Recent & Upcoming Exhibitions
The National Academy of Design Presents Past As Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment: Part I, New York, October 17 2024 - January 11, 2025
Mitch Epstein, Gallerie d’Italia in Torino, Italy, October 16, 2024 - March 2, 2025
Look at Us: 25 Years of Art, Collection Deutsche Börse AG, Eschborn, Germany, October 10, 2024 - March 9, 2025
The ’70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., October 5, 2024 - April 6, 2025
Old Growth, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, September 5 - October 19, 2024
When Images Learn to Speak: Conceptualised Documentary Photography from Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall’s Collection, Les Rencontres d’Arles, July 1- September 29, 2024
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, opens May 18, 2024.
Healing, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, May 3 - June 22, 2024
Transform! Designing the Future of Energy, Vitra Design Museum, March 23, 2024 - September 1, 2024
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, March 2, 2024 - July 31, 2024,
Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection, SFMOMA, September 23, 2023 - March 17, 2024
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, High Museum of Art, September 15, 2023 – January 14, 2024
Intimate Strangers, Yancey Richardson Gallery, July 12, 2023 - August 18, 2023
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, June 24 - November 5, 2023
This is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture, Museum of the City of New York, opening May 26, 2023
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, October 18 2018-February 17 2019 / Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, March 9, 2019-May 19, 2019 / National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, September 13, 2019-February 2, 2020 / Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand, April 4, 2020-September 13, 2020, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France, February 24 - June 28, 2021, Musei San Domenico, Forlì, Italy, September 17, 2022 - January 8, 2023, Saatchi Gallery, London, June 14, 2023 - September 17, 2023, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, March 16 - June 30, 2024
Ansel Adams in Our Time, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 13 2018 - February 24, 2019 / Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, September 19, 2020 - January 3, 2021, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, April 8 - July 23, 2023
Trace — Formations of Likeness, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, April 14, 2023 - July 23, 2023
Mitch Epstein: Recreation, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, February 23, 2023 - April 8, 2023
Mitch Epstein: Silver + Chrome, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, November 5, 2022 - January 20, 2023
Opening reception: November 5, 2022, 2 - 6pm
On The Line: Documents of Risk and Faith, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 9, 2022 - January 15, 2023.
Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, curated by Phong H. Bui and Cal McKeever, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, September 7 - October 15, 2022.
Through The Looking Glass, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. July 13 - August 19, 2022.
In India: 1978 - 1989, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Montmajour Abbey, Arles, France, July 4 - September 25, 2022.
Celebrating the City: Recent Photography Acquisitions from the Joy of Giving Something Foundation, The Museum of the City of New York, opens February 18, 2022
PhotoBrussels Festival: In The Shadow of Trees, Hangar Photo Art Center, January 21 - March 26, 2022
Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum Photography Centre, London, England, November 6, 2021 - November 6, 2022
American Photography, Albertina Museum, Wien, Austria, August 27 - November 28, 2021
Mitch Epstein: Property Rights, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Ft. Worth, Texas, December 22, 2020 - February 28, 2021
BOOKS, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, November 14, 2020 - January 30, 2021
American Power, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Opening September 5th - November 22, 2020
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, June 27th - August 28th, 2020
Acquisitions du Comité Photo 2019, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, November 2019 - ongoing
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, Victoria and Albert Museum, November 23 2019 - April 19, 2020
Mitch Epstein, Museum Helmond, Netherlands, September 29, 2019 - March 1, 2020
Property Rights, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, September 7, 2019 - November 16, 2019
Property Rights, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, September 3 - October 5, 2019
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, Soth Carolina, October 19, 2018 - March 2, 2019, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rogue, Louisiana, October 22 - February 14, 2021.
No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, September 21, 2018 - January 19, 2019
STREETWISE, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany, September 8 - November 23, 2018
The Onrush of Scenery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., January 25 - February 24, 2018
Photography from The Walther Collection, FOTO/INDUSTRIA Biennial, Bologna. October 12 - November 19, 2017
Iluminating India: Photography 1857-2017, Science Museum, London. October 4, 2017 - March 31, 2018
Notions of Home, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. July 12 - August 25, 2017
New York Arbor, Musée de la Photographie André Villers, Mougins, France. June 3 - September 17, 2017
Rocks, Clouds and a Tree, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany, April 29 - June 17, 2017
Free Of Charge, Andreas Murkudis, Berlin, April 27 - July 8, 2017
New York City Trees, Rocks & Clouds, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, March 17 - May 6, 2017
Mitch Epstein: Rocks and Clouds, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, September 8 - October 22, 2016
Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
September 28, 2016 - January 8, 2017
LUX: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, July 14 - August 20, 2016
Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 13 - August 21st, 2016
Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., November 1, 2015 - March 27, 2016
Museum of Stones at The Noguchi Museum, Queens, New York
October 7, 2015 - January 10, 2016.
No Place Like Home at Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah
September 18 - December 5, 2015
Pair(s) at Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, September 17 - December 13, 2015.
Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography at House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, October 24, 2014 - January 11, 2015.
Lectures / Events
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, Sound Journey with Samer Ghadry and gallery talk with Mitch Epstein and Brian Wallis, September 28, 4:30 - 6:30 PM
La Nouvelle Chambre Claire, Paris, book signing for Silver + Chrome and Recreation, November 11, 2022, 4-6pm.
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith panel discussion, October 1, 2022 1:30pm at Memorial Hall.
Dashwood Books, Property Rights and In India book signing. Tuesday, September 14th, 2021, 5-7pm EST.
The Brooklyn Rail New Social Environments: Property Rights: Mitch Epstein in conversation with Rob Slifkin. Friday, September 10th, 2021 1pm EST.
Virtual Talk, Radius Books: "American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present," with Mitch Epstein, Mark Ruwedel, and Richard White in conversation with curator Sandra S. Phillips and publisher David Chickey, June 17, 2021, 6pm EST. Archive recording of event here.
Virtual Exhibition Talk: Property Rights with Mitch Epstein, hosted by John Rohrbach, Senior Curator of Photography at The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, February 11, 2021, 6-7:30pm CST (7-8:30pm EST). Archive recording of the talk here.
The Art Museum Of West Virginia University, Lunchtime Looks: Mitch Epstein. Friday, February 5, 2021, 12-1pm EST. Archive recording of the talk here.
Lens Mix: Mitch Epstein with Terry Tempest Williams, moderated by Kevin Moore, FOTOFOCUS Zoom webinar, November 21st, 2020, 3-4pm EST.
Psychogram of a Nation: Mitch Epstein in Conversation with Andrea K. Scott and Sunshine Hotel book signing, NeueHouse, New York, Wednesday, January 29th, 2020, 6pm.
Sunshine Hotel book signing, Paris Photo, Steidl Booth H1, Thursday, November 7, 4pm.
Sunshine Hotel book signing, Andrew Roth/PPP Editions Booth G03 at New York Art Book Fair, PS1, Queens, New York, Sunday, September 22nd, 2019. 1pm.
Mitch Epstein in Conversation with Drew Sawyer, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, September 21st, 2019, 11 am.
Mitch Epstein in Conversation with Yasufumi Nakamori, Photo London, Somerset House, London, May 16, 2019, 7:40pm.
Artist Talk: Mitch Epstein, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Dallas, Texas, March 7, 2019, 6pm.
Rocks and Clouds Book Signing, Steidl, Booth 79, AIPAD, April 7th, 2018, 3-4pm.
Rocks and Clouds Book Signing, Dashwood Books, April 3rd, 2018, 6pm.
Rocks and Clouds Book Signing, Paris Photo 2017. Steidl Verlag Booth H01, Grand Palais, Paris. Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, 4pm.
The Geography of Culture: Photographic Narratives in the Landscape of the American East. Lecture by Mitch Epstein at The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Sunday, May 21st, 2017, 12pm.
Mitch Epstein: Visiting Artist Lecture. Concordia University, Montreal. January 12, 2017, 5:30pm
Mitch Epstein in Conversation with Elisabeth Sussman. The Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House Presented by Photo London. Sunday, May 24rd, 2015 3:55pm.
Erik Friedlander & Mitch Epstein: "American Power." Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum. Presented by Photo London. Saturday, May 23rd, 2015, 12:30pm.
Erik Friedlander & Mitch Epstein: "American Power." Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Saturday - Sunday, February 27 & 28, 2015. 8pm
Erik Friedlander & Mitch Epstein: "American Power." Walker Commission/World Premiere at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Friday, November 1st, 2013. 8pm.
Mitch Epstein: "New York Arbor." Book signing and discussion with Janes Welling at Arcana Books, Culver City, CA.
Saturday, June 15th, 2013. 1-3pm.
Mitch Epstein: "New York Arbor." Book signing at Dashwood Books, New York.
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013. 6-8pm.
Mitch Epstein: "New York Arbor." Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, New York.
Monday, April 29th, 2013. 7pm
Recent Awards
National Academy of Design, 2020 Academician
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2018-2019 Artist Grant
Prix Pictet 2010: Winner of third Prix Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability.
The American Academy in Berlin: Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters, Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts, spring 2008.