| ALEC SOTH | |
| 1969 | Born in Minneapolis, USA |
| Lives and works in Minneapolis | |
| Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, USA | |
| SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2020 | I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating, Foam, Amsterdam |
| Alec Soth. Photography Is A Language, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria | |
| Alec Soth, Magnum Gallery Paris, Paris, France | |
| 2019 | I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA | |
| I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating, Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
| 2018 | Alec Soth, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, USA |
| 2017 | Sleeping By The Mississippi, Beetles + Huxley, London, UK |
| Gathered Leaves, Deichtorhallen: Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Gathered Leaves, FoMu – FotoMuseum Antwerpen, Belgium | |
| 2016 | Gathered Leaves, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland |
| Gathered Leaves, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK | |
| 2015 | Gathered Leaves, Media Space, Science Museum, London, UK |
| Songbook, Fotogalleriet - Photo gallery, Oslo, Norway | |
| Songbook, Loock Galerie, Berlin (Opening, April 30, 2015) | |
| Songbook, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Songbook, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| Songbook, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2014 | Alec Soth: Until Now, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA |
| 2013 | Alec Soth: Dog Days Bogotá, El Museo de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia |
| 2012 | Broken Manual, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Broken Manual, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| Fotografia, Macro Testaccio, Rome, Italy | |
| 2010 | From Here to There. Alec Soth's America, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA |
| Niagara, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA | |
| Sleeping By The Mississippi, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA | |
| Mississippi Niagara, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy | |
| Dog Days Bogotá, Massachussetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA | |
| 2009 | Black Line Of Woods, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA, |
| Dog Days Bogotá, IM Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| Last Days Of W, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Last Days Of W, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2008 | Dog Days Bogotá, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany |
| Last Days Of W, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| L'Espace Entre Nous, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland | |
| Dog Days Bogotá, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
| L'Espace Entre Nous, BBK, Bilbao, Spain | |
| Sleeping By The Mississippi, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA | |
| The Space Between Us, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France | |
| Niagara, Ffoto Gallery, Wales, UK | |
| 2007 | Dog Days Bogotá, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA |
| Tunnels And Birds, Power House, Memphis, USA | |
| Fashion Magazine, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France | |
| Niagara, Host Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2006 | Sleeping By The Mississippi, California Museum of Photography, UC-Riverside, USA |
| Niagara, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Dog Days Bogotá, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany | |
| Fashion Magazine Paris/Minnesota, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany | |
| Niagara, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Sleeping By The Mississippi, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA | |
| Sleeping By The Mississippi, Olson Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, USA | |
| 2005 | Portraits, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA |
| Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK | |
| 2004 | Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Open Eye, Liverpool, UK |
| Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany | |
| Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2003 | Sleeping By The Mississippi, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA |
| Sleeping By The Mississippi, Weitman Gallery of Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, USA | |
| 2001 | Portraits (From Here To There), Central Lakes College Gallery, St. Cloud, USA |
| 1998 | Two-person exhibition of portraits with Joel Sternfeld, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, USA |
| 1995 | Photographs from the Series At The Bar, Icebox Gallery, Minneapolis, USA |
| 1993 | Two-person exhibition of photographs from the series The Middle Night, Minneapolis Photographer's Gallery, Minneapolis, USA |
| GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2020 | Just Kids, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN USA |
| Not Standing Still: New Approaches in Documentary Photography, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia | |
| 2019 | Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| Sleeping by the Mississippi, PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel-Aviv, Israel | |
| Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA USA | |
| Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN USA | |
| Two Rivers: Joachim Brohm / Alec SOth, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| 2018 | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea |
| In Focus: Expressions, J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA | |
| True To Form: Selection From The Permanent Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum,, Bloomfield Hills, USA | |
| American Surfaces And The Photobook, Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA | |
| Another Kind Of Life: Photography On The Margins, Barbican Centre, London, UK | |
| The Open Road: Photography And The American Road, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA | |
| Edifice, Complex, Visionary, Structure, Sean Kelly Gallery, NY, USA | |
| 2017 | Topografien, Loock Galerie, Group exhibition with Natalia Stachon and Ulrich Wüst, Berlin, Germany |
| The Hobbyist, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland | |
| 2016 | Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, the McNay, San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| 2015 | Magnum Contact Sheets, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Colorado - Selections From The LBM Dispatch, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA | |
| Bakken Boom! Artists Respond To The North Dakota Oil Rush, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, USA | |
| Luxus Der Einfachheit. Lebensformen Jenseits Der Norm, BTV FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria | |
| 2014 | Luxus Der Einfachheit. Lebensformen jenseits der Norm, Münchner Stadtmuseum/Sammlung Fotografie, Munich, Germany |
| DOK:14, Fredrikstad, Norway | |
| Meer Macht, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands | |
| In Context: The Portrait In Contemporary Photography, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York, USA | |
| In/Humano, Marco Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico | |
| Alec Soth And Friends: The Little Brown Mushroom Ping-Pong Reading Room, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany | |
| Codex, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2013 | One Nature, Sean Kelly, New York, USA |
| Under My Skin - Nudes In Contemporary Photography, Flowers, New York, USA | |
| Museum Of Modern Art And Western Antiquities Department Of Light Recording Section IV: Lens Drawings, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France | |
| Inaugural Exhibition: Looking Forward, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA | |
| Project Los Alos, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
| More American Photographs, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA | |
| The View From Here: Photography From The Twin Cities, US Bank, Minneapolis, USA | |
| 2012 | B-Sides, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, USA |
| Real To Real: Photographs From The Traina Collection, de Young Museum, San Fransisco, USA | |
| America In View: Landscape Photography 1865 To Now, RISD Museum, Rhode Island, USA | |
| Reconsidering The Photographic Masterpiece, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | |
| Photography In Mexico, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
| Streams Of Conciousness: The Histories, Mythologies And Ecologies Of Water, Salina Art Center, Salina, USA | |
| 2011 | Idyll, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
| Dawn Till Dusk, Jan Bekman gallery, New York, USA | |
| The Human Touch, RBC Wealth Management Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida, USA/St.Petersburg, Russia | |
| Traummänner, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany | |
| The More Things Change, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2010 | Myth, Manners And Memory. Photographers Of The American South, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK |
| Embarrassment Of Riches. Picturing Global Wealth, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA | |
| On The Road. A Legacy Of Walker Evans, Robert Lehman Art Center at Brooks School, North Andover, USA | |
| Individual To Icon, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA | |
| 2009 | The Minnesota Eye, College of Visual Arts and Design, Saint Paul, USA |
| A River Runs Through Me, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, USA | |
| 2008 | Portraiture Now: Feature Photography, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, USA |
| Heart Land, Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands | |
| 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA | |
| Utopia, Museu Collecao Berardo, Lissabon, Portugal | |
| La 6e Biennale internationale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels de Liège, Liège, France | |
| 2007 | Picturing Eden, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA |
| Summer Exhibition, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Summer Show, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA | |
| L’Image D’Après, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France * | |
| Creative Universe: Liverpool And The Avant-Garde, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK * | |
| On Death And Dying: Photographs From The Collection Of Contemporary Photogrpahy, Columbia College, Chicago, USA | |
| Documents: Memory Of The Future, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain | |
| Landscape: Fact And Fiction, Benton Museum, Storrs, USA | |
| 2006 | The Office: In And Out Of The Box, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA |
| Group Dynamic: Portfolios, Series And Sets, Des Moines Art Center Downtown, Des Moines, Iowa, USA | |
| Pingyao International Photography, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China | |
| Downriver, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Prague Contemporary Arts Festival, Prag, Czech Republic | |
| Click Doubleclick, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brüssel, Belgium * | |
| The Ramer Collection And Other Photographs, The Richard Nelson Gallery, UC-Davis, Davis, USA | |
| Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA | |
| Contemporary Photographs From The Allen J. Thomas Jr. Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA | |
| 2005 | American Landscapes. Timezone 8 Editions, Beijing, China |
| Beyond The Portrait, T.H. Inside, Milan, Italy | |
| McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, University of Minnesota Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Regarding The Rural, MassMoCa, Boston, USA | |
| Roger Ballen, Vera Lütter, And Alec Soth, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Minets A Polis, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Nine Portraits, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| Epilogue, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA | |
| Selections From The 26th Bienal De São Paulo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile | |
| 2004 | Picturing The South feat. William Christenberry, Williiam Eggleston, Walker Evans and Alec Soth, Pace/MacGill, New York, NY, USA |
| Group Show, Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, USA | |
| 26th Bienal De São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Summer Group Exhibition, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| Best Midwestern: Photographs From The Heartland, Jen Bekman, New York, USA | |
| Wild Flowers, Ariel Meyerowitz, New York, USA | |
| Cakewalk, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, USA | |
| Photo London Gallery Booth, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK | |
| Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Art Chicago Artist Booth, Chicago, USA | |
| Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA | |
| Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran | |
| 2003 | Picturing Bill - Portraits of William Eggleston, John Stinson Fine Arts, New Orleans, USA |
| Summer Life, Alice Austen Museum, Staten Island, USA | |
| Dog Days, Gallery T, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA | |
| 2002 | Jerome Fellowship Exhibition: Photographs from the Series Sleeping By The Mississippi, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, Minneapolis, USA |
| Campus As Place, Photographing Carleton, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, USA | |
| PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (SELECTION) | |
| Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, USA | |
| Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA | |
| Carleton College, Northfield, USA | |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA | |
| Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA | |
| Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt/Main, Germany | |
| Dorsey Whitney, Minneapolis, USA | |
| General Mills Corporate Art Collection, Golden Valley, USA | |
| Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel | |
| LaSalle Bank, New York, USA | |
| LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, USA | |
| Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA | |
| Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, USA | |
| Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA | |
| Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA | |
| North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, USA | |
| Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA | |
| Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, USA | |
| Regis Corporate Art Collection, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Robbins Kaplan Miller Ciresi, Minneapolis, USA | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco USA | |
| Sheldon Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
| Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, USA | |
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA | |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA | |
| FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES | |
| 2013 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| McKnight Photography Fellowship | |
| 2011 | International Center of Photography’s 27th Annual Infinity Award |
| 2008 | Bush Artist Fellowship |
| PhotoVision Award | |
| 2006 | Golden Light Book Award |
| Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, finalist | |
| 2005 | CEPA Artist Residency |
| 2004 | McKnight Photography Fellowship |
| 2003 | Santa Fe Prize for Photography |
| 2001 | Minnesota State Arts Board |
| MCAD/Jerome Fellowship | |
| Jerome Travel and Study Grant | |
| 1999 | McKnight Photography Fellowship |