Joel-Peter Witkin

Joel-Peter Witkin was born (with his twin brother, the painter Jerome Witkin) in Brooklyn in 1939 to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He went to Catholic school until he entered high school, and in his early twenties, from 1961 to 1964, he worked as a war photographer in Vietnam. He has had recent solo exhibitions of his work at Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of...See more

Joel-Peter Witkin was born (with his twin brother, the painter Jerome Witkin) in Brooklyn in 1939 to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He went to Catholic school until he entered high school, and in his early twenties, from 1961 to 1964, he worked as a war photographer in Vietnam. He has had recent solo exhibitions of his work at Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. See less