PAST EXHIBITIONS
Group Exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Chicago Cabinet: Views from the Street, October 6–January 16, 2011
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Photography Collectors Choice, 2003–2004
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, What you were thinking, 2002–2003
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL,
The Landscape We Make, 2001
Chicago in the year 2000, Chicago, IL, 2000
Michael Price Gallery, Boston, MA, Three Photographers, 1999
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Photography’s Multiple Roles, 1998–1999
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, Illinois Photographers in the Nineties: The Midwest Photographers Project, 1996–1997
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, When Aaron Met Harry: Chicago Photography 1946/1971, 1996
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, Three Decades of Midwestern Photography, 1992
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, The Photographer and the Railroad, 1989
The Witkin Gallery, New York, NY, Trains, Boats and Planes, 1988
Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1987; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1987, Road and Roadside
Norton Center for the Arts, Danville, KY, Master American Photographers, 1986
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Chicago: The Architectural City, 1983
The Friedens Gallery, New York, NY, Chicago Photographers, 1982
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Industrial Sites, 1979
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, By the Side of the Road, 1978
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, The River, 1976–1977
Kodak Gallery, New York, NY, The Face of Industry, 1976
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Photography in the Fine Arts, 1967
Since 1952, when he began to photograph steam locomotives, David Plowden has studied, documented, and commented upon the transformation of America. He has described himself as “an archeologist with a camera” who has spent his life “one step ahead of the wrecking ball.”
—from the Beinecke Library website
Solo Exhibitions
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY, David Plowden, Vanishing Point (celebrating 75 years), April – May 2008
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, David Plowden, Vanishing Point (celebrating 75 years), Nov – Dec 2007
O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, VA, David Plowden, selected works, April 2007
Brickton Art Center, Park Ridge, IL, A Handful of Dust, October– December 2006
Peter Fetterman Photographic Works of Art, Santa Monica, CA, 2004–2005
COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, CA, Barns, 2004
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, David Plowden: Photographs, 2002
Peter Fetterman Photographic Works of Art, Santa Monica, CA, 2001
The Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY, Passage: A Forty-Year Retrospective, 2000
The Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH, 1999
Tatar-Alexander Photographic Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 1999
Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 1998
The Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, 1998
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 1998
The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Imprints: The Photographs of David Plowden, 1997–1998
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, CT, Imprints David Plowden A Retrospective, 1997
The Bayly Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, American Views, 1997
The University of Miami, School of Architecture, Miami, FL, 1996
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC, Small Town America, 1994
The Muskegon Museum of Art, Grand Valley State University, End of an Era, 1993
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Natural History Il, 1990
The University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, 1989
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, A Sense of Place, 1989
Iowa State Museum, Des Moines, IA, A Sense of Place, 1988–1989
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, 1988
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo, NY, 1987–1988
Burchfield Center, Buffalo, NY, The Lake, 1987–1988
Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland, in conjunction with The International Festival of Music, 1987
The Martin Gallery, Washington, DC, Rural America, 1987
The Cleveland Children’s Museum, Cleveland, OH, Bridges, 1986–1989
University of Maryland, Catonsville, MD, 1985
Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL, Industrial Landscape of Chicago, 1985
The California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA, 1982–1983
The University of Virginia, College of Architecture, Charlottesville, VA, 1982
The Federal Hall Museum, National Park Service, New York, NY, 1982
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 1982
The Gilbert Gallery, Ltd., Chicago, IL, 1981 & 1980
Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH, 1979
The Witkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1979
The Smithsonian Institution, Performing Arts Division, Washington, DC, Railroad Men, 1976
The International Center of Photography, New York, NY, American Vernacular, 1976
Columbia University, New York, NY, The Route of Lincoln’s Funeral Train, 1965