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Artists›James Welling

James Welling

1951

WA-00000238

Photography

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

210

Works in Collection

328

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ6145303

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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No image

Tabula Rasa

Paula Cooper Gallery

2024

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%
BiographyGallery Zwirner· 80%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (5)

Marian-Goodmanhttps://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Zwirnerhttps://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/james-welling
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
David-Zwirnerhttps://www.davidzwirner.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Maureen-Paleyhttps://www.maureenpaley.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/8193
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for James Welling yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

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Medium

Photography

Related Artists

11 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Cleveland Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (210)

Julia Mamaea, 2019

2019 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Julia Mamaea, 2018

2018 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Julia Mamaea, 2018

2018 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Julia Mamaea, 2018-2019

2018 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Julia Mamaea, 2019

2018 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Chemical

2017 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Chemical

2015 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Chemical

2015 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

Kusama

2014 · Inkjet print

42 × 63" (106.7 × 160 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

021B

2011 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

012X

2011 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Olson House in Fog

2010 · Inkjet print

Sheet (sight): 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (69.9 × 4.1 cm) Image (sight): 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (69.9 × 4.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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River Cove

2010 · Inkjet print

Sheet: 43 7/8 × 33 in. (111.4 × 83.8 cm) Image: 42 × 28 in. (106.7 × 71.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

2009 · Gelatin silver print

9 15/16 × 8" (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Frolic Architecture

2009 · One from an illustrated book with ten digital prints and one supplementary digital print with poem

page: 10 15/16 x 8 3/8" (27.8 x 21.2 cm); overall: 11 x 8 11/16 x 13/16" (28 x 22 x 2 cm); sheet (separate signed print): 10 15/16 x 16 15/16" (27.8 x 43 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (5)

210 published of 248 catalogued · 216 with image

Art Institute Chicago
153 published153 img
MoMA
37 publishedof 75 catalogued53 img
Victoria & Albert
10 published10 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published
Whitney
3 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources

#19
2004 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
#31
2004 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
#18
2004 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
#28
2004 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

22 assets

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

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Relationships

Peers & Context38

Sarah Charlesworthco-exhibited Sam Durantco-exhibitedDouglas Hueblerco-exhibitedSara VanDerBeekco-exhibitedLiu Shiyuanco-exhibitedLuciano Pernaco-exhibited

Collections8

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Cleveland Museum of Art David Zwirner

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

David Zwirner

Gallery

Paula Cooper Gallery

Represented by

Maureen Paley

Current

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Background

Education

California Institute of the Arts

Master of Fine Arts · 1974

Carnegie Mellon University

Visual Arts · 1971

Network

Related Artists

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Art Basel Miami Plus: Additional Works From This Year's Featured Artists

2025

Solo Exhibition James Welling: Thought Objects

2024

Group Exhibition David Zwirner: 30 Years

2024

Group Exhibition Tabula Rasa

2024