ARTISTS
Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
2012
2010
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World ,Michael Werner, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- TOP 30th anniversary TOP Collection: Transphysical ,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Treasure hunt: tribute to Sam Wagstaff ,Galerie Miranda ,Paris, France
- Eugène Atget & Eugène Carrière: Contemporains ,Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (avenue Matignon) ,Paris, France
2024
- Fresh Window. The Art of Display & Display of Art ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
- A Generous Outlook: Gifts from Fay Gallus and Richard Sweet ,Minneapolis Institute of Art ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- The Subversive Eye: Surrealist and Experimental Photography from the David Raymond Collection ,Salvador Dali Museum ,St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Frames of Mind: The Ramer Photography Collection ,Crocker Art Museum ,Sacramento, California, USA
- Legacy: Gifts From The Mayers And The Friedman Collections ,Boca Raton Museum of Art ,Boca Raton, Florida, USA
- TOP Collection: The Resonance of Seeing ,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2023
- Traditional Painting Genres in Photography: A Holiday Exhibition ,Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (MMPA) ,Portland, Maine, USA
- A “history” of photography: Agnès b.’s Collection ,Galerie du Jour Agnès B ,4e, Paris, France
- The Steve & Judy Halpert Collection ,Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (MMPA) ,Portland, Maine, USA
2022
- Detente, instante: Una historia de la fotografía ,Fundacion Juan March, Madrid ,Madrid, Spain
- Highlights from the Stanton B. and Nancy W. Kaplan Collection of Photography ,The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art ,Sarasota, Florida, USA
- TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death ,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ,Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Curator's Choice Summer 2022 ,Alan Klotz Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- The Circus We Are! Namur à l’heure du cirque ,Musée Félicien Rops ,Namur, Belgium
- Everything Under the Sun: In Memory of Andrew Gruft ,Vancouver Art Gallery ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2021
- The Past in Motion ,Kotaro Nukaga, Tennoz ,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- 24th Annual Summer Sale 2021 ,Alan Klotz Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Photograph of Photograph and Photographs ,Yumiko Chiba Associates ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Histoires de photographies. Collections du Musée des Arts Décoratifs ,MAD, Musée des Arts Décoratifs ,1e, Paris, France
- Pictures and Promises ,Vancouver Art Gallery ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2020
- ONLINE: On Photographs ,Robert Klein Gallery ,South End, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Masterpieces of Photography: The First Hundred Years, 1839–1939 ,Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ,Richmond, Virginia, USA
- The Incredible World of Photography. Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection ,Kunstmuseum Basel, Hauptbau & Neubau ,Basel, Switzerland
- Special Selection Vintage ,Alan Klotz Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Photography and the Surreal Imagination ,The Menil Collection ,Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
2019
- Long Story Short ,Fraenkel Gallery ,Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
- Photographs From The Paul Sack Collection ,Deborah Bell Photographs ,New York, USA
- Cantiere permanente. La messa in scena del sé. Dalle collezioni FMAV ,FMAV, Palazzo Santa Margherita ,Modena, Italy
- 22nd Annual Summer Sale 2019 ,Alan Klotz Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- As I Like ,Galerie Alain Gutharc ,3e, Paris, France
- Street Photography to Surrealism: The Golden Age of Photography in France, 1900-1945 ,The Frick Art Museum ,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2018
- Berenice Abbott & Eugène Atget: Paris to New York ,Taft Museum of Art ,Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Gorey's Worlds ,David Owsley Museum of Art ,Muncie, Indiana, USA
- Earache ,Fraenkel Gallery ,Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
- 21st Annual Summer Sale ,Alan Klotz Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- A City Transformed: Photographs of Paris, 1850-1900 ,Clark Art Institute ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
- Takiguchi Shuzo and the Artists Who Captivated Him ,The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography ,University of Michigan Museum of Art ,Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection ,Hauser & Wirth, New York (22nd Str) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Eugène Atget, Weegee & Daido Moriyama ,Sage Paris ,7e, Paris, France
- Collected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict ,Stills Centre for Photography ,Edinburgh, UK
2017
- Modern Women ,UK Art Museum ,Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- A Thumbnail Sketch ,SouthFirst ,Brooklyn, New York, USA
- In Vitro ,Derosia ,New York, USA
- Collected Shadows ,Void ,Derry, UK
- Highlights from Editions and The Odyssey of Collecting ,Phillips London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Photography from the Bequest of Isadore and Kelly Friedman ,Boca Raton Museum of Art ,Boca Raton, Florida, USA
- 40th Anniversary Exhibition ,Alan Klotz Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Realism To Abstraction: Changing Focus In Contemporary Photography ,Holden Luntz Gallery ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2016
- Nightfall The Silence of Space ,Holden Luntz Gallery ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Vivre!! ,Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration ,12e, Paris, France
- XXc Icons of Photography ,Sonoma Valley Musum of Art ,Sonoma, California, USA
- Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups ,Carnegie Museum of Art ,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World ,The Morgan Library & Museum ,New York, USA
- Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection ,Tang Museum ,Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and LightWork ,Everson Museum of Art ,Syracuse, New York, USA
- On the Street and in the Studio: Photographs Donated by Howard Greenberg ,Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art ,New Paltz, New York, USA
2015
- Vintage Masters: Iconic Photographs from 1853-1996 ,Throckmorton Fine Art ,57th Street, New York, USA
- French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray ,Flint Institute of Arts ,Flint, Michigan, USA
- Everyday Art: Street Photography in the Syracuse University Art Collection ,Syracuse University Art Galleries ,Syracuse, New York, USA
- In the Garden ,George Eastman Museum ,Rochester, New York, USA
- Pictured Windows: Storefront Photographs from the Last 100 Years ,Equinox Gallery ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2014
- In Focus: Play ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- RealSurreal: Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography. Das Neue Sehen. 1920-1950 Siegert Collection ,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Wolfsburg, Germany
- 1974: 40 years 40 Photographs ,Kicken Berlin ,Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
- the mysterious device was moving forward ,Longhouse Projects ,New York, USA
- Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography ,Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art ,Auburn University, Alabama, USA
2013
- The Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden ,High Museum of Art ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Foto Europa: 1840 to Present ,The Detroit Institute of Arts ,Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography ,Memphis Brooks Museum of Art ,Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Modernism and Its Discontents ,Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ,Stanford, California, USA
- At the Window: The Photographer's View ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- A Thing Alive: Modern Views from the Marin Collections ,Colby College Museum of Art ,Waterville, Maine, USA
- French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray ,Delaware Art Museum ,Wilmington, Delaware, USA
- Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography ,Princeton University Art Museum ,Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Construction/Deconstruction: Defining Architectural Photography ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- 1913: The Year of Modernism ,Princeton University Art Museum ,Princeton, New Jersey, USA
2012
- Picture This: Photographic Portraits of Place ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Two Views: Atget & Friedlander ,Princeton University Art Museum ,Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- En plein air ,Henry Art Gallery ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- Pure Photography: Pictorial and Modern Photographys from the Syracuse University Art Collection ,Appleton Museum of Art ,Ocala, Florida, USA
- SHARED VISION: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography ,Aperture Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- A Tale of Two Cities ,Southeast Museum of Photography ,Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
- Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection ,IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art ,Dublin, Ireland
- Photography Collected Us: The Malcolmson Collection ,Art Museum at the University of Toronto, University of Toronto Art Centre ,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011
- Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path ,CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea ,Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- Eyes on Paris: Paris In Photobooks from 1890 to the Present ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Collectors' Favorites ,Cohen Gallery ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path ,BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts ,Brussels, Belgium
- The Purpose of Photography: A Permanent Invention ,MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie ,4e, Paris, France
- The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today ,Kunsthaus Zürich ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection ,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ,Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- In Focus: The Tree ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Point of View: Photographs from the Collection ,High Museum of Art ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2010
- Our Future Is In The Air: Photographs from the 1910s ,The Metropolitan Museum of Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- 19th-Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada ,The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Pictures of a Metropolis: The Impressionists in Paris ,Museum Folkwang Essen ,Essen, Germany
- The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today ,MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art ,Midtown, New York, USA
- 19th-Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada ,National Gallery of Canada ,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Versailles Photographed 1850-2010 ,Chateau de Versailles ,Versailles, France
- Material Witnesses: Photographs of Things ,Clark Art Institute ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Eugène Atget was a French photographer who was born in 1857. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Michael Werner, London. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Getty Center have featured Eugène Atget's work in the past.Eugène Atget's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 43 USD to 686,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 686,500 USD for Joueur d'Orgue, c. 1898-1899, sold at Christie's New York in 2010. In the past 12 months, his photographs have averaged 4,502 USD.Eugène Atget has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, All About Photo and e-flux. The most recent article is SHUTTERBUGS--"Blur/Obscure /Distort: Photography and Perception" at the Norton Museum of Art written for Whitehot Magazine in July 2025. The artist died in 1927.
Artist's alternative names: Eugene Atget, Jean Eugène Auguste Atget
Artist's alternative names: Eugene Atget, Jean Eugène Auguste Atget