SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Neighbors, Danziger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, with book
Sightline, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, with catalog
The Future Passed, AIPAD, New York, NY
2019
Andre Kertesz/Arne Svenson: A ma fenetre, Galerie Miranda, Paris
2017
Unspeaking Likeness, The Cooler, Brooklyn, NYC
The Neighbors, Western Gallery + Public Art Collection, Western Washington Univ., Bellingham, WA
2016
The Neighbors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
The Neighbors and Workers, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
2015
The Workers, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
The Workers, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The Neighbors, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
The Neighbors, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
2012
About Face, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
The Library, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Unspeaking Likeness: 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
Prisoners, Mary Aaron Museum, Marysville, CA
1997
Las Vegas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Occurrences, S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR
1995
Arne Svenson, S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, OR
1994
Faggots, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Arne Svenson, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Unnamed, Unveiled, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Clinical Studies, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
WHO? A Brief History of Photography through Portraiture, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Scandal, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, catalog with illustrations
The Criminal Type, ApexArt, New York, NY
Nineteen Years at 535, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Mirror Mirror, PRG at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Catalog with illustrations.
2017
Neighbour, Vogele Kultur Zentrum, Pfaffikon Switzerland. Catalog with illustrations.
2017
AnonmX; The End of the Privacy Era, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2016
Fact/Fiction, Jeonju Internationa l Photography Festival, Jeonbuk Art Center, Jeonju, South Korea. Catalog with illustrations.
Making a Scene: Storytelling and the Real, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2015
Visual leader: Lead Awards 2015, Photography Musem at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Framing Desire: Photography and Video, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2014
Public Eye, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Through the Lens: Portraiture and Self Portraiture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR.
UNKNOWN: Portraits of Strangers, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
2013
My Aim is True, The Frostig Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Currents, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
2012
Toy Stories, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Cont.)
2010
Trompe L’Oeil, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Ni Una Mas, Drexel University, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009
The First Six Years, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
Heads, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Find me, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY
Tales of the Flesh, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Mutter Museum Photographs, Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Beauty is Embarrassing, Western Project, Culver City, CA
The Book on Vegas Show, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis. Catalog w/illustration.
2005
Trade, White Columns, New York, NY
James D. Phelan Art Award Exhibition, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2004
7 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., List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA;
The Albuquerque Museum, NM.
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 w/illustrations.
The Mutter Museum, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
An Eye for Golf, The Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art, Winchester, MA
New Figurists, reddot Gallery, New York, NY
Inaugural Show, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2001
Selections from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2000
Wanted, Photographs do not Bend, Dallas, Texas
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, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.Catalog
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, NYC (as curator)
Lines of Flight, Mad River Post, 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
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
1992
Group Show, Lieberman and Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Memorial, Franklin Furnace, 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
AWARDS
The Nannen Prize; Best Photo Reportage of 2016
The Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, 2008
James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, 2005
Djerassi Residency Program and Grant, 1996
BOOKS
Unspeaking Likeness, Twin Palms Press, 2016
The Neighbors, Julie Saul Gallery, 2015
Chewed, with Ron Warren, Ideal World Books, 2011
Hidden Treasures: The National Library of Medicine, Blast Books NYC, 2011
Mrs. Ballard’s Parrots, Harry Abrams, 2005
Sock Monkeys (200 out of 1,863), with Ron Warren, Ideal World Books, 2003
Prisoners, Blast Books NYC, 1997
COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta, GA
West Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Bidwell Projects, Peninsula, OH
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Swiss RE Capital Bank
Walt Disney Corporation
Cleveland Clinic
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
DeWoody Collection, NYC
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Spina Costanza, Andre Kertesz/Arne Svenson: A ma fenetre, Lense, January 2019, w/reproductions
The Eye of Photography, Andre Kertesz/Arne Svenson: A ma fenetre, January 2019, w/reproductions
Knoblauch, Loring, The Criminal Type, Collector Daily, October, 2019
F-Stop Magazine, The Criminal Type, August 2019, with reproduction
2018
Lens Magazine China, Arne Svenson, no. 13, with reproductions
Mirror, Mirror, catalog, PRG at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, with reproductions
Meijer, Fleur, Arne Svenson, LINDA Magazine, Netherlands, autumn, with reproductions
2017
Musee Magazine, Catch Light, vol. 17, with reproductions. Vogele Kultur Centrum, Neighbour, catalog w/reproductions
Singh, Iqvinder, Arne Svenson, Juxtapoz Magazine, May, w/reproductions
2016
Rinaldi, Ray Mark, Did Arne Svenson go Too Far?,The Denver Post, March 4, w/reproductions
Fulleylove, Rebecca, Arne Svenson, It’s Nice That, May, w/reproductions
O’Hagan Sean, Back From the Dead, The Guardian, June 13, with reproductions
Anne, Kelia, Arne Svenson, AINT-BAD, May, with reproductions
Wolf, Stephanie, Art, Or Invasion of Privacy?, Colorado Public Radio, May
2015
Dienacht Magazine, Arne Svenson, The Neighbors, May, w/reproductions
Lurve Magazine, Portfolio; Arne Svenson, Behind Las Vegas, Spring, w/reproductions
Lyon, Christopher, Artful Volumes, Bookforum, Summer, 2015 w/reproduction
Aletti, Vince, Goings on About Town, Arne Svenson, The New Yorker, May 5
Ebony, David, David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for April, April 22 w/reproductions
Christopher, Sara, Artseen: Arne Svenson, The Workers, Brooklyn Rail, May 6
Comstock, Lindsay, The 10 Best New Photography Exhibits of Spring 2015, American Photo, March 30
2014
Pollack, Barbara, When Does Surveillance Art Cross the Line, ArtNews, September w/reproductions and cover image
Coppelman, Alyssa, Gripping Photos of Forensic Facial Reconstruction Sculptures of Suspected Murder Victims, Feature Shoot, March 20, w/reproductions
Arne Svenson: Nas Bordas Da Ficcao, Select, January. w/reproductions Andrea Blanch, Interview with Arne Svenson: Intimately Detached, Musee Magazine, September, w/reproductions
2013
Feinstein, Roni, Arne Svenson: The Neighbors, Art in America, May, w/reproductions.
Ghys, Clement, Chambres avec Vues, Liberation, October, w/reproductions Meltzer, Even, Arne Svenson, Frieze, October, w/reproductions
Gamerman, Ellen, The Fine Art of Spying, The Wall Street Journal, September, w/reproductions
Hall, Emily, Arne Svenson: The Neighbors, Artforum, September, with reproduction
Boucher, Brian, Arne Svenson Basks in Court Victory, Art in America, August Claudia Steinberg, Die Zeit, Issue number 23, May 29, w/reproductions
Khatchadourian, Raffi, Arne Svenson Photographs His Neighbors, The New Yorker, May 27
Ryan, Kathy, When Photography Imitates Voyeurism, The New York Times, May 23
Rosenberg, David, Watching the Neighbors, New York City-Style, Slate, May 21 w/reproductions
Wender, Jessie, Arne Svenson, The Neighbors, The New Yorker, May 15, w/reproductions
Wagley, Catherine, Arne Svenson: The Neighbors, Photograph, March/April, w/reproductions
ArtScene. February, w/reproduction
Shaw, Michael. Arne Svenson, Visual Art Source, January, w/reproductions
Do See: Arne Svenson's The Neighbors, New York Magazine, June 3,
2012
Thomas, Mary, Artist's Portraits a Glimpse into the World of Autism, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 9, w/reproductions.
Hannon, Julie, The Art of Reading a Face, Carnegie Magazine, Winter 2011/12, with reproductions.
Shaw, Kurt, Arne Svenson's Photos Get to the Nonverbal Core, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 29, w/reproductions.
Isenberg, Robert, Exhibition Review, Pittsburgh CityPaper, May 2, with reproductions.
2011
Suqi, Rima, Chewed, The New York Times, September 28, w/reproductions.
2010
Aletti, Vince, Heads, The New Yorker, January 11
2009
Tout Va Bien, Review, with reproductions, December 20
2006
The Book on Vegas, Greybull Press, w/reproductions.
2005
Smith, Roberta. Exhibition Review, The New York Times, Nov 25.
Halle, Howard. Watch the Birdie, Time Out New York, November 24, w/reproductions.
Newman, Andrew Adam. CSI: Photography Studio, The New York Times, August 28, with reproductions.
Hay, David. Life and Death, The Los Angeles Times, August 30, with reproductions.
Strausbaugh, John. A Dreamer and her Parrot-Shtick Method, The New York Times, April 2, with reproductions.
Robinson, Andrew. The Way Art Should Work, Gay City News, March 10, w/reproductions
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Cont.)
2003
Hancock, Noelle. Exhibition Review, The New York Observer, January 13, w/reproduction.
Ebony, David. Arne Svenson at Julie Saul, Art in America, May, w/reproduction.
Ballentine, Sandra. Footnotes, The New York Times Magazine, Feb.23, w/reproduction.
Bal, Sumeet. Featured Book of the Week, Entertainment Weekly, April 4, w/reproductions.
Time Out New York, Featured Book, May 1, w/reproductions.
2wice Magazine, Animal Issue, Vol 7, w/reproductions.
Facing AIDS: Imaging the Global Epidemic, Umbrage Editions, w/reproductions.
Cowan, James, Sock it to Me, National Post, Canada 11/24/03 w/reproductions.
2002
Worden, Gretchen. The Mutter Museum, Blast Books NYC, w/reproductions.
Wallis, Stephen. Turn Shake Flip, Eyestorm Publications, w/reproductions.
Smith, John W. Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting, The Andy Warhol Museum, w/reproductions.
Yablonsky, Linda. Portraits of a Simian Subspecies, The New York Times, December 1, with reproductions.
Pagel, David. Monkey See, Monkey Do at Svenson Exhibition, The Los Angeles Times, July 26, w/reproductions.
Blair, Stephen. Monkey Mania, Portland Tribune, August 2, w/reproductions.
Allen, Angela. Darned Monkey Business, The Columbian, July 16, w/reproductions.
V Magazine 18 July/August, w/reproduction.
Birdsall, Elizabeth. Arne Svenson, Master’s Thesis, Univ of Virginia
2001
D. Eric Bookhardt. Exhibition review, Art Papers, April/March issue.
American Photograph 17, w/reproductions.
2000
MacCash, Doug. Bodies of Research, New Orleans Times Picayne, December 1
1999
Carney, Phillip. Suspects, Creative Camera, issue 355, January, w/reproductions.
Schaffner, Ingrid. Tourist Snaps, Art on Paper, Jan/Feb, w/reproduction.
1998
Duncan, Michael. Arne Svenson at Julie Saul, Art in America, January, w/reproduction.
Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice-Review, The Village Voice, January 13, w/reproduction.
Coleman, A.D. Visual Literacy, Photography in New York, March/April, w/reproduction.
Long, Andrew. Goings on About Town: Photography, The New Yorker, Jan. 27.
Johnson, Ken. Exhibition Review, The New York Times, January 30.
Goldberg, Vicki. Eliminating the Distance Between Two Points, The New York Times, Nov 27.
Chambers, Karen. Arne Svenson at Julie Saul Gallery, Review, February 1.
Ebony, David. New York Top Ten, ArtNet, January, w/reproduction.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums,and Heritage, University of California Press, w/reproductions.
Fine Art Photography 2. Graphis, Inc., w/reproductions.
American Photography 14, w/reproductions.
Beckmann, John. The Virtual Dimension, Princeton Architectural Press, w/reproductions.
Lind, Ingela. Nar Foto Forlorade Oskulden, Dagens Nyheter, October 20
1997
Long, Andrew. Rogues Gallery, Final Furlough, The New Yorker, Feb. 24, w/reproductions.
Roalf, Peggy. Just Passing Through, Aperture issue #149: Dark Days: Murder,
Mayhem, and Madness, w/reproductions.
Roberts, Russell. In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science, and The
Everyday, Oxford Museum of Modern Art Publication, w/reproductions.
Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice-Review, The Village Voice, May 13
Long, Andrew. Goings on About Town: Photography, The New Yorker, April 21.
Rugoff, Ralph. Underworld, Through a Glass Negative, Darkly, Los Angeles
Weekly Literary Supplement, Winter, w/reproductions.
Strausbaugh, John. Making Book, New York Press, October 8, w/reproductions.
Macleod, Chris. Art Pick-Review, Manhattan Spirit, April 18, w/reproduction.
Ebony, David. New York Top Ten, ArtNet, April 12, w/reproduction.
Row, D.K. The Substance of Quiet, Willamette Weekly, May 7, w/reproductions.
Rosenthal, Tom. Dead Interesting, Punch, May 30
1996
Hagen, Charles. Beyond Ars Medica, The New York Times, December 29.
Levin, Kim. Freak Out, The Village Voice, December 19.
Goings on About Town: Art. The New Yorker, December 8.
Newhall, Edith. What’s the Mutter, New York Magazine, December 8.
Dery, Mark. Lost in the Funhouse, World Art issue #2, w/reproductions.
Doran, Anne. Beyond Ars Medica: Treasures from the Mutter Museum, Time Out #13, Dec.
Gragg, Randy. The Best Shows of November, The Oregonian, December 1.
1994
Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice-Review, The Village Voice, January 18.
Hagen, Charles. Foreign Ferns, The New York Times, December 17.
Kalil, Susie. The Secret Life of Plants, The Houston Press, May 12.
Goings on About Town: Photography. The Sensitive Plant, The New Yorker, Dec 27.
1993
Smith, Tracy. The Mirror, New Observations, issue #93, January, w/reproductions.
Strausbaugh, John. Skin Mirrors, New York Press, vol. 4, #1, w/rep