Museum Collections & Exhibitions
Museum Collections
Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York
The Baltimore Museum of Art
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Birmingham Museum of Art , Birmingham, Alabama
The Brooklyn Museum
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
The Century Association
State of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Fairfield Museum and History Center
Galeries Fnac, Paris
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (definitive collection)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Musée de l’Eysée Lausanne, Switzerland
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of the City of New York
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection
New Orleans Museum of Art
New York Historical Society
New York Public Library
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smithsonian Institution; The National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian Institution; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Yale University Gallery of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
ilon Art Gallery, New York, New York, 2017
Davison Arts Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, "Philip Trager: Photographing Ina; 2016
The New York Public Library, New York, "Echoes of Silence: Philip Trager, Early Photographs, 1967-1983, 2012-2013 AD-Galerie, Genolier, Switzerland, Dance and Cities, 2012
The National Building Museum (in cooperation with the Library of Congress), Washington D.C., 2009-
2010 (Retrospective)
The American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010, 1982
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 2007 (Retrospective)
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut: Center for the Arts, 2006 (Retrospective); Davison Art Center, 2006 (Retrospective)
John Stevenson Gallery, New York, 2006 (Retrospective)
University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 2006 (Retrospective)
Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts, “Philip Trager: A Pillow Retrospective,” 2006
Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome, 2002
Embassy of France, Washington, D.C., 2000
Fahey-Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, 2000
The French Library and Cultural Center, Boston, 2000
The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C., 2000
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, 1992, 1995, and 2000
Les Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France (Fnac) (traveled to sixteen venues in
France, Spain and Belgium), 1994–1999
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, 1996
Photographs for the Dance Anthology Project, Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts, 1994, 1995, and 1996
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 1994
Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia, 1994
Troyer/Fitzpatrick/Lassman Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1994
Vision Gallery, San Francisco, 1993–1994
Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts (traveled to various venues), 1993 and 1994
Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 1993
Fondation Ledoux, Saline Royale d’Arc et Senans, France, 1991 and 1999
Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1989
Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1989
Light Impressions Gallery, Rochester, New York, 1988
International Center of Photography–Midtown, New York (book exhibition), 1987
Milwaukee Center for Photography, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1984
Camera Work Gallery, Port Washington, New York, 1981
Centre International de Fotografia, Barcelona, 1981
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, 1981
Ufficio dell’Arte, Paris, 1981
Museum of the City of New York, 1980–1981
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979
Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, 1978
Milwaukee Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1978
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 1977
Focus Gallery, San Francisco, 1977
Museum of Arts, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1977
University of Connecticut Museum of the Art, Storrs, Connecticut, 1977
Washington Gallery of Photography, Washington, D.C., 1975
San Francisco Museum of Art (with Ron Stark), 1974
The Witkin Gallery, New York, 1972, 1977, 1980, and 1986
831 Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1972
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut: Center for the Arts, 1970, 1987; Davison Art Center, 1974, 1981, 1992, 2000
Underground Gallery, New York, 1970
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Converging to a Center, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 2017
My Manhattan, ilon Art Gallery, New York, New York, 2017
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., FotoWeek at the Phillips, (photographs from the permanent
collection), November 7, 2105- January 31, 2016.
ilon Gallery, New York, New York, Harlem: Life in Pictures, October 22,2015-January 8, 2016
Dance, Thomas J.Walsh Art Gallery, Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Connecticut, 2015- 2016
Highlights of Landmark Exhibitions, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts, 2015
American Gallery, Birmingham Museum of Art , Birmingham, Alabama, 2014
Decades of Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts, 2012
Creative Acts, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 2009
Mark Morris “Portraits,” Furman Gallery, Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York, 2006
Photography and the Page, Manwaring and Joanne Toor Cummings Galleries, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, 2006
My Friends: Their Vision, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2006
Paris–New York, aller-retour,Musée d’art Américain, Giverny, France, 2002
Imaging Paris: Six Photographers’ Views of the City,Yale University Art and Architecture Library, New Haven, Connecticut (book exhibition: Atget, Brassaï, Doisneau, Marville, Lee Miller, Trager), 2002
Through the Lens at Jacob’s Pillow,Puffin Foundation, New York, 2002
Sun Works: Contemporary Alternative Photography,Art Institute of Boston, 2001–2002
Look Out! Photographing Dancers Outdoors,Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts, 2001
The Halsted Dance Photography Collection,Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 2000
Playing Off Time, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1999–2000
John Stevenson Gallery, New York, 1999
Paris/New York, Jane Jackson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999
Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts,St. Petersburg, Florida, 1999
The Body in the Mirror, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1998; Photographic Center of Skopelos, Skopelos, Greece, 1998; and Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Quebec (La Siècle du Corps Photographies, 1900–2000), 2000
O século do corpo, Cultargest, Lisbon, 1999
New York at 100,Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York, 1998
New York, Helluva Town,The Platinum Gallery, New York, 1998
The Ernst Haas Memorial Collection,Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 1998
Portraits—19th and 20th Century Photography,Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1997
Body in the Lens,Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 1997
Hope Photographs,National Arts Club, New York; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York;
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, 1997
Woodstock Photography Workshops Faculty Exhibition, Woodstock, New York, 2001 and 1997
Photography: The Platinum Gallery, New York, 1997
Works From the Platinum Collection,Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, 1997
Loves & Legends,Photography: The Platinum Gallery, New York, 1998
Dance Photography,Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1996
Photography: The Platinum Gallery, Santa Fe, 1995
Images on Common Ground: Trager/Lindquist,Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts, 1992
In a Time of Censorship,University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 1992
The Twentieth-Century City,Houk/Friedman Gallery, New York, 1991
ManipulatorRetrospective,Alinari Museum, Florence, 1991
Selected Photographs,Brooklyn Museum, 1989
Ten Years, 1979–1989,Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, 1989
Portfolio Gallery, London, 1989
Legacy of Light,DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1988
Visual Experiences of Architecture: Form and Content,Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1988
Photographs from Close-Up Magazine, Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986
Masterworks of Contemporary Photography, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 1986
Exhibition for Lee Witkin, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1982; Memorial Exhibition for Lee Witkin, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1985
Le Photographie Créative: Les Collections de Photographies Contemporaines de la Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris, 1984
15th Anniversary Exhibit, 1969–1984: A Selection from the Years,Witkin Gallery, New York, 1984
101 Photographs: Selections from the Steinman Collection,Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1984
Exhibition of Photographs from the Permanent Collection,Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1984
Ranchos de Taos: A Photographic History,Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1983
Landscape/Cityscape,Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California, 1983
Contemporary Foreign Photographers from the Collection,Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1982
Five Years at the Creative Photography Gallery, Creative Photography Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982
Masterpieces of Photography from Wesleyan University and Private Collections, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1982
New Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, 1981
New Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981
Manhattan Observed: Fourteen Photographers Look at New York, 1972–1981, New York Historical Society; New York State Museum, Albany, 1981
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, 1981
The Photographer and the Frame,Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1980
Photographers Look at Buildings,Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1979
Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s,Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, 1979
A Ten-Year Salute,Witkin Gallery, New York, 1979
Four Photographers,Creative Photography Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978
Witkin Gallery, New York, 1973 and 1975
Photo-Vision 72; Photo-Vision 75,Boston Center for the Arts, 1972 and 1975
Members Exhibition,Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, 1971
Christmas Exhibition,Witkin Gallery, New York, 1969