SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Sensual / Sexual / Social: The Photography of George Platt Lynes, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

2014 George Platt Lynes, Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, Lambertville, NJ

2012 George Platt Lynes, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY

2011 George Platt Lynes, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY

2008 Vintage Ballet Photographs, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2005 George Platt Lynes, Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, New York, NY
Fashioning Celebrity: Photographs of George Platt Lynes, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX

2003 Fashioning Celebrity: Photographs of George Platt Lynes, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX

1993 George Balanchine and his Dancers: the Ballet Photography of George Platt Lynes, The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN

1980 George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute, Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New York, NY

1960 Portraits by George Platt Lynes, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1934 Fifty Photographs by George Platt Lynes, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY

1932 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY ????

Group Exhibitions

2019 Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 

2018 Transmissions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 

2013 Fashion: Photography from the Condé Nast Archives, Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Milan, Italy 

2011 Psyche & Muse: Creative Entanglements with the Science of the Soul, Beinecke Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT
An Intimate Circle, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Narcissus Reflected, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2010 25 Years / 25 Works, Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Staff Picks 2010, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Nature & Nurture: Exploring Human Reproduction from Pregnancy through Early Childhood, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Flirting with Bling, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2008 Pre-Revolutionary Queer: Gay Art and Culture Before Stonewall, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Vintage / Vantage, Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, New York, NY

2007 MODE: BILDER, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany
Classic Beauty: Part 2 Photographs of the Male Nude, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY
VIP, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Igor Stawinsky - ich muss die kunst anfassen, Museum of Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria

2006 Busy going crazy: The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
American Icons, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2005 20th Anniversary Show, Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, New York, NY
Beyond Real Part 1 Dressing Up, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
From the Source, Fashion Photographs, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Summer Skin, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003 Herb Ritts Private Collection, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artseal Gallery Photo SF Preview, Artseal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

2001 Interwoven Lives: George Platt Lynes and his Friends, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Figurescapes, Radiant Light Gallery, Portland, ME

1992 Classic Dualities: The Photographs of Len Prince taken at the Tampa Museum of Art, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Figure/Form: The Nude in 20th Century Photography, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1977 documenta 6, Documenta, Kassel, Germany

1951 Abstraction in Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1937 Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1932 Murals by American Painters and Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Photographs of New York by New York Photographers, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY

Collections

Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, National Gallery of Canada

Centre Pompidou Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris

Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes. New York: Rizzoli, 2011.

George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute. Boston: Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1993.

George Platt Lynes. Berlin: Bruno Gmünder Verlag, 1990.

George Platt Lynes: Photographs 1931-1955. Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press, 1981.