Eve Sonneman

Recent exhibitions

• 2027Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
• 2026Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
• 2026To See and Be Seen: American Women Photographers After the 1960s, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
• 2026Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
• 2025Photography from The Menil Collection: Curated by Wendy Watriss, The Menil Collection, Houston
• 2025Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Solo exhibitions

Selected museum and gallery solo exhibitions; 77 to date.

• Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
• Museum of Modern Art, PS 1, New York
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris
• Géode, Museum of Science and Industry, Paris
• Musée de Toulon, Toulon, France
• Le Nouveau Musée, Lyon, France
• Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
• The Hudson River Museum, New York
• The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
• Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
• Museum of Modern Art, Costa Rica
• Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson
• The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
• Whitney Museum of Art Resources Center, New York
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
• Media Center, Rice University, Houston

Grants and awards

• 1996Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
• 1989Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, France
• 1988Polaroid Corporation Grant
• 1978Polaroid Corporation Grant for work in Polavision
• 1978National Endowment for the Arts
• 1977Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York
• 1972National Endowment for the Arts
• 1970Boskop Foundation Grant in the Arts, New York
• 1969Boskop Foundation Grant in the Arts, New York

Public collections

United States

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• New York Public Library, New York
• New-York Historical Society, New York
• The Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York
• Warner Communications, New York
• Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, New York
• George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
• Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
• Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
• Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
• Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
• Corcoran Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
• Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
• The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
• New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
• Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
• The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
• Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
• Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
• Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
• Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
• Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, California

Europe

• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
• Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
• Bibliothèque de Reims, France
• Musée de Toulon, France
• Le Nouveau Musée, Lyon, France
• Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
• Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
• Lang Communications, London

Asia and Australia

• Toppan Museum, Tokyo
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Books

Scans of several titles are on the Publications page.

• 202219 Watercolors. F Magazine, Houston Order
• 2000How To Touch What. with Lawrence Weiner. Powerhouse Books, New York
• 1992Where Birds Live. Random House, New York. Introduction by Adam Gopnik
• 1990America's Cottage Gardens. Random House, New York. Text by Patricia Thorpe
• 1982Roses Are Red. Éditions Générations, Paris. Text by Klaus Kertess
• 1976Real Time. Printed Matter, New York

Selected publications

• 2026Photography as a Way of Life. Exhibition catalogue, Princeton University Art Museum. Essay by Brendan Fay
• 2012La Ville écrite: la collection de photographies du Centre Pompidou. Centre Pompidou, Paris. Essay by Philippe Artières
• 2012Come Closer. Exhibition catalogue, New Museum, New York. Interview by Ethan Swan, pp. 17–18
• 2012Galleries Uptown: Eve Sonneman at Haime Gallery. The New Yorker, April 16, 2012, p. 23
• 2010Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970–1980. Kevin Moore. Hatje Cantz
• 2008Male. The photography collection of Vince Aletti. PPP Editions. Text by Collier Schorr
• 2008Herb & Dorothy. Documentary film. Screened at Toronto, Hamptons, Silverdocs and Palm Springs film festivals