ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012
Photographic Works from the 1970s and Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2008Time Emit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, N.J. (curated by Charles Steinback)
Ephemera and Shadow: 1989–2006, Gallery M, Nagoya, Japan
2007Sex & Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and The Artist Papers, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Color Works, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
2005The Artists Papers, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
2004Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
2003Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2002Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2001Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Me.
2000Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
1999Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy
1998Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
1997Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1996Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1995Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1994Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York
Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1993Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
KSP Gallery, Kawasaki Shi, Japan
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
Il Tempo, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1991Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1989White Columns, New York
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1987Art City, New York
1986Art City, New York
Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1979Zeit-Foto, Tokyo
1978Ginza Kaiga Kan, Tokyo
1972Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012Extensions of the Eye: Three Women Photographers, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
2011Laguna Gloria: Art and Nature, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2010PQ:100, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, N.Y.
2009Pictures: Tracey Baran, Nikki S. Lee, Laurel Nakadate, & Kunié Sugiura, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Infinite Patience: James Drake, Kunié Sugiura, Stanley Whitney, Haunch of Venison, New York
2008Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art, International Print Center, New York
2007Contemporary Outlook: Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Japan Society Gallery, New York
The Photograph; What You See & What You Don’t, Museum at Tokyo University of Fine Art, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
2006Light and Shadow – First There Was Light: First Encounters with Light in Photographic Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museumof Photography, Tokyo
Ephemeral – flash for eternity, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan
Math Counts, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.
2005Pairs, Groups, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Sala de arte y cultura de Caja Canaria de la Laguna, Canaria, Spain; Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
85/05, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
Focus On: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla.
The Shadow, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
2004Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese Contemporary Photography, Japanisches Kunstinstitut, Cologne, Germany; Casa Asia, Barcelona; arts depot, London
Mask of Japan, Aura Gallery, Shanghai
Lodz Biennial, Poland
Subway Series: The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, N. Y.
2003How Human: Life in the Post Genome Era, International Center of Photography, New York
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Genomic Issue(s):Art and Science, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York
2002Works on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N. Car.
PhotoGenesis: Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Photography, Part II, Denver Art Museum
True Blue, Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Shadow Play, Roger Smith Gallery, New York
2001Wet!, Luise Ross Gallery, New York
This is Not a Photograph, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va.; DePaul University, Chicago; Lafayette College, Easton, Penn.
2000Significant Other: The Hand of Man in Animal Imagery, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wis.
Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn.
Process/Reprocess: Japan and the West, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1999The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Contemporary Photo Art from Japan, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Wildflowers, The Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, N. Y.
Skin Deep: A Survey of Interior Imaging from X-ray to MRI, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
1998Blooming, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
Paraphotography, The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchberg, Va.
Elusive Traces, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R. I.
1997New Photography 13, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Eye of the Beholder, Photographs from the Avon Collection, International Center of Photography, New York
Fossilization: Imprinted Light, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
With a Different Camera, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Col.
Wall Works, Art in General, New York
1996Japanese Photography: Contemporary Landscape 1980–1995, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Nature of Light, Joyce Golden Gallery, New York
Pushing Image Paradigms, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Ore.
Dissimilar and Unrelated Sculpture, Baron/Boisante, New York
The Box, Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, New York
1995Aspects of Contemporary Photography: Another Reality, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
Vulnerability, Dahn Gallery, New York
Transformations, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, N. J.
Blooms, ChristineRose Gallery, New York
In and Out of Character, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York
1994Visualization At the End of the 20th Century, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama,Japan
Camera Obscura/Obscura Camera, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Negative Energy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.
When the Body Becomes Art (The Organs and Body as Object), Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Experimental Vision, Denver Art Museum
1993Foreign Ferns, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Photography, Baron/Boisante, New York
Jungjin Lee, Kunié Sugiura, Holly Wright, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1992Shapeshifters, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
Rubber Soul, Ledis Flam, New York
Culture Bites, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Conn.; Sonoma State University,
Rohnert Park, Calif.
1991House of Value, 252 Lafayette Street, New York
July Fourth, Muranushi Lederman Productions, New York
1990Photography, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Veils, Art in General, New York
1989Update, White Columns, New York
Selections 44, The Drawing Center, New York
1987Paint-Photography, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Large as Life, Henry Street Settlement and Jamaica Art Center, New York
1986Contemporary Japanese Photographers, The Barcelona Museum, Barcelona
Fathers, Asian Arts Institute, New York
1985Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
Invitational, Friedas/Ordover Gallery, New York
1983Hong Kong-Tokyo-New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
1982Invitational, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Looking Back-Looking Forward, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Conn.
1982Foto-Kina, Cologne, Germany
1980Race Gallery, Philadelphia
1979O.K. Harris Gallery, New York
1978Willard Gallery, New York
Personal Vision: Places/Spaces, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
1972Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Selections From the Collection, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Conn.
Warren Benedek Gallery, New York
1969Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y.
Austin Museum of Art
Avon Products, Inc., New York
Best Products, Inc., Richmond, Va.
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
The Capital Group, Los Angeles
Denver Art Museum
Fidelity Investments, Boston
The Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, Jacobson, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y.
Goldman, Sachs, New York
Kitakyushu Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Merrill Lynch, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wa.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Va.
Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Art
Vivendi Universal, Paris
The Weatherspoon Art Museum
Weil, Gotshall & Manges, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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