Events
Lecture Series
Gregory Crewdson
2021 Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series
The Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series has returned for a second year. The series was started in 2020 by Gregory Crewdson, director of graduate studies in photography at the Yale School of Art, as a response to the shift to online learning. The biweekly talks feature a wide range of guest speakers, including leading figures of contemporary film and photography, announced twenty-four hours in advance of the event. In each half-hour session, Crewdson asks the guest questions about artistic practice and the anticipation of an end to the pandemic crisis. The series is free and open to the public. Space is limited and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.
To find out about upcoming lectures, follow @yalephoto or @crewdsonstudio on Instagram.
Still from “Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series presents Jeff Wall”
Lecture Series
Gregory Crewdson
2020 Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series
Gregory Crewdson, director of graduate studies in photography at the Yale School of Art, is opening his 2020 MFA Photography Pop Up Lecture Series to the public while the Yale campus goes online, hosting twenty-eight question-and-answer sessions with leading figures of contemporary film and photography on Zoom. Featuring a wide range of guest speakers including William Eggleston, Spike Jonze, Tilda Swinton, and Kara Walker, the series opens up a conversation about how to find artistic inspiration in this moment of great change. To watch previous talks, visit www.art.yale.edu.
Still from “Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series: Tilda Swinton”
Talk and Screening
Gregory Crewdson
May 19–20, 2018
Festival of Disruption at Brooklyn Steel, New York
www.festivalofdisruption.com
Gregory Crewdson will participate in the Festival of Disruption, curated by David Lynch. He will be giving a talk in conjunction with the screening of Gregory Crewdson: There but Not There, a short documentary released in 2017 that offers a rare glimpse into his casting and artistic process.
Film still from Gregory Crewdson: There but Not There (2017), directed by Juliane Hiam © Crewdson Studio
Tour
Gregory Crewdson
Cathedral of the Pines
Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 6pm
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Join Gagosian and the Photographers’ Gallery for a tour of Gregory Crewdson’s Cathedral of the Pines with a special talk by curator Clare Grafik. The event is free and open to the public.
Gregory Crewdson, The Haircut, 2014
Announcements
Design
Namacheko and Gregory Crewdson
AW20 Collection
Belgian fashion label Namacheko is launching a new collection inspired by and featuring Gregory Crewdson’s photographs. The garments were shown for the first time at Namacheko’s fall 2020 runway show in January at Espace Niemeyer, the French Communist Party headquarters in Paris, designed by Oscar Niemeyer. The clothing will be available later this year at select retailers, including the Gagosian Shop.
Dress from Namacheko’s Autumn/Winter 2020 collection featuring an image from Gregory Crewdson’s Hover series
Video
Gregory Crewdson
Matthew Weiner
As part of 2013 Paris Photo Los Angeles, photographer Gregory Crewdson sits with writer and director Matthew Weiner in the Sherry Lansing Theater to discuss the relationship between still and moving images in the history of art and cinema.
Video
Gregory Crewdson
Sanctuary
Bomb magazine visits Gregory Crewdson at his home in upstate New York to discuss his photo series Sanctuary (2009), which he shot at Cinecittà, a famous film studio outside of Rome. In contrast to his previous work, these sparse images—of deteriorated sets Crewdson discovered on the studio grounds—reveal the photographer to have intervened only minimally with his subject, eschewing artificial lighting.
Museum Exhibitions
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Photography’s Last Century
The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
February 17–May 21, 2023
Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia
www.telfair.org
Photography’s Last Century celebrates the remarkable ascendancy of photography during the past hundred years, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee’s promised gift of over sixty photographs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where this exhibition originated. The collection is particularly notable for its breadth and depth of works by women artists, its sustained interest in the nude, and its focus on artists’ beginnings. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, Man Ray, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Whiteread is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2005 © Gregory Crewdson
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Gregory Crewdson in
The Big Picture: Photography’s Moment
November 19, 2022–March 5, 2023
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
nassaumuseum.org
This exhibition explores the history of photography from the early black-and-white works by Ansel Adams to the contemporary large-format color works by Gregory Crewdson, from documentary to painterly.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2003 © Gregory Crewdson
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Gregory Crewdson in
Critical Conversations: Art in Practice
December 9, 2022–January 23, 2023
Cleveland Institute of Art
www.cia.edu
Critical Conversations: Art in Practice is the culminating exhibition of a studio/seminar class of the same name at the Cleveland Institute of Art in which students focus on researching a single contemporary artist. At the start of the semester, students select their subjects from the Progressive Art Collection and spend the term investigating, evaluating, and reflecting on the selected artist’s practice. The capstone exhibition showcases their research alongside the work of their chosen artists. Work by Gregory Crewdson is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998–2002 © Gregory Crewdson
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Gregory Crewdson
Eveningside
October 12, 2022–January 22, 2023
Gallerie d’Italia, Turin, Italy
gallerieditalia.com
Gregory Crewdson’s new series of photographs, Eveningside (2021–22), comprises twenty digital pigment prints and was envisioned by the artist as the final movement in a trilogy spanning ten years of work, which includes Cathedral of the Pines (2012–14) and An Eclipse of Moths (2018–19). The eponymously titled exhibition is a survey of this body of work, as well as Crewdson’s earlier minimalist Fireflies (1996). Additionally, Making Eveningside, a behind-the-scenes video projection set to original music by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and multi-instrumentalist and composer Stuart Bogie, is on view within the museum, adjacent to the exhibition.
Installation view, Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside, Gallerie d’Italia, Turin, Italy, October 12, 2022–January 22, 2023. Artwork © Gregory Crewdson. Photo: Andrea Guermani, Gallerie d’Italia, Turin, Italy
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Photographing the Fantastic
November 20, 2021–September 4, 2022
NSU Art Museum, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
nsuartmuseum.org
Photographing the Fantastic explores photographs of magical moments, the uncanny, and the wondrous, drawn from the extensive photography collection of the NSU Art Museum, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Work by Gregory Crewdson and Vera Lutter is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2001–02 © Gregory Crewdson
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Gregory Crewdson in
Chegar à boca da noite
April 30–August 28, 2022
Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, Portugal
www.coimbra.pt
This exhibition, whose title translates to Arriving in the Middle of the Night, is organized in conjunction with Anozero, the Coimbra Contemporary Art Biennial, whose theme is “midnight.” The works on view are marked by a twilight ambience, reflecting the period of time that the Portuguese poet Camilo Pessanha referred to as “this vague suffering from the end of the day.” Work by Gregory Crewdson is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2002 © Gregory Crewdson
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True Pictures?
Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Kanada und den USA
March 12–June 26, 2022
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
www.museumdermoderne.at
This group exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, presents work by more than thirty North American artists spanning three generations whose photography is informed by our digital age—both through their employment of digital technologies and in terms of their engagement with the “flood of images” that defines visual culture of the twenty-first century. This exhibition has traveled from the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Taryn Simon, and Jeff Wall is included.
Taryn Simon, Ronald Jones; Scene of the arrest, South Side, Chicago, Illinois; Served 8 years of a Death sentence for Murder and Rape, from the series The Innocents, 2002 © Taryn Simon
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Gregory Crewdson in
The Light Fantastic
January 29–May 30, 2022
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
crystalbridges.org
In The Light Fantastic, works by twenty-seven artists from the nineteenth century to today are displayed alongside one another as a meditation on light—a form of energy that shapes how artists and viewers alike understand color, volume, and composition. In addition to considering works in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, viewers have the opportunity to discover how local community members use light in their own art making and to consider how the lighting of the gallery affects perceptions of the exhibition. Work by Gregory Crewdson is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998–2002 © Gregory Crewdson
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Since Unveiling
Selected Acquisitions of a Decade
November 20, 2021–April 3, 2022
The Broad, Los Angeles
www.thebroad.org
Since Unveiling highlights artworks that have entered the Broad collection in the last decade, with some acquisitions completed as recently as this year. The fifty-seven works on view by twenty-nine artists represent many facets of contemporary art, from explorations of abstraction and figuration to examinations of place, identity, and narrative. Many works witness, critique, and interpret current events, speaking to politics and power structures. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn are included.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Pure Insecurity, 2019 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn
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Gregory Crewdson in
Colección Jumex: Temperatura Ambiente
October 7, 2021–February 13, 2022
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
www.fundacionjumex.org
This exhibition, whose title translates to Ambient Temperature, presents thirty-five works from the museum’s collection with the aim of creating a journey from the suffocating heat of the desert to the air-conditioned, impersonal spaces of contemporary life. Through videos, photographs, installations, and sculptures by international artists, the exhibition considers heat poetically—how it travels through the body, affecting experiences and emotions—against the backdrop of global climate change. Work by Gregory Crewdson is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998–2002 © Gregory Crewdson
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True Pictures?
Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Kanada und den USA
November 6, 2021–February 13, 2022
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
www.sprengel-museum.de
This group exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, presents work by more than thirty North American artists spanning three generations whose photography is informed by our digital age—both through their employment of digital technologies and in terms of their engagement with the “flood of images” that defines visual culture of the twenty-first century. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Taryn Simon, and Jeff Wall is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2003–08 © Gregory Crewdson
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American Photography
August 24–November 28, 2021
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at
This exhibition centers on the reimagining of iconography in American photography after 1945, when exaggeratedly idealized landscapes were replaced by everyday imagery that had previously been considered unworthy of portrayal. Some photographers captured the dynamic of big cities through a spontaneous pictorial language that often portrayed American society in a critical light. And, in a contrasting approach, others staged elaborate cinematic tableaux that grappled with photographic reality and illusion as well as with societal developments. Work by Richard Avedon and Gregory Crewdson is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998–2002 © Gregory Crewdson