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Selected group exhibitions

1972 Photography Workshop Invitational, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1974 Art Now '74, Kennedy Art Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Straight Color, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

1975 14 American Photographers, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX
Color Photography: Inventors and Innovators 1850-1975, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Photography 2, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA

1976 Aspects of American Photography 1976, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
Spectrum, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Color Photographs 1976, The Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1977 The Contemporary South, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
10 Photographes Contemporains/Tendances Actuelles aux Etats-Unis, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France
Contemporary Color Photography, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
William Christenberry and William Eggleston: Color Photographs, Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS
Some Color Photographs, Castelli Uptown, New York, NY
Contemporary American Photographic Works, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1978 Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New York, New York, Light Gallery, New York, NY
Photographs from Samuel J. Wagstaff Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
In Color, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA
Six Photographers, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
By the Side of the Road, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
23 Photographers, 23 Directions, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
The Quality of Presence, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Amerikanische Landschafts-photographie, Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Nicholas Nixon and William Eggleston, The Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX
Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

1979 Auto-Icons, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
One of a Kind, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Traveled to De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; and Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
American Landscape Photography, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Ten from Mirrors and Windows, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Images, New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Photographie im Alltags Amerikas, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Z¥rich, Switzerland
Photographie als Kunst, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
Invitational Color Photography, MoMing Gallery, Chicago, IL
Curator's Choice: Contemporary American Photography, Fortuny Museum, Venice, Italy
American Photography in the 1970s, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1980 Three American Photographers, Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston , Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta, GA
Aspects of the 1970s, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Zietgenossische Amerikanische Farbphotographie , Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne, Germany
The Imaginary Photo Museum, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Farbwerke--Eine Neue Generation, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Southeastern Graphics Invitational, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Nuages, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

1981 Color in Contemporary Color Photography, University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
An Introduction to Color Photography, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1982 Slices of Time: California Landscape Photography: 1860-1880, 1960-1980, Oakland Museum, CA. Traveled to Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Floods of Light: The History of Flash Photography, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England
Photography in Color, Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ
20th Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Still Life: Photographs from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Target III: In Sequence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Color as Form: The History of Color Photography, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1983 Subjective Vision, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

1984 New Color/New Work: Eighteen Photographic Essays, Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1985 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
American Images 1945-80, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Part II, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

1986 25 Years of Modern Color Photography, Photokina, Cologne, Germany

1989 Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Portraits: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

1990 Photography Until Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Recent Accessions in Photography, 1984 - 1990, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

1991 Volumes of Photographs: Eggleston and Christenberry, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1992 Recent Acquisitions: William Eggleston, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

1993 In Camera, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Daydream Nation, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
Photographers Who Created a New Age, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Flora and Fauna, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
William Eggleston and William K. Greiner. Color Photographs, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

1994 Gesture and Pose: 20th Century Photographs from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
A Sense of Place, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
100 Years of Street Photography, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
The Beauty in the Beast: Artists Observe the Horse, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
Brooks Biennial: Memphis Contemporary Photography, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1995 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Heimat, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria
Blind Spot: Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, Dallas, TX
Tibet House Benefit Exhibition, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Human Nature Benefit Exhibition, New Museum, New York, NY
100 Years/100 Images, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 1995, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Germany
Seeing Things, Andre Emmerich, New York, NY
20/20, In Khan Gallery, New York, NY
Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives - Rethinking Modernism, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1996 American Masters of Photography; A 100 Year Survey, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Hope Photographs, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Blind Spot: Coming of Age, White Columns, New York, NY
Florescence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Developing Illusions, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1999 William Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2000 The Desert, Foundation Cartier, Paris, France
How You Look at It: Photographs of the 20th Century, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

2001 Settings and Players, White Cube Gallery, London, England

2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

2003 Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London, England. Traveling to Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Strange Days, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2004 Colour After Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London

2005 Mavericks of Color Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art