The Agents Club Jury Award for Travis Scott "Music Album Cover" and Elton John "Rocket Man Entertainment Movie Art", 2020
2017 LeBook NY Creative Awards for "Make Love Not Walls"/DIESEL
Cannes Gold Lion for "Peace and Love Together" 2015
Doctorate in Fine Arts (Hon.) from UNCSA, 2015
2014 Young Photographers Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award
2012 Artist of the Year, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2012 National Geographic Magazine Photography Seminar, Featured Speaker
OUT in Art Award, GLAAD Award
Best New Photographer of the Year, French Photo and American Photo magazines
ICP Infinity Award for Applied Photography
Photographer of the Year Award, the VH-1 Fashion Awards
Art Directors Club Award for Best Book Design for LaChapelle Land
Best Cutting Edge Essay and Style Photography, Life magazine's Alfred
Eisenstadt Awards for Magazine Photography (the Eisies)
Cover of the Year Category, the Eisies
Best Video for Moby's Natural Blues, the MTV Europe Music Awards
12th Annual MVPA Awards - Adult Contemporary Video of the Year - Elton John
This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
13th Annual MVPA Awards - Winner Director of the Year - Best
Rock Video of the Year for No Doubt It's My Life
Special Juried Prize Mountainfilm, Telluride
Special Juried Recognition, Sundance Film Festival
Best Documentary, Aspen Film Festival
Presented with GLAAD's Vito Russo Award for Outstanding Contributions Toward Eliminating Homophobia
2019 • Acts of God, La Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy, June 14, 2019 - January 6, 2020
2018 • LaChapelle: Good News For Modern Man, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, April 21 - October 28,
2018 • LaChapelle: Songs for the World, Stary Browar Art Gallery, Poznan, Poland, September 5 - December 10
2018 • David LaChapelle: After the Deluge, Beaux Arts Mons, Mons, Belgium, October 27, 2017 - February 25, 2018
2017 • Solo Exhibition, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia, August 19 - September 17
2017 • Lost and Found, Casa Dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy, April 12 - September 10
2017 • Lost and Found, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico, March 30 - July 30
2017 • nscape of Beauty, Ara Modern Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea, November 18, 2016 - May 28, 2017
2016 • Símbolos de inmortalidad , Museo Agadu, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 22 - August 26
2016 • Solo Exhibition, Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 29 - December 30
2016 • Iluminación, Fundación Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 24 - October 7
2016 • Art Fair, Paris Photo Art Fair, Paris France, November 10 - 13
2016 • Art Fair, Ch. ACO Art Fair, Santiago, Chile, October 14 - 16
2016 • Art Fair, Exposition Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, September 23 - September 25
2016 • David LaChapelle: Gas Stations , Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, July 9- September 11
2016 • Posmodernidad , Espacio De Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 9 - August 26
2016 • Contemporaneidad , Centro De La Fotografia, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 24- September 4
2016 • Pipe Dream , Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland, December 10 - February 19
2016 • The Armory Show, Piers 92 & 94, New York City, NY, March 3-6
2016 • AIPAD:The Photography Show, The Park Avenue Armory, New York City, NY, April 14- 17