Born in 1953 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Malakoff, France
Born in 1953 in Paris, Sophie Calle is a French artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. She has been described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director or even detective; but has developed a practice that is instantly recognizable for a distinct narrative and the frequent combination of images with text. Each of these projects can be seen as another chapter in a vast overall system of references and echoes where Calle often blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life. Since the late 1970s, Sophie Calle has merged image and narration. Her work methodically organizes an unveiling of reality – her own and that of others, while allocating a controlled part of this reality to chance.
solo shows
2019
- Regard incertain, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland (forthcoming)
- Un certain regard, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Cinq, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée Borély, Musée Grobet Labadie, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Chapelle De La Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
- Cuídese Mucho, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chile
- Exquisite pain, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- Ma mère, mon chat, mon père, dans cet ordre, Perrotin, Tokyo
- Parce que, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018
- Dead End, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
- Sophie Calle - l'Hôtel / Voir La Mer, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany
- Souris Calle, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Parce que, Perrotin, Paris, France
2017
- Crossing the Line Festival - Sophie Calle: Voir la mer curated by French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), Times Square, New York, USA
- Beau doublé, Monsieur le marquis ! Sophie Calle et son invitée Serena Carone, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
- Missing, curated by Evelyne Jouanno / Ars Citizen, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, USA
2016
- Histoires vraies, Théâtre Liberté, Toulon, France
- For the Last and First Time, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan
2015
- Sophie Calle, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- For the Last and First Time, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
- Cuídese mucho, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Modus vivendi, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain
- Sophie Calle: North Pole, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
- Pour la dernière et pour la première fois, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
2014
- Sophie Calle, Makoto Aida, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong
- Cuídese mucho, Museo Tamayo, Mexico city, Mexico
- MAdRE, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
- Sophie Calle, An Introduction, Un cabinet d’amateur, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Cuídese mucho, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico - Rachel Monique, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, USA
- Voir la mer, Église Notre-Dame de l’Assomption, Valloire, France
2013
- Dérobés, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- Last Seen, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
- Absence, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
- Chambre 20, Hôtel La Mirande, Avignon, France
- Où et Quand?, 313 Art Project, Seoul, South Korea
- For the Last and First Time, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Take Care of Yourself, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway
2012
- Pour la dernière et pour la première fois, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- Pour la dernière et pour la première fois, Rencontres d’Arles, Chapelle du Méjan, Arles, France
- Rachel Monique, Festival d’Avignon, Église des Célestins, Avignon, France
- Historias de pared, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
- Moi aussi, Musée du Septennat, Château-Chinon, France
- Historias de pared, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia
- Take Care of Yourself, Espoon modernin taiteen museo, Espoon, Finland
- Take Care of Yourself, The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis, USA
2011
- Take Care of Yourself / Hoia end. Ole tubli, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia
- Son Kez, Ilk Kez, Sakip Sabanci Müzesi, Istanbul, Turkey
- True Stories, Prospect.2, 1850 House of the Louisiana State Museum, Nouvelle-Orléans, USA
- Room, Crossing the Line, The Lowell Hotel, New York, USA
2010
- Sophie Calle: 2010 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden
- Rachel Monique, Friche du Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
- Where and when? Lourdes, Art Gallery Christina Wilson, Copenhaguen, Denmark
- Talking to Strangers, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark ; De Pont Museum, Tilbourg, Netherlands
2009
- The Address Book, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA
- Cuide de você, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro ; Museu de Arte Moderna de Salvador de Bahia ; SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
- Earth: Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- Talking to Strangers, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
- Calle Sophie, Palais des Beaux-Arts, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
- No Sex Last Night, Centre Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Take Care of Yourself, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
- Où et Quand? Berck / Lourdes, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2008
- Où et Quand ? Berck / Lourdes, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- Prenez soin de vous, Fondation pour l’art contemporain DHC/ART, Montréal, Canada
- Prenez soin de vous, Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu, Paris, France
2007
- Prenez soin de vous, Pavillon français de la 52e Biennale de Venise, Italy
- Douleur exquise (mise en scène Frank Gehry et Edwin Chan), Rotunda 1 de Bonnevoie, Luxembourg
2006
- La Cabine téléphonique (en collaboration avec Frank Gehry), Pont du Garigliano, Paris, France
- True Stories, Galerie Perrotin, Miami, USA
2005
- Exquisite Pain, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
- Exquisite Pain, Portland Art Museum, USA
2004
- M’as-tu vue, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
- M’as-tu vue, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
- True Stories, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
- Die Entfernung – The Detachment, Kunst im Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
2003
- M’as-tu vue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Dommages collatéraux, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- Sophie Calle, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
- Editions, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
2002
- Gotham Handbook, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
- Sophie Calle, Spectrum, International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Sprengel Museum, Hanovre, Germany
2001
- Double Game, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
- Sophie Calle, Public Places – Private Spaces, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
- Vingt ans après, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- Editions, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
2000
- Die wahren Geschichten der Sophie Calle, Fridericianum, Cassel ; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
- Sophie Calle..., Librairie des Archives, Paris, France
- Sophie Calle, École régionale des Beaux-arts de Dunkerque, France
- Souvenirs de Berlin-Est, XXXIes Rencontres internationales de la photographie , Librairies Actes Sud, Arles, France
- Sophie Calle – Sol LeWitt, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA
1999
- Les Tombes, Galerie Clara Rainhorn, Brussels, Belgium
- Doubles-jeux, Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg
- Doubles-jeux, Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France
- Double Game, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
- Appointment with Sigmund Freud, Freud Museum London, UK
- Souvenirs de Berlin-Est, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, France
- De l’obéissance, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
- Double Game, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
- Douleur exquise, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- The Eruv, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
1998
- L’Hôtel. La sphère de l’intime, Printemps de Cahors, France
- Doubles-jeux, Centre national de la photographie, Paris, France
- Double Game, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
- Detachment - Die Entfernung, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, Germany
- The Birthday Ceremony, Tate Britain, London, UK
- L’Erouv, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
1997
- Relatos, Fundación « la Caixa », Barcelona ; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Grenada, Spain
- Detachment – Die Entfernung, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
- Comme si de rien n’était, Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt, Château de Lavigny Switzerland
- The Sleepers, Suite vénitienne, Birthday Ceremony, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA
- Suite vénitienne, White Cube, London, UK
1996
- True Stories, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
- The Eruv of Jerusalem, Artfocus - International Biennal of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel
- Sophie Calle, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
- Des Histoires vraies, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
- L’Erouv, XXVIIes Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Librairie Actes Sud, Arles, France
- L’Erouv, Journées d’art contemporain de Porto, Synagogue de Porto, Portugal
- The Detachment - Die Entfernung, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
- Relatos, Fundación « la Caixa », Madrid, Spain
1995
- Fravaer, Portalen, Copenhaguen, Denmark
- Proof, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara ; Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland ; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA
- Les Autobiographies, Printemps de Cahors, France
- Les Tombes, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
1994
- L’Absence, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- The Husband, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- The Sleepers, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
- Les Aveugles, Sala Amárica, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Romances, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
- L’Absence, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
- Des histoires vraies, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
- Des histoires vraies, Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France
- L’Absence, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1993
- Blind Color, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
- Proofs, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
- Los Ciegos, Las Tumbas, Anatoli, Sala Mendoza, Caracas ; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay, Venezuela
1992
- The Graves, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, USA
- A suivre, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
- Sophie Calle, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA
- Pierre tombale, Centre culturel français, Palerme, Italy
- Les Tombes, Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France
1991
- Sophie Calle, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
- Sophie Calle, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA
- A suivre, ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
- Sophie Calle in under skinnët, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1990
- Sophie Calle. A Survey, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
- The Sleepers, Matrix Gallery, Berkeley University, USA
- Les Tombes, Galería La Máquina Española, Séville, Spain
- Les Tombes, Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France
1989
- Sophie Calle. A Survey, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1988
- Sophie Calle, Galería Montenegro, Madrid, Spain
1987
- J’ai rencontré des gens qui sont nés aveugles, Centre d’art de Flaine, France
- Anatoli, Museotrain du FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
1986
- Anatoli, École des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque ; Centre d’art contemporain, Orléans, France
- Les Aveugles, Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France ; Tasmanian College of the Arts, Hobart, Australia ; De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1985
- Sophie Calle, APAC - centre d’art contemporain, Nevers, France
1984
- L’Hôtel C., Galerie Formi, Nîmes, France
1983
- L’Hôtel C., Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
1981
- Les Dormeurs, Galerie Canon, Geneva, Switzerland
1980
- The Bronx, Fashion Moda, New York, USA
group shows
2019
- Creatures: When Species Meet, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
2018
- In the cut - The Male Body In Feminist Art, Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken, Germany
2017
- Review : 25 years De Pont, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
- Schlaf. Eine produktive Zeitverschwendung, Museen Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Germany
- An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy In Contemporary, curated by Henriette Huldisch, MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
- Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânarie curated by Thomas Collins, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
- 2017 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize Shortlist, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK ; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
- Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA
2016
- The Human Condition, Session II: Human And The Others. Love, friendship, suspicion, aversion, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
- Tell Me What I Mean, To__Bridges__, Bronx, USA
- Dream States: Contemporary Photographs and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- L’image volée, curated by Thomas Demand, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
- Public, Private, Secret, curated by Charlotte Cotton, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2015
- ON TIME: Photoworks from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Paris Photo, Paris, France
- Archive Bound, The Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
- For Future Reference, Centre for Contemporary Photographs, Fitzroy, Australia
- Wild Noise, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, USA
- Urban Anxiety, Bonniers Kunsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
- Arts & Food, curated by Germano Celant, La Triennale di Milano, Italy
- The Memory of Time, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
- Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2014
- S’il y a Lieu Je Paris Avec Vous, Le Bal, Paris, France
- Unsold, Gallery Koyangi, Tokyo, Japan
2013
- I Look to You and I See Nothing, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- The Opposite of Justice, Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, Bergamo, Italy
- Everyone Carries a Room Inside, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
- Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin / 25 ans, Tripostal, Lille, France
- Within & Beyond: Works from Gemini G.E.L., Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, USA
- Fault Lines, curated by Constance Lewallen, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA
- Walk-On: 40 Years of Art Walking from Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
- The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, USA
- Merci Mercy, 980 Madison Gallery, New York, USA
- Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Documents: Selections from the Ella Fontanals- Cisneros Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, USA
- The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2012
- Urban Archives: The Rituals of Chaos, Bronx Museum of the Arts, USA
- Célébration Rêve de nature, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valence, Valence, France
- Carnal Knowledge: Sex + Philosophy, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, USA
- This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
- Spies in the House of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- Sophie Calle, Christian Marclay, Paul Pfeiffer, Walid Raad, Michael Sailstorfer, Carey Young, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2011
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
- Body Gesture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, USA
- Prospect.2 Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, multiple venues, New Orleans, USA
- For the Last and First Time, Sakip Sabanci Museum, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
- The Rest, Pepe Cobo y cia, Madrid, Spain
2010
- The Talent Show, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
- Memory, Westport Arts Center, Westport, USA
- You can’t get there from here buy you can get here from there, apexart, New York, USA
- Memories of the Future, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
- Che Fare? Arte Povera, the historic years, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Human, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
- Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
- Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera, Tate Modern, London, UK
- In Full Bloom, curated by Antonio Grulli, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
- Feeling what no longer is, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
- The Talent Show, curated by Peter Eleey, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
- I Love You, curated by Pernille Taagaard and Lise Mortensen, ARos Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus C, Denmark
- Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- FALL OUT – art, desire and disengagement, curated by Mads Damsbo and Merete Jankowski, Gl Holtegaard, Denmark, and Malmö Kunsthal, Sweden
2009
- 1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future? KUNSTHALLE wien, Vienna, Austria
- Reading & Writing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
- From Private to Public: Collections at the Guggenheim Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
- The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Collection, 1957-2007, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- Darkside II – Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
- With You I Want to Live: Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Collection, Museum of Art, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA
- After Image, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
- Regift curated by John Miller, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
2008
- Mr.’s Nobody Dies Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
- Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, USA
- The New Normal, curated by Michael Connor, Artist Space, New York, USA ; traveling to Haurte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte, Spain
- Slightly Unbalanced, organized by Independent Curators International, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA; traveling to Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, USA; and to Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, USA
2007
- Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, curated by Matthew Higgs, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
- Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA
- Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA
- Philosophy of the Bedroom, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2006
- Art, Life & Confusion, organized by René Block and Barbara Heinrich, 47th October Salon, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
- Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, curated by Dede Young, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY - Strange Powers, organized by Laura Hoptman and Peter Eleey, Creative Time, New York, New York
- Dormir, rêver...et autres nuits, Musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux, France
- Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA
2005
- Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
- Sophie Calle + Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
- Theorema. Une collection privée en Italie, la collection d’Enea Righi, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
- At The Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care (2005 Whitney Museum ISP Exhibition), The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center of the CUNY, New York, USA
- Experiencing Duration: Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, France
- Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstfofrum Vienna Kunsthale, Austria
2004
- Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston,
- Shutters, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
- Beauty Matters, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, USA
- Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2003
- Love, Bregenzer Kunstverein / Magazin4, Bregenz, Germany
- Silent Screams Difficult Dreams, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germain
- Gegenwartig: Feldforschung, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
- Un été a Toulouse, Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France
- Treat yourself: health consumers in a medical age, Science Museum, London, UK
- The Furtive Gaze, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, USA
- Warum !, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
- Fantome du plaisir, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Germany
- Talking pieces, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Germany
- Rituale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
- Fables de l’identité, Collection NSM Vie / ABN AMRO, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
- Collection, Nouvelle Presentation, Musee d’ Art Contemporain Lyon, France
2002
- New Hotels for Global Nomads, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA
- Testing the Arches, Center for Curatorial Studies Tenth Anniversary, Bard College (curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Cecilia Brunson), Annanndale-on-Hudson, USA
- En Route, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- The Photographic Impulse, (curated by Tom Collins) Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
- Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
- Iconoclash, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Self/In Material Conscience, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Cuneo, Italy
- Photography by Gallery Artists, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA
- Mirror Alterations, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York, USA
- Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, USA
- Taboo: Mavericks and Hot Iron, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland
- Public Affairs, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
- Iconoclash, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany
- Mitologie Individuali, PAC, Mailand, Italy
- Self: In Material Conscience, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
- Stories, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- Photographier, Collection Lambert, Musée de l’Histoire, Luxembourg
2001
- Part Two (1988-1994), Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA
- Game Show, Mass MoCA, North Adams, USA
- Conversation(s), Musée Départemetal de Gap, Marseille, France
- Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
- Dévoler Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
- Beautiful Productions, art to play, art to wear, art to own, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
- Depicting Absence / Implying Presence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
- Purloined Artists Space, New York, USA
- A Private Reading, The Book as Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, USA
- CTRL [Space]: Rhetorik der Überwachung von Bentham bis Big Brother, curated by Thomas Y. Levin, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany
- Things to Come, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
- Arret sur image: Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Frankreich, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
2000
- The Go-Between, Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg
- Carpe Diem – La part d’autobiographique dans l’ouvre d’art, Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nimes, France
- A Table, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
- Vanitas Parsonae, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
- Petites Mythologies, Chateau de Tarascon, France
- L’empire du temps, myths at création, Louvre, Paris
- Werke Raum 1, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
- Ich ist etwas anderes, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
- La casa, il corpo, il cuoare; Constructions of the identities, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
- Die scheinbaren Dinge, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- Automobility, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
- La Photographie Traversée, Résonances, Croisements, Disparitions, XXXIèmes Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
- Around 1984: A Look at Art in the 80’s, P.S.1, New York, USA
1999
- Veronica’s Revenge: Photographs from the Lambert Art Collection, Casino Luxembourg at Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxemburg
- Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Necropolis, Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
- Urban Mythologies, Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, USA
- Passage New French Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- True Stories, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
- Souvenir Utopie, Stadthaus Ulm, Germany
- L’art cu centre, Auswahl von Arbeiten aus dem Centre Georges pompidou, Epinay-sur-Seine, France
- Collection du Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Sion, Switzerland
- Arsaevi, Museo d’arte contemporaneo, Skenderija center, Sarajevo, Bosnia
- Collection de la Fondation Cartier, Centre culturel de Belém, Portugal
- L’écrit, le mot, le texte, Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France
- Le sommeil ou quand la raison s’absente, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Arts / Ecriture, FRAC Provence Alpes cotes d’Azur, Chapelle Ste Anne, Arles, France
- Une histoire parmi d’autres, FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, France
- The Jewish Museum, New York, New York, USA
- Carlton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minneapolis, USA
1998
- RESOLUTION, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
- Early Forms, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
- Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
- Premises, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- Words and Images, Miami Art Museum, USA
- Musée d’art et Judaisme, Paris, France
- L’étonnante gravité des choses simples, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac, France
- Le fragment, la durée, le montage, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France
- Paris, Galleri F-15, Moss, Norway
- Collection contemporaines, nouvelle présentation, Musée d’art Moderne de Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
- Collection d’art contemporain de la Fondation La Caixa, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Grenada, Spain
- La sphere de l’intime, Printemps de Cahors, France
- Narrador d’historias, Fondacio La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
- Photographies, Gaerie Erna Hécey, Luxemburg
1997
- Veronica’s Revenge: Photographs from the Lambert Art Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
- Trade Routes: History and Geography, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Montenegro Biennale, Montenegro
- Sophie Calle: The Husband (Autobiographical Stories) and Other Works, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, USA
- Mascara I Mirall, Museu d’art contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
- Fenetre sur Cour, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
- Framed Area, Amsterdam (film in einem Drive-in), Netherlands
- La Photographie comtemporaine en France : Dix ans d’acquisitions, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Amours, Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
- 7. International Biennale der Fotographie, Turin, Italy
- Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Münhen / Kulturforum Berlin, Germany
- Crossing: France / Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, USA
- Floating Images of Women in Art History, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
- Survey Results Show... Oakville Galleries Ontario, Canada
- Engel, Engel, Kusthalle Wien / Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
- 20 ans, Le Consortium, Dijon (film), France
- Le Songe de Constantin, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France
- Fenetre au sud, Cergy-Pontoise, France
- A Vendre, Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxemburg
- Message, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
1996
- NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
- Identités et affinités, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
- By Night, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
- Imagined Communities, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham; John Hansard Gallery; University of Southhampton: Firstsite at the Minorities, Colchester; Walsall Museum and Art Gallery; Royal Festival Hall, London; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- Passions privées, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
- More than Real, Palazzo Reale: Caserta, Galleria Raucci/Santa Maria, Naples, Italy
- Bons enfants, Plakataktion Kunst im offentlichen Raum, Germany
- Carte blanche à fouad bellamine, Villa Roudani, Casablanca, Marocco
- Dîtes-le avec des fleurs, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
- Fool’s Rain, ICA, London, UK
- Le Voyage Extraordinaire, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
- La photograohie contemporaine en France – dix ans d’acquisitions, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Exposure, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
- Arts dans la ville, Musée de la Mine, Puits Couriot, Saint-Etienne, France
- Concours des circontances, FRAC Centre – Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France
- Réels, Fictions, Virtuel, XXVIIèmes Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
- 1989-1995: deuxième époque, F.R.A.C. Limousin, France
- For the Museum of Contemporary Art: Sarajevo 2000, the 1996 Collection, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Art Focus, Jerusalem, Israel
- Féminin-Masculin Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Voyeur’s Delight, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
- L’expérience du Monochrome... Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
- Operat ’96 – Narrative Art 1970-1990, Ravenna, Italy
1995
- Incidents, Casa da Parra, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Art Museum, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
- Els límits del museu, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
- Photography and Beyond: New Expressions in France, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida; Museum of Contemporay Photogrpahy, Chicago, Illinois; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California; Bard College Museum, New York, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Moderna Galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Printemps de Cahors, France
- Fetishism, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton; Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- Fantômes et autres revenants, Château de Biron, Monpazier, France
- Féminin/masculin, le sexe de l’art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World, Bienal Internacional de Istanbul, Turkey
Stereo-Tip, Soros Center, Mestna Galerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia
1994
- Art & the Social conscience, Project Row Houses, Houston, USA
- The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
- Arte in Francia, 1970 / 1993, Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
- Evidence of Death, The Light Factory, Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, USA
- Some Went Mad...Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Portalen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Endstation Sehnsucht, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Gift, The InterArt Center, New York, USA
- ...ou les oiseaux selon Schopenhauer, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Agen, France
- Züge, Züge. Die Eisenbahn in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen; Städtische Galerie, Göppingen, Germany - Taking Pictures, International Center of Photography, New York, New York
- Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
- A Sense of Place, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, USA
- Art and the Social Conscience, Robert McClain & Co., Houston, USA
- Where is Home?, Kent Gallery, New York, USA
- Beyond Photography, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Ludwig Museum, Koln; Serpentine Gallery, London; The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The High Museum, Atlanta; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
1993
- Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
- Memories, Facts & Lies, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
- Blind Color, Leo Castelli, New York, USA
- Wooster Gardens, New York, USA
- Doubletake, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Documentario 2, Spazio Opos, Milan, Italy
- Nachtschattengewächse – The Nightshade Family, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- Histoire de voir, Château de Villeneuve, Vence, France
- Strange Hotel, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
- Camaras de Friccion - P. Cabritas Reis, S. Calle, A. Wilding, J. Usle, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain - Über-Leben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
- Group Exhibition, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
- Building a Collection, Part I, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
- Public Figures, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, USA
1992
- Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA
- Doubletake: Collective Memory and Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
- Avstand, Muséet för Nutids Konst, Helsinki, Finland
- Le Portrait dans l’Art Contemporain, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France - Theoretically Yours, Chiesa di S. Lorenzo, Aosta, Italy
- Bedroom Eyes: Room with a View, California State University, Fullerton, USA
- France, Troisième Génération, World Fair, Sevilla, Spain
1991
- Vanitas, Galerie Crousel-Robelin; Bama, Paris, France
- Erotic Desire, Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Indivisualités: 14 Contemporary Artists from France, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Disloacations, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
- L’Amour d’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
- La Photographie dans la Collection, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France
- Grandes lignes, quand l’art entre en gare, Gare de l‘Est, Paris, France
- The Interrupted Life, The Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
- Hommage a Georges Boudaille, Gare d’Austerlitz, Paris
- Lato Sensu, Kopenhagen; Hamburg, Germany ; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, France
- Too French, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
- Les Couleurs de l’Argent, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
- Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
- Dislocations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Storie, Gallerie Caolli, Milan, Italy
- Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA
1990
- Autour de René Payant, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
- Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
- Seven Obsessions, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
- The Ready-Made Boomerang, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
- Modèles Déposés - 1, C.A.U.E., Limoges, France
- Keys for a Building, Galerie Crousel-Robelin/Bama, Paris, France
- Beyond the Photographic Frame, Mito Arts Foundation, Ibaraki, Japan
- Images in Transition: Photographic Representation Towards the 90’s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA
- Exposed, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, USA
- Strip-tease de l’intime, Galerie Urbi & Orbi, Paris, France
- Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Stephen Prina, Trans-Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1989
- At Face Value, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK
- Frontières, Galerie Christine Le Chanjour, Nice, France
- Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
- Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- Tenir l’image à distance, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
- Tendances Actuelles de la Photographie en France, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France - Nos Années 80, Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
- Histoires de Musée, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
- Fictions (organized by Jérôme Sans), Aéroport de Mirabel, Montréal, Canada
- Aubes 3935, Montréal, Canada
- Monat der Fotografie, Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
- Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA
- Contemporary European Art, First Bank Skyway Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
- L’Invention d’un art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Painting / Object / Photograph, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
- Culture Medium, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
- Shifting Focus, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1988
- Au-delà de l’Image, Photofest, Houston, USA
- Art & Text, First National Bank, Minneapolis, USA
- Cornelius Craig Gallery, New York, USA
- La Photo à la Rescousse de l’Art, Apt, France
- Tendances Actuelles de la Photographie en France, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1987
- The New Who’s Who, Hoffman/Borman Gallery, Los Angeles, California - Scared to Breath, Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Galerij de lege Ruinte, Bruges, Belgium
1986
- ’F’ Four French, Lang & O’Hara, New York, New York - Galerie du Jour, Agnès B., Paris, France
1985
- Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn, Museum of Modern Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1984
- Salon de Montrouge, France
- Post-Olympic Art, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; Beau-Lezard, Paris, France
- Nouvelles Acquisitions du F.N.A.C., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- La Chambre, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1983
- Il n’y a pas à proprement parler une histoire..., Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France
- À Pierre & Marie, 36, rue d’Ulm, Paris, France
1982
- Du Livre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
- Une autre Photographie, Maison de la Culture, Créteil, France
- Réseau Art, Paris, France
- Le Poids des Mots, Le Choc des Photos, Au fond de la cour à droite, Chagny, France
1981
- Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
- Autoportraits, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France
- Culture Medium, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
- Acquisitions Récentes des Collectionneurs Genevois, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
- Erweiterte Fotografie – 5. Winer International Biennale, Wiener Sezession, Vienna, Austria
1980
- 11, Biennale des Jeunes, A.R.C.; Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
- Une Idée en l’Air, The Clocktowe ; Fashion Moda, New York, USA
public collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Kadist, San Francisco, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Kemper Art Museum, Saint-Louis, USA
MCA Chicago, USA
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, USA
Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Tate Museum, London, UK
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Fundaciòn "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Sakip Sabanci Müzesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Museum on the seam, Tel Aviv, Israel
Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Danemark
Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden
The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Danemark
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland
Cimetière des Rois, Genève, Switzerland
Musée de Nîmes, France
Chateau La Coste, Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France
FRAC Île-de-France, France
Sophie Calle - Doubles-jeux
Monographies et livres d'artiste
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