CV – William Ropp (FR)

(born in France, 1960)

ACQUISITIONS (Extract)

The Museum of Fine Art, Houston (USA)

Museo de Arte Moderno de Vitoria Artium (Spain)

Maison Européenne pour la Photographie, Paris (France)

Museet for Fotokunst, Odense (Denmark)

Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (Switzerland)

The New York Public Library, (the Spencer Collection), N.Y .(USA)

Musée Civico Farnese, Piacenza (Italy)

Musée Ken Damy, Brescia (Italy)

Galerie Robert Doisneau , Vandoeuvre (France)

Musée Vamn Reekum, Apildoorn (Holland)

The Polaroid Collection (USA)

Galerie du Château d’eau, Toulouse (France)

Fotomuseum in Mölkau, Leipzig (Germany)

Manfred Heiting collection

Bill Hunt (the dancing bear)

Allan Chasanoff

Jo Baio

James Maloney

And many other private collections…

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Extract)

Maison Europeene pour la Photographie Paris France Nov 2011

Musée de la Photographie Charleroi Belgium Nov 2010

Pingayo (China) Festival of Photography September 2010

Gallery Lillebone & Gallery Troncin Nancy (FR) Nov 2009

Gallery Photo4 Paris October 2009

Arles Juillet 2009

Nordic Light Fotofest May 2009

Your Gallery (Pologne) June 2009

Guanajuato Museum (Mex) august 2009

Woodstock BMG Gallery April 2009

Russie Kazakhstan 2009

Monos Gallery Liege (Belgium) March 2009

Baudelaire Gallery (Anvers Belgium Dec 2008)

Galerie du Passage Paris Nov 2008

Infocus Gallery Köln (Germany Sept 2008)

Donna Rogers Fine Art Houston US March 2008

Taris’s Gallery Arles RIP 2008

Manuel Alvarez Bravo Center Oaxaca Mex Dec 2007

Griffin Museum USA Nov 2007

Arles Juillet 2007

Baudelaire Gallery Anvers Belgium Nov 2006

Krisal Gallery Geneva Nov 2006

Indigo Gallery Mexico August 2006

Farmani Gallery Los Angeles (February 2006)

Gallery Ombre Blanche Toulouse (FR) Sept 2005

Clampart Gallery New York (March 2005)

Australian center for Photography (Nov 2004)

Baudelaire Gallery Anvers (Belgium) Oct 2003

Krisal Gallery Genève (Switzerland) April 2003

Bibiana Museum Month of Photo Bratislava 2002

Alliance Française Toronto (Canada) May 2002

Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia, Almeria (Spain), 2001

Photographers Gallery, London (England), 2000

Galerie de la Maison de la Culture de Metz (France), 2000

House of Photography, Prague (Czech Republic), 2000

A.T.H.A. Galeria, Vittoria (Spain), 2000

Fotografica International, Solighetto (Italy), 1998

Fotomuseum in Mölkau, Leipzig (Germany), 1998

Photo Expo La Bastille, Month of Photography Paris (France), 1998

Galerie ‘La Comédie du Regard’, Montpellier (France), 1997

Photofolies, Rodez (France), 1997

Galerie G4, Cheb (Czech Republic), 1997

Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin (Columbia), 1997

Museo Civico Farnese, Piacenza (Italy), 1996

(Galerie Pechka, Prague Czech Republic), 1996

Galerie Marzee, Amsterdam (Holland), 1995

Musée Ken Damy, Milan (Italy), 1995

Nafoto, Sao Paulo (Brazil), 1995

Phototeca della Ina, Pachuca (Mexico), 1995

Centre Culturel Français, Leipzig (Germany), 1994

Galerie Photonews, Hambourg, (Germany), 1994

Galerie de l’Abattoir, Châlons-sur-Saône (France), 1994

Musée Ken Damy, Brescia (Italy), 1994

Centre Culturel Français, Leipzig (Germany), 1994

Galerie Photonews, Hambourg, (Germany), 1994

Galerie de l’Abattoir, Châlons-sur-Saône (France), 1994

Musée Ken Damy, Brescia (Italy), 1994

Galerie Differencia, Lisbonne (Portugal), 1993

Centre Culturel Français, Essen (Germany), 1993

La Coursive, Scène Nationale, La Rochelle (France), 1992

Photovision, Bestiaire Photographique, Montpellier (France), 1992

Galerie Robert Doisneau, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (France), 1991

Galerie G4, Cheb (Czech Republic), 1991

Galerie Robert Doisneau, Vandoeuvre (France), 1989

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Extract)

Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 12 August – 17 September 2006 (Australia)

Gosford Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, New South Wales, 25 November 2006 – 28 January 2007 ( Australia)

Carnegie Gallery Hobart City Council (Tasmania 2006 Australia)

Arles espace Van Gogh the Dancing Bear (Bill Hunt Collection NY) (July 2005)

Center for photografi Aahus Denmark (The polaroid collection) (Nov 2002)

Fotofest, Houston, (U.S.A.), 2002

Belenky Gallery, New-York (U.S.A.), 1998

Galerie G4, Cheb (Czech Republic), 1998

Musée Municipal de Saint Dié (France), 1996

Petite Chapelle du Méjan, Arles (France), 1996

Galerie Robert Doisneau, Vandoeuvre (France), 1995

Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (Switzerland), 1995

Galerie Marzee, Amsterdam (Holland), 1994

Galerie Labyrinthe, Lausanne (Switzerland), 1993

Grand Palais, Salon Découverte presented by Vis à Vis International, Paris, 1991

Projections at the Palais de Tokyo by the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, 1990

PUBLICATIONS (Extract)

( Only Portfolios between 4 & 26 pages)

Photography (China Oct 2008)

Schwarzeiss (Germany Sept 2008)

AKtuel Kunst (Germany Sept 2008)

Focus (USA Dec 2007)

Foto magazin (Germany March 2007)

Vision China Nov 2006

Eyemazing Holland Nov 2006

Shots USA Sept 2006

Black & White (USA March 2006)

Arte News Italy August 2005

Icarus Dublin Ireland (2004)

Shots 2004

Foto Sept 2002 (Belgium)

Art Photo Akt March 2002 (Germany)

Private summer 2002(no23)(Italy)

Shots no 71, March 2001 (USA)

Photographie March 2001 (Germany)

Vision No 2, 2001 (UK)

Shots No 74, December 2001 (USA)

Imagini Foto Pratica Dec 1999 (Italy)

Norsk Fotografiste Tidsgherift, January 1999 (Norway)

P. Magazine, n° 15, 1998 (Europ)

Fotografi n° 4, 1998 (Norway)

Fotografi n° 6, 1998 (Norway)

Gente di Fotografia n° 17, 1998 (Italy)

Reflex n° 20, 1998, (Mexico)

Picture Magazine, December 1998 (U.S.A.)

P. Magazine, 1996 (Europ))

Foto Oct 95 (Holland)

Zoom, January 1995 (U.S.A.)

Black and White, December 1995 (Australia)

International Photography, November 1994 (U.S.A.)

Zoom, October 1994 (Italy)

International Photographers, December 1993 (China)

Photonews, December, 1993, (Germany)

Foto Magazin, December, 1993, (Germany)

Post n°3, 1991 (Czech Republic)

Vis à Vis International n° 6, 1990 (France)

Vis à Vis International n° 4 , 1989 (France)

Clichés n° 56, 1989 (Belgium)

Photo Magazine, November , 1988 (France)

International Photography n° 2, 1989 (U.S.A.)

1st prize & Black and White prize of the 6th European Final Polaroid Art Awards, 1997

CATALOGUES . William ROPP, 1990

William ROPP, 1991

William ROPP, «La chair nue de l’émotion », 1993

William ROPP, « El escultor en la sombra », 2000

BOOKS

William ROPP, Ken Damy Museum Editions, Italy, 1996

Children, William Ropp, Kehrer Verlag & Editions de l’Oeil, 2004

Polaroïd Collection, Taeschen Editions, 2005

Full of Grace /150 Years of the Child in Photography /2006

Dreamt Memories from Africa  Vevais Verlag  2008

William Ropp 20 years of Photography 2009 (Voenoot Edition – Vevais Verlag-Edition de L’Œil)

Memoires rêvées d’Afriques –Edition de L’Œil 2010


ARTIST’S BOOKS

Collector’s books, limited edition, France, 2002.

Collector’s books, limited edition, France, 2003.

Collector’s books, limited edition, France, 2004.

Dreamt Memories from Africa/ Minotorus Edition Spring 2008

William Ropp: »20 Years in Photography » Voenoot Edition /Edition de L’oeil / Minotorus March 2009

Mémoire Rêvées D’Afrique Edition de L’œil October 2009