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1948

In and Out of Focus, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (April 6–July 11); traveled to Frankfurt, Germany, through the Fine Arts Section, Information Centers Branch, HICOG [High Commission for Occupied Germany, a United States Family Housing area]
27th Annual Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY (June)

1949

Leading Photographers, organized by but not shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; traveled until c. 1954

1950

Color Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (May 9–July 4)

1951

A Half-Century of Color 1900–1950, 4th Biennial Exhibition of Color Photography and Reproduction, American Museum of Photography, Philadelphia, PA (March 15–April 12); traveled to Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (February 7–March 4); Erie Public Museum, Erie, PA (April 21–May 5); and Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (September 10–28). Catalog.

1953

Contemporary Photography (— Japan and America), National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (August29–October 4), co-organized by but not shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Catalog.

1954

Photokina, Cologne, Germany (April 3–11). Catalog.
33rd Annual Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, New York, NY (June?)

1955

The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January24–May 8); traveled to 38 countries in four iterations/copies through 1965. Catalog.

1958

37th Annual Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, New York, NY (April?)
Photographs from the Museum Collection on View, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (November 26, 1958–January 18, 1959)

1959

9 fotografer från U.S.A. (9 Photographers from the U.S.A.), Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden (April 4–22); possibly traveled in Sweden
Photography in the Fine Arts, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (8 May8–September 7, 1959); traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (as Is Photography an Art? October16–November 29, 1959); (J. B.) Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Currier Gallery (now Currier Art Museum), Manchester, NH; Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI; Atlanta Art Association (now High Museum of Art), Atlanta, GA; Tampa Art Institute (now Tampa Museum of Art), Tampa, FL; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (c. May 1960); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA; Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA; Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA; Waynesboro Chapter of the Virginia Museum, Waynesboro, VA; Emma Willard School Art Gallery, Troy, NY; Carnegie Institute of Art Galleries (now Carnegie Art Museum), Pittsburgh, PA; Poor Richard Club, Philadelphia, PA; Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (August27–September 25, 1960); Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan; Winchester Chapter of the Virginia Museum (June 1961); Highlands Art Festival, Abingdon, VA (August 1961); Ball State Teacher's College (now Ball State University), Muncie, IN (October 1–26, 1961); Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University), Winston-Salem, NC (November12–December 9, 1961); Midland Art Association, Midland, MI (January14–February 11, 1962); Museum of Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX (March1–April 10, 1962); and Whittier College, Whittier, CA (April 29–May 20, 1962). Catalogs.
La Biennale di Venezia della Fotografia (Venice Biennale of Photography), Venice, Italy (June–November?)
Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (opened November 9). Catalog.

1960

Portraits from the Museum's Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (May 4–July 5, reinstalled July 6–September 18)
Photography in the Fine Arts II, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 20–September 4, 1960); traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (September 7–October 2, 1960); Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI (September 9–October 9, 1960); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 12–30, 1960); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (October 26–November 13, 1960); Art Center School (Art Center College of Design), Los Angeles, CA (November 19–December 3, 1960); Whittier College, Whittier, CA (December 5–14, 1960); Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (January 2–22, 1961); Art Center (now Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego), La Jolla, CA (January 4–25, 1961); Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL (February 3–27, 1961); Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC (March 19–April 16, 1961); Grand Rapids Art Gallery (now Grand Rapids Art Museum), Grand Rapids, MI (April 15–May 15, 1961); Museum, Spooner Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (May 1–22, 1961); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (June 4–25, 1961); Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (July 15–August 5, 1961); Isaac Delgado (now New Orleans) Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (July 16–August 16, 1961); Atlanta Art Association (now High Museum of Art), Atlanta, GA (September 3 or 4–22, 1961); Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (September 5–26 or October 2, 1961); Centennial Art Museum (now South Texas Institute for the Arts), Corpus Christi, TX (October 1–31, 1961); Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (October 15–November 12, 1961); William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), Kansas City, MO (December 3–23 or 10–31, 1961); Tucson Fine Arts Association (now Tucson Museum of Art), Tucson, AZ (December 10, 1961–January 14, 1962); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (January 14, 1961–February 11, 1962); (M. H.) de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (February 4–25, 1962); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (March 4–25, 1962); University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (14 March 14–April 4, 1962); Ripon College, Ripon, WI (April 10–30, 1962); Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery (now Lowe Art Museum), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (April 19 or 25–May 13 or 21, 1962); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (May 29–June 17, 1962); Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (June 10–July 1, 1962); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (July 8–31, 1962); Ball State Teachers College (now Ball State University), Muncie, IN (July 22–August 16, 1962); Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (November 1–30, 1962); (Michele and Donald D'Amour) Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA (December 23, 1962–January 23, 1963); Wustum Museum, Racine, WI (February 24–March 17, 1963); and Rahr Public Museum, Manitowoc, WI (April 7–28, 1963). Catalog.
Photographs by Irving Penn, Moran Gallery, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY (September 9–October 1)
Photographs by Irving Penn, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, NY (December 6–31)

1961

Photographs by Irving Penn, organized by but not shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; traveled through 1965? including to Philadelphia, PA; and Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (June 15–July 28, 1963)
Photography in the Fine Arts III, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (June 14–September 3, 1961); Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (October 20–December 3, 1961); Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (November 30–December 1, 1961); Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY (December 17, 1961–January 14, 1962); Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (January 4–28, 1962); Ball State Teacher's College (now Ball State University), Muncie, IN (January 28–February 20, 1962); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (February 11–March 11, 1962); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (March 9–25, 1962); Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (March 30–April 22, 1962); Grand Rapids Art Gallery (now Grand Rapids Art Museum), Grand Rapids, MI (May 1–22, 1962); (Michele and Donald D'Amour) Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA (May 6–June 3, 1962); Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (July 2–30, 1962); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (July 5–August 5, 1962); Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (August 20–September 2, 1962); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (September 25–October 21, 1962); Art Association (now High Museum of Art), Atlanta, GA (November 7–30, 1962); Museum of Art, Providence, RI (November 21–December 23, 1962); Art Museum, Wichita, KS (January 6–27, 1963); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (January 13–February 3, 1963); Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (February 17–March 13, 1963); Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (March 19–April 14, 1963); Currier Gallery (now Currier Museum of Art), Manchester, NH (March 30–April 21, 1963); Brooks Memorial Art Gallery (now Memphis Brooks Museum of Art), Memphis, TN (June 14–July 7, 1963); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (September 1–30, 1963); and (M. H.) de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Photographs and Etchings: The World on Silver and Copper [purchases from Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA)], Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 5, 1961–April c. 5, 1962)
Protection to the Worker, United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Fair, Poznan, Poland

1962

Exhibition and benefit, Auditorium, Karen Horney Clinic, New York, NY (November 17–December 2)

1963

Die großen Fotografen dieses Jahrhunderts (The Great Photographers of this Century), Photokina, Cologne, Germany

1964

The Photographer's Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (May 27–August 23)
Photography 64/An Invitational Exhibition, organized by the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, for the New York State Exposition, Syracuse, NY; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (January 7–February 3, 1965). Catalog.

1965

The Photo Essay, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (March 16–May 16)
Photography in the Fine Arts, Museum Director's Selections from the PFA collection for the Kodak Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, NY (May 20–June 16)
Glamour Portraits, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (August 2–September 19)
11 Photographers: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY (closed June 20); possibly traveled to Munich International Salon of Photography, Munich, Germany

1966

Recent Still Life, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (February 23–April 4). Catalog.

1967

Photography in the Twentieth Century, organized by but not shown at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, for National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (opened February 1967); traveled in Canada (July 30, 1967–February 18, 1968). Catalog.
Photography in the Fine Arts V, organized by Photography in the Fine Arts (PFA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (March 15–June 11)

1968

Photography as Printmaking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (March 19–May 27)

1972

Alexey Brodovitch and His Influence, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (April 7–May 2) in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Catalog.

1974

50 Years of Photography: Women Observed, As Seen in Vogue 1924–1974, Saks Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor Gallery, New York, NY (closed October 26, 1974); traveled to Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (March 3–March 29, 1975)

1975

I Platini di Irving Penn: 25 Anni di Fotografia (Irving Penn Platinum Plates), Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (April 3–May 31); traveled to Photographers' Gallery, London, England (October 1–31). Catalogs.
Photography within the Humanities, Symposium and Exhibition, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (c. April)
Irving Penn: Recent Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (May 19–August 3, 1975); traveled to Faculty Office Building Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR (December 6, 1975–January 4, 1976)
Color Photography, Inventors and Innovators 1850–1975, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (November 11, 1975–January 11, 1976). Catalog.
Fashion Photography: Six Decades, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; traveled to Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY [as a scaled-down version of the Hofstra exhibition selected by the curator] (opened by December 28); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1976

The Photographer and the Artist, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (February 7–March 6). Catalog.
Modern Portraits: The Self and Others, organized by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York, NY, for display at Wildenstein and Company, New York, NY (October 20–November 28). Catalog.
Benefit exhibition, MacDowell Colony, Inc., Peterborough, NH (c. October 26)
Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen and their Successors, organized by the American Federation of Arts, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (November 14, 1976–January 2, 1977); traveled mainly in the United States until c. November 1978; and Winnipeg Art Gallery (May 6–June 18 1978). Catalog.
100 Master Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Foto Sequenties (Photograph Sequences), Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1977

Street Material, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (April 27/29–June 26)
The History of Fashion Photography, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (June 25–October 2, 1977); traveled to Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (November 18, 1977–January 8, 1978); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (March 3–April 16, 1978); Cincinnati Art Institute, Cincinnati, OH (May 18–July 31, 1978); and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (August 30–September 30, 1978). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals—Images 1947–1975, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (September 9–October 11, 1977); traveled to Camera Obscura, Stockholm, Sweden (November 3–December 16, 1977); Art Center School (Art Center College of Design), Pasadena, CA (closed April 1, 1978); Salt Lake Art Center (now Utah Museum of Contemporary Art), Salt Lake City, UT (November 2–December 2, 1979); Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (April 1–30, 1980); Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS (May 16–June 15, 1980); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (September 9–October 5, 1980); Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle, WA (October 16–November 16, 1980); Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (January 15–February 15, 1981); Boise Gallery of Art (now Boise Art Museum), Boise, ID (March 1–30, 1981); Marlborough Fine Art, London, England (May 20–June 20, 1981); PPS Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (August 28–September 28, 1981); and CCD Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (by October 16–November 16, 1981). Catalogs.

1978

Masters of the Twentieth Century, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada (opened January 7)
Tusen och en bild/A Thousand and One Pictures, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (April 1–September 3). Catalog.
Irving Penn Platinum Prints, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (opened May 3)
The Graham Nash Collection, De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA (opened c. September). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA (September 27–October 29)

1979

The Presence of Portraits, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (October 6–25)
Irving Penn, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (by November 29–December 22)
Photography als Kunst 1879–1979 (Photography as Art 1879–1979), Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria; traveled to Neue Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum (now Lentos Kunstmuseum Lintz), Linz, Austria; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum (now Neue Galerie Graz am Univeralmuseum Joanneum), Graz, Austria; and Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
[Untitled exhibition], Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL

1980

Earthly Bodies, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (September 4–October 1, 1980); traveled to Canadian Centre of Photography and Film, Toronto, Canada (January 10–March 28, 1981); Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France (May 30–June 15, 1981); Camera Obscura, Stockholm, Sweden (September 19–October 30, 1981); and Philadelphia College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (January 25–February 18, 1982). Catalog.
Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (September 28–November 13, 1980); traveled to International Center of Photography, New York, NY (May 23–July 6, 1980); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (December 14, 1980–February 28, 1981); Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA (March 30–May 3, 1981); and Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (August 7–September 13, 1981). Catalog.
[Untitled exhibition], [Lillian Paley?] Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA

1981

Master Portraits of the 20th Century, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL (February 17–March 21)
Irving Penn: Photographs (on Assignment for Vogue), Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (February 27–March 31)
Irving Penn, Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC (April 18–May 9)
Les choix de l'oeil: la photographie depuis 1940 (Choices of the Eye: Photography since 1940), Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (November 12, 1981–January 3, 1982); traveled to Musee du Bas-Saint Laurent, Rivère-du-Loup, Canada (1982)
[Untitled exhibition], Ferens Art Gallery, Yorkshire, England; traveled to Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, England; Castle Museum, Nottingham, England; and Photographers' Gallery, London, England
Platinum Prints, Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI
60 Photos, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England

1982

Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 26–May 9, 1982); traveled to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (May 20–July 2, 1982); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (August 4–September 13, 1982); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (November 19, 1982–January 9, 1983); and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (February 22–April 18, 1983). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Recent Still Life, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (September 8–October 2, 1982); traveled to Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (December 3, 1982–January 11, 1983). Catalog.

1983

Group exhibition with Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, and Irving Penn, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (by March 4–April 2)
Personal Choice: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (March 23–May 22). Catalog.
Glamour and Fashion, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (April 20–July 3). Catalog.
Phototypes: The Development of Photography in New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (May 4–June 3)
Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (June 10–September 4, 1983); traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October 1–November 27, 1983); and Wellesley College Museum, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, MA (January 27–March 25, 1984). Catalog.
Photographs from Detroit Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 4–November 27). Catalog.
19th and 20th Century Master Photographers, Artspace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL (November 18, 1983–January 22, 1984)

1984

Photographers and Authors: Portraits of Twentieth-Century Writers from the Carleton College Collection, Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (Summer 1984 and every few years since); traveled to Anchorage Museum of Art and History, Anchorage, AK (by September 12–October 18, 1987); and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (May 15–July 10, 1988). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA (September 11–October 6)
Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (September 12–November 27, 1984); traveled to Yurakucho Art Forum, Tokyo, Japan (April 5–24, 1985); National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan (April 28–June 11, 1985); Milwaukee Art Musuem, Milwaukee, WI (July 12–September 1, 1985); Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (September 24–December 15, 1985); University Art Museum, University of California, Berkley, CA (January 22–March 16, 1986); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (April 19–June 8, 1986); Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (May 25–July 6, 1986); Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (October 9–December 8, 1986); Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (January 14–March 8, 1987); La Fundació Joan Miró I l'Institut d'Estudis Nord-americans, Barcelona, Spain (June 3–July 12, 1987); Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (August 2–September 6, 1987); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (September 19–November 1, 1987); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (January 9–February 14, 1988); Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (June 25?–October 9, 1988); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (opened October 27, 1988); and Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy (January 18–March 5, 1989). Catalog.
Meisterwerke der Fotokunst: Sammlung Tillman und Vollmer (Masterworks of Photography: Collection of Tillman and Vollmer), Cologne, Germany
Sammlung Gruber: Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts (Gruber Collection: 20th Century Photography), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Catalog.

1985

American Images: Photography 1945–80, Barbican Gallery, London, England (May 10–June 30). Catalog.
An Exhibition of Fashion Photographs, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA (by July 9–27)
Cincinnati Collects, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (October 5–December 29)
Shots of Style, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (October 9, 1985–January 19, 1986); possibly traveled in Great Britain
Self-Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (November 7, 1985–January 7, 1986)

1986

Irving Penn Photographs, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (January 21–March 8)
Irving Penn, Sporting d'hiver de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco (March 22–April 13). Catalog.
A Breath of Light: The Contemporary Platinum Print, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (June 21–September 7, 1986); traveled to Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center/Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (April 11–May 17, 1987)

1987

Irving Penn Retrospective, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (January 14–March 8); traveled to Museum Folkgang, Essen, Germany (August 2–September 6)
Les Stars de la Photo; Une exposition des Publications Condé Nast (The Stars of Photography through the Eyes of Condé Nast Publications), Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (April 5–May 3). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988

Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (February 27–May 1)
The Art of Persuasion: A History of Advertising Photography, International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (January 23–March 19, 1989); traveled to International Center of Photography, New York, NY (March 19–May 7, 1988). Catalog.
Issey Miyake Poster Exhibition/i.i.i., Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (June 6–25)
Artists and Authors, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, in collaboration with Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (October 5–November 12)
Color Photographs 1947–1977, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, in collaboration with Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (October 5–November 12)
Issey Miyake A ŪN, organized by Miyake Design Studio in association with Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France (October 5–December 31). Catalog.
Cranium Architecture, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (December 1, 1988–January 14, 1989); traveled to Gallery COA, Tokyo, Japan (October 30–November 30, 1990?). Catalog. See also Cranium Architecture (2013).

1989

The Modernist Still Life—Photographed, Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis MO (February 20–March 17); traveled to Gallery of Art, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (April 21–May 19); Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO (June 3–July 2). Catalog.
Irving Penn Photographs 1949–1975, Vibeke Levy Fine Arts, New York, NY (September 19–October 30)
Nio mästarfotografer (Nine Masters of Photography), Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden (September 25–October 29). Catalog.
Mode in der Fotografie: 1898/1990 (Fashion in Photography: 1898/1990), Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria

1990

The Small Trades, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (January 24–February 25)
Detached Realism: The Works of Claudio Bravo and Irving Penn, Forbes Galleries, New York, NY (February 6–June 1)
The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers and Artists Respond to the Time of AIDS, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (February 9–April 7); traveled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (May 13–June 17). Catalog.
Irving Penn Master Images, National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (March 30–August 19, 1990); traveled to Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (December 15, 1990–February 10, 1991); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (March 30–May 25, 1991); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (by August 27–November 17, 1991); and Norton Gallery and School of Art (now Norton Museum of Art), West Palm Beach, FL (closed February 23, 1992). Catalog.
Other Ways of Being: 100 Photographs 1948–1971, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (March 30–April 28). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Fourteen Cigarettes, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (September 5–October 20)
Irving Penn, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (September 7–October 20)
Irving Penn: Platinum Test Materials, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (November 4, 1990–January 13, 1991); traveled to Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (Spring 1998)
Hommage à Bettina (Homage to Bettina), JGM Galerie, Paris, France (November 9–24)
Irving Penn: Vintage Prints from the Series "Earthly Bodies," 1949–1950, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (December 6, 1990–January 19, 1991)

1991

Nature Morte, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (June 4–29)
Irving Penn Selected Photographs, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (July 13–August 13)
Photographie-Sculpture (Photography-Sculpture), Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (October–November)
Irving Penn 1948, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (October 24–November 30)
Irving Penn: Portraits in a Corner, 1948, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (December 5, 1991–January 11, 1992)

1992

On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue, New York Public Library, New York, NY (April 4–August 1). Catalog.
Irving Penn Poster Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1993

Festival de Cinema against AIDS: Photography Exhibition, Hotel Martinez, Cannes, France (May 13–24)
Irving Penn: Collection Privée/Privatsammlung (Irving Penn: Private Collection), Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland; traveled to Musee d'art et d'histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland (May 20–August 15, 1994). Catalog produced with Fribourg presentation.
Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (July 24–October 17)

1994

Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (January 16–March 27). Catalog.
Irving Penn N.Y., Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (March 3–April 16)
Fashion Photography: Avedon, Hiro, Penn, Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland, booth at ART Basel 25 (June 15–20)
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (December 4, 1994–March 5, 1995); traveled to Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA (May 17–July 9, 1995); and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (October 29, 1995–January 14, 1996). Catalog.
Masterpieces of Fashion Photography, James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY (December 8, 1994–January 14, 1995)

1995

Seeing Things, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (January 5–February 4). Catalog.
Irving Penn, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (March 8–April 22)
Irving Penn, Fotografier. En donation till minne av Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (Irving Penn, Photographs: A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (December 26, 1995–March 3, 1996); traveled to Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden (March 23–May 19, 1996); National Media Museum (National Museum for Photography Film and Television), Bradford, England (June 28–September 1, 1996); Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium (September 13–November 19, 1996); Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (November 29, 1996–January 26, 1997); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (February 7–April 27, 1997); Provincial Museum, Bolzano, Italy (May 9–June 27, 1997). Catalog.

1996

Fringes, PaceWildensteinMacGill Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (March 15–April 20); traveled to PaceWildensteinMacGill Gallery, New York, NY (April 11–May 11); and Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (May 1–31). Catalog.
The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (September 28–December 1). Pamphlet.
Haute Culture: Images of Couture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 4); moved to Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (December 5–23)
Irving Penn, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (December 6, 1996–January 18, 1997)

1997

Irving Penn: Photographs from the Years 1949–1950, Ehlers Caudill Gallery Ltd., Chicago, IL (April 18–June 21)
Irving Penn: Photographs, Wildenstein Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (May 20–June 30)
Irving Penn: "Le Bain" (Irving Penn: "The Bath"), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (November 19, 1997–February 8, 1998). Catalog.
Irving Penn, A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998); traveled to State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (March 1–May 16, 1998); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (June 18–September 6, 1998); Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany (October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999); Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA (July 28–October 10, 1999); Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (March 25–June 4, 2000); and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (September 13–November 5, 2000). Catalog.
Irving Penn: The Small Trades (1950), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (November 26–December 24)
Irving Penn, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
Irving Penn, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

1998

Issey Miyake Making Things, Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris, France (October 13, 1998–February 28, 1999); traveled to Ace Gallery, New York, NY (1999); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (April 29–August 20, 2000). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain

1999

Ur Karin och Lars Halls Fotografiska Samling (From the Karin and Lars Halls Photographic Collection), Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (June 6–October 31)
New and Unseen, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY (September 1–25). Catalog.
Process, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (September 9–October 23). Catalog.
Ghosts in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (October 16, 1999–January 17, 2000). Catalog.
Augenblick und Endlichkeit: Das von der Photographie geprägte Jahrhundert—Werke aus der Sammlung Gruber (Instantaneity and Finitude: A Century of Photographs from the Gruber Collection), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (November 27, 1999–March 19, 2000)
Irving Penn Regards the Works of Issey Miyake, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (December 24–28, 1999). Catalog.

2000

Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 29–June 4)
The Public Portrait: Photographs by Edward Steichen, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (July 9–October 22)
About Faces, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (September 7–October 28)
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (November 4, 2000–January 28, 2001). Catalog.

2001

Irving Penn: Still Lifes for the Printed Page, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (May 13–July 15, 2001); traveled to Villa Ghirlanda, Milan, Italy (October 2–December 19, 2001); Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (January 12–April 7, 2002); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (April 19–June 30, 2002); and Fundación Barrié, La Coruña, Spain (September–November 2002). Catalog.
Dressing Up: Photographs of Style and Fashion, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (November 10, 2001–January 20, 2002)
The Nature of Still Life: From Fox Talbot to the Present Day, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (December 1, 2001–April 1, 2002). Catalog.

2002

Dancer: 1999 Nudes by Irving Penn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (January 12–May 12); traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (as Irving Penn Nudes June 1–October 6); co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (March 17–June 16); traveled to Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (September 18–October 20)
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949–50, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (January 15–April 21, 2002); traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (as Irving Penn Nudes June 1–October 6, 2002); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (March 22–August 10, 2003)
Irving Penn: Still Life in Color 1947–2001, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (January 17–February 23)
Irving Penn circa 1948, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (March 7–April 27)
Irving Penn, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (April 19–June 16)
Irving Penn, Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France (September 18–November 2)

2003

The Human Form Divine: The Body as Seen by the Camera, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 8–June 1)
℅-project [untitled exhibition including photographs by Irving Penn and drawings by Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn], Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (February 8–May 4). Catalog.
Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (March 7–April 19)
Artists Photographed by Irving Penn, Wildenstein Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (March 24–April 25)
Вглядываясь в фотографии 125 фотографий из собрания Музея современного искусства, Нью-Йорк (Looking at Photographs: 125 Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, New York), State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (June 21–August 31)
Künstlerphotographien—Berühmte Photographen portraitieren berühmte Künstler (Artist Photographs—Famous Photographers' Portraits of Famous Artists), Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany (October 18–November 18)
A Clear Vision—Photographic Works From the F. C. Gundlach Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (October 29, 2003–January 2, 2004)

2004

Irving Penn: Present Concerns, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (January 29–March 20)
Why Not Live for Art?, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (May 26–July 11)
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, NY (June 4–September 8, 2004); traveled to Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (November 24, 2005–March 26, 2006); Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (May 20–July 30, 2006); Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (September 21–October 31, 2006); and Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (December 22, 2006–March 4, 2007). Catalog.
Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (June 12–October 3)
Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (July 10–November 28, 2004); traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (January 6–March 5, 2005); and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (October 6–November 5, 2005)
Tvář—Sbírka F. C. Gundlach (Face to Face: The F. C. Gundlach Collection), Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic (September 30–December 4)
About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (October 9, 2004–January 16, 2005)
Dahomey (1967), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 16, 2004–January 17, 2005); traveled to Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (January 14–March 14, 2004); and Nihon Mingeikan, Tokyo, Japan (August 21–September 26, 2004). Catalog.
Blomsten som billede (The Flower as Image), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (September 10, 2004–January 16, 2005). See also Blumenmythos: Von Vincent van Gogh bis Jeff Koons (Flower Myth: Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons), Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (2005). Catalog.
Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen—Auktion und Ausstellung (Deichtorhallen at 15—Auction and Exhibition), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (October 28–November 9). Catalog.
[Untitled exhibition], Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2005

Daguerreotype to Digital: Photographs from the Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (January 22–July 31)
Figuratively Speaking: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (February 5–October 30)
Blumenmythos: Von Vincent van Gogh bis Jeff Koons (Flower Myth: Van Gogh to Jeff Koons), Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (February 27–May 22). See also Blomsten som billede (The Flower as Image), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2004). Catalog.
Recent Acquisitions 2005: Some Versions of the Portrait, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (March 11–June 5)
Pas Moi Sans Eux: Colección Pierre Borhan (No Me without Them: The Collection of Pierre Borhan), Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain (March 16–April 4)
Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (June 19–October 2). Catalog.
Artists Interrogate—Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (July 7–October 9)
Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (August 13–November 6). Catalog.
From the Source (Jane), Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (September 10–October 22)
Editat/Exposat. La fotografia, del llibre al museu (Published/Exhibited: Photography, From the Book to the Museum), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (September 16–December 4) in collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Private Pictures: Photography from Arizona Collections, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (24 September 24, 2005–January 8, 2006)
From Darkroom to Digital: Photographic Variations, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 19, 2005–February 26, 2006)
Rostros y Máscaras: Fotografías de la Colección Ordóñez-Falcón (Faces and Masks: Photographs from the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection), Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani, Museu Fundación Juan March, Fundación Juan March, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (November 29, 2005–February 18, 2006); traveled to Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain (March 3–May 28, 2006)
Irving Penn: Ethnographic, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (December 8, 2005–January 21, 2006)
De la Comtesse de Castiglione á Cindy Sherman (From the Countess of Castiglione to Cindy Sherman), New Galerie de France, Paris, France

2006

La construction de l'autre: Les archives de l'imagination, Une sélection issue des collections du Fotomuseum de la Province d'Anvers (The Construction of the Other: The Archives of Imagination, a Selection from the Collection of the FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen), BOZAR (Palais de Beaux-Arts), Brussels, Belgium (January 19–March 12)
Sans Regard: La Collection Dancing Bear de W. M. Hunt (Without Regard: The Dancing Bear Collection of W. M. Hunt), Museé l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (February 23–June 5, 2006); traveled to Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (February 16–April 15, 2007)
American Icons, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (May 14–June 25)
Naturalezas Silenciosas: Fundación Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografia (Silent Nature: The Ordóñez-Falcón Foundation of Photography), Centre d'art la Panera, Lérida, Spain (July 7–September 24)
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (August 30–September 16); traveled to Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (October 5–November 25). Catalog.
Now and Then, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (opened September 13)
The Heartbeat of Fashion—Sammlung F. C. Gundlach (The Heartbeat of Fashion: The F. C. Gundlach Collection), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (September 27, 2006–January 7, 2007); traveled to NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany (as Mode: Bilder [Fashion: Pictures] November 17, 2007–March, 24 2008). Catalog.
Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (October 7, 2006–January 14, 2007)
Fashion Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (November 18, 2006–March 25, 2007)

2007

Irving Penn: In Flower, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (January 11–February 17)
Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 20–May 6)
On Death and Dying: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (January 25–March 3). Catalog.
When Color Was New, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 24–April 29)
Selections from the Isadore and Kelly Friedman Bequest, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (April 11–June 3)
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (May 11–September 9, 2007), co-organized by National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (October 19, 2007–March 2, 2008); traveled to California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (June 26–September 14, 2008); Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI (October 25, 2008–March 1, 2009); Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (April 4–June 14, 2009); Morven Museum and Garden, Princeton, NJ (July 4–September 27, 2009); Museum of African American History, Boston, MA (October 17, 2009–January 10, 2010); Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA (January 30–April 25, 2010); African American Performing Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (May 15–August 8, 2010); Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL (August 28–November 21, 2010); DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL (December 11, 2010–March 6, 2011); National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH (March 26–June 19, 2011); Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA (July 9–October 1, 2011); North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, NC (November 6, 2011–January 15, 2012); Historical Society of Saginaw County—Castle Museum and Annex, Saginaw, MI (February 4–April 29, 2012). Catalog.
Photography Now, Hackelbury Fine Art, London, England (September–October)
Irving Penn, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (September 19–November 3)
Photographic Formalities: From Ansel Adams to Weegee, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (September 28, 2007–January 6, 2008)
Flower Power, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (November 22, 2007–January 12, 2008)
Irving Penn, Camera Work, Berlin, Germany

2008

Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY (January 18–April 13)
De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1900–1950 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1900–1950), Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain (opened February 18) in collaboration with the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; See also De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1950–2000 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1950–2000) (2008).
Irving Penn: Vessels, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (February 21–March 29). Catalog.
In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (March 8–June 15)
Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Britain, London, England (May 22–August 31, 2008), co-organized by Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (October 11, 2008–January 11, 2009). Catalog.
De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1950–2000 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1950–2000), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain (June 5–September 14) in collaboration with the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; See also De lo Humano. Fotografía Internacional 1900–1950 (On the Human Being: International Photography 1900–1950) (2008)
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (June 12–September 7, 2008); co-organized by Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM (September 26, 2008–February 1, 2009). Catalog.
Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body, and the City, Selections from the Charles Cowles Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (September 21–November 30)
Mujeres en Plural (Women in Plural), Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain (October 22, 2008–January 4, 2009)
Food, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (November 27–December 23, 2008 and January 5–17, 2009)

2009

Contradictions in Black and White, Hasted Kraeutler, New York, NY (January 8–February 28)
Extreme Beauty in Vogue, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy (March 7–May 10). Catalog.
Åter till Verkligheten: Fotografi ur Moderna Museets Samling (Reality Revisited: Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (May 9–September 20)
A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (July 11–September 20)
Immaginare New York. Fotografie dalla collezione del MoMA (Picturing New York: Photographs from MoMA's Collection), Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy (July 11–October 11)
Irving Penn: Small Trades, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (September 9, 2009–January 10, 2010); traveled to Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France (May 5–July 25, 2010); and Museé l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (September 10, 2010–January 23, 2011). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Banquet, Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France (October 15, 2009–January 16, 2010)
Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium (October 23, 2009–January 16, 2010)
Irving Penn: A Tribute, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (October 31–December 13)
Irving Penn, 1917–2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (November 25, 2009–June 3, 2010)
Something for Everyone, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (December 2, 2009–January 16, 2010)

2010

Irving Penn: A Tribute, Gun Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (January 15–30)
Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (January 23–March 13), co-organized by Balloon Contemporary, Chicago, IL
C'est la vie! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst (That's life! Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst), Museé Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris, France (February 3–June 28)
In the Vernacular, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 6–May 31)
Irving Penn Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, England (February 18–June 6). Catalog.
Small Trades, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (March 5–April 24)
Great Photographs of the 20th Century: Staged and Startled, Hasted Kraeutler, New York, NY (March 25–May 1)
"We Want Miles": le jazz face à sa légende ("We Want Miles": Miles Davis vs. Jazz), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (April 30–August 29)
Lebenslust und Totentanz (Lust for Life and Dance of Death), Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria (July 18–November 7)
Flirting with Bling, (Jane) Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada (August 10–September 20)
Looking Forward, Looking Back: An Exhibition to Honor 50 Years at the Pace Gallery, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (September 17–October 23)
El silencio de los objectos (The Silence of the Objects), Teneriffe Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (September 19, 2010–January 6, 2011)
Irving Penn: Archæology, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (October 28, 2010–January 15, 2011). Catalog.
Icon/Effigy, Pace Primitive, New York, NY (November 4–December 23)
After a Fashion: Classic, Humorous, Subversive…, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL (November 5–December 30)
Autour de l'extrême (Around the Extreme), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (November 10, 2010–January 30, 2011)
El Cuerpo Inventado (The Invented Body), Teneriffe Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (November 17, 2010–February 13, 2011)

2011

John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 23–April 17). Catalog.
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (February 9–June 19, 2011); traveled to Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (February 22–May 20, 2012)
ADAA: The Art Show (at the Park Avenue Armory), Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (March 2–6)
Food for Thought: A Group Exhibition, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY (March 31–May 14)
Portraits in Serie: Fotografien eines Jahrunderts (Portraits in Series: A Century of Photographs), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (April 1–July 17). Catalog.
L'objet photographique, une invention permanente (The Photographic Object: A Permanent Invention), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (April 20–June 19)
Irving Penn: Radical Beauty 1946–2007, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (June 30–August 20)
Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (July 19–October 9). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Carrère Gallery, Forbes Galleries, New York, NY (September 10, 2011–before February 3, 2012)
Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan (September 16, 2011–April 8, 2012). Catalog.
Ichundichundich. Picasso im Fotoporträt (MemyselfandI: Photographic Portraits of Picasso), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (September 24, 2011–January 22, 2012)
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W. M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012)
Vanity: Mode Fotografie aus der Sammlung F. C. Gundlach (Vanity: Fashion Photography from the F. C. Gundlach Collection), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (October 21, 2011–April 1, 2012). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Le Noir et Blanc légitimé (Irving Penn: Black and White Legitimacy), Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France (November 3, 2011–January 12, 2012)
Irving Penn: Ethnos, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich, Germany (December 2, 2011–January 28, 2012). Catalog.
Winter Joy, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (December 16, 2011–February 25,2012)

2012

Der Mensch und seine Objekte (Man and His Objects), Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (February 25–April 29). Catalog.
Irving Penn: Diverse Worlds, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (June 16–September 2, 2012) in collaboration with Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (June13–October 6, 2013)
Cigarettes, Hamiltons Gallery, London England (June 21–August 17). Catalog.
Masterpiece London 2012, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, England (June 27–July 4)
Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930–1980, Tate Britain, London, England (July 27–September 16). Catalog.
Irving Penn, Carrère Gallery, Forbes Galleries, New York, NY (through February 13, 2013)

2013

Irving Penn: Underfoot, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 17–May 12)
Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (June 18–September 13). See also Cranium Architecture (1988).
Irving Penn: On Assignment, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (September 13–October 26).

2014

Irving Penn, Resonance, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (April 13–December 31).

n.d.

Irving Penn Vintage Prints, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL (September 9–October 29)
Irving Penn Photographs 1947–1986, Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (December 7–January 17)