Thomas Struth

1954

born in Geldern (Lower Rhine)

1975-1980

studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, first with Gerhard Richter, then in the photography class of Bernd and Hilla Becher

1976

1st presentation of 49 photographs of Dusseldorf streets at the Academy in Dusseldorf

1978

New York Scholarship of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with first solo exhibition "Streets of New York", P.S. 1, New York

1990

Werner Mantz Prijs, Maastricht

1993-1996

Professorship at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

1997

Spektrum - International Prize for Photography, Stiftung Niedersachsen

2007

Marriage to Tara Bray Smith

2011

Selected as photographer for the official anniversary photo of the Royal Family

2013

Honorary Fellow in the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, USA

2014

Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects

2016

Honorary Member in the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society

2018

Honorary Magister Artium Gandensis of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium

2019

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

2018

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

2017

Nature & Politics Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis

Figure Ground Haus der Kunst, Munich

2016

Nature & Politics Museum Folkwang, Essen; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; High Museum, Atlanta, USA

2014

Thomas Struth – Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2011

Thomas Struth, Fotografien 1978 – 2010 Museu Serralves, Porto; Whitechapel Gallery, London; K20, Düsseldorf; Kunsthaus Zürich,

2007

Making Time Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

2004

Pergamon Museum I-VI Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

2003

1977-2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2002

1977-2002 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

New Pictures from Paradise Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

1998

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1997

Portraits Sprengel Museum, Hanover

1995

Strangers and Friends Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Kanada

Strassen Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

1994

Strangers and Friends Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

1993

Museum Photographs Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

1992

Directions Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA