b. 1960 Kaiserslautern, Germany. Lives and works in New York.
   
Solo Exhibitions (* indicates exhibition catalogue)
2022 Fragments of Time Past, Gagosian, Athens, Greece. (forthcoming)
2021 Museum in the Camera, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA. *
2018 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO.
  Turning Time, Gagosian, London, UK.
2017 Painting on Paper: Vera Lutter’s Old Master Photographs, LACMA Booth at TEFAF, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY.
2016 Paestum, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy.
  Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
  Inverted Worlds, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
2015/16 Inverted Worlds, The Museum of Fine Art Houston, TX.
2015 Gagosian, New York, NY.
2014 Venice, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
  Clock Tower, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO.
2013
Folding Four in One, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
2012 Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France. *
2011 Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy.
  Studies for Ground Zero, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Eifel, Germany.
  Egypt, Gagosian, London, UK. *
  a ghost still is like a place, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO. *
2009 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
  Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA.
  Samar Hussein, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY.
2008 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
  Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO.
2007 Galleria Nicolo Cardi, Milan, Italy.
  Gagosian, New York, NY. *
2005/06 Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece.
  Focus: Vera Lutter, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX.
  Nabisco Factory, Beacon, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY.
2004 Battersea, Gagosian, London, UK. *
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
  Inside In, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria. *
2003 Gagosian, New York, NY.
2002 Chicago Obscura, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
2001 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland. (with Hanspeter Hofmann) *
2000 Vera Lutter, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
  Barbara Flynn Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1999/2000 Time Traced (with Rodney Graham), Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY.
1999 Roth Horowitz, New York, NY. *
1998 Wooster Gardens, New York, NY.
1996 On New York, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY.
1995 Sight and Sense, Hypo Bank, New York, NY. *
   
Group Exhibitions
2022/23 Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Musei San Domenico – Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì, Forlì, Italy.
2021/22 Photographing the Fantastic, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2021 Photography! – Meisterwerke aus dem SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany.
  Womanology. José Ramón Prieto Collection, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain. *
  TRANSFORMATION, Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC.
  Geneva Decade, Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
  Civilization – Quelle époque !, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. 
  30 ans déjà! #1, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
2020 Civilisation, Photography, Now, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand.
  30 Years of Women, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.
2019/20 Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA. *
2019 Spaces and Places: Works from the Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX.
  dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
  Günther Förg, Ed Ruscha, Olafur Eliasson, Vera Lutter, Jeff Wall and Darren Almond, Carolina Nitsch, New York, NY.
  NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, Phillips, New York, NY.
  Civilization: The Collective Life, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
  Paysages. Regards croisés, Salle d’expo du Cyel à La Roche-sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
2018/19 Civilization: The Collective Life, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea. *
2018 By The Sea, The Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY.
  This Must be the Place, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection at Paris Photo 2018, Paris, France.
  Vision of the Other Worlds, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY.
  Sun Pictures Then and Now: Talbot and his Legacy Today, Photo London, London & Hans P. Kraus Jr., London, UK.
  Poussières d’étoiles, group show, La Laiterie, Massignac, France. *
  About Photography, Gagosian, San Francisco, CA.
  Photographs Take Time: Pictures from the Chrysler Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.
  Facing the Camera, Hans Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, New York, NY.
2017/18 Up into the Unknown: Peter Cook, Colin Fournier and the Kunsthaus, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
2017 Masterpiece Art Society 2017, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.
  re:collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
  The Mechanics of Expression: Vera Lutter, Sameer Makarius & Otto Steinert, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY.
  Día de Fiesta, Xippas Arte contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
  Summer 2017, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2016/17 Belief + Doubt: Selections from The Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL.*
  Lunar Attraction, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
  Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. *
  30°, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy.
  20 Years, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2016 A New and Mysterious Art: Ancient Photographic Methods in Contemporary Art, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY.
  Deconstruction Photographique, Topographie de L’Art, Paris, France. *
  The Memory of the Future: Photographic Dialogues Between Past, Present, and Future, Musée de l’Elysée-Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc, Lausanne, Switzerland. *
  Random X, Xippas Arte contemporaneo, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
  This is a Photograph, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC.
  The Imaginary Collector, Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
  Summer 2016, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
  Trip, Xippas Arte contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
  Winter 2016, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2015/16 Altered Appearances, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY.
  Venice: Five Centuries of the World’s Most Alluring City, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan.
2015 Industria, oggi: Contemporary Photographs from the MAST Collection, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy.
  Framing Desire: Photography and Video, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX.
  The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
  More Than One: Print Publications from The Print Center, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA.
  Bright Cities, Loom Gallery, Milan, Italy.
  Summer 2015, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2014 SPOT ON, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA.
  Now You See It: Photography and Concealment, The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, New York, NY.
2013 Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI.
  REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany. *
  Flowers & Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria. *
  Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
  The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, CT.
  0 to 60: The Experience of Time Through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. *
  Cosa Mentale, Paysage(s): Paysage-fiction et le Nouveau Pittoresque, Musée du vieux château de Laval, Laval, France.
  The Time is Now, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
  Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC.
  Big Pictures, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX.
  Summer 2013, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2012/13 Fruits of Passion: Société des Amis du Mnam – Dix ans du Projet pour l’Art Contemporain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.*
2012 Recent Acquisitions, Part I: Contemporary Photographs, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.
  Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL. *
  Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, Ireland.
  Cosa Mentale, Paysage(s): Paysage-fiction et le Nouveau Pittoresque, Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon, France. *
  Myths and Realities, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. *
  Summer 2012, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2011/12 Look, Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
  Moderne: Selbstmord der Kunst?, Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel, Graz, Austria
2011 Prix Pictet Presentation, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France.
  Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland. *
  Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. *
  Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria. *
  L’objet photographique: une invention permanente, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France.
  Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
  Prix Pictet Exhibition, Passage de Retz, Paris, France. *
  Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. *
  Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
  PROCESS, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY.
  Sténopé: un procédé photographique, Artothèque de Vitré, Vitré, France.
  New Prints 2011/Winter, International Print Center, New York, NY.
  Accrochage, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY.
  Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs, the Stokes Gallery at The New York Public Library, New York, NY.
2010/11 Still / Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. *
2010 Prix Pictet, Growth Shortlist Preview, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France.
  Imaginário da Paisagem – Obras da BESart / Colecção Banco Espírito Santo, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal.
  Vaxination, Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece.
  Mixed-Use Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. *
  Entre glace et neige, Centro Saint Benin, Région Autonome Vallée d’Aoste, Courmayeur, Italy. *
  Crash, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK. *
  re.volver, Xippas Arte contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2009/10 Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
  elles@pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. *
2009 Contradictions in Black and White, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, NY.
2008/09 Venice: from Canaletto and Turner to Monet, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. *
2008 to:Night, Contemporary Representations of the Night, The Hunter College Galleries, Hunter College, New York, NY. *
  Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.
  Photography and Architecture, Mitterand + Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland.
2007/08 Welt-Bilder 2 / World Images 2, Helmhaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. *
  du machinique et du vivant: sur une proposition de Régis Durand, A La Reserve, Galerie Xippas, Pacy-sur-eure, France. *
  The Neue Galerie Photographic Collection, Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel, Graz, Austria. *
2007 Taken with Time: a camera obscura project, The Atrium Gallery, Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
  Façade, Architecture, Space, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY.
  The Big Picture, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
  Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures, Austin Museum of Art, TX.
2006/07 Alchemy: Twelve Contemporary Artists Exploring the Essence of Photography, Purdy Hicks, London, UK. *
  Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City, Gifts from the Charles Cowles Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL. *
  Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
2006 In Sight: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
  Taken with Time: a camera obscura project, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA. *
  Out of the Camera: Analoge Fotografie Im Digitalen Zeitalter, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany.
  Kunst und Photographie—Photographie und Kunst, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany.
  À la (re)découverte des collections photographiques de Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
  Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany. *
  Black & White, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece. *
2005 Strange Days, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL.
  El Diablo non es tan malo como se pinta, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  Roger Ballen, Alec Soth, Vera Lutter, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY.
  Contemporary Obscurists, Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, NY.
2004 26a Bienal de São Paulo: Image Smugglers in a Free Territory, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil. *
  Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
  The Amazing & The Immutable, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. *
2003/04 Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. *
  Wings of Art – Motiv Flugzeug, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
2003 Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
  Landscapes of Man, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI.
  Contemporary Photos from the Manfred Heiting Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX.
  The Eye and the Camera: A History of Photography, Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
  Wings of Art – Motiv Flugzeug, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. *
  Same Time This Year, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY.
2002/03 Art on Paper 2002, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
2002 Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. *
  Life of the City, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
  Exchange & Transform, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany.
  2002 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. *
  Populated, International Artists Studio Program in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.
2001 Enduring Love, Gasser and Grunert Gallery, New York, NY.
  What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
2000 Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY.
  New York Now 2000: Contemporary Work in Photography, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY.
  Photography about Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 The Big Picture: Large Format Photography, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT.
  Low Tech, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
  Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY.
1998 New York: A Divided City, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, New York, NY.
  About Painting, Part III, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 Light, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
  CityScapes: A Survey of Urban Landscapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY. *
1995 NYC, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
   
Special Projects
2017–19 Residency, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2015 Broadway Billboard: Degas Horses, public installation, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island, NY.
2009/10 Nowhere Near, 601Artspace, New York, NY. Curated by the artist.
2008 Ariadne Unhinged, Gotham Chamber Opera, New York, NY. Set design by the artist. Choreography by Karole Armitage.
1997 Unmarked Helicopter (with Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric of LookOut), book project for The Art of the X-Files, ed. Chris Carter (New York: Harper Prism, 1998).
   
Awards
2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
1993 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Grant.
  Artist-in-Residence, International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPS).
1999 Kulturstiftung der ZF Friedrichshafen Grant.
1997 International Center for Advanced Studies Grant, Project on Cities and Urban Knowledge, New York University.
1993 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Grant.
   
Education
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA.
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany.