Born in Brooklyn in 1960. Lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
1985 – 87
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt am Main
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
Brooklyn Public Library, New York
Fashion Institute of Technology – Fine Art, New York
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Gordon Parks Foundation, New York
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Shabazz: Seconds of My Life: Photographs from 1975-2024, Bronx Documentary Center Annex, New York
2023
Faces and Places 1980-2023, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Albums, Gordon Parks Foundation, New York
2022
Peace to the Queen, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin
Eyes on the Street, Bronx Museum, New York
Photographs by Jamel Shabazz: 1980-1989, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
Jamel Shabazz – Los Angeles, Galerie Bene Taschen hosted Future DMND Gallery, Los Angeles
Reflections of a People, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte
2021
My Brooklyn Oasis, Prospect Park, New York
2020
Street Life, Museum aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht
2019
Gordon Parks: A Homecoming, Minnesota Museum of Modern Art, Minnesota
City Metro, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
Honor and Dignity, Gordon Parks Foundation, New York
2017
Crossing 125th, Studio Harlem Museum, New York
2015
Reflections from the ’80s, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
2012
Represent, Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn Public Library, New York
Represent, Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille
2011
Pieces of a Man, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
2010
Seconds of My Life, Time Inc. Building, New York
2008
Community, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2007
Men of Honor, African American Museum, Philadelphia
2006
B – Boys, Parsha Gallery, São Paulo
2005
A Time Before Crack, Powerhouse Gallery, New York
2003
The Last Sunday in June, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York
Women Only, La Case Gallery, Milan
2002
Back in the Days, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York
When Two Worlds Meet, La Piscine Museum, Roubaix
2001
Back in the Days, Prosper Gallery, New York
1999
True Signs, Galerie Beaurepaire, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hip Hop – Living a Dream, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
We are here, International Center of Photography, New York
All in the name of the name, the sensitive surfaces of graffiti, Palais de Tokyo, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
Group show, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2023
Another Perspective – Photoville, New York
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, travelling exhibition
New York Now: Home- A Photography Triennial, New York
Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Hip Hop 50, Fotografiska, Stockholm
Vision & Spirit: African American Art, African American Museum, Philadelphia
2022
New Works Art Collection, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt am Main
Celebrating the City - Recent Photography Acquisitions from the Joy of Giving, Museum of the City of New York, New York
Shapeshifters, Kunstlinie, Almere
2021
Rockefeller Center + Aperture: New York, Rockefeller Center, New York
What We Call Home, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York
2020
CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, ICP, New York
2019
Street Dreams, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Group show, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
2018
Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911-2011, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Group Show, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
2017
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2016
5 years – 6 artists, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne
Who Shot Sports, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2015
Wild Noise’, El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havanna
2013
A Choice of Weapons, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis
2012
Rituals of Chaos, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Harlem and the City, City College of New York, New York
The Box That Rocks, MoCADA Museum, New York
The Romare Bearden, Project Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2011
Becoming, Nasher Museum at Duke University, Charlotte
Posing Beauty, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Fear into Fire, Columbia College, Chicago
Posing Beauty, Newark Museum, Newark
2010
Conflict in the New Century, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas
Rewind Remix Replay, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale
2009
Posing Beauty, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York
1968: Then and Now, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
Ancient Futures, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Obama: The Historic Campaign, Schomburg Center, New York
Fashion vs. Sport, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Street Art Street Life: From the 1950s to Now, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
I Am a Man, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2007
Black in White America, Powerhouse Gallery, New York
Keep the Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
Free for All, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, New York
Reasons to Riot, Memphis College of Art, Memphis
Black Style Now, Museum of the City of New York, New York
Shoot Out, African American Museum, Philadelphia
Bebop to Hip Hop, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
2005
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning African American Museum, Philadelphia
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Art for Life, Russell Simmons Estate, East Hampton
2001
The September 11, Photo Project Prince Street Gallery, New York
Hip Hop Nation, Brooklyn Museum of the Arts, New York
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023
Faces and Places, 1980 – 2023, Galerie Bene Taschen & Brooklyn Museum
2022
Albums, Steidl
2020
City Metro, Galerie Bene Taschen
2017
Sights of the City, Damiani books
2015
Reflections from the ‘80s, Hardhitta Gallery
2007
Seconds of my Life, PowerHouse Books
2005
A Time before Crack, PowerHouse Books
2003
The Last Sunday in June, PowerHouse Books
2001
Back in the Days, PowerHouse Books
AWARD
2023
Achievement in Documentary, Lucie Awards, New York
Cologne, 2022
Cologne, 2019
Cologne, 2015
HIP HOP – LIVING A DREAM
GROUP EXHIBITION 2022
5 YEARS, SIX ARTISTS
GROUP EXHIBITION 2019 / 2020
GROUP EXHIBITION 2018
GROUP EXHIBITION 2017
30 April/ 01 May, 2022
Financial Times "Gallery Photographs by Jamel Shabazz"
12 May, 2020
Kölner Kultur "Der Zukunft in die Karten schauen"
30 January, 2019
Kölner Stadtanzeiger "Magie der Unterwelt"
September 2020
Süddeutsche Zeitung "Weiter so"
March 2015
Die Welt Kompakt "Zeitreise ins Brooklyn der 80er-Jahre"
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19 • 50674 Cologne • Germany
Wed - Fri: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sat 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
or by appointment
Phone +49 (0)221 3976 7482
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19 • 50674 Cologne • Germany
Wed - Fri: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sat 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
or by appointment
Phone +49 (0)221 3976 7482