Selected Exhibitions in Life

 

One-man exhibitions in Mexico:

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Galería Posada (1932)

 •   Sociedad de Arte Moderno (1945)
 •   Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (1957)
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Inés Amor’s Galería de Arte Moderno (1966)
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Palacio de Bellas Artes (1968 y 1972)
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Museo de Arte Moderno, retrospective (1978)
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Fomento Cultural Banamex, 83 photos from its collection (1991)
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Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, (1989)
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Centro de la Imagen, Variaciones (1997
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Museo Nacional de Arte, exhibition marking the centennial of his birth (2002)

 

In the United States:

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Pasadena Art Museum and Museum of Modern Art, New York (1971)
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1978)
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Institute for Contemporary Photography, New York (1987)
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Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California (1990), itinerant exhibition in the United States
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, retrospective (1997)
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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, retrospective (2001)

 

In Europe:

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Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (1985)
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Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (1986)
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Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne (1992)
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (1996)

 

In other countries:

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Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1983)
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Winter Palace, Beijing (1994)
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Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMoPA), Kiyosato, Japan (1997)
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Macao Museum of Art (MAM), Macao, China (2002)

 

Collective exhibitions:

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Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México with Henri Cartier-Bresson (1935)
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Julien Levy Gallery, New York, with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans (“Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs,” 1935)
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Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris. Exhibition on Mexico organized by André Breton (1939)
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Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibitions: “Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art” (1940), “The Family of Man” (1955), in addition to sixteen other collectives at the same museum.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exhibition “Mexican Art Today” (1943)
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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Exhibition “Salon International du Portrait Photographique” (1961)
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National Gallery of Canada. Exhibition “Photography in the Twentieth Century” (1967)
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Arles. Exhibition “Les rencontres de la photographie,” Arles, France, with Aaron Siskind, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and André Kertész (1979 and 1981)
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Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo. Exhibition “Photography in the Twentieth Century,” 1982
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“Espíritus arbóreos: Manuel Álvarez Bravo y Octavio Paz” (Tree Spirits: Manuel Álvarez and Octavio Paz). Festival Internacional Cervantino, Museo del Pueblo, Guanajuato (1998), and Fundación Octavio Paz, Mexico City (1999)
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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. Exhibition “Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs,” 2004