Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2019

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, “Lynn Davis: Landmark”

2018 

Ceretto Art & Co, Alba, Italy, “Lynn Davis & Patti Smith: Conspiracy of Word and Image“

2017

The Glass House, Painting Gallery, New Canaan, CT, "Lynn Davis: On Ice"

Neil L. & Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "Africa: Photographs by Lynn Davis"

Total Arts, Dubai, "Lynn Davis Photoraphs"

2016

Vince Mulford Antiques, Hudson, NY, "The Warren Street Project" (20th Anniversary)

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, "Lynn Davis: Desert & Ice"

2012

Museo Archeologico, Venice, "Modern Views of Ancient Treasures, Dans le Monde Arabe: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta," Presented by Studio la Città, Verona and Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

Third Floor Gallery, Hudson, NY, "Lynn Davis: Circulus"

Galerie Edwynn Houk, Zurich, "Lynn Davis"

2011

Studio la Città, Verona, "Modern Views of Ancient Treasures, Dans le Monde Arabe: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta"

Knoedler & Company at Art Platform, Los Angeles, "Lynn Davis: Into the West"

Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, "Lynn Davis: Water & Rocks"

Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX, "Persistence of Form: Photographs 1978–2010"

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, "Lynn Davis"

2010

Knoedler & Company, New York, "Persistence of Form: Photographs 1978–2010"

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, "Water & Rocks"

Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX, "Persistence of Form: Photographs 1978–2010"

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, "Lynn Davis"

2008

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, "Lynn Davis: Recent Work"

Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, "India, Persia, China"

2007

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, “Lynn Davis”

Rubin Museum of Art, New York, “Illumination”

Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY, “Parallel Passages”

Thirteen Vanak Gallery, Tehran, “Frozen History”

Mark McDonald, Hudson, NY, “Iconic”

2006

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, "Fata Morgana"

Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, “Parallel Passages”

Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, “Monument”

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, “Ancient Persia”

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, “Ancient Persia”

2005

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, "Water"

Camerwork, Berlin, “Lynn Davis: Photographien”

Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, “Ice”

2004

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, "NEW WORKS: New work from Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, French Guiana and the U.S."

Mark McDonald, Hudson, New York, “The Warren Street Project”

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, “China”

2003

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, “China”

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, “China”

Galerie du Passage, Paris, “The French Project”

World Monument Fund, New York, “Monuments”

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, “China”

2002

Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, “Monument”

Karsten Greve Gallery, Milan, “Ice”

2001

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, “Ice”

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, “Ice”

2000

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, “Lynn Davis”

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, “Monuments”

1999

J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, “Photographs of the Puryear Installation”

Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, “Africa: Photographs by Lynn Davis”

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

1998

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, “Africa”

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, (Retrospective 1986–1997)

Columbia County Museum, Kinderhook, NY, “The Warren Street Project”

1997

Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy, “I Canti Durevoli,” (Syria)

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Italy)

Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France, (1986–1996: Ice, Water, Middle East)

Galleri Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden, (Water and Ice)

1996

Houk Friedman, New York, “Ancient Sites,” (Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Lebanon)

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York, “Warren Street Project: An Inventory of the Historic Structures of Warren Street”

1995

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, (Water)

Houk Friedman, New York, (1978–1994)

Kohn/Turner, Los Angeles, (Monuments)

1994

James Danziger Gallery, New York, (Burma, Cambodia, Thailand).

Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas

1993

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, (Ice)

1992

Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, (Egypt)

Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, (Egypt)

Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne, Germany, (Egypt)

Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston

1991

Studio La Citta 2, Verona, (Egypt)

Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, (Egypt)

Compos Eliseos y Jorge Eliot, Polanco, Mexico, (Hielo)

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, (Ice)

Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, (Egypt)

1990

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, (Ice)

Hamiltons Gallery, London, (Ice)

1989

Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York, (Ice)

1988

Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennslyvania, (Bodywork)

1982

Robert Samuel Gallery, New York (Lynn Davis: Recent Photographs)

1981

Robert Samuel Gallery, New York

1980

Robert Samuel Gallery, New York (Lynn Davis)

Group Exhibitions

2022

“Special Show - leading and emerging women artists,” Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

“Winter Show,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

“Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape,” Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY

2021

“Summer Show,“ Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

2019

"Recursions & Mutations,” Studio la Città at GAD, Venice, Italy

2018

“Lynn Davis & Patti Smith: Conspiracy of Word and Image,” Presented by Ceretto at Coro della Maddalenda, Alba, Italy

2017

"Archeologie del presente / digging into the present," Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

"Fantastic Elements," Festival Art Rock, Museé de Saint-Brieuc, France

2016

"Naples Collects," The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Naples, Florida

"Pyramids & Sphinxes," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

2015

"Earth & Sky: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection." Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

"River Crossings: Contemporry Art Comes Home," Olana State Historic Site, Hudson & Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York

"Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition." Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2014

"De Rerum Natura," Studio la Città, Verona

2011

"Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

"Warren Street," Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York

2010

"Water," Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey

"Local Self Portraits," Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York

2009

"Lisette Model and Her Successors," Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA

"Summer Exhibition: A Selection of Works by Gallery Artists," Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

"The Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlist," The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong

2008

"Water Currents-The Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlist," Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki

"The Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlist," Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai

"The Interior: Contemporary Photographic Views," Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis

"Scale Matters: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection," The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

"The Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlist," Palais de Tokyo, Paris

“Remembering Dakota,” North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks

“EChO Wanted,” Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

2007

“ANTARCTICA: On Thin Ice,” United Nations Headquarters, New York

“JANUS- The Double Face of Photography, Holdings from the Permanent Collection,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.

“Upon an Either Sea: Water and Ship Images from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

“E Ricomincio da Tre,” Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy

“Lisette Model and Her Successors,” Aperture Gallery, New York

“The Target Collection of American Photography: A Century In Pictures,” Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX

“Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis,” Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

2006

“Orientalismi: Forms of Orientalism,” Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy

“Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublime,” Cohen Gallery, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

“Katrina Exposed: A Community of Photographs,” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

2005

“Celebrate," Cook Fine Art, New York

“Landscape: Myth and Memory,” Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York

“Reflecting Buddha: Images by Contemporary Photographers,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco

“Landschaft als Metapher,” Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal — Unterowisheim, Germany

“In Response to Place,” The Renaissance Center, GM Headquarters; Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX; Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD

2004

“Rx Art,” Rockefeller University Hospital, New York

“Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection,” Philadelphia Museum of Art

“In Response to Place,” Chicago Cultural Center, IL; Cincinnati Museum Center, OH

"Photo-Icons," Arte Fino, Zurich

2003

“Photographs: Recent Acquisitions,” Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York

“The Pyramids: 150 Years of Photographic Fascination,” Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis

“Regarde il neige,” Centre National D’Art et du Paysage, France

“The New World’s Old World,” AXA Gallery, New York

“Summer Show," Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

“Hot Summer in the City,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

“American Beauty,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

“In Response to Place,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN

“Indivisible,” Tacoma Art Museum, WA

2002

“Visions from America,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“Northern Light,” Danese Gallery, New York

“Women by Women in Photography,” Cook Fine Art, New York

“In Response to Place," The Houston Museum of Science, Houston, TX; Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

“Indivisible,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, AK

“Art Downtown,” Lower Manhattan Art Event, New York

“Chroniques Nomades,” Les Greniers a Sel, Honfleur, France

2001

“Indivisible,” Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, North Carolina Museum of Art

“In Response to Place,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

“Building, Dwelling, Thinking,” Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, MA

“The Inward Eye, Transcendence in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX

“Angle of Response: Four American Photographers in Egypt,” Oriental Institue, Chicago, IL

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

“From the Outside In: Photographs of Buildings,” University of Iowa, Iowa City

2000

“Indivisible,” Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

1999

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection,” The Philips Collections, Washington, DC; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

“Ancient History,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

“Under/Exposed,” Stockholm, Sweden

“Three American Women in Paris,” Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France

“Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography,” Organized by Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson. Traveling to Museum of Photographic Arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

“The Cultured Tourist,” Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago

1998

“Paris Photo 98,” Paris, France

“The Cultured Tourist,” Leslie Tonkonow, New York

“Charles Cowles Photographic Collection,” Miami Art Museum, Miami

“Through the Lens: Time Space and Matter: Camera Art at the Turn of the Millennium,” Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY

“Ice,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington D.C.

“COLOR,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

“Group Exhibition,” Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.

“The Body in the Mirror: Photography Today,” Photographic Center of Skopelos, Athens, Greece

“Waterproof,” Expo ‘98, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.

“Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography,” Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.

1997

“Four American Photographers,” National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taipei, Taiwan

“La Conquête des Pôles,” L'Hôtel de Sully, Paris, France

“Disciplined Beauty,” The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

“Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection,” International Center of Photography, New York

“Water,” Pace Wildenstein MacGill, New York

1996

“Collection in Context,” Henry Buhl Collection, Thread Waxing Space, New York

“A Community Collection: Selected Acquisitions, 1991-1996,” Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS

“Prospect 96,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Peter Weiermair, Curator

“Les Trois Grandes Egyptiennes,” Le Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Belgium; Mission du Patrimoine Photographique, Paris, France

1995

“Seeing Things,” Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York

“Water,” Robert Klein Gallery, Boston

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection,” International Center of Photography, New York

“1995 Yamaantaka Donation: An Exhibition of Photographs to benefit Tibet House New York,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1994

“Hetrick-Martin Institute Benefit,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York

“The Lure of Egypt,” The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

“Blindspot,” The Mac, Dallas, TX

“La vie, l’amour, la mort: dix ans de creation photographique autour du sida,” Fnac Montparnasse, Paris, France

1992

“American Photographs: Traditional Themes by Contemporary Photographers,” James Danziger Gallery, New York

“Pictures of Peace,” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA; DCAC Gallery, Washington, DC; Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University

“Something’s Out There: Danger in Contemporary Photography,” Grand Gallery, The National Arts Club, New York

1991

“The Dream of Egypt,” Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico

“Framed,” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

“Pictures of Peace,” F.I.T. Resource Center, New York “Tableaux du SIDA,” Fondation Deutsch, Berlin, Germany

1990

“Sixth Sense,” Pence Gallery, Santa Monica

“New Directions,” G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles

“The Indomitable Spirit,” International Center of Photography, New York; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles

“The Nude — Classic & Erotic,” The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA

“June Catalog 1990: Recent Acquisitions, Major Works, and Gallery Artists,” G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles

“Recent Acquisitions & Gallery Artists,” G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1989

“The Light that Fills the World,” The Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC

“Vollbild, the Full Blown Picture,” Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany

“Photographs From Private Twin Cities Collections,” The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis

“Das Portrait in Der Zeitgenossischen Photographie,” Mainz, Germany

“Frauen Sehen Manner,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

1988

“Sexual Differences: Both Sides of the Camera,” Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York

1987

“The Male Nude in Photography in the 19th & 20th Centuries,” Ravenna, Italy

“Women See Men,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

“Art Against Aids,” Dia Foundation, New York

1986

“Abstractions,” Greathouse, New York

“Heads,” Mokotoff Galleries, New York

“Recent Acquisitions,” International Center of Photography, New York

“Group Show,” Greathouse, New York

“Saloon,” Bill Rice Gallery, New York

1985

“Realism,” Greathouse, New York

“Convergence: Lynn Davis, Annie Leibowitz, Erika Lennard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Laurie Simmons,” Shaller, Rubin, Winer Gallery, New York; Texbraun Gallery, Paris, France

“Messages from 1985,” Light Gallery, New York

1984

“Art & Commerce,” CCD Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany

1983

“Photo-Collecting at Vassar: 100 Years + 10,” Vassar College Art Gallery, New York

1982

"Photography in the 60s & 70s,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Brazil; Galerie Ufficio Dell'Arte, Paris, France; Texbraun Gallery, Paris; Robert Samuel Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts

1981

“Alumni Exhibitions,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

“New American Nudes,” Creative Photography Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

“Fleeting Gestures: Treasures of Dance Photography,” International Center of Photography, New York

“La Photographie En Amerique,” Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France

1980

“Men of Style,” Staley-Wise, New York

“The Male Nude in Photography,” Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York

“Lynn Davis, George Platt Lynes, Karen Tweedy Holmes,” Camera Work Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania

“CAPS Recipient Traveling Exhibition,” Nikon House, New York

“Permanent Collection Exhibition,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

“Fleeting Gestures: Treasures of Dance Photography,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1979

“The Male Image,” Robert Samuel Gallery, New York

 “Lynn Davis / Robert Mapplethorpe, Trade Off,” International Center of Photography, New York; Halstead Gallery, Birmingham, MS

1978

“Fleeting Gestures: Treasures of Dance Photography,” Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York; Artists Gallery, Seattle; Photopia, Philadelphia; Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York

1976

“The Nude in Photography and the Still-life in Photography,” Helios, New York