Historical Exhibitions

 

Galerie De La Pleiade Microphotographies April 1933.
With: Laure Albin-Guillot

Galerie De La Pleiade Documents de La Vie Sociale June 1935.
Organized by the members of the AEAR (Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Revolutionaires)
With : Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Man Ray, Roger Parry, Jacques-André Boiffard, Eli Lotar, Jean Moral, Jean Painlevé.

Galerie la Pléiade L'Humour et le fantastique par la photographie 1935
With : Jacques-André Boiffard, Pierre Boucher, Brassaï, François Kollar, Ergy Landau, Eli Lotar, Man Ray, Jean Moral, Jean Painlevé, Roger Parry, Ralph Steiner.

Musée Des Arts Décoratifs Exposition Internationale de la Photographie Contemporaine January 1936.
With : Florence Henri, André Kertész, Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Maurice Tabard, Marianne Breslauer, Aurel Bauh, Horacio Coppola, Edmund Kesting, Fred Korth, Eli Lotar, Jean Painlevé.

Palais de Chaillot Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne May 1937.

Danske Kunstindustrimuseum Exposition de l’Ecole Française de Photographie March 1939.
With : Florence Henri, Man Ray, Roger Parry, Maurice Tabard, Jean Moral, Jean Painlevé.

 

Historical publications

 

Jazz, 15 June 1929.
Jazz, 1 October 1929.
Documents, no. 6, 1929.
Jazz, 1 January 1930.
Monde, no. 85, 18 January 1930.
Lumière et Radio, 10 February 1930.
Art et Industrie, no. 10, 10 October 1930.
Pour Vous, 10 December 1930.
Arts et Metiers Graphiques, special issue, 1931.
Vu, no. 158, 29 March 1931.
Art et Décoration, 1 May 1931.
L'Art Vivant, no. 150, 1 July 1931.
Ciné Miroir, 24 July 1931.
Cinémonde, no.156, 15 October 1931.
Le Phare De Neuilly, no. 1, 1 January 1933.
Monde Illustré, 15 Avril 1933.
Cahiers Jaunes, no. 4, May 1933.
Cine Miroir, 15 September 1933.
Miroir du Monde, 14 October 1933.
Le Cinema Privé, no.2, 1 November 1933.

 

Public Collections

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris

 

Exhibitions

 

Whitney Museum of American Art, America is Hard to See, 1 May - 27 September 2015

Museum of Modern Art New York, OBJECT:PHOTO, 13 December 2014 - 19 April 2015

Gagosian Gallery New York, Picasso and the Camera, 28 November 2014 - 3 January 2015

Musée National d’Art Moderne Paris, Jacques-André Boiffard, 5 November 2014 - 2 February 2015

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Forbidden Games, 19 October 2014 - 11 January 2015

Biennal Design Saint-Etienne, Rolling Club Objets Singuliers, 1 March - 28 April 2015

Tate Modern, Richard Hamilton, 13 February - 26 May 2014

Tate St Ives, Aquatopia, 12 October 2013 - 26 January 2014

Shpilman Institute for Photography, The Naked Eye, 18 April 2013 - January 2014

Palais de Tokyo, Le Club des Sous l'Eau, 21 June - 8 September 2013

Turner Contemporary, Curiosity, 24 May - 15 September 2013

Berinson Gallery, Science is Fiction/Jean Painlevé, 4 May - 27 July 2013

Musée d'Orsay, L'Ange du Bizarre, 5 March - 23 June 2013

Musée National d’Art Moderne Paris, Voici Paris, 17 October 2012 - 14 January 2013

Sprengel Museum, Weisse Federn Schwarzes Fell, 2 September 2012 - 10 February 2013

Galerie Francesca Pia, La Demeure Joyeuse, 2 October - 17 November 2012

Generali Foundation, Animism, 16 September 2011 - 29 January 2012

Vancouver Art Gallery, The Colour of My Dreams, 28 May - 2 October 2011

Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Oceanomania, 12 April - 30 September 2011

Museo Amparo, El sabotaje de lo real, 16 June - 12 September 2010

International Center of Photography, Twilight Visions, 29 January - 9 May 2010

Le Plateau, Prisonniers du soleil, 11 March - 9 May 2010

Musée des Beaux-Arts Brest, Coquillages et crustacées, 11 May - 24 October 2010

Musée National d’Art Moderne Paris, La Subversion des images, 23 September 2009 - 11 January 2010

Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Gegen jede Vernunft, 14 November 2009 - 14 February 2010

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Moby-Dick, 22 September - 12 December 2009

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Close-up, 24 October 2008 - 11 January 2009

Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris capitale photographique 1920-1940, 10 February - 24 May 2009

Whitney Museum of American Art, Calder, the Paris years, 16 October 2008 - 15 February 2009

Centrum voor Hedendaasgse Kunst Antwerpen, Extra City, 24 January - 31 March 2008

Hayward Gallery, Undercover Surrealism the Enemy within, 11 May - 30 July 2006

Padiglione d'arte contemporanea Mailand, Antonin Artaud, 10 November 2005 - 12 February 2006

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Begierde im Blick Surrealistische Photographie, 11 March - 29 May 2005

Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Liquid Sea, 14 March - 8 June 2003

Galerie Françoise Paviot, Jean Painlevé Photographies, 3 April - 30 April 1997