Collections & Exhibitions

Dr. Teplica's photographic work has been incorporated into many museum collections, and is exhibited regularly in museums, galleries, and institutions across the globe. Below is a selection of the most prominent collections & exhibitions to include Dr. Teplica's photography. 

Museum Collections

Corporate & Institutional Collections

  • J.P. Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
  • Elmer Belt Library, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
  • Ben May Laboratories, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • The Center for Study of Multiple Birth, Chicago, IL
  • LaSalle Bank (ABN-AMRO) Photographic Collection, Chicago, IL
  • Polaroid Corporate Collection (now dispersed), Boston, MA
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Office of Development and the Department of Interior Architecture, Chicago, IL
  • The University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL

One-artist Exhibitions

  • “Experiments in Black”, Pattee Library, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 1982
  • “Humanform #1”, Carpenter Street Restaurant, Norwich, VT, and Peter Christian's Restaurant, Hanover, NH, 1984
  • “Humanform #2”, Collis Student Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1984
  • “Another Self”, Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March-April 1990
  • “The Twinsburg Archive”, at the Twins Days Festival, Twinsburg, OH, August 1990
  • “DOUBLE FOCUS: David Teplica, MD”, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, 8 February - 9 March 1991
  • “DOUBLE FOCUS”, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 3-18 December 1992
  • “Archeography in Eden”, Gallery Fotographie, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993
  • “Rapture:  At the Interface between Love and Disease”, with three-dimensional sound installation by Bryan Shuler:
    • SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
    • Fayerweather Gallery, the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 29 September – 27 October 1995
    • Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 30 November 1995-10 March 1996
    • Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1 October – 2 December 1998
  • “Twins:  a Ten-Year Photographic Exploration of Identical Twins”, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL, 14 August – 19 September 1998
  • “Take Two:  Identical Twins in Focus”, Two10 Gallery, The Wellcome Trust, London, England, 22 July - 24 September 1999
  • “Gemelli:  In Honor of Luigi Gedda”, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Society for Twin Studies, Great Hall, Imperial College, London, 4 July 2001
  • “Monozygotic Subtraction”, at the 11th International Congress for Twin Studies, University of Gent, Belgium, 2007
  • “Intimate Decade:  A diverse exploration of human contact from birth to death”, 
    • Diane Tanios Gallery, Chicago, IL, 29 February – 8 June 2008
    • Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN, John Reed curator, 7 November – 8 December 2009 
  • “Twin Shape:  Mirroring of Body Form”, at the 1st World Congress on Twin Pregnancy, Island of San Servolo, Venice, Italy, April 2009
  • “Gemelli:  Arte e Scienza”, 25-year Retrospective Exhibition of Twin Imagery, Curated by David Travis, Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy, April 2012

Group Exhibitions

  • “Annual Exhibition”, Central Pennsylvania Art Association, Graduate Commons, Penn State University, 1981
  • “Eleventh Annual Regional Art Exhibition”, sponsored by the Friends of the Hopkins Center, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1983
  • “Paul Cadmus 80th Birthday Celebration”, Midtown Galleries, New York, NY, 1985
  • “Photography 21: A Juried Exhibition”, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, University Park, PA, Ray Metzker, Juror, 1987
  • “George Tooker:  Working Drawings”, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1987
  • “College of Art & Architecture Alumni Art Exhibition, Selected Works”, at the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA, October 1988
  • “Biocommunication:  Chicago Forum 1989”, University of Illinois at Chicago, Awarded “Best of Show in Photography”, Chicago, IL, October 1989
  • “Peculiar Faces: A Juried Exhibition”, Struve Gallery, Chicago, August-September 1990
  • “Personal / Political”, Gallery 2, Chicago, September-October 1990
  • “Cross Sections II: Recent Acquisitions”, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, January-March 1991
  • “Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display”, Art Institute of Chicago, 30 January - 28 April 1992
  • “Scars of childhood”, David Teplica (photographs), Greg Boozell (video) and Ellin Brown (text), national/international exhibition tour: Chicago Athenaeum, Gallery I, the AMA Building, Chicago, IL, 2 November - 5 December 1992
    • Cleveland Health Education Museum, Cleveland, OH, 11 February - 31 March 1993
    • Empire State Building, New York, NY, 13 July - 30 September 1993
    • Rochester Institute of Technology, SPAS Gallery, Rochester, NY, 15-28 October 1993
    • U.S. Army Medical Museum, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX, 12 November - 30 December 1993
    • El Palacio de la Antigua Escuela de Medicina, Mexico City, Mexico, sponsored by the Minister of Health, 18 January - 17 March 1994
    • University of Kentucky, Singletary Center for the Arts, Lexington, KY, 12 May – 30 June 1994
    • Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 1 October 1994 – 8 January 1995
    • Cornell University, WSH Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 27 January – 10 February 1995
  • “The Artist as Subject: Paul Cadmus”, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY, 4 February - 6 March 1993
  • “I'll meet you at my house between...”, not-for-profit group performance/installation to promote public awareness of HIV/AIDS, Dance Forum Taipei, Taiwan, 6 June 1993
  • “Focus on the Symbolic:  Photographs to Contemplate and See”, David Teplica with Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, among others, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO, 14 June - 27 July 1996
  • “Illinois Photographers in the 90’s:  The Midwest Photographers Project”, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 16 November 1996 - 11 January 1997
  • “New Faces:  New Acquisitions”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, August – October 1997
  • “The Poetics of Vision:  Photographs from the Collection of Harry M. Drake”, curated by Christian A. Peterson, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 20 September 1997 – 4 January 1998
  • “New Acquisitions”, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 1999
  • “Capturing Sunlight:  The Art of Tree Studios”, the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, June, 1999
  • “Chicago in the Year 2000”, a millennial photographic time capsule for the city of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, IL, 1 January – 4 March 2001
  • “eMotion Pictures”, National Tour:
    • Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio, San Francisco, CA, 19 February – 20 March 2001
    • Millennium Arts Center, Washington, DC, 23 April – 26 May 2001
    • Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, 22 September – 25 November 2001
    • United Nations Headquarters, General Assembly Visitors Lobby, New York, NY, 22 January – 26 February 2002
    • National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC, 15 March – 15 August 2002
    • Thomas Hospital, Fairhope, AL, 16 August – 13 September 2002
    • Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 26 August – 20 October 2002
    • Minnesota Government Center, Minneapolis, MN, 17-31 October 2002
    • The Pennsylvania State University, Robeson Gallery, University Park, PA, 3 January – 28 February 2003
  • “Tweelingen in Kunst & Wetenschap”, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, 28 July – 25 November 2001
  • “Tweelingen”, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 19 October 2002 – 30 March 2003
  • “Face Off:  Chicago Photographers in the Smart Museum Collection”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 22 June - 8 September 2002 
  • “Group Portrait”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 5 April – 15 June 2003 
  • “Art at War:  The Artist’s Voice”, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, IL, 10 September – 16 October 2004
  • “birds & b(ees)”, Gescheidle Gallery, 118 N. Peoria, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL, 10 December 2004 – 8 January 2005
  • “Recent Acquisitions:  Contemporary Prints and Photographs”, including Chuck Close, Martin Puryear, David Teplica, Bill Jacobson, Lothar Osterberg, and Sari Goodfriend, American Works on Paper Gallery, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 30 May – 13 October 2006
  • “Images from Science 2”, international juried exhibition of the world’s top 50 scientific images
    • “Images from Science 2008”, S.P.A.S. Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 11-25 October 2008 
    • “Images from Science 2”, ArtStreet, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 23 February – 26 March 2009
    • “Images from Science--Wissenschaftsbilder”, Haus der Wissenschaft, Braunschweig Technical University, Germany, 7 August 2009 – 24 September 2009
    • “Images from Science 2:  An Exhibition of Scientific Photographs”, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY, 13 February 2010 – 31 May 2010
  • “Fifth Annual Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show”, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 28 May – 30 July 2010 
  • “The Shape of Us:  Selections from the Kinsey Institute Art Collection”, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 20 September – 16 October 2010 
  • “Nature & Nurture:  Exploring Human Reproduction from Pregnancy through Early Childhood”, The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Morrison Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 10 September – 22 December 2010 
  • “Seriality:  Photographs from the Permanent Collection”, a group show including work of Eadweard Muybridge, Carrie Mae Weems, David Teplica, Andy Warhol, Ana Mendieta, and Kara Walker, The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 20 September 2011– 15 January 2012 
  • “Nature & Nurture: Exploring Human Reproduction from Pregnancy through Early Childhood”, the IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, 30 January – 2 March 2012
  • “Broad Vision:  Inspired by… Images from Science:  Part I”, London Gallery West, University of Westminster, London, England, 22 May – 28 May 2012
  • “The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2012”, The Kinsey Institute, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 19 May – 21 July 2012 
  • “Eye Contact: Photographic Portraits from the Collection”, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 11 January – 24 March 2013 
  • “Gesturing into Consciousness”, Juried Exhibition of Alumni Work, School of the Visual Arts, Penn State University, 4 April 2013 
  • “Creative Minds”, The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Morrison Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 11 April – 14 September 2014 
  • “The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2014” The Kinsey Institute, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 16 May – 12 July 2014 
  • “Visualising Medicine: An Exhibition of Medical Photography”, featuring the image ‘Surface Mapping of Masculine Body Form’, Fenton House, The Royal Photographic Society, Fenton House, Bath, England, 1 May – 30 May 2014 
  • “Undercover: Selections from the Kinsey Collection”, featuring the image ‘Male, female, black, white, Jewish, Christian, atheist, gay, straight, bisexual, married, single, divorced, nude, 1996’, Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, 20 March – 17 April
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