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born Santa Monica, CA 1952


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2005

Arne Svenson: Portraits, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
Other People's Projects: Alba Ballard, White Columns, New York, NY


2004 Sock Monkeys, UMC Art Gallery, University of Colorado at Boulder

2003 Sock Monkeys, Colette Gallery, Paris, France

2002
Sock Monkey, Sock Monkey, Sock Monkey, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sock Monkeys, S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR
Sock Monkeys, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Las Vegas, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX


1999 Las Vegas, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998
Prisoners, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Prisoners, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Prisoners, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Aaron Museum, Marysville, CA

1997
Las Vegas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Occurrences, S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR

1995 S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR

1994 Faggots, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY

1991
Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Unnamed, Unveiled, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Clinical Studies, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2006 Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis. Catalog w/illustrations

 

2005

Trade, White Columns, New York, NY
James D. Phelan Art Award Exhibition, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA


2004
Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mutter Museum, touring Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL; Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

2003 Geometry of the Face, The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002
Facing AIDS: Imaging the Global Epidemic, touring 2002 - 2005 Museums in Barcelona, New York, Washington D.C., Moscow, and Rio De Janeiro. Catalog.
The Mutter Museum, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
An Eye for Golf, The Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art, Winchester, MA
New Figurists, Red Dot, New York, NY

Inaugural Show, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

2001 Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2000
Wanted, Photographs do not Bend, Dallas, TX
Group Show, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Photoanatomic, The Barrister Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1999 The Cultured Tourist, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998
In Your Face, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Projects, New York, NY
Neighborhood Watch, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Catalog
In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and The Everyday, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England. Catalogue. Traveling to: Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Viva Las Vegas, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1996
Ferocious, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Tool Show, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

1995
Ars Medica: Treasures from the Mutter Museum, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (as curator).
Lines of Flight, Mad River Post, New York, NY Phallic Symbols, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
Phallic Symbols, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY


1994
Foreign Ferns, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Of Science and Humanity, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Show, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1993
Animal Body, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Plant Body, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Foreign Ferns, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

1991
Group Show, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington D.C.
Ordinary People, The Guest Room, Los Angeles, CA. Catalogue.

1990 Images from the Front, Photography Challenging AIDS, The Center, NY, NY

1989
Selected Sins, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Self and Shadow, Burden Gallery, New York, NY
Victoria, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

BOOKS

2007 Arne Svenson: Portraits, Twin Palms Press

2005 Mrs. Ballard's Parrots, Harry Abrams, NY
2003 Sock Monkeys (200 out of 1,863), with Ron Warren, Ideal World Books, NY
1997 Prisoners, Blast Books, NYC

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

 

The Book on Vegas, Greybull Press, with reproductions, 2006

Smith, Roberta. Exhibition Review, The New York Times, Nov 25, 2005

Halle, Howard. Watch the Birdie, Time Out New York, w/reproductions, November 24, 2005

Newman, Andrew Adam. CSI: Photography Studio, The New York Times,with reproductions, August 28, 2005

Hay, David. Life and Death, The Los Angeles Times, with reproductions, August 30, 2005

Strausbaugh, John. A Dreamer and her Parrot-Shtick Method, The New York Times, with reproductions, April 2, 2005

Robinson, Andrew. The Way Art Should Work, Gay City News, w/reproductions,March 10, 2005

Hancock, Noelle. Exhibition Review, The New York Observer, w/reproduction, January 13, 2003

Ebony, David. Arne Svenson at Julie Saul, Art in America, with reproduction, May 2003
Ballentine, Sandra. Footnotes, The New York Times Magazine, with reproduction, Feb 23, 2003

Bal, Sumeet. Featured Book of the Week, Entertainment Weekly, with reproductions, April 4, 2003

Time Out New York, Featured Book,with reproductions. May 1, 2003

2wice Magazine, Animal Issue, Vol 7, with reproductions, 2003

Facing AIDS: Imaging the Global Epidemic, Umbrage Editions, with reproductions, 2003
Cowan, James, Sock it to Me, National Post, Canada with reproductions Nov. 24, 2003
Worden, Gretchen. The Mutter Museum, Blast Books NYC, with reproductions, 2002

Wallis, Stephen. Turn Shake Flip, Eyestorm Publications, with reproductions, 2002
Smith, John W. Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting, The Andy Warhol Museum, with reproductions, 2002

Pagel, David. Monkey See, Monkey Do at Svenson Exhibition, The Los Angeles Times, with reproductions. July 26, 2002

Blair, Stephen. Monkey Mania, Portland Tribune, with reproductions, August 2, 2002

Allen, Angela. Darned monkey business, The Columbian, with reproductions, July 16, 2002
Visionaire (V) Magazine #18, with reproduction. July/August, 2002
Birdsall, Elizabeth. Subverting the Archive: Contemporary Functions of the Evidentiary Photograph in Work by Arne Svenson, thesis, 2002
D. Eric Bookhardt. Exhibition review, Art Papers, issue. April/March 2001
American Photograph 17, with reproductions, 2001
MacCash, Doug. Bodies of Research, New Orleans Times Picayne, December 1, 2000
Carney, Phillip. Suspects, Creative Camera, issue 355, with reproductions, January 1999
Schaffner, Ingrid. Tourist Snaps, Art on Paper,with reproduction, Jan/Feb 1999
Duncan, Michael. Arne Svenson at Julie Saul, Art in America, with reproduction, January 1998

Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice-Review, The Village Voice, with reproduction, January 13, 1998

Coleman, A.D. Visual Literacy, Photography in New York, with reproduction, March/April 1998

Long, Andrew. Goings on About Town: Photography, The New Yorker, Jan. 27, 1998

Johnson, Ken. Exhibition Review, The New York Times, January 30, 1998
Goldberg, Vicki. Eliminating the Distance Between Two Points, The New York Times, November 27, 1998

Chambers, Karen. Arne Svenson at Julie Saul Gallery, Review, February 1, 1998
Ebony, David. New York Top Ten, ArtNet, January, with reproduction, 1998
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage, University of California Press, with reproductions, 1998
Fine Art Photography 2. Graphis, Inc., with reproductions, 1998
American Photography 14, reproductions, 1998
Beckmann, John. The Virtual Dimension, Princeton Architectural Press, with reproductions, 1998
Lind, Ingela. Nar Foto Forlorade Oskulden, Dagens Nyheter, October 20, 1998
Long, Andrew. Rogues Gallery, Final Furlough, The New Yorker, with reproductions, February 24, 1997
Roalf, Peggy. Just Passing Through, Aperture issue #149: Dark Days: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness, with reproductions, 1997
Roberts, Russell. In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science, and The Everyday, Oxford Museum of Modern Art Publication, with reproductions, 1997
Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice-Review, The Village Voice, May 13, 1997
Long, Andrew. Goings on About Town: Photography, The New Yorker, April 21, 1997
Rugoff, Ralph. Underworld, Through a Glass Negative, Darkly, Los Angeles Weekly Literary Supplement, Winter, with reproductions, 1997
Strausbaugh, John. Making Book, New York Press, with reproductions, October 8, 1997
Macleod, Chris. Art Pick-Review, Manhattan Spirit, with reproduction, April 18, 1997
Ebony, David. New York Top Ten, ArtNet, with reproduction, April 12, 1997
Row, D.K. The Substance of Quiet, Willamette Weekly, reproductions, May 7, 1997
Rosenthal, Tom. Dead Interesting, Punch, May 30, 1997
Hagen, Charles. Beyond Ars Medica, The New York Times, December 29, 1996
Levin, Kim. Freak Out, The Village Voice, December 19, 1996
Goings on About Town: Art. The New Yorker, December 8, 1996
Newhall, Edith. What's the Mutter, New York Magazine, December 8, 1996
Dery, Mark. Lost in the Funhouse, World Art issue #2, with reproductions, 1996
Doran, Anne. Beyond Ars Medica: Treasures from the Mutter Museum, Time Out #13/14, December 1996
Gragg, Randy. The Best Shows of November, The Oregonian, December 1, 1996
Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice-Review, The Village Voice, January 18, 1994
Hagen, Charles. Foreign Ferns, The New York Times, December 17, 1994
Kalil, Susie. The Secret Life of Plants, The Houston Press, May 12, 1994
Goings on About Town: Photography. The Sensitive Plant, The New Yorker, December 27, 1994
Smith, Tracy. The Mirror, New Observations, issue #93, with reproductions, January/February 1993
Strausbaugh, John. Skin Mirrors, New York Press, vol. 4, #1, with reproductions, December 24, 1993
Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice- Review, The Village Voice, November 12, 1991

COLLECTIONS

 

Goldman Sachs

Mutter Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Swiss RE Capital Bank

Walt Disney Corporation

West Collection







Portraits 2005-2006 [view images]


Sock Monkeys 2001-2002 [view images]


Las Vegas 1992-2003 [view images]


Botanicals 1992 [view images]