Selected solo exhibitions

2013	Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2010	Larry Sultan, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2009	Homeland, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany The Valley, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany
2007	Around the House, Alexandre Pallazzon Ltd., London The Valley, Domus Artium 002, Salamanca, Spain The Valley, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2006	BAT CampusGalerie, Bayreuth, Germany Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany The Valley, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta 2005Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium The Photographers'Gallery, London, GB Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004	San Francisco MoMA
2003	Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
2002	Reflex Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001	Janet Borden Gallery, New York
2000	Galerie MK, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1996	Queens Museum, New York
1995	Scottsdale Center for the Arts - Scottsdale Arizona Rhode Island School of Design - Photography gallery
1994	Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC
1993	Chicago Cultural Arts Center San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
1993	Janet Borden Gallery, New York
1992	Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art
1990	The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1989	Janet Borden Gallery, New York
1987	Rhode Island School of Design
1983	University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1982	Portland School of Art, ME University of Colorado Art Gallery
1981	Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1979	Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art *
1978	Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
1977	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Selected group exhibitions

2012	Under the big black sun – Californian art 1974-1981, MOCA at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011	WUNDER. Kunst, Wissenschaft und Religion vom 4. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany CUT, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany Here, Pier 24, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, USA Hyper Real – Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany The Lucid Evidence. Fotografie aus der Sammlung des MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010	The View from Here, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco California, USA Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008], Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
2009	Royal Botanical Gardens (with Mike Mandel) PhotoEspaña 09, Madrid, Spain Into the Sunset: Photography’s image of the American of West, Museum Modern Art, NY Art Film / Art Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland The Art of Caring, New Orleans Museum of Art 2008-2009Seeing Double (with Lothar Baumgarten, Victor Burgin, Anthony McCall, Mike Mandel, Mark Thompson), Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2008	Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, MIssissippi Museum of Art, Jackson Mississippi Darkside, FotoMuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes - Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, Minnesota This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A - Huntington Library – Los Angeles California Variable Capital - Bluecoat Art Centre - Liverpool, England Southern Exposure: Southern California Art from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2007	Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum, CA Currents in Photography, CCAS - Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, CA Das Kapital - Blue Chips & Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2006	So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan, Art Institute of Chicago, USA 4th berlin biennial for contemporary art: Of Mice and Men , KW Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V., Berlin, Germany Click Double Click - Das dokumentarische Moment, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Click double click. Het documentaire moment, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2003	Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, NRW- Forum Kultur und Wissenschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002	Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, Fotomuseum Wintertur, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston House Broken, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Franscisco
2001	Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity In American Photography, The White Cube, London, England and the Prague City Gallery Picturing Media: Modern Photographs from the Collections, The Metropolitan Museum NY Points of Departure: Connecting mit Contemporary Art, SF Museum of Modern Art Color, Janet Borden Gallery, New York
2000	The Persistance of Photogaphy in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery Immodest Gazes, La Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain The Path of Resistance; Protest Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, NY Made in California, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art Beyond Boundries: Contemporary Photography in California, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum American Treasures from the Corcoran Gallery, The Corcoran Gallery of Art Making light: Wit and Humor in Photogtraphy, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vasser College
1999	Modern Starts/PEOPLE, The Museum of Modern Art, New York The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Florida Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanet Collection, San Jose Museum of Art Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 25/25 Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1998	Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York Matrix: 20 Years, University Art Museum, Berkeley CA The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Centre Canadien D’Architecture, UnderExposed Stockholm Metro Stations - Stockholm, Sweden
1997	HOPE, The National Arts Club - New York City Marin Arts Awards Exhibition - Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael Friends and Family, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
1996	The Familial Gaze, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College To Keep Her Countenance, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco Illustrious History 1871 -Present, John Berggruen Gallery, SF Photography as a Reflection of Time, Corcoran Gallery, Washington
1995	AlterEgo, Amsterdam Center for the Arts, Netherlands Photography, Stephan Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco Home is Where, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1994	Whose Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London GB Gesture and Pose, The Museum of Modern Art Nature and Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1992	Dismantling The Myth of the Family, Betty Rymer Gallery / The Art Institute of Chicago Parents, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton Ohio
1991	The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (travelling exhibition) Prints, Drawings, Photographs: a Summer Selection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Photography as Idea: Conceptual Photography of the 60's and 70's, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Blood Relatives, Milwaukee Art Museum Imaging the Family: Photographs by Tina Barney, Lorie Novak, and Larry Sultan, List Art Center Brown University, RI
1990	Recent Collaborations, Northlight Gallery Tempe, Arizona Re: Memory, The Work of Lorie Novak, George Kruse, Larry Sultan and Anne Turyn, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1989	California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe, The Museum of Modern Art, NY (travelling exhibition) Real Life Fictions: Photographs of Bill Dane, John Harding and Larry Sultan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Nature and Culture, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
1988	Collaborations, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation The Swimmers, Janet Burden Gallery, New York (Catalogue )
1987	Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum
1985	American Images 1945-1985. Barbican Art Gallery, London England Playing it Again: Strategies of Appropriation, Santa Fe Center of Contemporary Art, travelling exhibition Family as Subject Matter in Contemporary Art, Washington Project for the arts Art and Advertising, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Les Immateriaux, Musee National D'Art Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Signs of the Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco New Color Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Swimmers, Pace Mcgill Gallery, New York
1984	Photography in California: 1945-1975, The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, (travelling exhibition) The Collection of Sam Wagstaff, International Center of Photography, NY 198220th Century Photography From the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (Catalogue) Beyond Color, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art A Few French Gestures, Paris Bienale XIIeme, Paris, France

Collections

Art Institute of Chicago
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris France
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon Az
Canadian Center for Architecture
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ca
The Jewish Museum, New York
The List Art Center, Brown University, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Whitney Museum of American Art New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces
The Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
San Jose Museum of Art, San Cose, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The State of Washington
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
University of California Art Museum, Berkeley
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Conn.