1994-1998
Became tenured professor and Department Chair at Harvard
1992-2004
Project on pilgrimages and other scenes in rural Ireland
1991
Invited to become a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University
1989
Received the Henri Cartier Bresson Award
Commissioned by Pirelli UK to photograph its tire factory in Burton
1980-1985
Produced cover portraits for The London Review of Books
1977
Founder, exhibition curator, and advisor at the Side Gallery, Newcastle
1975
Two-year fellowship from Northern Arts to photograph the northeast of England.
1974
Commissioned to photograph Bury St Edmunds and Hunddersfield
1969
Killip returned to the Isle of Man where he was born to photograph the island intensively
1966-1969
Freelance assistant for various London photographers
1964
Assistant to London advertising photographer Adrian Flowers
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014
BP Spotlight: Chris Killip, Tate Britain, London
Arbeit/Work, Reina Sofia Musuem, Madrid, Spain
2013
What Happened-Great Britain 1970-1990, The Photographers' Gallery, London
2012
What Happened-Great Britain 1970-1990, LE BAL, Paris
2000
Chris Killip: Sixty Photographs, Old Post Office , Berlin
1997
Chris Killip Photographs 1971-96, Manx Museum , Douglas
The Last Art Show, Jarrow Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1991
Chris Killip Retrospective, Palais de Tokyo , Paris
1990
Working at Pirelli, Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
1988
In Flagrante, Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and subsequent tour of Europe
1986
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1985
Another Country, Serpentine Gallery (London). Photographs of northeast England by Killip and Graham Smith
Seacoal, Side Gallery (Newcastle) and subsequent tour
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography, Photomonth, National Museum , Kraków , Poland.
British photography 1974-1997.
2008-2010
No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968-1987, Hayward Gallery (London), Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), Tullie House (Carlisle ) and Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Aberystwyth)
1973
Two Views: Photographs of British Towns as seen by Eight Photographers, Josef, Koudelka; Ron, McCormick; John, Benton-Harris; Ian, Berry; Colin, Curwood,The Photographers' Gallery, London
1972
Four Young Photographers: Chris Killip, Stephen Shore, Dinah, Homer Sykes, The Photographers' Gallery, London
Selected Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
George Eastman House
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Tate Gallery, London
Manx Museum, Isle of Man