Born 1969, Dresden, Germany,
Loretta Lux's works seem to emit a vague but tangible distance between the audience and the often self-aware subjects of her portraits. Not signifying a certain time nor space, the photographs do suggest a kind of narrative. This intented ambiguousness is enhanced by the pale complexions of the children and their simple backgrounds. She portrays them like in a daydream, awkward, unengaged and very remote. For Mrs. Lux these qualities make children the perfect models for her work.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Musrara, the Naggar School of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2010 Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2009 Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
2007 Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006 Fotomuseum den Haag, The Netherlands
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
2004 Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 Stadtmuseum, Muenster, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 re:collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2016 Beauty and the Beast, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2015 Da un’importante collezione veneziana di fotografia, Galleria L’Elefante, Treviso, Italy
Framing Desire: Photography and Video, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Menagerie, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Personalities: Fantasy and Identity in Photography and New Media, Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert, CA
2014 Disturbing Innocence, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection,The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Le amazzoni della fotografia. Dalla collezione di Mario Trevisan, Palazzo Fortuny, Venedig, Italy
2013 The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture, The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2012 Confounding: Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
A Prayer is a Prayer is a Prayer, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Portrayal/ Betrayal, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The 35th Anniversary: The Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka Japan
Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography, The Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Out of Here — The Collectors Show, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
What’s In a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY
From Our Collection: Portraits, Glenbow Museum, Alberta, Canada
Von Engeln & Bengeln, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Identity: Photographs in the Grażyna Kulczyk Collection, Art Stations Foundation, Poland
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography, Art Museum/Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
2010 Streams of the New: Masterpieces from the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan,
Danica Dakic, Loretta Lux, Anu Pennanen, Vantaa Art Museum, Vantaa, Finland
Present Tense: An Imagined Grammar of Portraiture in the Digital Age, National Portrait Gallery, Parkes, Australia
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH [traveling]
2009 Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Chelsea Visits Havana, 10th Biennial of Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA [traveling]
Alternate Reality, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
The Linked Ring, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2008 TEN, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2007 Family Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
El Rei de la Casa. Adults als Deu, Nens als Quaranta, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Pretty Baby, The Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (catalogue)
June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Center for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy (catalogue)
In Sight: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Offspring: Representations of Children in Contemporary Visual Culture, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Arbeit an der Wirklichkeit, German Contemporary Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan [traveling]
2005 Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland
Focus On: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
N Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection, Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Inventing Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
2004 About Face, Hayward Gallery, London
Making Faces, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Picture of Innocence, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
La Collection Ordóñez-Falcón, Le Botanique, Brussels
2003 By the Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Ninos, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
