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Sally Mann in
Looking at Family: Photographs from the Collection

April 16–July 11, 2021
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
www.daytonartinstitute.org

This exhibition, drawn from the Dayton Art Institute’s photography collection, presents a range of artworks in which artists analyze concepts of family, love, and relationships, often using family members and close friends as their muses and models. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Vantage Points
Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art

December 18, 2020–March 15, 2021
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
www.ashevilleart.org

Vantage Points features a selection of photographic works from the 1970s to the mid-2000s that highlights how photography has been used to represent individuals, places, and narratives. Drawn exclusively from the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition presents work by approximately twenty artists, including Gregory Crewdson, Sally Mann, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol.

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Among the Trees

March 4–October 31, 2020
Hayward Gallery, London
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

This exhibition brings together artworks that explore our relationships with trees and forests. Beginning with pioneering works from the late 1960s, Among the Trees surveys an expansive artistic terrain, including sculpture, painting, installation, video, and photography. The show invites viewers to consider trees as symbols and as living organisms that have helped to shape human civilization. Work by Sally Mann, Giuseppe Penone, and Jeff Wall is included.

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How Far Can Creativity Take You
VMFA Fellowship Artists

October 30, 2018–May 16, 2020
VMFA on the Road: An Artmobile for the 21st Century, various locations throughout Virginia
www.vmfa.museum

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’s new state-of-the-art traveling museum and art studio offers an opportunity for residents of the Commonwealth to see and experience works of art from the collection up close. The inaugural exhibition, How Far Can Creativity Take You, celebrates the role this institution has played in the lives of fellowship recipients. Work by Sally Mann and Cy Twombly is included.

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Sally Mann in
Time Lapse: Contemporary Analog Photography

November 9, 2019–March 8, 2020
Shelburne Museum, Vermont
shelburnemuseum.org

Time Lapse celebrates the work of thirteen artists working today in a vast array of nineteenth-century photographic processes, from daguerreotypes to photograms. These artists depict traditionally familiar subjects such as landscapes, portraiture, and still life through a contemporary lens. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann in
Forever Young: Representations of Childhood and Adolescence

October 5–December 31, 2019
Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
newportartmuseum.org

Forever Young examines portrayals of childhood and youth from the eighteenth century to the present. The exhibition aims to explore the representation of children and childhood as symbolizing innocence, transition, growth, awakening, mortality, youth, education, and freedom or abandon. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann
A Thousand Crossings

October 19–December 16, 2019
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
high.org

For more than forty years Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work, including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes. This show, with more than a hundred photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, explores how her relationship with the American South has shaped her work. This exhibition originated at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and also traveled to the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Jeu de Paume, Paris, over the course of two years.

September 20–December 15, 2019
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
fllac.vassar.edu

Shape of Light presents a survey of Vassar’s collection of close to 4,500 photographs. The exhibition features numerous innovations in the history of photography including various types of photographic practices from daguerreotypes and gelatin silver prints to large-scale Polaroids and digital color prints as well as a wide range of styles and geographic focuses. Work by Sally Mann, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Vantage Points
Contemporary Photography

September 14–November 10, 2019
Peoria Riverfront Museum, Illinois
www.peoriariverfrontmuseum.org

Vantage Points is a collaboration between the Peoria Riverfront Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The exhibition features photographs by twenty artists dating from the 1970s through the 2000s and explores the mythologies, theatricalities, and empirical narratives of identity and location from an American perspective. Work by Gregory Crewdson and Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann in
Go Down Moses

July 18–September 29, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
www.mocp.org

Go Down Moses presents a reinterpretation of the museum’s permanent collection that can be understood as a visual poem of contemporary America, exploring elemental themes of movement, chaos, freedom, and hope through the photographic archive. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann
A Thousand Crossings

June 18–September 22, 2019
Jeu de Paume, Paris
www.jeudepaume.org

For more than forty years Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work, including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes. This show, with more than a hundred photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, explores how her relationship with the American South has shaped her work. This exhibition originated at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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Sally Mann in
Meditations on the Landscape in Art and Literature

March 25–July 27, 2019
University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford
museum.olemiss.edu

This exhibition celebrates the University of Mississippi Museum’s acquisition of William Dunlap’s Meditations on the Origins of Agriculture in America (1987) by bringing together works that celebrate the Southern landscape. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann in
The Academic Body

May 22–July 13, 2019
American Academy in Rome
www.aarome.org

This exhibition tracks the ways in which the body has been interrogated and radically transformed in contemporary art. Artists today, working in a variety of media, liberated from academic conventions and the study of the ideal, have reconfigured classical prototypes to explore race, gender, and sexuality. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann in
Confronting Childhood

February 2–June 9, 2019
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
artmuseum.princeton.edu

Confronting Childhood considers the complex reality of childhood and family life in the modern world. Spanning more than 150 years, the exhibition affords glimpses of children and their families through the vantage point of painting and photography. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann
A Thousand Crossings

March 3–May 27, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org

For more than forty years Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work, including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes. This show, with more than a hundred photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, explores how her relationship with the South has shaped her work. This exhibition originated at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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Sally Mann in
Past Present Future: Building Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art

September 7, 2018–March 17, 2019
New Orleans Museum of Art
noma.org

This three-part presentation examines the museum’s century long commitment to photography. The exhibition includes a partial re-creation of a groundbreaking 1918 show at the Delgado Museum of Art (later renamed the New Orleans Museum of Art);  recent acquisitions demonstrating the museum’s commitment to expanding its representation of globally diverse perspectives; and promised works signaling the continued growth of the collection. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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Sally Mann
A Thousand Crossings

November 16, 2018–February 10, 2019
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
www.getty.edu

For more than forty years Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work, including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes. This exhibition, with more than a hundred photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, explores how her relationship with the South has shaped her work. This exhibition originated at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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Sally Mann
A Thousand Crossings

June 30–September 23, 2018
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
www.pem.org

For more than forty years Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work, including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes. This exhibition, with more than a hundred photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, explores how her relationship with the South has shaped her work. This exhibition has traveled from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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New Territory
Landscape Photography Today

June 24–September 16, 2018
Denver Art Museum
denverartmuseum.org

This exhibition will survey contemporary landscape photography from around the world. More than eighty photographs will gauge how artists stretch the boundaries of traditional landscape photography to reflect the environmental attitudes, perceptions, and values of our time. Work by Gregory Crewdson and Sally Mann will be included.

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Sally Mann
A Thousand Crossings

March 4–May 28, 2018
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
www.nga.gov

For more than forty years Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes. This exhibition, with more than a hundred photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, explores how her relationship with the South has shaped her work.

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Southern Accent
Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art

April 30–October 14, 2017
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
www.speedmuseum.org

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art explores the complex and contested space of the American South. Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker and Miranda Lash, the exhibition addresses the realities, fantasies, and myths that have captured the public’s imagination about the American South. Work by Sally Mann and Andy Warhol is included.

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The Poetics of Place
Contemporary Photographs from the Met Collection

December 12, 2016–May 28, 2017
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org

This installation of contemporary photography from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the diverse ways in which contemporary artists have photographed landscape and the built world over the last half century. Work by Roe Ethridge and Sally Mann is included.

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Human Interest
Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

April 2, 2016–April 2, 2017
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org

Human Interest offers new perspectives on one of art’s oldest genres. Drawn entirely from the museum’s holdings, the more than two hundred works in the exhibition show changing approaches to portraiture from the early 1900s until today. Bringing iconic works together with lesser-known examples and recent acquisitions in a range of mediums, the exhibition unfolds in eleven thematic sections. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Roe Ethridge, Duane Hanson, Mike Kelley, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Andy Warhol, and Jonas Wood is included.