Heritage Auctions

William Christenberry

(American, 1936–2016)

night spot, marion, alabama by william christenberry

William Christenberry

Night Spot, Marion, Alabama, 1972

Est. 800–1,200 USD

Biography

Timeline

1936
Born in Tuscaloosa, USA
1954 - 1959
Studied at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Bachelor of Fine Arts (1958) and Master of Arts in painting (1959)
1958 - 1959
Christenberry had begun taking pictures with a simple Brownie camera
Taught at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1962
Assistant professor of Art at Memphis State University. Began friendship with William Eggleston. First drawings and paintings for the "Klan Room."
1967
Moved to Washington D.C.
1982
Lyndhurst Foundation
1984
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1986
Recieved "Excellence in an Artistic Discipline," Mayor's Art Award, Washington, D.C. 1985 Alabama Alumni Art Award, Society of Fine Art,University of Alabama, Alabama
1989
Alabama Prize
1994
Art Matters, Inc., grant

Exhibitions

2013
William Christenberry Exhibitions in 2013:
William Christenberry, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, ES (solo exhibition)
2012
William Christenberry Exhibitions in 2012:
William Christenberry, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (solo exhibition)
William Christenberry:Assembled Memory, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC (solo exhibition)
2011
William Christenberry Exhibitions in 2011:
William Christenberry, Mark Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo echibition)
Aspects of Color, Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Berlin, Germany
2010
William Christenberry Exhibitions in 2010:
William Christenberry: Vintage Kodak Brownies, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C (solo exhibition)
William Christenberry: House and Car and, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961- 2005, Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery,Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Salem, NC (solo exhibition)
2009
day by day, dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, Germany
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA (solo)
2008
Christenberry, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C.
William Christenberry, Moody Gallery, Houston, USA
2007
Site/Possession, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Photographer William Christenberry, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA
20/20 Vision, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, USA
The Genius of the Place: Land and Identity in Contemporary Art, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, USA
2006
Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA
William Christenberry: 35mm Kodachromes, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
William Christenberry: Trips & Recent Sculpture, Pace MacGill, New York; Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
William Christenberry: Alabama, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
La trajectoire du regard, Salle d'exposition du quai Antoine ler, Monaco, Monaco
Tendenzen internationaler Fotografie, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany
2005
William Christenberry, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, USA
American Classics, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Regarding the Rural, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA (solo)
2004
Picturing the South, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
Best Of - Blick in die Sammlung, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Seventies Color Photography, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, USA

Public Collections

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham / Alabama
Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
Middlebury College Museum of Art
Kemper Museum, Kansas City
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Maryland Yale University Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta,Georgia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
California International Museum of Photography
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Smith College of Art, Amherst, Massachusetts
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Literature

2008
William Christenberry: Working From Memory, William Christenberry, Susanne Lang (Editor), (Steidl, 2008)
2007
William Christenberry.Place, Time, and Memory Southern Spaces September 28, 2007
2006
William Christenberry, Aperture, 2006
2002
Christenberry - Reconstruction,The Art of William Christenberry, 2002
2001
Susanne Lange: William Christenberry, 2001
1991
Walker Evans, William Christenberry: Of Time and Place (by Thomas W. Southall), 1991