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2018
Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
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2018
Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2017
Art People: The Pageant Portraits, Ralph Pucci LA, Los Angeles, CA
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2017
Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles, Camera Work Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany
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2016
Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits, Camera Work Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany
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2014
Talking Heads, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1993
Big Pictures, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1991
Big Pictures, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, NY
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1991
Big Pictures, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
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1991
Big Pictures, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1987
Matthew Rolston: Magazine Work, Photographs, Govinda Gallery, Washington, D.C
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1982
Matthew Rolston, Portraits, Jennifer Dumas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1982
New Hollywood Portraiture, FOTO Gallery, New York, NY
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2020
Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (with Mike Kelley, Isabelle Albuquerque, Vaginal Davis, and others), curated by Benjamin Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim Gallery, and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2020
Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling (with Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Collier Schorr, and others), Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
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2018
Greater than LA (with Larry Bell, Kelly Lamb, Lauren Halsey, and others), Desert Center, Los Angeles, CA
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2014
The Editor’s Eye: The Anthony Mazzola Years (with Slim Aarons, Francesco Scavullo, Bill King, and others), Hearst Gallery, Hearst Tower, New York, NY
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2014
Joan Quinn Captured, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
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2013
Joan, Joan, Joan, The Vi Smith Concourse Gallery at John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA
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2013
Through the Lens of the Blues Aesthetic: An Evening of Short Films Selected by Kevin Everson, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2013
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, SF Shorts: The San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, San Francisco, CA
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2011
Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ann College Main Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
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2011
Beauty CULTure, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
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2000
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
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1999
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
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1998
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, Musée de la Mode, Marseilles, France
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1997
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
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1997
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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1997
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1989
New Nudes, Govinda Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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1988
Fashion and Surrealism, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
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1987
Fashion and Surrealism, FIT Gallery, New York, NY
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1987
New Nudes, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1985
Working In L.A. (with Herb Ritts and Greg Gorman), G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1984
Modern Masters (with Jean Pagliuso, Kim Steele, and Bruce Weber), Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
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1984
Modern Masters (with Jean Pagliuso, Kim Steele, and Bruce Weber), Hokin Kauffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2019
Studio to Studio: Hollywood’s Enduring Influence in Contemporary Art, Academy Museum Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Curator Ryan Linkof, and art critic Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Spring Place, Beverly Hills, CA
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2019
The Power of Pleasure: Decoding the Art of Visual Seduction, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
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2019
Is Glamour Art? A Conversation, with Autre Magazine founding editors Oliver Kupper and Summer Bowie, Frieze LA, Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA
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2018
In Conversation – Looking Back: Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, with KCRW’s Frances Anderton, NeueHouse, Hollywood, CA
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2018
Art People: A Conversation, with cultural critic Katya Tylevich, Ralph Pucci LA, Los Angeles, CA
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2018
Photographic Arts Council of Los Angeles Artist Gallery Talk, Hollywood Royale, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2018
In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with New Yorker Magazine contributing writer Christina Binkley, SoHo House West Hollywood, CA
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2018
Hollywood Royale: Artist Talk with Matthew Rolston, with gallerist Ute Hartjen, The Battery Club, San Francisco, CA
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2018
Iris Night Lecture Series: Hollywood Royale, with Vanity Fair contributing editor Matt Tyrnauer, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
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2018
Glamour, Berlin, and Hollywood: Matthew Rolston, with Lee Kaplan, founder of Arcana Books on the Arts, Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, CA
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2018
Hollywood Royale by Matthew Rolston, with Lee Kaplan, founder of Arcana Books on the Arts, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
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2018
In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with Wolfsonian curator Cathy Leff, SoHo Beach House, Miami, FL
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2018
In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with author and Warhol collaborator Pat Hackett, SoHo House New York, NY
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2017
In Conversation: Matthew Rolston’s Hollywood Royale, with cultural critic Nadia Says, SoHo House Berlin, Germany
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2014
The Rise of the Fashion Film, with New Yorker Magazine contributing writer Christina Binkley, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
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2011
Iris Night Lecture Series: Matthew Rolston on “Beauty CULTure”, with journalist Merle Ginsberg, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
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2009
beautyLIGHT by Matthew Rolston, with journalist Merle Ginsberg, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA