Loretta lux photographer biography video
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Loretta Lux
Artist Bio
Loretta Lux (born 1969) was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco.
Lux graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York in 2004. The show put both Yossi Milo and Loretta Lux on the map, selling out and setting prices never before seen from a new gallery.
In 2005, Lux received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work has since been exhibited extensively abroad, including solo exhibitions in 2006 at the Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands, and the Sixth Moscow Photobiennale. Her work is included in numerous museums collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Fotomuseum, den Haag; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. She has had portfolios featured in numerous fine art magazines.
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About
born 1969 in Dresden
1990-96 studied painting at Akademy of Fine Arts, Munich
Awards
2005 Infinity Award for Art, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Collections ( please scroll down )
Solo Exhibitions
Musrara, the Naggar School of Art, Jerusalem, Israel, 2015
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, 2010
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 2008
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007
Fotomuseum den Haag, The Netherlands, 2006
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY, 2006
Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia, 2006
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY, 2004
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004
Stadtmuseum, Muenster, Germany, 2003
Group Exhibitions
Lo sguardo restituito. Una storia della fotografia, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy, 2022
BEHOLD|EN: New Acquisitions to the AGA Collection, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2022
Botticelli. II suo tempo e il nostro tempo, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, 2021
Off-Spring: New Generations, 21c Museum, Kansas City, MO . 2019
Beyond Truth: Photography after the shutter, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, 2019
re:collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL