Catherine Wagner (American, b. 1953)
Untitled, N. Ca, 1978
(Petaluma, CA, 1978)
Vintage gelatin silver print, printed 1979
From an unmarked edition of 100
Signed & dated in pencil in the margin
Image size: 9 ½ x 12 ¾ inches
Print size: 11 x 14 inches
Mat size: 16 x 20 inches
Condition: Pristine
Retail: $4500
BIO:
Catherine Wagner (American, b. 1953) is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1987) and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1981, 1990/91). Solo exhibitions of Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks were held at the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; and Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California.
Collections:
LACMA
SFMOMA
The Whitney Museum of American Art
MoMA
Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago
MFA Houston
and more
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Reparations, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, November; Morphology,
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 A Narrative History of the Lightbulb, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
2006 Re-classifying History, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
2004 Trilogy: Reflections on Frankenstein, The Arctic Circle, and The History
of Science, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 12 Areas of Concern and Crisis, Installation at Comme des Garcons, Kyoto,
Japan
Catherine Wagner: Museum Pieces, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2001-2003 Cross Sections + Annotations: Catherine Wagner, San Jose Museum of
Art, San Jose, CA; traveled to Pasadena Museum of California Art
2001 Selections: 1980 - 2000, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks,
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1999 Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks,
Modem Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica,
CA
Art & Science: Investigating Matter, Photographs by Catherine Wagner, Mead
Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Catherine Wagner, Selections 1978-1998, Jack Shainman
Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Catherine Wagner: Art & Science, Investigating Matter, University Art
Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Gallery Luisotti, Los
Angeles, CA; International Center of Photography, New York, NY; Fraenkel
Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs
the Disney Theme Parks, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada;
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Armand Hammer, Los Angeles, CA; Catherine
Wagner Photographs: Investigating Matter, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland,
OH; Art & Science: Investigating Matter and American Classroom, Johnson
County Community College, Kansas City, MO
1994 American Classroom, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (Netwerk
Kulture catalog); Home and Other Stories, Center for Creative Photography,
Tucson, AZ
1993 Home and Other Stories, Mills College, Oakland, CA; Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
American Classroom: Photographs by Catherine Wagner, University Gallery Fine
Arts Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA
1991 American Classrooms: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, Cuesta College,
San Luis Obispo, CA; Catherine Wagner, Selections, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
1990 American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, Laurence Miller
Gallery, New York, NY
1989 American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner, The Ansel Adams
Center, San Francisco, CA; Photographs 1978-1988, Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
1988 Catherine Wagner: Photographs from the American Classroom Project and the
George Moscone Site, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College,
Chicago, IL; Changing Places, Photographs by Catherine Wagner, Farish School of
Architecture, Rice University, Houston, TX (catalog); American Classroom, The
Photographs of Catherine Wagner, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (publication)
1987 Catherine Wagner, 1976-1986, Mm Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (catalog)
1985 Oakland Museum - Oakes Gallery, Oakland, CA (brochure)
1980 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
1983 New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1982 Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, WA; Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
1978 Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wagner is represented by Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica.