Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany (studios of P. Kleeman, Gerhard Richter, and Bernd Becher), 1973-80

Scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany for P.S.1 Studios, Long Island City, New York, 1978

Awards: "Spectrum" International Prize for Photography, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Germany, 1977

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002

New Pictures from Paradise, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

2001

"Thomas Struth, Bilder aus dem Lowenzahnzimmer," Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany

2001-00

"Thomas Struth: My Portrait," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

1999

"Thomas Struth STILL," Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France; Gallery Shimada, Tokyo, Japan; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"New Pictures from Paradise," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"The Berlin Project" (with Klaus vom Bruch), Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

"New Pictures from Paradise," Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

1998

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France

"Thomas Struth, Portraits," Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

"The Berlin Project" (with Klaus von Bruch), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

1997

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"Portraits," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

1996

"Thomas Struth, Photos de Chine," Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

1995

Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

"Thomas Struth: Œuvres Récentes," Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

"Strangers and Friends," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

1994

"Landschaften," Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany

"Thomas Struth: Streets, Houses, People; Photographs 1988-1992," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1993

The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1992

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

1990

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1989

Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland

1987

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan

1978

P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003

-"Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph," Tate Modern,

England; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

-"Family Ties," Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

2002

“Realitetsfantasier,” Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway

"Wallflowers," Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2001

"Instant City, Fotografia E Metropoli" Centro Per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

2001-99

"Mirror's Edge," BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

2000

"Aspectos de la Collección," Fundació La Caixa, Madrid, Spain

"The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art," Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

"Ansicht Aussicht Einsicht, Architurfotographie," Museum Bochum, Kunstsammlung der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany; Galeria Bunkler Sztuki, Krakow, Poland

"Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

"Invitation to the City," Centre Bruxelles 2000, Brussels, Belgium

"Wohin kein Auge reicht," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

"Peking, Shanghai, Shenzhen: Cities of the 21st Century," Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau + Siemens Kulturprogramm, Dessau, Germany

"Around 1984, a look at Art in the Eighties," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

"Milano senza Confini," Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy

"How you look at it: Photography in the 20th Century," Expo 2000, Sprengel Museum Hannover and Da Städel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

5th Lyon Biennial, Lyons, France

"Open Ends: Architecture Hot and Cold," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

"Autowerke," Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

1999

"The Big Picture," Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont

"P.S. 1 Exhibitions," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

"Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

"The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect," The Museum of Modern Art New York, New York

"Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent Germany Photography," Architectural Association, London, England

"Art at Work: 40 Years of Chase Manhattan Bank," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

"Wohin kein Auge reicht," Dichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

"Von Beuys bis Cindy Sherman: Collection Lothar Schirmer," Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany

"Presence: Figurative Art at the End of the Century," Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England

"Stadtluft: Der Urbane Raum als Medium von Macht," Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

"Apposite Opposites: Photography from the MCA Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

"Der Versprechen der Fotografie: Collection of DG Bank," Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

"Missing Link: Menschen: Bilder in der Fotografie," Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1998

"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"Art of the 80s," Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

1997

"Face to Face: Luo Yongjin & Thomas Struth Fotografie," Art Gallery of Beijing, International Art Palace, Beijing, China

"Invisible Light," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

"Veronica's Revenge" (Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

"Evidence: Photography and Site," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

"Contemporary Photography. Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality," Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

"10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern," Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

"Distanz und Domizil," Städtische Galerie Rahnitzgasse, Dresden, Germany

"Photographie d'une collection," Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France

"Museum Studies: Eleven Photographer's Views," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

"Kunst unserer Zeit: Zeitgenössische deutsche Kunst aus Berliner Privatsammungen," Moscow, Russia

1996

"Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst," Prospect 96, Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main. & Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

"Multiple Exposure: The Group Portrait in Photography," The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut; Byly Art Museum, Charlottsville, Virginia

"Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

"Recaptured Nature," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"Kunststiftung Sabine Schwenk," Schloss Haigerlich, Stuttgart, Germany

"Die zeitgenössiche Sammlung des Westfälischen Kunstvereins," Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

"Délices and Picturalités," Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Lorraine, Metz, France

Musée Nationale d'Histoire and d'Art de Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Belgium

Galerie de L'Esplanade, École des Beaux-Arts, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

"Fotografia nell'arte tedesca contemporanea," Foro Boario, Modena, Italy

"Der fixierte Blick. Deutschland und das Rheinland im Fokus der Fotografie," Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany

"Distanz und Nähe," Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan

1995

Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

"After Art-Rethinking 150 Years of Photography," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

"RAM-Realität, Anspruch, Medium," Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany

Museum Wiesbaden/Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany

"Art Museum," Center for Creative Photography: The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

"The Reflected Image," Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy

"Blumenstücke/Kunststücke," Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

1994

"Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst," Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

"The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

"Visions Urbaines," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain

"Kunst in Frankfurt-Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Frankfurter Banken," Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, Frankfurt, Germany

"Exhibited," Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

"Die Orte der Kunst," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

"Works from the Collection-The Institute of Cultural Anxiety," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1993

"The Image of the Exhibition," Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

"Mai de la photo. Genius loci," Reims, France

"The Rome Project," David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

"Deutsche Kunstfotografie der 90er Jahre," Fototage, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

"Distanz und Nähe," Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

"Diskurse der Bilder" Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

1992

Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany

"Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"C'est pas la fin du monde," Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Bretagne, France

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"Family Album-Changing Perspective of Family Portrait," Tokyo, Japan Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, New York

"Mehr als ein Bild," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

1991

"A Dialogue about Recent American and European Photography," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Currents," Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California

"Sguardo di Medusa," Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

"Aus der Distanz," Kunstsammlung Nordrhein, Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

"This Land...," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers," Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Corocoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California

"Kunstfond 10 Jahre," Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany

"Surgence-Contemporary Creations in Photography in Germany," Comédie de Reims, Reims, France; Musée Saint-Croix, Poitiers, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France; Musée d'Evreux, Evreux, France

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

1990

"Weitersehen 1980-1990," Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"The Becher Influence: Bechers, Gursky, Hutte, Ruff, Struth," Glen Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, California

"German Photography: Documentation and Introspection," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

"Affinities and Intuition: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

"Images in Transition," National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

"Le Diaphne," Musée des Beaux-Arts Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, France

"Spiel der Spur," Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

"Aperto '90," Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

"De Afstand," Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1989

"Photo-Kunst - Arbeiten aus 150 Jahren," Catalogue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

"Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

"Prospect Photographie," Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1989-88

"Another objectivity," Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1988

"L'inventaire," Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Rhône-Alpes, Saint-Etienne, France

"Fotoarbeiten," Wofgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

"Reason revised," Fundació Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain

"Thomas Struth and Siah Armajani," Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1987

Skulptur Projekte Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany

"Das Ruhrgebiet Heute," Museum Folkwang, Essen Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany

"Foto/Realismen," Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany; Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany; Haus der Industrie, Cologne, Germany

"Thomas Struth and Siah Armajani," Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany

1986

Standort Düsseldorf '86, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

"Fotografie und Skulptur," Atelierhaus Hansaallee, Düsseldorf, Germany

1985

New York State University Gallery, New York, New York

1983

"Laputa," Gutenbergstraße, Stuttgart, Germany

"Austellung B," Ausstellungsräume, Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany

1981

"Erweiterte Fotografie," 5th International Biennial, Wiener Seccesion, Vienna, Austria

"Thomas Struth and Tata Ronkholz," Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany

1979

"Schlaglichter: Junge Kunst im Rheinland," Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

"In Deutschland: Aspekte gegenwärtiger Dokumentarfotografie in Deutschland," Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

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