Gregory Crewdson

PLACE AND YEAR OF BIRTH

New York, United States

1962 - 

Gregory Crewdson is one of the leading figures in staged photography. Discover the life, most important photographs, and must-see exhibitions of artist Gregory Crewdson.

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Gregory Crewdson - © Andrea Guermani

Biography of Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson was born in 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, and lives and works in New York City and Massachusetts. He is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, New York, and the Yale School of Art, New Haven, where he is now a professor and director of graduate studies in photography.

 

Exhibitions featuring Gregory Crewdson's Photographs

Collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Exhibitions include Gregory Crewdson: 1985–2005, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2005, travelled to Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and Landesgalerie Linz, Austria); In a Lonely Place, C/O Berlin (2011, travelled extensively); Beneath the Roses, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo (2014); Fireflies, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2014); The Becket Pictures, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2017); and Cathedral of the Pines, Photographers’ Gallery, London (2017, travelled to Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland).

Following its successful run at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin (12 October 2022 to 22 January 2023), Gregory Crewdson’s photographs were exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival in France (3 July to 24 September 2023), the VB Photography Center in Kuopio, Finland (12 June to 15 September 2024), the Marubi Museum in Shkodër, Albania (20 December 2024 to 16 March 2025)  the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium (7 February to 17 May 2026) and at Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia (10 October to 17 January).