Born in 1939 in Memphis, TN
education
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Delta State College, Cleveland, MS
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
selected solo exhibitions
2009
Paris Project, Exhibition of Paris Images, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris
2008
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Whitney Museum of
Art, New York, NY
2001
Mostly California, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
William Eggleston and The Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
1998
Picture's from Eve's Bayou, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis
Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
1995
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1994
Th. e., Naples, Italy
Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1993
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1992
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
William Eggleston: Retrospective, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England. Travels: Copenhagen, Denmark; Zurich, Switzerland; Essen, Germany
1991
William Eggleston: Artist's Choice, University Museums, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
1984
Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Werkstatt fur Photographic, West Berlin
1983
Fotogalerie und Forum Stadpark, Graz, Berlin
Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC
1980
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York,
1979
Photographers' Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Volkochschule, Berlin
1978
Election Eve, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
1977
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
Castelli Graphics/Leo Castelli, New York
Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC
1976
Photographs by William Eggleston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; traveled:
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA;
Fredrick Wright Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles; Reed College,
Portland, OR; Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
1975
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1974
Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC
selected group exhibitions
2009
Works on Paper, David Lusk Gallery, New York
2006
Graceland, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis
2005
scopeMIAMI, David Lusk Gallery, Miami
scopeHamptons, David Lusk Gallery, Long Island, NY
artChicago, David Lusk Gallery, Chicago
1999
Works on Paper, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, The Armory, New York
1994
The Beauty in the Beast: Artists Observe the Horse, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
Brooks Biennial: Memphis Contemporary Photography, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
1990
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
1981
Color in Contemporary Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1980
Three American Photographers, Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston
Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta
Eggleston/Nixon, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Aspects of the 70's, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Zeitgenossische Amerikanische Farbphotographie, Galerie Rudolph Kicken, Cologne, Germany
Farbwerke--EineNeue Generation, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Southeastern Graphics Invitational, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Nuages, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
1979
American Photography in the 1970's, Art Institute of Chicago
Auto-Icons, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
One Of A Kind, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
American Landscape Photography, Diane Brown Gallery,
Washington, DC
Ten From Mirrors and Windows, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
American Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Invitational Color Photography, MoMing Gallery, Chicago
1978
New York, New York, Light Gallery, New York
Photographs from the Wagstaff Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
In Color, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans
Six Photographers, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC
By the Side of the Road, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
1978
23 Photographers, 23 Directions, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
1977
The Contemporary South, a USIA traveling exhibition organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art
Some Color Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
1976
Spectrum, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1975
14 American Photographers, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; traveled: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport
Beach, CA; LaJolla Museum of Contemporary Art, LaJolla, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN;
The Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX
selected bibliography
The Importance of Eggleston, Fredric Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal, June 26, 2005, p. m3
Art & Auction, william eggleston is the embodiment of southern gothic and
the father of southern pop, October, 2004,
2 1/4, William Eggleston, Twin Palms Publishers, 1999
Ancient & Modern, Random House, 1992
Art & Auction, Richard Polsky, William Eggleston, March 15, 2000, pg. 43
Faulkner's Mississippi, Birmingham, Alabama: text by Willie Morris, 1991
True Stories, New York and London: David Byrne, 1986
William Eggleston's Graceland, Washington, DC: Middendorf Gallery, 1984
The New Color Photography, New York: Sally Euclaire, 1981
Election Eve, New York: Caldecott Chubb, 1978
William Eggleston's Guide, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976
14 Pictures, a portfolio of 14 dye-transfer prints, Washington, DC: Harry H. Lunn, Jr., 1974
selected collections
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock,
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Greenville County, SC
High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Morris Museum, Augusta, GA
Museum of Modern Art., New York, NY
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
selected awards
The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 1998