Exhibitions

2025 Hungary – Hungarian House of Photography–Mai Mano House, Budapest

2023 Serbia – Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade

2022 Serbia – Novi Sad, European Capital of Culture 2022; group exhibition "Female Perspectives". "Karlovci Art Workshop" in Sremski Karlovci

 

2021 France – Clic Clac, La photographie dans la littérature jeunesse (photography in children's litterature), La Bibliothèque de Toulouse Clic Clac une exposition Rosalis

 

2015–present New York – Koneko Cat Café

 

2011–2012 France – "Des bêtes..." – Jacques Prévert et Ylla
An exhibition illustrating the collaboration between poet Jacques Prévert and Ylla at the Maison Jacques Prévert, the museum in his last home, located in Omonville-la-Petite near Cherbourg

 

2011–2012 France – Le Livre, L'Enfant et la Photographie, Bibliothèque de l'Alcazar, Marseilles
Conceived by Fotokino and L'île aux Livres

 

2010 France – Le Bestiaire imaginaire: l'animal dans la photographie, de 1850 à nos jours, Palais Lumière, Ville d'Evian; group exhibition.

 

2005 Germany – nützlich–süß–museal. Das fotografierte Tier (Useful, Sweet, Worth a Museum. The Photographed Animal), Museum Folkwang, Essen; group exhibition.

 

2002–2005 A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography
Curated by Raymond Merritt and Miles Barth:

UBS/Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York City

The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ohio

The Ross Museum, Chillicothe, Ohio

The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba

The Durham Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

The Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan

The Keihan Gallery, Osaka, Japan

The University of Maryland Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland

The Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, West Virginia

 

2000 Japan – Osaka Kintetsu Department Store Art Hall, Cats and Photographers, II, group exhibition – 19 Ylla photographs

 

1999 Spain – Fotografía pública / Photography in Print 1919-1939

Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

Centro Cultural La Rioja, Logroño (2000)

 

1998 France – Les Femmes Photographes de la Nouvelle Vision en France 1920–1940 (Women Photographers – the New Vision in France):

Hôtel de Sully, Paris

Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône

Musée de l'Ancien Evêché, Evreux

 

1997 Japan – Yokohama Landmark Tower Gallery, Cats and Photographers, II, group exhibition –
19 Ylla photographs

 

1987 Italy – Torino Fotografia, Biennale Internazionale, group exhibition

 

1986 England – The Animal in Photography 1843–1985, The Photographers' Gallery, London – a group exhibition that travelled to five other venues in England

 

1983 France – Ylla, Nicéphore Niépce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône

 

1964 New York – The Photographer's Eye, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

 

1958 New York – Photographs from the Museum Collection, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

 

1954 The New York Public Library

 

1951 The New York Public Library

 

1950 New York – American Museum of Natural History, Corner Gallery

New York – Horn and Head Museum at the Bronx Zoo

 

1948 New York – In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art – group exhibition

 

1942 New York – Animals, Weyhe Gallery, February – group exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography of animals, primitive to contemporary, by Goya, Degas, Picasso...

New York – Cats, Weyhe Gallery, November – group exhibition of sculpture, drawing, prints and photography of cats, by Foujita, Wanda Gág...

New York – Haber & Fink Gallery

 

1938 Paris – Revue de la Photographie 1938 – 6ième Exposition du Groupe, Galerie Paul Magné (Ex – Librairie-Galerie de la Pléiade) – Sixth annual group exhibition

Paris – Salon du Chasseur d'Images, group exhibition

 

1937 New York – Photography 1839–1937, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

 

1936 Paris – Musée du Louvre – Pavillon de Marsan, Exposition internationale de la Photographie contemporaine; group exhibition

Paris – Salon des Dix, Galerie Jules Leleu – group exhibition of ten photographers organized by Jacques Guenne of L’Art Vivant, including Brassaï, Dumas, Kertész, Landau….

Paris – Galerie d’Art et d’Industrie, group exhibition of twenty-two photographers

Paris – Galerie Ecalle, group exhibition organized by Raymond Gid and éditions O. E. T., with Ergy Landau and Pierre Jahan

 

1935 Paris – Librairie d'art René Van den Berg, solo exhibition

 

1934 Paris – Studio Saint-Jacques; Exposition de la société des artistes photographes

 

1933 Paris – Galerie Braun, May; "L'Image Photographique en France de Daguerre à Nos Jours"

Paris – La Galerie de la Pléiade, June; "Groupe annuel des Photographes"

Paris – La Galerie de la Pléiade, December; "Studio Ylla"

Paris – Galerie Éditions Sociales Internationales, December; L'Exposition de L'A. E. A. R., group exhibition