjo Berressem and Wilhelm Schürmann. Salon Verlag, Cologne (exh. cat.)
Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography. Text by Marnie Fleming. Oakville
Galleries, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Oakville, Canada (exh. cat.)
1996 Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst. Text by Peter Weiermair. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt and Edition Stemmle, Zurich (exh. cat.)
1995 After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography. Text by Andy Grundberg. University of Washington Press, Seattle (exh. cat.)
Klares Programm: Galerie Arbeit Heute. Text by Rosemarie Schwarzwälder. Lindinger+Schmid, Regensburg, Germany
The Reflected Image. Edited by Antonella Soldaini and Paolo Colombo. Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy (exh. cat.)
1994 The Abstract Urge: Recent Photographs Beyond Description. Text by Andy Grundberg. Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco (exh. cat.)
Content and Discontent in Today's Photography. Text by Andy Grundberg. Friends of Photography, San Francisco (exh. cat.)
Experimental Vision: The Evolution of the Photogram since 1919. Texts by Floris Michael Neusüss, Thomas F. Barrow, and Charles Hagen. Roberts Rinehart, Niwot, Colorado and Denver Art Museum (exh. cat.)
Pictures of the Real World: In Real Time. Text by Robert Nickas. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (exh. cat.)
Transport. Text by Helen Miranda Wilson. Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia (exh. cat.)
1993 Collection Modern Art: Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, Inventory of Works Acquired Between 1985-1993. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Nettverk. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (exh. cat.) The Sublime Void. Texts by Bart Cassiman, Greet Ramael, and Frank vande Veire. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (exh. cat.)
1992 Documenta IX. Text by Denys Zacharopoulos. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York (exh. cat.)
Skulpturen-Fragmente. Texts by Herta Wolf and Jonathan Crary. Vienna Secession (exh. cat.)
1991 The Artist Project: Portraits of the Real Art World/New York Artists 1981-1990. Text by Peter Bellamy. IN Publishing, New York
Les Grandes Lignes. Gare de l'Est, Paris (exh. cat.)
Vom Verschwinden der Dinge aus der Fotografie. Text by Suzanne Neuberger.
Österreichisches Fotoarchiv im Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (exh. cat.)
1990 Le Diaphane. Texts by Denys Zacharopolos and Bruno Molajoli. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France (exh. cat.)
Photography at the Dock. Text by Abigail Solomon-Godeau. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1989 Diagrams & Surrogates. Text by Sol Ostrow. Shea and Beker Gallery, New York (exh. cat.)
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation. Text by Ann Goldstein. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (exh. cat.)
Photography and Abstraction. Text by Rosalind Krauss. Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (exh. cat.) [exhibition in 1988]
Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos. Text by Laura Trippi. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (exh. cat.)
1988 Art at the End of the Social. Texts by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo. Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden (exh. cat.)
Bi National: American Art of the Late 80s. Text by David Ross. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (exh. cat.)
Schlaf der Vernunft. Text by Veit Loers. Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (exh. cat.)
Utopia Post-Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography. Text by Fredric Jameson. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (exh. cat.)
1987 Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s). Text by Catherine Lord. The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (exh. cat.)
Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs. Edited by Anne H. Hoy. Abbeville Press, New York (exh. cat.)
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century.
Text by Walter Benn Michaels. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles [cover]
Implosion. Texts by Lars Nittve, Germano Celant, et al. Moderna Museet, Stockholm (exh. cat.)
Malerei-Wandmalerei. Text by Peter Pakesch. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (exh. cat.)
New Locations. Jamie Wolff, New York (exh. cat.)
Photography and Art: Interactions since 1946. Texts by Andy Grundberg and Kathleen McCarthy Gauss. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (exh. cat.)
Recent Tendencies in Black and White. Texts by Carroll Janis and Jerry Saltz. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (exh. cat.)
1984 Ailleurs et Autrement. Text by Claude Gintz. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (exh. cat.)
Natural Genre. Texts by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (exh. cat.)
Still Life in Photography. Text by Joop de Jong. Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam (exh. cat.)
1983 In Plato's Cave. Text by Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Marlborough Gallery, New York (exh. cat.)
1982 Exhibition. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California (exh. cat.)
Inauguration. Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, Calais, France
Natural History. Text by Scott Cook. Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York (exh. cat.)
1980 Pictures in New York Today. Text by Zeno Birolli. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (exh. cat.)
1976 Southland Video Anthology. Text by David Ross. Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California (exh. cat.)

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Smith, Roberta. "To a Tapestry's Warp and Weft, Add Vision and Craft." The New York Times (January 26, 2010): C1
Walker, Alyssa. "Staining the Glass House: James Welling Colors in Philip Johnson's Masterpiece." fastcompany.com (February 28, 2010) [online]
Welling, James. "Meeting of Minds." Modern Painters (February 2010): 38-39 [ill.]
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Witovsky, Matthew. "Another History." Artforum (March 2010): 212-221 [ill.]
"Around the Galleries: Glass House, over time." Los Angeles Times (February 26, 2010)
"Around Town: James Welling, Glass House." ammomag.com (January 27, 2010) [online]
"Holiday." Martha Stewart Living Korea (Winter 2010): 55 [ill.]
"Glass House by James Welling." Wallpaper* (March 23, 2010) [ill.] [online]
"James Welling." The New Yorker (April 19, 2010): 18
"James Welling: Glass House." dexigner.com (January 17, 2010) [online]
"James Welling: Glass House." Leica Fotografie International (April 2010): 20 [ill.]
2009 Baldessari, John. "'What Do You Plan to do Next?' A Conversation: John Baldessari and James Welling." Parkett (2009): 30-35
Cotter, Holland. "At the Met, Baby Boomers Leap Onstage." The New York Times (April 24, 2009)
Fried, Michael and James Welling. "Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before: Michael Fried in Conversation with James Welling." Aperture no. 195 (Summer 2009): 82-85
Gopnik, Blake. "'The Pictures Generation' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Washington Post (May 15, 2009)
Halle, Howard. "Another Show, Another Generation: The Met Examines the Boomer Legacy." Time Out New York (April 30 - May 6, 2009) [ill.]
Iles, Chrissie. "Best of 2009: Film." Artforum (December 2009): 48 [ill.]
Kotz, Liz. "The Medium and the Messages." Artforum (October 2009): 67-68
Lobel, Michael. "Outside the Frame." Artforum (September 2009): 252-255
Lobel, Michael. "Previews: The Pictures Generation, 1974 - 1984." Artforum (January 2009): 108 [ill.]
Saltz, Jerry. "Great Artists Steal." New York Magazine (May 18, 2009): 66-67 [ill.]
Schwabsky, Barry. "A Million Little Pictures: The Pictures Generation Revisited." The Nation(May 13, 2009)
Sigler, Jeremy and James Welling. "Pencil of Nature." Modern Painters (April 2009): 56-59 [ill.]
Singerman, Howard. "Language Games." Artforum (September 2009): 256-261
Woodward, Richard B. "The Original Artistic Recyclers." The Wall Street Journal (May 27, 2009): D9
Yablonsky, Linda. "Photo Play." Art in America (April 2009): 102-108
Yablonsky, Linda. "'Pictures Generation' Dangles Dramatically at Met." bloomberg.com (May 7,2009) [online]
Centre Pompidou Foundation News (May 2009): 3, 5
2008 Bowles, Fiona. "James Welling." Dossier no. 1 (2008): 118-119 [ill.]
Bryant, Eric. "The Indecisive Image." ARTnews (March 2008): 106-113 [ill.]
Carlson, Ben. "James Welling at David Zwirner." Modern Painters (July-August 2008): 79 [ill.]
Cotter, Holland. "The Week Ahead: Art." The New York Times (March 2, 2008): 4AR
Eklund, David. "James Welling." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Fall 2008): 55 [ill.]
Elcott, Noam M. "The Shadow of the World." Aperture no. 190 (Spring 2008): 30-39 [ill.]
Mendelsohn, Adam E. "Reviews Marathon: Calendar of Flowers, Gin Bottles, Steak Bones." Art Review (February 2008): 33
Menzies, Michelle. "Walead Beshty & James Welling: The Suburban - Illinois." Flash Art (December 2008): 86 [ill.]
Ostrow, Saul. "James Welling at David Zwirner." Art in America (January 2008): 124-125 [ill.]
Rosenberg, Karen. "Yes, the Live Music is Lovely, but Will the Plants Like It?" The New York Times (August 8, 2008): E29
Welling, James. "Joseph Bartscherer." BOMB (Spring 2008): 71-78
Welling, James. Blind Spot no. 37 (2008)
Ybarra, Michael J. "Queen for a day at the Hammer." Los Angeles Times (June 11, 2008): E4
"Galleries-Chelsea: James Welling." The New Yorker (April 28, 2008)
"The Woods are Alive." New York Magazine Look (Fall 2008): 116-117 [ill.]
Adbusters (July-August 2008) [ill.]
Exit (November-January 2008) [ill.]
2007 Beshty, Walead. "Artist Projects: CMYK." Cabinet no. 27 (Fall 2007): 33, 40 [ill.]
Cotter, Holland. "Claire Pentecost, James Welling and Moyra Davey." The New York Times (December 14, 2007): E31
Dowell, Kathy Aron. "James Welling: Questioning the Frame." Next Level no. 11 (Summer 2007): 70-75 [ill.]
French, Leanne. "Culture Calendar: Flower Power." Array (May-July 2007): 12 [ill.]
Lange, Alexandra. "The Next Monticello." New York Magazine (May 21, 2007): 15, 90-95 [ill.]
Lowenstein, Kate. "Art in the City: Flora!" The L Magazine (April 25 - May 8, 2007): 72 [ill.]
Ogundehin, Michelle. "The July Palette." ELLE Decoration (July 2007): 20-21 [ill.]
Oritz, Charlie. "Judge These Books By Their Covers! James Welling Flowers." New York Resident (August 6, 2007): 58 [ill.]
Schwabsky, Barry. "The 80s: A Topology." Artforum (Summer 2007): 488-89 [ill.]
"Goings on About Town: Flower Power." The New Yorker (April 23, 2007): 8, 15
2006 Gray, Emma. "LA Confidential." artnet.com (August 2006) [online]
Grosz, David. "Taking Abstraction to its Logical Extreme." The New York Sun (June 13, 2006) [ill.]
Jones, Kristin M. "Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures." Frieze (Summer 2006)
Mason, Brook S. "All's Fair in Fall." Art & Antiques (September 2006): 55-61 [ill.]
O'Reily, Sally. "Studio City." Frieze (July 2006)
Welling, James. "Louise Lawler." BOMB (Spring 2006)
"All Things Cow at Hudson River Museum." The Journal News (June 23, 2006)
"Roman á Clef: James Welling." The New York Times Real Estate Magazine (Fall 2006): 96 [ill.]
Blind Spot no. 32 (2006): 13-14 [ill.]
2005 Elcott, Noam M. "James Welling, 'New Work.'" Time Out New York (April 21-27, 2005): 83 [ill.]
Harris. "Pick Hit: James Welling." The Village Voice (April 20-26, 2005): 43 [ill.]
Kunitz, Daniel. "Arts & Letters: Gallery-Going." The New York Sun (April 14, 2005): 17
Mack, Joshua. "James Welling." Modern Painters (June 2005): 114 [ill.]
Pühringer, Alexander. "Bilder von der Dinglichkeit der Welt." Frame (May-June 2005): 66-74 [ill.]
Trembley, Nicholas. "L'explorateur." Numéro (May 2005): 32-33
"Alumni News." Carnegie Mellon: School of Art Newsletter (Fall 2005): 5
"Don't Miss! James Welling, 'New Work.'" Time Out New York (April 14-20, 2005): 65
"Flowers." Blind Spot no. 30 (2005): 7 [cover] [ill.]
"Galleries - Chelsea: James Welling." The New Yorker (April 25, 2005): 22
"Galleries - Chelsea: The Photograph in Question." The New Yorker (July 11-18, 2005): 20
"The Marc Look: The New Eyewear Line from Marc Jacobs." Vitals (Spring 2005): 38
2004 Deitcher, David. "The Last Picture Show." Artforum (February 2004): 144
Estep, Jan. "The Last Picture Show." Frieze (March 2004): 97-98
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Fallon, Roberta. "The Big Nothing In Phillie." artnet.com (March 2004) [online]
Golden, Deven. "James Welling." BOMB (Spring 2004): 46-53 [ill.]
Kimmelman, Michael. "Artists Who Just Say No. To Everything." The New York Times (June 25, 2004): 229
Ristic, Ivan. "James Welling: Der Photograph als Medium." Eikon no. 45 (2004): 34-38
Sheets, Hilarie. "Armand Hammer's Orphan Museum Turns Into Cinderella in Los Angeles." The New York Times (October 6, 2004): E1, 9
2003 Aletti, Vince. "Voice Choices/Photo: Imaging the Abstract." The Village Voice (May 21, 2003): 92
Fulco, Elisa. "In Mostra: James Welling," Flash Art (June-July 2003): 154
Ghezzi, Rosella. "Vernici: James Welling." Vivi Milano (March 19, 2003)
Grosz, David. "Still Painting's Sidekick." The New York Sun (March 6, 2003): 16
Horak, Ruth. "Rethinking Photography I + II." Fotohof (2003)
Immer, Silvia. "James Welling: Galleria Raffaella Cortese." Esporate (April-May 2003): 24
Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review: James Welling, Los Angeles." The New York Times (September 19, 2003): E39
Memeo, Francesca. "La Mostra." La Stampa (April 4, 2003)
Miles, Christopher. "James Welling: Regen Projects." Artforum (June 2003): 194 [ill.]
Newhall, Edith. "Art: Photography, City of Angles." New York Magazine (September 8, 2003): 170
Ollman, Lea. "Bitter Nature of Human Nature." Los Angeles Times (May 2, 2003)
Pola, Francesca. "James Welling." Segno: Attualità Internazionali d'Arte Contemporanea (May- June 2003)
Princenthal, Nancy. "A 10-Part Hello Along the Hudson." The New York Times (May 11, 2003)
Schmerler, Sarah. "Don't Miss: James Welling, Los Angeles." Time Out New York (September 11-18, 2003): 89
Treace, Bonnie Myota. "Rising to the Challenge." Tricycle (Spring 2003): 40, 42, 45 [ill.]
Tumlir, Jan. "80s Then: James Welling Talks to Jan Tumlir." Artforum (April 2003): 216-217, 255 [ill.]
Welling, James. "An Excerpt from Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia." X no. 4 (2003): 4-7
"Galleria Raffaella Cortese." Sur La Terre no. 14 (Summer 2003)
"James Welling." Exhibart On Paper (May 2003)
"James Welling." That's Art no. 41 (April 2003)
2002 Kohno, Haruko. "A Gallery Responds to 9/11." Daily Yomiuri (January 31, 2002)
Lambrecht, Luk. "De waarheid volgens James Welling." De Morgen (April 25, 2002)
Mahoney, Robert. "Justine Kurland, Catherine Opie, Martha Rosler and James Welling at Gorney
Bravin + Lee." Time Out New York (June 27 - July 2, 2002): 56
Milroy, Sarah. "Playful Pictures of Light and Texture." The Globe and Mail (November 29, 2002): R4
Tumlir, Jan. "Previews: James Welling, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles." Artforum (January 2002): 72
Ziegler, Ulf. "Zwischen Begriff und Gegenstand: James Welling abstrake Fotografien seit 1975." Frankfurter Rundschau (August 17, 2002)
"een ode aan het licht." De Standaard (March 7, 2002)
2001 Egan, Maura. "Prize Matters." Details (January-February 2001): 124-131 [ill.]
Intra, Giovanni. "Reviews: James Welling at MoCA." Art Text (August-October 2001): 77
Jones, Kristin M. "James Welling at Gorney Bravin + Lee." Frieze (May 2001): 89, 99-100 [ill.]
Joselit, David. "Surface Histories: The Photography of James Welling." Art in America (May 2001): 136-143 [ill.]
Knight, Christopher. "The Melancholy Process, History of Photography." Los Angeles Times (May 8, 2001)
Lin-Eftekhar, Judy. "Photographer captures surreal landscapes, luminous scene." UCLA Today (April 10, 2001)

Loreto Mondloch, Katie. "Review: James Welling at MoCA, LA." tema celeste (September- October 2001): 85
Manroe, Candace Ord. "The Art of the Stairway." Traditional Home (March 2001): 148-149 [ill.]
Mitchell, Roger. "Savage Baggage." The Figures (Great Barrington, Massachusetts)
Myers, Holly. "Light." LA Weekly (July 20-26, 2001): 47
Rogers, Sarah J. "James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999." Contemporary (March-May 2001): 8-9 [ill.]
Rowley, Alexandra. "Turn, Shake, Flip." Eyestorm (2001): 41
Tillman, Lynne. "Portfolio: James Welling." Artforum (May 2001): 139-143 [ill.]
Welling, James. "Wolfgang Tillmans portrait." Details (January 2001): 124, 127
Zellen, Jody. "Mining the Photographic Process." Art International (Winter 2001): 40
"James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999." Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art (June-August 2001): 2, 8
"James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999." UCLA Spotlight (September 25, 2001)
2000 Brooke Schleifer, Kristen. "James Welling: New Abstractions and Work from the Seventies." Arton Paper (July-August 2000): 58 [ill.]
Giuliano, Mike. "James Welling Finds the Complexity." City Paper Baltimore (September 6, 2000): 37
Ollmans, Leah. "Ambiguous Artifacts: James Welling and Sharon Lockhart." Los Angeles Times (March 3, 2000)
Relyea, Lane. "James Welling: Photographs, 1974-1999." Artforum (May 2000): 41
Relyea, Lane. "Review: James Welling at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH." Artforum (September 2000): 171 [ill.]
Welling, James. "Los Angeles Photographs, 1976-78." October (Winter 2000): 81-100
Welling, James. "Photography in the '00s." UCLA (Summer 2000): 38-43
Yates, Christopher A. Yates. "From bright to brooding." Columbus Dispatch (May 21, 2000)
1999 Hirsch, Faye. "Working Proof: James Welling." Art on Paper (March-April 1999): 56 [ill.]
Schmerler, Sarah. "Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue." Time Out New York (July 22-29, 1999): 80
Solomon, Deborah. "How to Succeed in Art." The New York Times Magazine (June 27, 1999): 38- 41 [ill.]
Sonna, Birgit. "Der Janusköpfige: James Welling." Süddeutsche Zeitung (December 6, 1999)
"Rethinking Genres in Contemporary Photography." Art on Paper (January-February 1999): 33
1998 Aletti, Vince. "Photo Short List: James Welling." The Village Voice (September 29, 1998): 73
Cotter, Holland. "James Welling, Early Photographs: 1976-1985." The New York Times (October 16, 1998): E37
Grynsztejn, Madeleine. "James Welling." Forum no. 37 (1998)
Miller, Donald. "Intense photographic images recall Pittsburgh's gritty past." Pittsburgh Post- Gazette (November 28, 1998): D8
Shearing, Graham. "New Light on the Familiar: James Welling," Pittsburgh Tribune Review (November 19, 1998): 27
Squiers, Carol. "A Slice of Light." Artforum (January 1998): 76-79 [ill.]
Wahler, Marc-Olivier. "L'hypothèse du tableau vole." Art Press (October 1998)
1997 Aletti, Vince. "Photo Short List: James Welling." The Village Voice (March 18, 1997): 11
Fink, Barbel. "James Welling." Camera Austria no. 59/60 (1997): 70-80 [ill.]
Mitchell, Charles Dee. "James Welling at Jay Gorney." Art in America (July 1997): 92
Schmerler, Sarah. "James Welling, Light Sources." Time Out New York (March 20-27,1997): 47
Squiers, Carol. "James Welling." Grand Street no. 61 (1997): 169 [ill.]
Welling, James. "Railroad Towns." Grand Street no. 61 (1997): 160-168
1996 Berriolo, Elana and Roland Flexner. "Art in the Folds." New Observations no. 110 (1996): 45
Cross, Andrew. "Evident." Great: The Magazine of The Photographers' Gallery, London (November-December 1996): 6-7
Cross, Andrew. "New Landscapes: Axel Hütte & James Welling." Creative Camera (October-November 1996): 8-17
Frank, Peter. "James Luna, Allan Sekula, Deep Surface." LA Weekly (August 23-29, 1996)
Pagel, David. "Meditations on Morality and the Depiction of Space." Los Angeles Times (August 22, 1996)
Silver, Joanne. "Photography Distills Nature." Boston Sunday Herald (January 7, 1996): 42
Williams, Gilda. "Evident / The Photographers' Gallery." Art Monthly (December 1996)
"James Welling." BOMB no. 54 (Winter 1996): 14-15 [ill.]
1995 Aletti, Vince. "Voice Choices: James Welling." The Village Voice (December 19, 1995): 10
Auerbach, Lisa Anne. "James Welling: Regen Projects." Artforum (March 1995)
Bonetti, David. "Gallery Watch: Rena Bransten Gallery." San Francisco Examiner (September 22, 1995): C7
Grundberg, Andy. "Beyond Description: Content in Today's Photography." Independent Curators: New York (1995)
Grundberg, Andy. "James Welling." The New York Times (September 30, 1995)
Medeiros, Margarida. "James Welling: Módulo." Publico (January 14, 1995)
Medeiros, Margarida. "Paisagens e interiors." Publico (January 7, 1995)
Servetar, Stuart. "Art." New York Press (December 13-19, 1995): 76
Whitney Center Pieces 2, no. 2 (Fall 1995)
1994 Battarra, Enzo. "La teoria? E' un gioco di eventi." Il Giornale di Napoli (June 30, 1994)
Grundberg, Andy. "Who are the Most Underrated and Overrated Artists?" ARTnews (February 1994)
Karmel, Pepe. "Out of the Ghetto." ARTnews (April 1994)
Smith, Roberta. "Group Shows of Every Kind." The New York Times (February 25, 1994)
1993 Balau, R. "James Welling: Lace Factories." Forum International no. 19 (October-November
1993): 142 [ill.]
Demarty, Marie-Pierre. "Welling entre dans l'usine." Nord Littoral (April 16, 1993)
Hagen, Charles. "James Welling." The New York Times (May 14, 1993)
Hume, Christopher. "Industrial Photography." The Toronto Star (June 10, 1993)
Upshaw, Reagan. "James Welling at Jay Gorney." Art in America (December 1993)
"James Welling Railroad Photographs." Blind Spot no. 1 (1993)
1992 Ament, Deloris Tarzan. "Through the lens of history." The Seattle Times (September 24, 1992)
Hackett, Regina. "Familiar scenes are shot with cold perfection." Seattle Post-Intelligencer (September 24, 1992)
Michaels, Walter Benn. "Photography as Art." (April 1992) [unpublished paper delivered at Photography and Art, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver]
Smallwood, Lyn. "Shooting the Rails." Seattle Weekly (September 30, 1992)
1991 Aletti, Vince. "James Welling." The Village Voice (May 7, 1991)
Messler, Norbert. "James Welling: Wunder der Sichtbaren Welt." Noema Magazine (May 1991)
Schjeldahl, Peter. "At the Salon of April." The Village Voice (May 14, 1991)
"Grandes Lignes, quand l'art entre en gare." Beaux Arts (1991): 46-47.
1990 Bianchi, Pado. "James Welling: Photography 1977-1990 at the Kunsthalle Bern." Kunstforum (November-December 1990)
Cueff, Alain. "Et Welling Aussi." Beaux Arts no. 75 (January 1990): 68-75
Loock, Ulrich. "Meanings at Our Disposal." Parachute (October-December 1990)
Raczka, Robert. "James Welling at Beaver College." New Art Examiner (February 1990)
Troncy, Eric. "James Welling." Flash Art (October 1990)
Van den Boogerd, Dominic. "James Welling: Feiten en Ficties van de Fotographie." Metropolis M
no. 5 (October 1990): 44
1989 Decter, Joshua. "James Welling at Jay Gorney Modern Art." Flash Art (January-February 1989)
Faber, Monika. "Gallery Talk, 28 April 1989." Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna [unpublished]
Haus, Mary. "150 Years of Photography." ARTnews (April 1989): 162-163
Nesweda, Peter. "The Yearning of a Society Without History." Der Standard (May 10, 1989)
Princenthal, Nancy. The Print Collector's Newsletter 20, no. 1 (March-April 1989)
Prodhon, Francoise-Claire. "James Welling at Samia Saouma, Paris." Flash Art (1989)
Scheuer, Daniel. "150th at f2 Snapshots of Contemporary Art Photography." Center Quarterly: A Journal of Photography and Related Arts 2, no. 1 (1989)
"Abstraction in Contemporary Photography." [published for Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College,Clinton, New York and Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia]
"James Welling at Beaver College." The Philadelphia Enquirer (October 26, 1989)
1988 Bankowsky, Jack. Flash Art (Spring 1988)
Grundberg, Andy. The New York Times (March 25, 1988)
Johnson, Ken. Art in America (July 1988): 135-136
Linsley, Robert. "In Pursuit of the Vanishing Subject: James Welling and Rodney Graham." C Magazine (Winter 1988)
Morgan, Robert. "Review." Arts Magazine (December 1988)
Ramsey, Ellen. "Rodney Graham, James Welling." Vanguard (February 1988)
1987 Ottman, Klaus. "The Spectacle of Chaos." Flash Art (1987)
Relyea, Lane. "Review of show at Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery." LA Weekly (May 1987)
1986 Collins, Tricia and Milazzo, Richard. "James Welling: Party Favors." Kunstforum International
(March-May 1986)
Decter, Joshua. "Review." Arts Magazine (February 1986)
Foster, Hal. "Signs Taken for Wonders." Art In America (May 1986)
Welling, James. "Gelatin Photographs." File Magazine no. 26 (Winter 1986)
1984 Grundberg, Andy. "The Fall from Grace of a Spiritual Guru." The New York Times (September 2,1984): 19
Grundberg, Andy. The New York Times (March 2, 1984)
Johnson, Ken. "James Welling at Christine Burgin." Art in America (July 1984)
Salle, David & Welling, James. "Images that Understand Us: A Conversation with David
Salle and James Welling." LAICA Journal no. 40 (Fall 1984)
Welling, James. "Abstract." Effects-Magazine for New Art Theory no. 2 (1984)
1982 Grundberg, Andy. "In Today's Photography Imitation Isn't Always Flattery." The New York Times (November 14, 1982): H31
Owens, Craig. "Back to the Studio." Art In America (January 1982)
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. "Playing the Fields of the Image." After Image (Summer 1982)
1981 Lifson, Ben. "Collage à Trois." The Village Voice (April 8-14, 1981): 92
1980 Thornton, Gene. "Narrative Works-And Arbus." The New York Times (September 1980)

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS & LECTURES
2011 "UCLA Department of Art Lecture: James Welling," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2010 "James Welling: Artist Talk," Newman Lecture on Contemporary Photography, Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, Minnesota [on the occasion of the exhibition New Pictures 3: James Welling, Glass House]
2009 "Artist's Talk with James Welling," Aperture Foundation, New York
"Conceptual Art and Photography: James Welling in Conversation with Jan Dibbets," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008 "James Welling In Conversation with Walead Beshty," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [on the occasion of the exhibition 2008 Whitney Biennial]
2007 "Conversations with Artists: James Welling," Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"A New Luminism," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
"Visiting Artist Program presents James Welling," University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2005 "James Welling on Andy Warhol," Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, New York
2001 "James Welling In Conversation with Michael Fried," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2009 Pilara Foundation Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow
2007-2008 International Association of Art Critics Award of Excellence to James Welling/First Place/Best
Show in a Commercial Gallery Nationally for James Welling, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
1999 DG BANK-Förderpreis Fotografie, Sprengel Museum Hannover
1986 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

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