| Born |
1953 in Widnes, Lancashire, England |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 1973-76 |
London College of Printing, London, England. |
| 1972-73 |
Banbury School of Art, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England |
| 1965-72 |
St Joseph’s College, Upholland, Lancashire, England |
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| SELECTED RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: |
| 2011 |
Gallery K.O.N.G., Seoul, South Korea |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France |
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Galerie Troncin-Denis, Nancy, France |
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Michael Kenna - Retrospective, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia |
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Casalgrande Padana, Reggio Emilia, Italy |
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Impossible to Forget, Casa Samano Museum, Bogota, Colombia |
| 2010 |
Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
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Michael Kenna - Landscapes and Memory, Miyanomori Art Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Bernheimer Gallery, Munich, Germany |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Michael Kenna - Immagini dei Settimo Giorno, Palazzo Magnani Museum, Reggio Emilia, Italy |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Shanghai International Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA, "Venice and Emilia-Romagna" |
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BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Holland |
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A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
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Plum Blossoms Gallery, Central, Hong Kong, China |
| 2009 |
Staniar Gallery, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, USA |
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Zeit Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Michael Kenna - Retrospective, Centro Andaluz de al Fotografia, Almeria, Spain |
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Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, Oregon, USA |
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Michael Kenna - Landscape and Memories, Kushiro Art Museum, Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan |
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Galerie Box, Brussels, Belgium |
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Michael Kenna - Retrospective, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, France |
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Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France |
| 2008 |
Japan, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England |
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Monique’s Kindergarten, MiCamera Gallery, Milan, Italy |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Japan, Galerie Troncin-Denis, Nancy, France. |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California, USA |
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Impossible to Forget, Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, |
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HackelBury Gallery, London, England |
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Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA |
| 2007 |
Thirty Year Retrospective, Banbury Muscum, Oxfordshire, England |
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The Rouge, University of Michigan Muscum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
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Japan, Caree Amelot, LaRochelle, France |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Impossible to Forget, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California, USA |
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Japan. LeBon Marché, Paris, France |
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Frozen Landscapes, Bernheimer Gallery, Munich, Germany |
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Mont St. Michel, Charles A. Hardman Fine Art, Portland, Oregon, USA |
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New York, New Work, Robery Mann Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 2006 |
Japan, Palm Beach Photo Museum, Delray Beach, Florida, USA |
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Impossible to Forget, Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. |
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Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Hokkaido, Artotheque, Grenoble, France |
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Hotel de Ville, Cholete, France |
| 2005 |
Impossible to Forget, Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Whitewall Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
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Michael Kenna, Salle Capitulaire, Bourdeaux, France
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Hackelbury Fine Art, London, England
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA
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Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York, USA
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Retrospective Two, Scavi Scaligeri Museum, Verona, Italy
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Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
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| 2004 |
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Point Light Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| 2003 |
Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York, USA. |
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John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA |
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Impossible to Forget, Houston Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas, USA |
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Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA. |
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Michael Kenna - Retrospective, Tokyo Photographic Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Japan, Chateau d’Eau Museum, Toulouse, France |
| 2002 |
Galerie Laurent Herschritt, Paris, France |
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Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Calais Lace, Musee des Beaux Arts, Calais, France |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California, USA |
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SK Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA |
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Gallery lelassi, Ischia, Italy |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Le Notre’s Gardens, Museum of Saint-Riquier Abbey, Saint-Riquier, France |
| 2001 |
Night Work, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Galerie Laurent Herschritt, Paris, France |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA |
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Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA |
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The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C., USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
| 2000 |
IIl Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, New York, USA |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Zur Stockeregg Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Point Light Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Monique’s Kindergarten, FNAC, Lyon, France |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 1999 |
Michael Kenna, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA |
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Hommage a Le Notre, Musee Jean de la Fontaine, Chateau Thierry, France |
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Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England |
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The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C, USA |
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Monique’s Kindergarten, FNAC, Metz, France |
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Monique’s Kindergarten, FNAC, Marseille, France |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA |
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Masachusetts, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 1998 |
Michael Kenna, Braga Photography Festival, Braga, Portugal |
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Le Notre’s Gardens, Art Associates Gallery, Lake Charles, Louisianna, USA |
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Michael Kenna, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas, USA |
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Le Notre’s Garden, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA |
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John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA |
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A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, USA |
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Galerie L’Immagerie, Lannion, France |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Michael Kenna, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, USA |
| 1997 |
Virginia Steele Scott Gallery, The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA |
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Clark Humanities Museum, Claremont, California, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Robert Mann Gallery, New York, USA |
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, New York, USA |
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Garden and Kindergarten, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Silent Elegance, Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic |
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Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 1996 |
Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, England |
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Gallery JM, Tokyo, Japan |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA |
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G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Candace Perich Gallery, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA |
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The Rouge, The Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, California, USA |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA |
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A Twenty Year Retrospective, Mois de la Photographie, Musee Duffy, Nice, France |
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John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA |
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Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 1995 |
Industrial Revelations - The Rouge and other sites, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
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A Twenty Year Retrospective, The Nicephore Niepce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saone, France |
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A Twenty Year Retrospective, Palm Beach Photographic Museum, Florida, USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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The Rouge, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, New York, USA |
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Finch Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1994 |
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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AOI Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
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Michael Kenna, CLC Gallery, Bethel College, St Paul, Minnesota, USA |
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Michael Kenna, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
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Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Photo Picture Space, Osaka, Japan |
| 1993 |
Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Michael Kenna, International Center for Photography, New York, New York, USA |
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Folio Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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Le Desert de Retz, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA |
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Le Desert de Retz, Ursus Rare Books, New York, New York, USA |
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Le Desert de Retz, Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA |
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AOI Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Silence, Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 1992 |
Michael Kenna - Photographs of England, Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
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Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA |
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Michael Kenna, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, California, USA |
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Turner-Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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The Cultivated Image - Michael Kenna, University Art Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
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Rewdex Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Michael Kenna, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Hamiltons Gallery, London, England |
| 1991 |
Le Desert de Retz, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris, France |
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Images Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
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Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Le Desert de Retz, Heinz Gallery, London, England |
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Weston Gallery, Carmel, California, USA |
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Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA |
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Hanson Fine Arts, Fresno, California, USA |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1990 |
Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan |
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Fuerte Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
| Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, USA |
| Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Australian National Gallery, Canberra, New South Wales, Australia |
| Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France |
| Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, USA |
| California State University Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, USA |
| Carnavalet Museum, Paris, France |
| Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, California, USA |
| George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA |
| Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Kansas, USA |
| High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA |
| Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas, USA |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
| Musee des Beaux Arts, Calais, France |
| Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France |
| Musee Promenade de Marly le Roi, Louveciennes, France |
| Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France |
| National Gallery, Washington D.C., USA |
| National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA |
| Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA |
| Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, USA |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Preus Photography Museum, Horten, Norway |
| Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland |
| Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA |
| San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA |
| Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA |
| Stanford Museum of Art, Stanford, California, USA |
| Stanley Morgan Collection, New York, New York, USA |
| Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA |
| University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA |
| University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
| University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, USA |
| University of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England |
| Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
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