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born in Zurich, Switzerland
died in Nova Scotia, Canada
Gabler School, Zurich, Switzerland
Lavater Secondary School, Zurich, Switzerland
studies French at the Institute Jomini in Payerne, Switzerland
Special Award Recipient Roswitha Haftmann Foundation
Edward MacDowell Colony Medal
Cornell Capa Award
Honorary Doctorate from Göteborgs University
Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award
Victor Hasselblad Foundation Award
Peer Award for Distinguished Career in Photography, The Friends of Photography in San Francisco
Erich Salomon Prize, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Photographie
American Film Institute Grant
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue,The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Be Happy, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Robert Frank, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan
Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Robert Frank: Good Days Quiet, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Nova Scotia, Canada
Robert Frank: Unseen, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Robert Frank: Why Don’t We Talk About Photography Once Again? Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
Robert Frank: Photos, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Robert Frank, Hamiltons, London, England
Robert Frank: Books and Films. 1947-2017, Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX, USA
Robert Frank, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Robert Frank – American Contacts, Danziger Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Case Study, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Robert Frank: Photos, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Robert Frank: Books and Films. 1947–2016, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria; HALLE 14 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany; Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte, Appenzell, Switzerland
Sideways, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Robert Frank: Park/Sleep & Partida, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Frank. Books and Films. 1947–2014, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Robert Frank in America, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Robert Frank. Books and Films. 1947–2014, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany
Robert Frank: Painkiller, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
Photographs from the Collections of Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz, Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia
Robert Frank: From the Pennwick Foundation Collection, Danziger Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Frank, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to San Francisco The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY , USA
Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs 1955, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
Robert Frank: Paris / The Americans, Jeu de Paume – Site Concorde, Paris, France
Robert Frank, Museum of Photography, Seoul, South Korea
Robert Frank: Lo Straniero Americano, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
The Americans, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Robert Frank: Paris, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; traveled to Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Drive-By Shooting, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA, USA
Robert Frank: Argumentos, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate Modern, London, England; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Robert Frank: In Canada, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Robert Frank, London/Wales, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Robert Frank: Living Trust, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Frank Hold Still – Keep Going, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; traveled to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Robert Frank, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Robert Frank: The Americans, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; traveled to The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, USA
Moving Out, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; traveled to Yokoitama, Japan; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Robert Frank: Photographer, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
ONLINE: Flags & Freedom: A Visual Journey Through American Identity, Robert Klein Gallery, South End, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Noir & Blanc: A Story of Photography, M+, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Reverberations, MOCA, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, USA
50 Years, 50 Photographs selected by Wilhelm Schürmann, Kicken Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
Black & White: An Aesthetic of Photography, Bibliothèque nationale de France
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Cities Are for People: Street Photography, 1945-1970, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
60 Years of Collecting: An anniversary exhibition celebrating the UMCA Permanent Art Collection, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
2022-2023
An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
Exhibition “COLLECTION: 150 Photographs from the Bachelot Collection”, Villa Medici, Roma, Italy
Studio to Stage. Music Photography from the Fifties to the Present, Pace New York (540 West 25th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
Stuff. Organized by Arlene Shechet, Pace New York (540 West 25th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA
TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Sculpting Reality. El estilo documental, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Martín Chambi and His Contemporaries: The Andes Photographed, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Photography in the middle. Photography in the IVAM Collection after 1950, IVAM Alcoi, Alcoy, Spain
American Photography, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Breaking the Frame: New Directions in Photo History, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sculpting Reality. The Documentary Style in The Per Amor A L’art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain
Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine, The Jewish Museum New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Noir & Blanc: Une Esthétique de la Photographie ,Musée National de la Renaissance, Écouen, France
Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts, Midtown, New York, USA
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes: Notes on America, Pace New York (540 West 25th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Fall Selections: Classic Photographs, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
The Levee: A Photographer in the American South, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Street. Life. Photography. Seven Decades of Street Photography, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Viewpoints: Photographs from the Howard Greenberg Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ,Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Fil Noir: Exposition De La Collection De La Mep, MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie ,4e, Paris, France
Key Moments in Midcentury Art: Suspense, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Telfair Museums, Jepson Center, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Moment in Time: A Collection of Photographs, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA
The pulse of the body. Uses and representations of the space. Per Amor a l’Art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art ,Valencia, Spain
Speech, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
American Classics, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Make Light of It, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Be-hold Open House, Be-hold, Yonkers, NY, USA
Multi Panel, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Foto Europa: 1840 to Present, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
XL:19 New Acquisitions in Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Displaced Visions: Emigré Photographers of the 20th Century, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Motor City Muse: Detroit Photographs, Then and Now, Detroit Museum of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
Family Portrait, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA
A Tribute to Robert Delpire: Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Josef Koudelka, Duane Michals, and Paolo Roversi, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
On Horizons, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Wanna See my Portfolio?, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Playback, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Icons of American Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
The Streets of New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Reprocessing Reality, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA
American Beauty, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, Australia
American Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present, International Center for Photography, New York, NY, USA
People in Series in Sequence, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Photography and Art Variations in Spain 1900-1980, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936-1966, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London, England
Photographs by Harry Callahan and Robert Frank, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
51 American Photographers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Cateforis, David. Modern Art: A Global Survey from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present, Oxford University Press, New York, USA
Abadie, Ann J., and J. Richard Gruber. American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955 (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Yale University Press, Houston and New Haven, USA
Barefoot, Guy. The Drive-In: Outdoor Cinema in 1950s America and the Popular Imagination, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, USA
Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950–2000 (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthalle Praha Services, Prague, Czech Republic
Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photogrpahie (exhibition catalogue), Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Davidson, Mark, and Parker Fishel, eds. Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, Callaway, New York, USA
Elliott, Clare. Artists We’ve Known: Selected Works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection, The Menil Collection; Yale University Press, Houston and New Haven, USA
Gillham, Will, ed. Carter Handbook. Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Texas, USA
Ghost Stations: Amanda Dawn Christie, Thaddeus Holownia & Radio Canada International (exhibition catalogue), Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ottawa, USA
In the Streets: Modern Life and Urban Experiences in the Art of the United States (exhibition catalogue), Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Wujcik, Stacey A., ed. American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Ulrich, David. Bewusster fotografieren: Ein Wegweiser zu Achtsamkeit Kreativität persönlichem Ausdruck, dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Ulrich, David. Mindfulness & Fotografia: Lezioni per Diventare Fotografi più Creative e Consapevoli, Apogeo, Milan, Italy
Burns, Ken. Our America, Alfred A Knopf, New York
Détente, instante: Una Historia de la Fotografia (exhibition catalogue), Fundación Juan, Madrid, Spain
Golden, Reuel, ed. San Francisco: Portrait of a City, Taschen, Cologne, Germany
Heathcote, Edwin. On the Street: In-Between Architecture, HENI Publishing, London, UK
Morris-Reich, Amos. Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth-Century Cases, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, USA
Petrowskaja, Katja. Das Foto: Schaute Mich An, Suhrkamp Verlag AG, Berlin, Germany
Rogge, Corina E., ed. Franz Kline: The Artist’s Materials, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Sibylle Bergemann: Town and Country and Dogs Photographs 1966–2010 (exhibition catalogue), Hatje Cantz Verlag; Berlinische Galerie; Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Taylor, Catherine. Image Text Music, SPBH Editions, London, UK
Top Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death—Memento mori & Photography (exhibition catalgoue), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection (exhibition catalogue), Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Robert Frank: Good Days Quiet. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl
Claass, Arnaud. Essai sur Robert Frank, Filigranes éditions, Trézélan, France
Robert Frank: Leon of Juda, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2017.
Robert Frank: Books and Films, Steidl/Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, 2017.
Robert Frank: Hold Still, Keep Going, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2016.
Robert Frank: Film Works, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2016.
Robert Frank: What We Have Seen, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2016.
Frank, Robert. Partida. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2013.
Galassi, Peter. Robert Frank: In America, Göttingen, Germany: Steidl and Cantor Arts Center, 2013.
Frank, Robert. Household Inventory Record. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2013.
Frank, Robert. Robert Frank: Valencia 1952. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2012.
Frank, Robert. You Would. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2012.
Frank, Robert. Robert Frank, Pangnirtung. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2011.
Frank, Robert. Paris. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2008.
Frank, Robert. Come Again. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2008.
Todoli, Vicente. Robert Frank, Storylines. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl 2004.
Brookman, Philip. London/Wales. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2002.
Frank, Robert. Hold Still…Keep Going. Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 2001.
Frank, Robert. Flamingo. Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 1997.
Frank, Robert. Thank You. Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 1996.
Frank, Robert. Black White and Things. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art & Scalo, 1994.
Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1989.
Frank, Robert. New York to Nova Scotia. Houston, TX: Little, Brown and Company & The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986.
Frank, Robert. The Americans. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1959.
Frank, Robert. Les Americains. Lausanne, Switzerland: Robert Delpire, 1958.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Tate Modern, London, England
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris, France
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte – Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Stiftung für die Photographie, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
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