(b. 1944, Rheinsberg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin and New York.)
Lothar Baumgarten studied at Staatliche Akademie für bildende Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1968 and at Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany, from 1969–1971. Lothar Baumgarten has exhibited widely internationally. Important solo shows include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1987); as well as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1987); The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto and Tokyo (1996); and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2001). He has also participated in Documenta V (1972), VII (1982), IX (1992), and X (1997). His numerous awards have included the MFI Prize, Essen (2003); the Lichtwark Prize of the City of Hamburg, Germany (1997); The Golden Lion, First Prize of the 41st Venice Biennale (1984); the Prize of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen (1976); and the Prize of the City of Düsseldorf (1974).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2009
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2008
Autofocus Retina, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2006
Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2009
Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2007
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
2005
Slide Show, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
An Aside, Camden Arts Centre, London; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansee, England
