Born 1971, Munich
1994 BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Printing
1997 MA Fine Art Photography, Royal College of Art, London
Lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
2018 New-York Historical Society Museum, NYC, USA
2018 Queens House, National Maritime Museum, London (commission)
2017 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2017 The Sessions, UCIPC NPC, Lake Arrowhead, California
2016 The Freud Museum, London
2015 Fotogaleriet, Oslo, Norway, Album 31, (collaboration with Sophy Rickett), touring to The Library of Birmingham, UK
2014 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Ruby’s Room and other works in Miniature, Barber Institute of fine Arts, Birmingham
2013 Ruby’s Room, Holburne Museum, Bath
2012 Made up Love Song, Cultural Centre, Poznan
2011 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2009 Profiles III, Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, London
2005 Photographers’ Gallery, London
2004 Lombard - Freid Fine Arts, New York
2002 Victoria Miro Gallery, The Project Space, London
2001 Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan,
2000 An Anatomy of Control , Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS :
2018 Circle/Squared, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2017 Revival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
Small, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2016 Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna (2 person exhibition)
Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography, San Diego Museum of Photographic Art, USA
2015 Facing Histories, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Face Value: Portraiture from the Arts Council Collection, Abbothall Art Gallery, UK
2013 3am: Wonder and Paranoia and the restless Night, The Bluecoat Liverpool
2012 Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London
- touring to Fundacio La Caixa, Madrid, Spain, (catalogue)
2011 Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2010 Road to 2012, Setting Out, Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London
The Gathering, Building the Arts Council Collection 1973 – 2009 Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2009 Baby, Picturing the Ideal Human, National Media Museum, Bradford
2008 In Repose, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia
El Cuerpo (con) sentido: una (re)presentación visual, Centro de Historia, Zaragosa
2007 Top Twenty, 39 Gallery, London (curated by Alan Miller)
150th Anniversary Display, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2006 The Wonderful Fund on Tour, Le Musée de Marrakech, Place Ben Youssef, Medina, Marrakech
The Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London
2005 ‘iD’, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Faltering Flames: Aspects of the Human Condition in Contemporary Art, curated by David Thorpe, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
2004 Fiction, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Taking in Water, Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa, UK
2003 Parameter of Life, Museum of Modern Art, Stiftung Worlen, Passau
Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum Baltimore and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
2002 Reality Check, touring group exhibition jointly organised by the British
Council and the Photographers’ Gallery, 14 Wharf Road, London (Other venues include Moderna Galleria in Ljubljana Slovenia;
The House of Artists, Zagreb, Croatia; Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Poland Bunkier Gallery, Cracow; Latvia Arsenals, Riga)
Geometers, Nylon, London (Curated by Simon Morrissey)
2001 Chelsea Rising, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Fair Play, Danielle Arnaud, London
2000 Identities, Galerie Rodolph Jansson, Brussels
Psycho/Soma, Lombard - Freid Fine Arts, New York
Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1999 Modern Times I, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg,
Grosse Kunstausstellung, Haus Der Kunst, Munich
1998 John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London;
Midland Art Centre, Birmingham; Royal Photographic Society, Bath
Les Anglais vus par les Anglais, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
Inventories and Plastic Metropolis, Shoreditch Biennale 1998, London, Various venues
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS
2011 Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Artist in Residence
2014 The Freud Museum London, Artist in Residence
2015 Bohuslan Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden, Artist in Residence
2016 Arts Council Grant for the Arts
2017 Pollock-Krasner Award
2018 New-York Historical Society Museum, NYC, Artist in Residence
MONOGRAPHS:
- Bettina von Zwehl, Göttingen: Steidl / Brighton: Photoworks, 2007. With an essay by Darian Leader and interview with Charlotte Cotton.
- Made Up Love Song, London: V&A Publishing, 2014. With an essay by David Chandler.
- Lament, Bettina von Zwehl & Josh Cohen, London, Art/Books, 2016
- The Photograph as Contemporary Art. Thames & Hudson, 2004
- The Portrait Now. Yale University Press, 2006
- Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography. Phaidon, 2006
- The Body in Contemporary Art. Thames & Hudson, 2009
- Road to 2012. National Portrait Gallery, 2012
- 21st Century Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, 2013
COLLECTIONS:
Arts Council, London
British Council, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wonderful Fund Collection, London
Sammlung Spallart, Salzburg, Austria
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Hull Museums and Art Gallery, UK
Imperial College Art Collection, London
21C Museum Hotel Louisville, Kentucky
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Martin M. Margulies Collection, Miami
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Perez Art Museum, Miami
The National Museum of Women for the Arts, Washington DC
The National Portrait Gallery Collection, London
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York