(b. 1954, Geldern, Germany. Lives and works in Düsseldorf.)
Struth studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf. Struth recently had a major traveling retrospective that included the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2002. He is the winner of the Spectrum-International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (1997).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2012
Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978 - 2010, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2011
Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978 - 2010, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2010
Thomas Struth, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Thomas Struth, Photographs 1978-2010, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2009
Thomas Struth, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
2008
Familienleben, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Thomas Struth, Madre, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
2007
Making Time, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2011
Photography is Calling, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
2010
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Germany Le Meilleur des Mondes, MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand–Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dreamlands, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
2009
Urban Spaces, Geography, Identity, Urbanism, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Horizons, Beyerle Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
2008
Kavalierstart 1978 -1982, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Museum as a Medium, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo, Spain
2007
Der Hinmel auf Erden, Lehnbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
