PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- The Jewish Museum, New York
- The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
- The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- The Birmingham Museum of Art
Cheekwood Museum, - Nashville Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta
- The American Photography Institute, New York University
- Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
- The Margulies Collection, Miami
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- The Wadsworth Museum, Hartford, CT
- The George Eastman Museum, Rochester NY
AWARDS
- 2021
- The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- 2016
- The New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Photography, Recipient
- 2015
- The Henri Cartier Bresson Award for Documentary Photography, Nominee
- 2002
- Pollock Krasner Award –full support.
- Verene is the first artist to receive this.
- Grant for photography art.
- 1996
- American Photography Institute, New York University.
- The Atlanta Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta.
SOLO SHOW
- 2019
- “Home Movies,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
- “The Self-Esteem Salon,” 601Artspace, New York
- “Chris Verene: Home Movies”, The College of Staten Island Art Gallery, The City University of New York
- 2018
- “Chris Verene,” Copenhagen Photography Festival, Copenhagen
- 2017
- “Chirs Verene”, The Civic Art Center, Galesburg
- 2016
- “Picturing Family”, Green Gallery of Yale University
- 2015
- “The Show Me State”, Auxiliary Projects in Greenpont, Brooklyn, NY.
- “The Cousin Candi Series”, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, NY.
- “Chris Verene: Home Movies”, Postmasters Gallery, New York.
- 2014
- “Home Movies”, Postmasters Gallery, New York
- “Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present”,
Leila Heller Gallery, New York.
- 2012
- “Town Hall Meeting”, Postmasters Gallery, New York.
- “Galesburg Family”, Galleri Image, Denmark.
- “Galesburg Family”, The Figge Musseum, Iowa.
- “Galesburg: Prairie Jews” The Jewish Community Center, Manhattan.
- “Chris Verene – Family”, Berlin.
- “Chris Verene – Family”, The Company, Los Angeles.
- “The Self-Esteem Salon” The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
- 2011
- “Family”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife.
- “Family” Art Basel Miami.
- “Chris Verene – Family,” The Figge Museum, Davenport, Iowa.
- “Chris Verene,” Sioux City Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.
- “Prairie Jews,” (TBA) The Ninety-Second Street Institution, New York.
- “Family,” Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas.
- “Family,” San Francisco, TBA.
- “Family,” Quality Pictures, Portland.
- “Family,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta.
- “Family,” Gescheidle, Chicago.
- “Family,” -Cancelled- Deitch Projects, New York.
- 2009
- “Family,” DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles.
- “Self-Esteem Salon,” Martos Gallery, New York.
- 2008
- “Self-Esteem,” Gescheidle, Chicago.
- “Family,” ADA Gallery, Virginia.
- 2007
- “Galesburg, Yes,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta.
- “Self-Esteem,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta.
- “Galesburg,” Gescheidle, Chicago.
- “Self-Esteem,” Quality Pictures, Portland, Oregon.
- “Galesburg,” ADA Gallery, Richmond.
- 2006
- “Galesburg,” Alona Kagan Gallery, New York.
- “Prairie Jews,” from the “Jewish Identity Project” The Skirball Museum,
Los Angeles.
- 2005
- “The Self-Esteem Salon, The Frisbee Series” Frisbee Art Show, Miami.
- “The Self-Esteem Salon, The Refugee Series” Daniel Reich Gallery, NY.
- “Galesburg: The New Chapters” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
- “Chris Verene” Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City
- “The Self-Esteem Salon: The Orphanage Series,”
The Armory Art Show VIP. - Group, The Old Chelsea YMCA- with Frisbee Curatorial Group.
- “Prairie Jews,” from the “Jewish Identity Project” The Jewish Museum, NY.
- 2004
- “The Big Umbrella: The New York Series” Aleksandra Mir and
Chris Verene, New York, PSI/MoMA. - “The Self-Esteem Salon at Art Basel” The Frisbee Art Show, Miami.
- “Chris Verene” Fotographie Am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.
- “Chris Verene: From Galesburg To Atlanta, 1986-2004”
The Contemporary. - Art Center, Atlanta, GA (Retrospective Show).
- “The Big Umbrella: The New York Series” Aleksandra Mir and
- 2003
- “Galesburg” Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX.
- 2002
- “Galesburg” Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI.
- “Galesburg” Ramapo College, NJ.
- “Galesburg” Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
- “The Self- Esteem Salon, The Baptism Series” Deitch Projects, New York, Collaboration with Christian Holstad.
- “The Baptism Series” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta –colabor
with Christian Holstad.
- 2001
- “Galesburg” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta.
- 2000
- “Chris Verene,” Paul Morris Gallery.
- “Chris Verene,” American Fine Arts Co. Colin DeLand Fine Art, NY.
- “Chris Verene,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York.
- “Self-Esteem” Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta.
- “Galesburg” Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta
- “Camera Club” Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam
- 1999
- “Chris Verene” Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
“Selections from Galesburg” The Cheekwood Museum, Nashville
- “Chris Verene” Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
- 1998
- “Camera Club” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
- “Galesburg” Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
- 1997
- “Revealing Regionalism” Midtown Plaza Galleries One & Two, Atlanta
- “Galesburg and Camera Club,” as part of “You Should Know Better,” curated by Samantha Tsao at Thread Waxing Space, New York City
- 1996
- “Galesburg Used to be an All-American City” Georgia State University.
- 1995
- “Portraits of Holly Hollywood” Sylvia’s Art of This Century, Atlanta.
- 1994
- “Proud to be from Galesburg” Atlanta Photography Gallery.
- “Galesburg (Five or Maybe Six Years)” Ruth Leitman Gallery, Atlanta.
- 1991
- “Chris Verene & Friends” Emory University, Atlanta.
GROUP SHOWS
- 2019
- “Encounter”, Mom’s Gallery, NY
“Ways of Seening: Fashion”, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham. - “Modern Families”, ArtsWestchester Gallery, NY
- “Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall”, Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art, Hartford, CT - “Inexterior”, Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España.
- “HOT DOG”, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
- “The Self-Esteem Salon”, 601 Artspace, New York
- “Encounter”, Mom’s Gallery, NY
- 2017
- “Picturing Family”, Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art,
New Haven.
- “Picturing Family”, Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art,
- 2016
- “Photographic Support”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
- 2014
- “HomeLand (In)Security: Vanishing Dreams”, Dorsky Gallery, New York
- “Look At Me”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
- “Unbelievable Things”, Light Art & Design, Chapell Hill
- 2013
- “Everyday American”, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
- Group Show, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
- 2012
- “Only You Only Me” Musee d’Art Contemporain, Belgium
- 2011
- “The Second Seating for the Last Supper”,
Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife - “EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA
SINCE 1870,” The Walker Art Center.
- “The Second Seating for the Last Supper”,
- 2010 “
- EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA
SINCE 1870,” The Tate Modern, London. - “EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA
SINCE 1870,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. - “The Art Of Caring,” Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
- “The Art Of Caring,” The Art Museum of South Texas
- “The Art Of Caring,” New Orleans Museum of Art
- EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND THE CAMERA
- 2009
- “The Self-Esteem Salon,” SoHo, New York
- 2008
- “Human Resources,” The Company, Los Angeles
- “Love, Love, Love,” Martos Gallery, New York
- 2007
- “June Bride” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
- “Gallery Artists,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York.
- “Year 07,” Marcia Wood Gallery, London.
- 2006
- “The Seventh Side of the Die” Alona Kagan Gallery, New York
- “The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography”
The Contemporary JewishMuseum, San Francisco - “The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography” The Skirball
Cultural Center, Los Angeles - “Shoot The Family” The Cranbrook Art Museum, Knoxville Museum
of Art, Western Gallery of Western Washington University,
traveling 2006-2009.
- 2005
- “The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography” The Jewish Museum, New York
- “CRACKER” NurtureArt, & Naked Duck Gallery, New York
- “The Self-Esteem Salon: The Orphanage Series,”
The Armory Art Show VIP
Group, The Old Chelsea YMCA- with Frisbee Curatorial Group
- 2004
- “K-48 Klubhouse” Deitch Projects, New York
- “The Beauty of Darkness” Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam
- “The Armory Art Show” John Connelly Presents, New York
- “Cake Walk” Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
“Portraits” Champion Gallery: Curated by Roe Ethridge - “Group Show” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
- “Pool Party” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
- “Portrait Photography” Curated by Roe Ethridge, Brooklyn Gallery TBA
- 2003
- “Gallery Artists” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
- Nathan Cummings Foundation Show, New York
- “American Dream” Ronald Feldman Gallery
- “The Furtive Gaze” (3 Artist show) Contemporary Museum
of Photography - “K-48, The Bedroom Show” Galerie du Jour,
Paris, France
- 2002
- “Visions From America: Photographs From the Whitney
Museum of American Art” The Whitney Museum of Art, New York - “Family” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut
- “Sexual Healing: Various forms of sexual photography” Reflex Modern
Art Gallery, Amsterdam
- “Visions From America: Photographs From the Whitney
- 2001
- “It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time”
Paul Morris Gallery, NY - “Photographs” Cherry Street Temporary Gallery, Galesburg, IL
- “A Way With Words,” Whitney Museum of American Art
at Phillip Morris, NY - “Uneasy” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
- “The Penis Show” Eyedrum, Atlanta
- “The Self Esteem Salon” Christie’s Auction House
Chris Verene and Vereni The Great presented by David Armstrong” The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, RI - “Vereni The Great” Thread Waxing Space, New York
- “The Self-Esteem Salon: The Whitney Museum of Art – A Corollary to
Camera Club”, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York - “Vereni The Great” Pink Pony, New York
- “Vereni, ¡Escapista!” Times Square, New York
- “The Self-Esteem Salon” Gramercy International Art Fair, New York
- “It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time”
- 2000
- “Do You Hear What We Hear?” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
- “Because Sex Sells” Nikolai Fine Art, New York
- “Tell It Like It Is” Gallery Rebecca Camhi, Athens, Greece
- “The Whitney Biennial” The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York - “Fight Evil With Evil” with Delia R. Gonzalez and Gavin R. Russom, The
Turkey’s Nest, Brooklyn, New York - “Home Shopping One with Gentle Heights” performance at The Fifth International Gallery, New York (for Christian Holstad)
- 1999
- “Vanitas” Agnes Scott College, Atlanta
- “Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography” New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
- “New Voices, New Visions” University of California San Diego, La Jolla
- “In Your Face” curated by Dr. Robert Shimshak, New Langton Arts,
San Francisco. - “Emerging Artists” San Diego University Art Museum, San Diego
- “Bach on a Hook and M.I.M.E.” performance at Gavin Brown
Enterprise, NY
- 1998
- “Backstage” curated by Helen Varola, Serge Sorokko Gallery, New York
- “Connections and Contradictions: Modern and Contemporary Art from
Atlanta Collections” Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta - “In the Heat of Summer” Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta
- “Photos Emerging” presented by Liebman Magnan
Gallery and CRIA, NY. - “Portraits” Paul Morris Gallery, New York.
- “Peepshow” John Waters, Cheri Nevers, Ken Probst, Chris Verene,
Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta. - “Self-Esteem Salon” Vaknin Schwartz & Boho Luxe, Atlanta
- 1997
- “Friends Indeed” Photography sale benefiting Photographers for Friends, Selected by Tom Cashin, New York.
- “Contemporary American Landscape” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
- “Tableaux: Ten Contemporary Photographers”
Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta. - “Post-Construction” Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta.
- “Sleep” James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY.
- “Look Back & Get Down: A Celebration of Athens & Atlanta Music 1977-1997” Nexus. Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.
- “Unique Portraits by Contemporary Southern Artists” ArtWalk at Lenox
Square, Atlanta, GA. - “To See a World” (Eight Georgia Photographers) Georgia Museum
of Art,Athens. - “1997 Atlanta Biennial” Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta
- “Collectors Collecting” Lenox Square Gallery, Atlanta
- “Nine Southeastern Photographers” Peachtree Lofts Gallery, Atlanta
- 1996
- “Olympic Experience, or What I Did in Summer 1996” Bathhouse Show,
Piedmont Park Arts Festival, Atlanta - “Obsessions” Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta
- “American Photography Institute” Tisch Gallery, New York
- “Olympic Experience, or What I Did in Summer 1996” Bathhouse Show,
- 1995
- “National Association of People with AIDS” City Hall East Gallery,
Atlanta - “Contemporary Southeastern Photography” Creadle School of Visual
Arts, Winter Park, FL - “Summer Artists’ Work in Progress” Galesburg, IL
- “November Show” Hastings Gallery, Atlanta, GA
- “National Association of People with AIDS” City Hall East Gallery,
- 1994
- “Electric Blanket” (AIDS Projection Project), High Museum of Art,
Atlanta - “Sex, Love, and Death” Nexus Art Center, Atlanta
- “Electric Blanket” (AIDS Projection Project), High Museum of Art,
- 1992
- “My Eye Your Body” Exhibit A Gallery, Atlanta
- 1990
- “Seed Factory Show” Atlanta.
- Members’ Show, Atlanta Photography Gallery, Atlanta.
- Democratic Convention Show, Atlanta Photography Gallery,
Atlanta Performances.