E.O. Hoppé Exhibition Chronology

 

1905-7  Two works by Hoppé were exhibited by the London’s Royal Photographic Society in 1905. Over the next years, his photography is displayed by various local photography exhibitions around the UK. Many cash prizes and medals are awarded to him while still an amateur.

1906      Eight works are chosen to be exhibited by the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring in London.

1908      Royal Photographic Society Salon, London, six photographs exhibited.

1909      Dresden, Germany, International Exhibition of Photography.

1910      Royal Photographic Society, Russell Square, London, a one-man exhibition of 72 photographs.

1913      Goupil Gallery, London, one man exhibition. Budapest, Hungary, International Exhibition of Photography. Hoppé opens the Dorian Leigh Gallery at Millais House, South Kensington, London, exhibiting new artists of all types as well as his own work, ongoing for many years.

1914      Ryder Gallery, London, Studies from the Russian Ballet.

1921      Wanamaker’s Gallery, New York City. Hoppé’s first major exhibition in the United States.

1922      January: London, Goupil Gallery, New Camera Work by E.O. Hoppé. 221 prints are exhibited, both portraits and modernist city images of New York City. June-July: London, Victoria and Albert Museum, International Theatre Exhibition.

1924      Dorien Leigh Gallery, London, exhibition of Romanian Arts and Crafts, inspired by his visit to and photographs of Romania from 1923.

1926      Various small one-man exhibitions around the United States, featuring both portrait and documentary work, in major department stores as he tours the country, including at Bullock’s Los Angeles.

1927      Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, Photographic Masterpieces by E.O. Hoppé, staged by Asahai Shimbun Company. May: Dover Gallery, exhibition of “Rural England” photographs. Also an exhibition in Berlin.

1930      Sydney, Australia. Camera Pictures by E.O. Hoppé at David Jones’ Department Store. Featured industrial, European landscape and American pictures. First exhibition in Australia.

1954      Touring Exhibition, A Half Century of Photography. Foyles Gallery London, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, then further toured by British Council through India and Asia. A career retrospective of 90 photographs, including recent abstract photography work.

1968      Kodak Gallery, special London retrospective exhibition to celebrate Hoppé’s 90th birthday.

1978      National Portrait Gallery, London, Camera Portraits by E.O. Hoppé, York, England, Impressions Gallery of Photography, Cities and Industry, Camera Pictures by E.O. Hoppé.

1980      National Portrait Gallery, London, The Queen Mother: A Celebration, featuring multiple images by Hoppé from 1914 through 1923.

2006      Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, Hoppé’s London.

2007      Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, Amerika. Customs House, Sydney, Australia, Australia.

2010      Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, Discoveries.

2011      National Portrait Gallery, London, Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio & Street. 150 works featured.

2015-17 Fondazione MAST, Bologna, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Winterthur, Switzerland Emil Otto Hoppé: Unveiling a Secret: Photographs of Industries, 1912-1937.

2021      The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, E.O Hoppé and the Ballets Russes.

2024      Buckingham Palace, King’s Gallery, London Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography, featuring Hoppé images (toured to Holyrood Palace Edinburgh in 2025). Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, E.O. Hoppé: Women: Portraits of Achievement.

2025      St Louis Art Museum, In Search of America: Photography and the Road Trip. Getty Museum, Los Angeles Queer Lens: A History of Photography, three Hoppé portraits prominently featured.