EXHIBITIONS
Recent:
- The World and Venice 1936-1956: David “Chim” Seymour, will be on view at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy, from December 5, 2023 to March 17, 2024.
- Chim: Between Devastation and Resurrection – Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, Illinois, September 22, 2022 – February 4, 2024
- ISREALITIES: Seven Photographic Journeys – Jewish Museum of Basel, Switzerland, March – July 2019
- Chim (David Seymour) – Legendary Photojournalist – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2018 – March 2019
- Framing Community: 1947-Present – New York, New York, October 2017
- Capturing History: The Photography of Chim – Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2017 – July 2018
- Children’s World – Magnum Print Room, London, November 2016 – January 2017
- D17 Gallery – Art Market, Budapest, Hungary, October 2016
- “Le Front Populaire” at City Hall, Paris, May – July 2016
- Citizen of the World – Lodz Fotofestival, Poland, June 2016
2011 to 2015:
- La Nascita di Magnum, Cremona/Museo de Violino, October 31st – February 8th, 2015
- InVisible Scars – Children and War in the Photos of David “CHIM” Seymour, The Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Gaylord Library, opened November 12, 2013
- David Seymour: Retrospective, April 3-September 14, 2014, Palazzo Reale – Turin, Italy
- The Mexican Suitcase, Museo San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico, October 8, 2013–February 9, 2014
- David Seymour (CHIM): A Celebration of Chim, Leica Gallery, Washington, DC, September 7 – late October, 2013
- La Valise Mexicaine, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France, February 27 – June 30, 2013
- We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by CHIM, January 18-May 5, 2013, International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 +1- 212.857.0000 www.icp.org
- An exhibition co-hosted by Galerie Walter Keller, Zurich, and Galerie ° CLAIR, Saint-Paul de Vence, Anna-Patricia Kahn.Location:Galerie Walter Keller, Oberdorfstrasse 2, 8001 Zurich, Opening: February 4, 2013, 18:30, Duration: February 7 – March 30, Th + Fr 12:00 – 18:00, Sa 12:00 – 17:00.
- CHIM Rediscovered / CHIM retrouvé, December 22, 2012 – January 27, 2013, CLAIR Galerie, 1, rue de la Tour, 06570 St. Paul de Vence, Nice, France +33 664 757 789
- CHIM/Gamboa Exhibition: The Mexican Connection, at El Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, December 9, 2010 – March 6, 2011, Information in Spanish, plus 9 minute video tour of the exhibit opening.
- CHIM retrospective at the Jewish Museum in Brussels – October 29 to February 27, 2011
Terezka, a disturbed child in an orphanage. The scrawl on the blackboard is her drawing of “home”. Poland, 1948
The people of Cocullo capture snakes for a festival in honor of a Benedictine monk named San Domenico, believed to be a protector against snakebites. Cocculo, Italy, 1951
Home for crippled and maimed children. Here children play with a ball in the grounds of the home, in spite of their missing limbs. Villa Savoia, Rome, Italy, 1948
One child of a large family with a homemade doll. Displaced Persons Camp from the Sudeten land, an old arsenal, half-destroyed, which was given to the displaced persons. Vienna, Austria, 1948
Displaced Persons Camp from the Sudeten land, an old arsenal, half-destroyed, which was given to the displaced persons. The nursery is run by the displaced persons themselves. 400.000 children in Austria get UNICEF food. Vienna, Austria, 1948
Boys play in bombed-out buildings in the working-class district of Favoriten. Vienna, Austria, 1948
Children play among the wreckage of the D Day invasion. Normandy, France, 1947
2006 to 2010:
- The Mexican Suitcase, ICP Museum – September 24, 2010 – January 9, 2011
- DeYoung Museum (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)CHIM: The Photography of David Seymour (1911 – 1956) September 29, 2007 – February 24, 2008, Includes video tour of exhibit by curator Robert Johnson, Online exhibit shows all 77 prints, Press here for photos from the opening
- Photographs by David Seymour (Selections from George Eastman House) May 11 – September 9, 2007, International Center of Photography, New York
- Reflections from the Heart, is an unprecedented exhibition, on view January 20, 2007 – Sunday, April 22, 2007 at the George Eastman House
- Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Presents: Reflections from the Heart, September 11 – December 10, 2006
- Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibit “Reflections from the Heart” (Mar-June 2006)
- Susan Stamberg review Corcoran show on National Public Radio (Mar 23, 2006)
- Menachem Wecker reviews CHIM’s work in Forward (Feb 10, 2006)
2005 and earlier:
- “Close Enough” exhibit in 1999 at Art Gallery of the University of Maryland, College Park.
Curator Terry Gips writes about CHIM for “Close Enough” exhibit 1999 at Art Gallery of the University of Maryland, College Park - CHIM: The Photos of David Seymour exhibit in 1996 at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York. ICP’s collections contain a large archive of vintage CHIM materials. Their major retrospective exhibit led to an extensive website. ICP also presents a web biography of CHIM
- “Chim’s Children: Photographs by David Seymour” exhibit in 1957 at the Art Institute of Chicago