Biography
1948
Born in New York
2004
Died in New York
Education
1973-1975
School of Visual Arts, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Modern Art, London
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
2020
Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
2019
“The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop”, The Bronx Museum, New York
2017
“Alvin Baltrop: At the Hudson River Piers”, selected by Douglas Crimp,
Galerie Buchholz, New York
2012
“Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass”, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Texas
2011
“Alvin Baltrop: Photographs 1965-2003”, Third Streaming, New York
“Alvin Baltrop: Selected Works”, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York
2010
“Alvin Baltrop: Color Photographs, 1971-1991”, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn
1992
“The Piers”, The Bar, New York
1977
The Glines: A Gay Art Center, New York
Group Exhibitions
2023
“Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations”, The National Museum, Oslo
“Tolia Astakhishvili. The First Finger. Chapter II”, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
“Trust Me“, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin”, Mead Art Museum, Amherst
“Back”, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
“Luxe, Calm, Volupté”, Candice Madey, New York
2022
“Bells”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“Alvin Baltrop, Wade Guyton, Heimo Zobernig”, Francesca Pia, Zurich
“Gazed and Confused”, Last Tango, Zurich
“Black American Portraits”, LACMA, Los Angeles
2021
“Collection 1970-Present: To Live and Die in New York”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art Basel ‘OVR: Pioneers’, Art Basel
“Interior Scroll or What I Did on My Vacation”, Broadway Gallery, New York
“Any Distance Between Us”, RISD Museum of Art, Providence
“Natures Mortes”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2020
“Desire in Flux”, HOUSING, New York
“Souls Grown Diaspora”, Apexart, New York
“Intimate Companions”, Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, Massachusetts
“Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970-1986”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2019
“A New MoMA”, MoMA, New York
“Liebe und Ethnologie”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“Glenn O’Brien: Center Stage”, Off Paradise, New York
“Art after Stonewall, 1969 - 1989”, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami
“Art After Stonewall, 1969 - 1989”, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
“About Ourselves / Inside Ourselves”, Denison Museum, Granville, Ohio
“God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin”, curated by Hilton Als, David Zwirner, New York
2018
“Re: Re: Black Macho / Unleash the Queen”, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main
2017
“Douglas Crimp - Before Pictures”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
“Gordon Matta-Clark. Cutting, Writing, Building, Drawing, Eating”, Fundação de Serralves, Porto
2015
“Greater New York”, MoMA PS1, New York
2014
“Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
2012
“Looking Back/The Sixth White Columns Annual”, White Columns, New York
“The Quality of Presence”, Chelsea Hotel, New York
2010
“Dead Flowers”, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
“Dead Flowers”, Participant Inc., New York
“Looking Back/The Fifth White Columns Annual”, White Columns, New York
“Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
“YANS & RETO-Young and Nto Stupid & Radical Even Though Old”, Anthology Film Archives, New York
2009
“Darkside II-Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed”, Fotomuseum Winterthur
“Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100”, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
“Peeps”, The Amie and Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
“Sexy and the City: New York Photographs”, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
2008
“Artist as Publisher”, The Center for Book Arts, New York
“Darkside I - Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed”, Fotomuseum
Winterthur
2007
“That 70s Show: New York City in the 1970s”, powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York
2005
“Homomuseum: Heroes and Moments”, Exit Art, New York
2003
“Leisure”, Aerolith, New York
“Overhead Underground: Reimagining the Faerie Landscape”, Le Petit Versailles
Garden, New York
“Postcards from the Edge”, Galerie Lelong, New York
“West Side Sex Piers”, Uzi N.Y. Gallery, New York
2002
“Mess of Pottage”, Gallery M, New York