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Exhibitions

2019

Audrey – F11 Foto Museum, Hong Kong, Mar 21 – Jul 31, 2019

2018

Audrey & Marilyn – Gallery Tokinowasuremono, Tokyo, Apr 10 – Apr 27, 2018
Shooting Stars – Elliot Halls Gallery, Amsterdam, Nov 17, 2018

2017

CONTACT – Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles Dec 08 – Jan 28, 2017
The Art Of Behind The Scenes – Finch & Partners – KP Projects Los Angeles – Feb 11 – Feb 26
Cannes Film Festival – Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc May 19, 2017
The Johns Hopkins/MICA Film Center – Baltimore – Permanent Collection

2016

Jazz Body+Soul – Photo LA – Icon Gallery Jan 21 – Jan 24

2015

Cannes Film Festival – Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc May 15 – Jun 15
Audrey Hepburn – Portraits of an Icon – National Portrait Gallery, London Jul 02 – Oct 18
Frank Sinatra & Audrey Hepburn – A Life In Pictures – Peter Fetterman Gallery Nov 13 – Jan 30

2014

American Cool – National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC Feb 07 – Sep 07
Bob Willoughby – Beetles+Huxley, London Sep 16 – Oct 04  (Solo)

2013 

Bob Willoughby – Hollywood Special, Toki-No-Wasuremono, Tokyo, Nov 13 – Nov 23 (Solo) 
The Rat Pack – Paul Stuart New York with Esquire Magazine, Oct 10 – Nov 13 
The Rat Pack – Paul Stuart Chicago with Esquire Magazine, Oct 16 – Nov 13 
Pour ceux qui aiment le Jazz – Galerie Photo12, Paris, Sep 13 – Nov 16 

2012

Bob Willoughby – On Set – Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, Dec 13 – Jan 26 (Solo) 
KYUR8 Online co-exhibit with Christopher Willoughby, Jan 29 Madrid Foto, Jun 7 – Jun 10 
Bob Willoughby: The Silver Age of Hollywood, Proud Chelsea, London, Nov 7 – Jan 13 (Solo) 

2011

The Rat Pack, Milk Gallery, New York, Mar 14 – Mar 28 
The Audrey Collection, Proud Chelsea, London, May 12 – Jun 26 (Solo) 
Marilyn Monroe, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, Oct 21 – Nov 26 
Moscow Photobiennale, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, Russia, Oct 21 – Nov 26  
Zeitgeist & Glamour, Photography of the ’60s and ’70s, NRW Forum Dusseldorf, Germany, Feb 4 – June 11 

2010 

Bob Willoughby’s Hollywood, Cannes Film Festival, France (Solo) 
Bob Willoughby, Audrey Hepburn Photographs 1953-1966, Taschen, Brussels, Sep 9 – Oct 10 (Solo) 

2009 

Audrey Hepburn, Mitsukoshi, Hiroshima, Japan (Solo), Apr 21 – May 1 
Hollywood, Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Center, Kuopio, Finland, Jun 6 – Jul 30 (Solo)
Audrey Hepburn, LIVIN Kinshico, Japan, Oct 16 – Oct 26 (Solo) 
Audrey Hepburn, Kumamoto Hanshin, Japan, Dec 26 – Jan 6 (Solo) 

2008

Audrey Hepburn, Panjo, Sakai, Osaka, Japan, Apr 2 – Apr 15 (Solo) 
Frank Sinatra, Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz, Austria, Jun 7 – Jul 26 (Solo) 
Live By The Lens, Die By The Lens, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK, Jun 20 – Sep 28
Hollywood, Schloß Callenberg, Coburg, Germany, Jul 28 – Jan 11 (Solo) 
Vintage Hollywood, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Solo) 
We Want Miles, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France, Oct 16 – Jan 17  
Audrey Hepburn, Kintetsu Abeno, Osaka, Japan Dec 4 – Dec 10 (Solo) 
Made In Culver City, David Gallery, Los Angeles, Dec 6 – Jan 17 
Audrey Hepburn, Fujisaki, Sendai, Japan, Dec 19 – Dec 26 (Solo) 
Women of Our Time, 20th Century Photography, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Oct 10, 2008 – Feb 1, 2009 Traveling exhibition 2002 – 2005

2007

Hollywood, Schloßmuseum Bad, Pyrmont, Germany, Aug 22 – Nov 4 (Solo) 
Hollywood, Ernst Barlach Museum, Wedel, Germany, Aug 24 – Nov 4 (Solo) 
Birth of the Cool, OCMA, Newport Beach, CA, Oct 7 – Jan 6, 2008 

2006

Elizabeth Taylor, Judisches Museum, Rendsburg, Germany (Solo) Jan 22 – Mar 31 
Elizabeth Taylor, Koblenz Museum, Koblenz, Germany (Solo) Apr 4 – Jun 30 

2005 

Audrey Hepburn, Hofmobiliendepot, Mobel Museum, Vienna, Austria, Jan 26 – Apr 24 (Solo) 
Audrey Hepburn, Ludwig Museum, Deutschherrenhaus, Germany, May 29 – Aug 14 (Solo) Jazz, West Coast, Centre des Arts, Enghein-le-bains, France, Jun 4 – Jun 25 (Solo) 
Frank Sinatra: An Intimate Collection, Schloss Museum, Germany, Jul 7 – Sep 4 (Solo) 

2004 

Audrey Hepburn, Leica Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, Aug 5 – Sep 5 (Solo) 
Audrey Hepburn, Hug Gallery, Amsterdam, Oct 9 – Nov 20 (Solo)
Hollywood, Theatre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice, France (Individual Retrospective Exhibition) 
Women of Our Time, traveling exhibition of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 

2003 

Audrey Traveling Exhibition, Usui Department Store, Koriyama + Ginza  
Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, + Nogoya Mitsukoshi, (Individual Exhibitions) 
This Is Sinatra, Ernst Barlach Museum, Whisk, Germany, Jun 21 – Sep 5 (Solo) 
Frank Sinatra, Palais Palffy, Austrian Cultural Center, Vienna, Austria (Individual Exhibition) 

2002 

Audrey Hepburn, Proud Gallery, London (Solo) 
Frank Sinatra, Proud Gallery, London (Solo) 
Audrey Hepburn, Tokuyama City Museum of Art & History (Solo) 
Audrey Hepburn, Keihan Gallery of Arts & Science, Moriguchi City (Solo) 

2001 

Bob Willoughby, Apex Gallery, Los Angeles 

2000 

Elizabeth Taylor, The National Portrait Gallery, London 
Portraits de Realisateurs et Cinema en Coulisses, Le Bon Marche, Paris 
Lights, Camera, Action; Apex Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo) 
The Elton John Photographic Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 
Audrey Hepburn, Osaka, Japan (Solo) 

1999 

The Photographers’ Gallery, London (Solo) 
Audrey Hepburn, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York (Solo) 
Audrey Hepburn, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo) 

1998 

Persistence of Vision, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Beverly Hills (Major Individual Retrospective Exhibition) Persistence of Vision, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York (Solo) 

1996 

Bob Willoughby, Hollywood Portraits, National Museum of Photography, Bradford, UK, (Solo) 
Wedding Days, Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan (on tour); Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo; Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo; Fukushima Nakagou, Nagoya; Matsusakaya, Aichi; Aomori Virre, & Takamatsu Misukoshi, Kawaga (1997) 

1994 

Kissing, Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo, & Nagoya, Japan, exhibit (also on tour) 
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA  
Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (in 1995 & 1996 on tour to Portland, Atlanta, Birmingham & Rochester) 
Audrey Hepburn exhibit continues to travel in Japan 

1993 

Audrey Hepburn, Kenetsu Art Museum, Osaka, Japan (Solo) Audrey Hepburn, Ogasta Plaza, Kobe, Japan (Solo) 

1992 

Bob Willoughby, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo) 
Bob Willoughby, Galerie Markthalle, Stuttgart, Germany (Solo) 
Jazz With Oris, Smith’s Galleries, London 

1990

Black, White & Blue, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, to coincide with release of a special edition of Jazz In LA – through 1991 (Solo) 

1989 

The Kerry Connection, photographs & letters from 1957, Public Library , Tralee, Ireland (Solo) 

1988 

Jazz & Film Celebrities, 1951-1971, The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (Solo) 
Jazz & Film Celebrities, 1951-1971, On The Wall Gallery, Belfast (Solo) 
Ilford Exhibition, Photokina, Cologne, Germany (Solo) 

1987 

SITES Hollywood: Legend & Reality, traveling exhibit, Center For Fine Arts, Miami; Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati; Denver Museum of Art, Denver; Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles
Troisieme Triennale Internationale de Photographie, Musee de la Photographie de Charleroi, Belgium  
Masters of Starlight, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 
Bob Willoughby, Agrigento Film Festival, Sicily, Italy (Solo) 

1986 

Stars of the British Screen, traveling exhibit, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK; National Museum of Photography, Bradford, UK 
SITES Hollywood: Legend & Reality, traveling exhibit, Smithsonian National Museum, Washington, D.C.; Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York 
The Ilford Calendar, Il Diaframa, Canon Gallery, Milan, Italy (Solo) 31st Cork Film Festival, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland (Solo)
Bob Willoughby, The Photographers Gallery, London 

1985 

Stars of the British Screen, traveling exhibit, National Portrait Gallery, London 

1980 

Beauty & Mystery, Niekrug Gallery, New York (Solo) 
The Platinum Years, Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam (Solo) 
Bob Willoughby, The Yuen Gallery, Seattle (Solo) 
Bob Willoughby, The Landau Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo) 
Bob Willoughby, The Photographers’ Gallery, London 

1979 

Tours, American Cultural Center Sponsored Tour: Centre Culturel, Orleans, France; Maison des Jeunes Travailleurs, Loudon; Maison de la Culture, Poitiers; Musee de la Carpentras, Centre Culturel St. Julien, Marseilles; Musee de la Saint-Rapheal; Atrium de la Caisse d’Epargne de Lyon; Musee d’Etat, Luxembourg (all Solo) 
The Irish Collection, with translations of Irish Poetry, Gallery of Photography, Dublin (Solo) 

1978 

The Platinum Years, Kiva Gallery, Boston (Solo) 
Centre Culturel Americain, Paris (Solo) 
The Gallery of Photography, Dublin (Solo) 

1977 

World Exhibition of Photography IV, (Karl Pawek), Hamburg, Germany 

1972 

World Exhibition of Photography III, (Karl Pawek), Hamburg, Germany 

1971 

Liebe Freundschaft Solidaritat (Rita Maahs), East Berlin (gold & silver medals) 

1970 

Biennale de la Photographie Internationale, Mante-la-Jolie, France (bronze medal) 

1968 

World Exhibition of Photography II (Karl Pawek), Hamburg, Germany 

1967 

Von Gluck des Menschen, Rita Maahs, East Berlin (silver medal) 
The Camera As Witness, Canadian Worlds Fair, Montreal, International Exhibition of Photography 

1964 

World Exhibition of Photography, Hamburg, Germany 

1959 

Photography At Mid Century, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York 

1958 

Through The Looking Glass, California Museum of Science & Industry, Los Angeles (Solo) 

1953 

Always the Young Strangers, Museum of Modern Art, New York  
The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York + World Tour 

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