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Robert Mapplethorpe

American, 1946-1989

Biography

Robert Mapplethorpe

  • (1946 - 1989)

    Born in 1946, Floral Park, US

Education

  • 1966-69     B.F.A. in Graphic Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, US (Dropout)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024
    Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation. Curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Unique Constructions. Gladstone 64, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Edward Enninful. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Animism, Faith, Violence, and Conquest. Curated by Jacolby Satterwhite. Morán Morán, Los Angeles, US

    2023
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Subject Object Image. Alison Jacques, London, England
    Mapplethorpe - von Gloeden. Beauty and Desire. Curated by Sergio Risaliti with Eva Francioli and Muriel Prandato. Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe - Hunted Obsession. Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Fashion, Clothes, People, Pictures. Curated by Charlie Porter. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Robert Mapplethorpe “Look at The Pictures”. Galerie Benden & Ackerman, Cologne, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: More Than a Face. Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Physical. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Shadows and Light. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    MAPPLETHORPE / TESHIGAHARA. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

    2022
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Elogio a La Sombra. Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Outside the Studio. Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Anthony Vaccarello. Saint Laurent Rive Droite, Paris, France, and Saint Laurent Rive Droite, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: Flowers, Poetry, and Light. Curated by Carol Ockman. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, US

    2021
    Looking Forward Looking Back. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Intérieur Jour. Curated by Jean-Marc Bustamante. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
    Mapplethorpe: Escultura. Curated by Tobias Ostrander. Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Arthur Jafa. Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: More Life. Curated by Yongwoo Lee. Kukje, Seoul & Busan, Korea

    2020
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Artists & Muses. Carling Dalenson, Stockholm, Sweden
    Robert Mapplethorpe: In Fifteen Images. Morán Morán (Online), Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Selected by Robert Wilson / Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ Portfolios. Curated by Robert Wilson. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

    2019    
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Artist Portraits. Mignoni NY, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Lifes / Naturalezas Muertas. Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
    The Outsiders. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe: L’Obiettivo Sensibile. Galleria Corsini, Rome, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Sheathed. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
    Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

    2018    
    ARTIST ROOMS: Robert Mapplethorpe. The Atkinson, Southport, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Choreography for an Exhibition. MADRE, Naples, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures. Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
    Robert Mapplethorpe / Kilian Rüthemann. Xavier Laboulbenne, Berlin, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Roe Ethridge. Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe's Minimalism. Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    Mapplethorpe and Dureau. Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, US

    2017    
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Fluid Beauty. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe: A Perfectionist. Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection. Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to: KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival 2017, Kyoto, Japan, 2017)
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

    2016    
    Teller on Mapplethorpe. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon. McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Robert Mapplethorpe - On the Edge. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
    Robert Mapplethorpe: 1979-1989. Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey
    Dark and Light. Curated by Vince Aletti. Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. 11 Columbia / Galleria Franco Noero, Monaco
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway
    Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US (Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, 2016 - 2017; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2017; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2017 - 2018)
    Mapplethorpe + Munch. Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
    XYZ: Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Peter Marino. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

    2015    
    The Magic in the Muse. Bowes Museum, Durham, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Femmes. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Unique. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: The Object. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Flesh & Stone. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galeria Pepe Cobo, Lima, Peru
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US

    2014    
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute Collection. Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Sell the Public Flowers. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
    Mapplethorpe: Photographs and Polaroids. Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    ARTIST ROOMS: Robert Mapplethorpe. Tate Modern, London, England (Traveled to: Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery, Clydebank, Scotland; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales; Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, 2015)
    Mapplethorpe/Rodin. Musée Rodin, Paris, France
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Grand Palais, Paris, France (Traveled to: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland)
    As Above, So Below. OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, US

    2013    
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Saints and Sinners. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Isabelle Huppert. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Fetish. Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Au Début (works from 1970-1979). Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Works from 1980 to 1989. Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Self Portraits. Galleri Skarstedt, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Figure and Flower Studies. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US

    2012    
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe. J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers. Seibu Shibuya, Shibuya, Japan (Traveled to: Seibu Ikebukuro, Ikebukuro, Japan, 2013)
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Pure. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
    Mapplethorpe and Michael Sayles. Xavier Laboulbenne, Berlin, Germany
    ARTIST ROOMS Scottish Tour: Robert Mapplethorpe. Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon, Scotland, 2012 (Traveled to: The Gallery at Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Linlithgow, Scotland, 2012; Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland, 2012; Old Gala House, Galashiels, Scotland, 2013)

    2011    
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Sofia Coppola. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
    Robert Mapplethorpe. i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Robert Mapplethorpe: La Mirada de Pedro Almodóvar. Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
    En Plein Air. Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Friends and Acquaintances. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
    Blossoming. Texas Gallery, Houston, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe Flowers: Selections from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work. Curated by Scissor Sisters. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Desired. Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey

    2010    
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Black and White and Beautiful. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Horses. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Eros and Order. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Man Ray/Mapplethorpe. Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe. NRW-Forum Kultur Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany (Traveled to: C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2011; Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011; Forma Foundation for Photography, Milan, Italy, 2011; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2012)

    2009    
    Sterling Ruby / Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Sterling Ruby. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Women. Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Perfection in Form. Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, Italy (Traveled to: Museo d’Arte della Città di Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland, 2010)
    Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Silver Prints and Polaroids in Context. Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
    Flowers and Body Parts. Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Jill Silverman. Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Spain (Traveled: TR3 Gallery and National Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, 2009)
    Black, White and Silver. Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits. Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs,US (Traveled to: Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, US, 2009; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US, 2011)
    ARTIST ROOMS Tour: Robert Mapplethorpe. Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland (Traveled to: Museums Sheffield, Sheffield, England, 2009; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England, 2010)

    2008   
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Works 1975 – 1988. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
    Lisa, Milton, Thomas, and Ken. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
    Mapplethorpe: Polaroids. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (Traveled to: Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009; Modern Art Oxford, England, 2009; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2009-2010)
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 New York Artists and Other Portraits. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US

    2007    
    Vanitas: Robert Mapplethorpe. Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Unique Works from the 1970s. Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe’s Y Portfolio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Women. Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Ken and Lydia. Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, US

    2006    
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures. Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Moving & Lady. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Robert Wilson. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Mapplethorpe / Warhol: Celebrity Portraits. Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (Travelled to Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US)
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Lisa Lyon. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US

    2005    
    Sacred and Profane / Sagrado y Profano. Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Porträts und Erotik. Galerie im Alten Rathaus, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany (Traveled to: Stadtgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2006)
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Hedi Slimane. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Tra Antico e Moderno. Un’antologia. Palazzina della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers. Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Neoclassicism. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Vik Muniz. Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Mapplethorpe’s Rooms. Stella Kay Gallery, Moscow, Russia
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by David Hockney. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England

    2004    
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Life Portraits. Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Body Parts. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures, Pictures. Curated by Catherine Opie. Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints. Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin (Traveled to: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004-2005; Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia, 2005; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US, 2005; Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas, US, 2006–2007)
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe, Black Nude Man. Galeria Senda Espai 292, Barcelona, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Nine Favourites. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Self-Portraits 1974-1988. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
    The World of Robert Mapplethorpe. Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy

    2003 
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Eye to Eye. Curated by Cindy Sherman. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flower Photographs. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Flowers. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Sculptures and Hand Painted Photographs. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England

    2002          
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers. Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: The Portfolios. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    From Life: Robert Mapplethorpe. Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
    Polaroids 1971–1975: Robert Mapplethorpe. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Toshio Shimizu. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan, 2002 (Traveled to: Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 2002; Daimaru Museum, Shinsaibashi-Osaka, Japan, 2003)

    2001 
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Promiscuous Flowers: Robert Mapplethorpe and Nobuyoshi Araki. Niitsu Museum of Art, Niitsu, Japan (Traveled to Odakyu Museum, 2002; Museum Eki, Kyoto, Japan, 2002)
    Robert, Patti and Sam. Asprey Jacques, London, England

    2000 
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Artists’ Portraits, Black Male Torsos, Flowers, Horses. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Polaroids. Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Colored Flowers. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: X, Y, and Z Portfolios. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Auto-Portrait Polaroids of the 1970s. Cheim & Read, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment. Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US

    1999 
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Centre Cultural La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain
    Photographs: 1982 - 1985. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
    Galería Arnés y Röpke, Madrid, Spain
    Hamiltons Gallery, London, England  

    1998 
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Works From 1971-1989. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Robert Mapplethorpe Portraits Patti Smith Dessins. Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
    Flowers: Robert Mapplethorpe. Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
    Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
    Daimaru Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

    1997  
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
    Mapplethorpe. Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Vau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Unique Works. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Takashimaya Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan

    1996   
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. Curated by Richard D. Marshall, Noriko Fuku, and Hiroaki Hayakawa (Traveled to: Takashimaya “Grand Hall,” Osaka, Japan; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukishima, Japan; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan, 1996-1997)
    Photosommer: Robert Mapplethorpe–Polaroids. Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
    Les Autoportraits de Mapplethorpe. Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
    Children. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Right From the Start: The Early Polaroids of Robert Mapplethorpe. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
    Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy

    1995
    The Garden of Earthly Delights: Weston and Mapplethorpe. UCR Arts, California Museum of Photography Collection, Riverside, US (Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US, 1995; International Center for Photography, New York, US, 1995)

    1994
    Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

    1993 
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Self-Portraits. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Drawings, Photographs. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US
    In Dialogue: The Art of Elsa Rady and Robert Mapplethorpe. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US
    Black and White Polaroids 1971–1975. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Hamiltons Gallery, London, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Secret Flowers. Photology, Milan, Italy

    1992 
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Toshio Shimizu. Tokyo Teien Museum, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to: ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito, Japan, 1992; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, 1993; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 1993; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan, 1993)
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Curated by Germano Celant. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (Traveled to: Centro di Documentazione di Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, 1992; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 1992; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1992; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy, 1993; Residence of Embassador Negroponte, Manila, Philippines, 1993; Museo Pecci Prato, Prato, Italy, 1993; Turun Taidemuseo, Turku, Finland, 1993; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 1993; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1994; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 1994; KunstHaus, Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1994; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1995; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1995; City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 1995; Hayward Gallery, London, England, 1996; Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland, 1996; Museo de Art Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil, 1997; Staatdgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, 1997)
    Mapplethorpe Versus Rodin. Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
    I.C.A.C. Weston Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

    1991          
    Mapplethorpe. FAE Musée d'art Contemporain Pully/Lausanne, Pully, Switzerland
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
    Early Works: 1970 - 1974. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galeria Weber, Alexander y Cobo, Madrid, Spain
    Lady. ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, US

    1990 
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers/André Kertész: Vintage Photographs. G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, US

    1989 
    Robert Mapplethorpe: A Selection of Photographs 1971 - 1988. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Bridgewater/Lustberg, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Sala d’Ercole di Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe En Retrospective. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Citadelpark, Gent, Belgium

    1988 
    Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment. Curated by Janet Kardon. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US (Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, 1989; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.,1989; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT 1989; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1990; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1990; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA, 1990)
    A Season in Hell. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Mapplethorpe Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, London, England
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten by Ten. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Traveled to: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1988)
    Autoportraits. Grand Palais, Paris, France
    New Color Work. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C., US
    Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, US
    Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, US
    Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Hamiltons Gallery, London, England

    1987          
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Platinum Prints. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe 1986. Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany, April 11 - May 13, 1987 and Kicken-Pausenback, Cologne, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galerie Pierre-Hubert, Geneva, Switzerland
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Julia Gallery, New Orleans, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Obalne Galerije, Piran, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Photograpsh. Claus Runkel Fine Art Ltd., London, England

    1986 
    Platinum Prints. Texas Gallery, Houston, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs 1976-1985. Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
    New Photographs. Palladium, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna, Italy

    1985 
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Platinum Prints. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Flowers. Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Process. Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
    New Works in Platinum. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Process. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Flowers. Galeria Cómicos, Lisbon, Portugal
    Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, US

    1984  
    Matrix 80. Curated by Samuel Wagstaff. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Terrae Motus. Fondazione Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
    Lisa Lyon. Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
    Lady. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
    Lady. Rüdiger Schöttle Galerie, Munich, Germany
    Robert Mapplethorpe Fotografias, 1970–1983. Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographies, 1978–1984. Galerie John A. Schweitzer, Montreal, Canada

    1983 
    Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970-1983. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (Traveled to: Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland; Arnolfini, Bristol, England, 1983; Midland Group, Nottingham, England, 1984; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, 1984)
    Photogravures. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe Flowers. Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
    Fashion/Head Shots. Hardison Fine Arts Ltd., New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Lady, Lisa Lyon. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US (Traveled to: Rüdiger Schöttle Galerie, Munich, Germany; Fotografie Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany; Olympus Gallery, London, England)
    Mapplethorpe Photografie. Galerie Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
    New Work. Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan
    New Works. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Recent Work. Hardison Fine Arts Ltd., New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe Fotografie. Centro di Documentazione di Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy (Traveled to: Palazzo Delle Centro Finestre, Florence, Italy)
    Franco-American Institute, Rennes, France
    Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, US

    1982 
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
    Black Males. Galleria il Ponte, Rome, Italy
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe Fotos. Galerie Ton Peek, Utrecht, Netherlands
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Recent Work. Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Nikon Foto Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
    Shore Gallery, Fire Island Pines, US
    Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US

    1981 
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Traveled to: Fotogalerie Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Modern Art Galerie, Vienna; PPS Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg; Kunsthalle, Basel; Kunstverein, Munich; and Nikon Foto Galerie, Zurich)
    Black Males. Contretype Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
    Black Males. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Recent Photographs. ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Galerie Nagel, Berlin, Germany
    Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France
    Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.

    1980 
    Black And White Photographs. In a Plain Brown Wrapper Gallery, Chicago, US
    Black Males. Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Retrospective Robert Mapplethorpe. Contretype Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
    Robert Mapplethorpe. Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Blacks and Whites. Lawson/DeCelle Gallery, San Francisco, US
    Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, US
    Stuart Gallery, Chicago, US
    Vision Gallery, Boston, US

    1979    
    Robert Mapplethorpe: 1970–1975. Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, US
    Just Photographs. Texas Gallery, Houston, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Foto’s/ Photographs. Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Contact. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US

    1978    
    Censored. 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, US
    Mapplethorpe Photographs. Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, US
    Bondage and Discipline. Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe Films and Stills. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe. La Remise du Parc Gallery, Paris, France

    1977    
    Flowers. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, US
    Portraits. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures. The Kitchen, New York, US

    1973    
    Mapplethorpe, Flowers. Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
    Polaroids. Light Gallery, New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2024 
    Mécanique de l’exploit. Le corps à l’épreuve du sport. Curated by Valérie Perlès. Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France
    Présences. Trésors photographiques de la collection Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla. Maison Caillebotte, Yerres, France
    Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
    The bouquet. The ephemeral splendour – Photography from the beginnings to the present day. Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Dusseldorf, Germany
    Breasts. Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
    Great Names of 20th Century Art In Private Collections. Unicaja Foundation, Cadiz, Spain
    Promenade: Flower and Figuration in the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Curated by Lucas Ondak and Luke Whittaker. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, US (Traveled to: California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, CA; Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA)
    On The Edge: Los Angeles Art from The Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection. Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, US
    Love, Lust & Freedom. Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark
    Love Will Come Back: Ann Craven with Robert Mapplethorpe and Mohammed Z. Rahman. Phillida Reid, London, England
    ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019. International Center of Photography, New York, US

    2023
    Nunca só essa mente, nunca só esse mundo. Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, US
    Photography: Real and Imagined. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    45th. Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, US
    In the Days of AIDS. Art Works, Narratives, Interweavings. Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
    40 Years. Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Aranya Plein Air Art Project 2023. Aranya, Jin Shan Ling, China
    Over the Rainbow. Curated by Nicolas Liucci, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Diva. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
    Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing. Curated by Eric Fischl and Sara Cochran. The Church, Sag Harbor, New York, US
    Romance Rooted in Eternity: Flowers in Bloom. Jeonnam Museum of Art, Jeollanam-do, Korea
    What are words worth? McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, US
    50th Anniversary Group Show. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Louise Bourgeois: Imaginary Conversations. National Museum Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    Some Dogs: A Curated Selection of Dogs from the Hornik Collection. PJ Gubatina PolicarpioFour One Nine, San Francisco, US
    Oltre il Buio: Beyond the Darkness. Curated by Alberto Salvadori. Rocca di Angera, Angera, Italy
    L’Argent dans l’art. Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
    Rituals of Devotion. McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, US
    Andy Warhol & Photography: A Social Media. The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 
    Sleepless Nights: From the 1980s in Moderna Museet’s Collection. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    In Bloom. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, US
    On the Edge of Visibility: Lessons in Transgression. Shin Gallery, New York, US
    Apocalypse Sky: Art, AIDS, and Activism in New York City, 1982-1992. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, US
    Versuch Über Die Schönheit. Galerie Crone, Vienna, Austria
    A Mind of Winter. Gladstone 64, New York, US

    2022
    Photography in Ink: A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure. Penumbra Foundation, New York, US
    Macho: Re-Writing Traditional Codes of Masculinity. Another Space, New York, US
    Conversations with the Collection. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Unmasking Masculinity for the Twenty-first Century. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo
    Reimage: Morning After Dark. Kairos Gallery, Beyoğlu, İstanbul
    Metal Heads. Elisabeth Kihlström and Alexander Martinz. Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria
    ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois. Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, England
    Végétal – L’École de la Beauté. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
    Lawrence Weiner: As Long as it Lasts. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Men / Male body in Robert Runtak collection. Jan KudrnaAlšova Jihočeská Galerie, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
    FLOWERS! In the Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Museum Ostwall at Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
    Proust, on the side of the mother. Museum of Art and History of Judaism, Paris, France
    Undressed for Success? Nude, Famous, Oyster and Champagne. Falsterbo Photo Art Museum, Falsterbo, Sweden
    Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, US
    Io, lei, l’altra: Photographic portraits and self-portraits of women artists. Curated by Guido Comis. Magazzino delle Idee, Trieste, Italy
    In Support: Fia Backström, The Last of US — that safe spot in the dot above the I in the word life. The Kitchen, New York, US
    Some People. Cheim & Read, New York, US

    2021
    Canova: Tra innocenza e peccato. Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
    Beyond The Trees. Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
    Personae: Máscaras contra la barbarie. Curated by Imma Prieto. Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Spain
    On the Bowery. Curated by Loren Munk. Zürcher Gallery, New York, US
    In Three Acts: Twenty Faces and Three Crowds. Fundacio Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
    Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection. Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, US
    Selections from the Mark and Ora Hirsch Pescovitz Collection. Dick Goody Oakland University Art Gallery., Rochester, US
    E/motion: Fashion in Transition. Kaat Debo and Elisa De Wyngaert ModeMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
    Any distance between us. RISD Museum, Providence, US
    Deine Kunst: Mensch, der/ Körper, der, die, das. Curated by Michael Müller. Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
    Una corrente li trascinava nella notte. Curated by Sebastiano Impellizzeri. Associazione Barriera, Torino, Italy
    In Focus: Protest. J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, US
    Louise Nevelson: Total Life. Lévy Gorvy, London, England
    O Canto do Bode. Casa da Cultura da Comporta, Lisboa, Portugal
    Cockroach or Queen? Last Tango, Zurich, Switzerland
    American Art 1961–2001. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
    Omaggio a Lucio Amelio. MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris, France
    The Human Body. Curated by Karel Schampers. Hill Art Foundation, New York, US
    Art of Sport. Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
    l'acqua. Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
    Music Box. Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    Selections from the Collection of Dr. H. Russell Albright. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
    The Passion. Hall Art Foundation Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
    When Photos Spy on Paintings. Galerie B, Durbury, Belgium

    2020
    small is beautiful II. Mai 36 Galerie (Online), Zurich, Switzerland
    Unearthed: Photography's Roots. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England
    30 Years in Paris. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
    High Anxiety. 22 London, Asheville, US
    The Exhausted Man. Schweizerisches NationalMuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
    Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, US
    Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio. Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
    Touching: Approach to an Essential Need. Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
    Art and Authenticity in the Age of Fake News. Student-Curated. American University Museum, Presented by AU Museum Project Space (Online), Washington, D.C.
    The Darkroom. Curated by Berndt Arell. Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden (Traveled to: Fotografiska, New York, 2021)
    Visions: Modern and Contemporary Photography. Curated by Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig. ArtNexus Foundation (Online), North Miami, US
    FLOWERPOWER. The Art of Speaking with Flowers. Angermuseum Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
    Selected Works From The Collection. Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
    Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop. Works from the Bank of America Collection. Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, US (Traveled to: Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, 2021)
    Smells Like Teen Spirit. New Galerie, Paris, France
    Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
    Figures and Faces. McCabe Fine Art, New York, US
    By a Thread. Espacio Artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain
    Bodyscapes. Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
    Masculinities: Liberation through Photography. Barbican Art Gallery, London, England (Traveled to: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2020 – 2021; Traveling to: LUMA Foundation, Arles, France, 2021; FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium, 2021 – 2022)
    Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma. The Warehouse, Dallas, US
    BLACK WHITE: Art From 1400BCE to 2019. Milton Art Bank (MAB), Milton, US

    2019
    Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs. Center for Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
    Body Performance. Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany
    Natura in posa. Masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in dialogue with contemporary photography. Museo Santa Caterina, Treviso, Italy
    Recent Acquisitions. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., US
    The Making of a Museum: 100 Years, 100 Works. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, US
    Christian Liagre Shanghai Flagship, Shanghai, China
    On The Turn: Selections From The Collection of Emily Fisher Landau. LX Arts, New York, US
    Id, Ego, Superego: An Investigation of Self-Portraiture. Omer Tiroche Gallery, London, United Kingdom
    Crafting Identity: American Highlights from Tia Collection. Rockwell Museum, Corning, US
    Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, US
    Vantage Points: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Bridges. Curated by Carrie Springer. Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, US
    Look At Me! The Body in Art from the 1950s up to today. Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno, Switzerland
    1989 - Culture and Politics. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
    Schau, ich bin blind, schau. Von Rémy Zaugg bis John Baldessari - die Sammlung Hans und Monika Furer. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    Prisoner of Love. Curated by Naomi Beckwith. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
    Close Encounters. Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    Go Down Moses. Curated by Teju Cole. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, US
    Studio Photography: 1887-2019. Simon Lee Gallery, New York, US
    Passion: Images of the Hunt. Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Zurich, Switzerland
    Les Drôles de Petites Bêtes D’Antoon Krings. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
    Contemporary photography from a private collection. Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland
    Group Show: Selected Works from the Collection of Holly Solomon 1968-1981. Marlborough Contemporary, London, England
    Blossomed and Captured: Flowers in Photography / Aufgeblüht und abgelichtet. Blumen in der Fotografie. Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Waiblingen, Germany
    Camp: Notes on Fashion. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
    Portraits. Skarstedt Gallery, New York, US
    An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, US
    Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, US and Grey Art Gallery, New York, US (Traveled to: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2019; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 2020)
    Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now. Gagosian Gallery, London, England
    ARTIST ROOMS Self Evidence: Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
    That 80s Show. Curated by Eric Fischl. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, US
    Ass. National Exemplar Gallery, New York, US

    2018
    FAM. Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France
    Objects to Identify. Morán Morán, Los Angeles, US
    Modern Masters Group Show. Hamiltons Gallery, London, England
    Sensual/Sexual/Social: The Photography of George Platt Lynes. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, US
    American Masters, 1940-1980. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Parkes, Australia
    DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics. Hayward Gallery, London, England
    Counterpoint: Selections from the Peter Marino Collection. Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, US
    Summer 2018 / Group Show. Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey
    Safe. Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
    Flowers. Ordovas Gallery, London, England
    Körperzeichen II. Galerie Ruberl, Vienna, Austria
    Warhol. Mechanical Art. Museo Picasso Malaga, Malaga, Spain
    Picture Industry. Luma Foundation / LUMA Arles, Arles, France
    IN THE CUT – The Male Body in Feminist Art. STADTGALERIE SAARBRÜCKEN, Saarbrücken, Germany
    Mundo Vasto Mundo. Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Lisbon, Portugal
    Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    A Luta Continua. The Perlstein Collection: Art and Photography from Dada to Now. Hauser & Wirth, New York, US (Traveled to: Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong, 2019)
    About Photography. Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, US
    SuperSet. Curated by Jessica Silverman. Fused Space, San Francisco, US
    It smells like... flowers & fragrances. me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
    LIGHT SENSITIVE 2 / LICHTEMPFINDLICH 2. Photography from the Schaufler Collection. SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
    88:18 – the first year. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
    Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971 – 1987. Fundacio Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
    You Are Faust: Goethe’s Drama in Art. Kunsthalle Munich, Munich, Germany
    The Beauty of Lines: The Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Collection. Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
    1989. Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, València, Spain

    2017
    BLACK AND WHITE REVELATION. Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
    la mère la mer. McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, US
    Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor. Curated by Dr. Julie Sasse. Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, US
    Community Collects: Portraits. Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, US
    Histórias da Sexualidade. Museu de Arte São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    La Parte Más Bella / The Most Beautiful Part. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
    The Unflinching Gaze: Photo Media & the Male Figure. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia
    Camerado, this is no book. Curated by Jenni Crain. Pratt Institute of Fine Arts, New York, US
    Andy Warhol. CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (Traveled to: CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2018)
    Art + Commerce: The Exhibition. Art + Commerce, New York, US
    Powermask. The Power of Masks. Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    This Is Not a Selfie. Curated by Deborah Irmas and Eve Schillo. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US
    Over the Rainbow. Curated by René-Julien Praz. Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, US
    Picture Industry. Curated by Walead Beshty. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
    Blurred Lines: A Matter of Attitude. Curated by Diana Edkins. Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
    The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology. Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, US (Traveled to: WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna, Austria, 2017-2018; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018; C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2018; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 2018-2019; Musée McCord, Montréal, Canada, 2019; List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2019-2020; Fundación Barrié, La Coruña, Spain, 2023; National Taiwan Normal University Museum of Art, 2024)
    Meet me in Heaven. Schloss Tüssling, Tüssling, Germany
    Contemporary Classicism. McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden
    Eternal Youth. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
    What I Loved: Selected Works from the '90s. Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US

    2016
    REBEL REBEL: Art+Rock. Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand Hornu, Brussels, Belgium
    The Human Image: From Velazquez to Viola. Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, US
    Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York. Museum of the City of New York, New York, US
    Zie de mens: Honderd jaar, honderd gezichten. Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
    Anthea Hamilton Reimagines Kettle's Yard. Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
    Lotería. Espacio Artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain
    Shockwave, Japanese Fashion Design 1980s-90s. Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
    Facing the World | Self-Portraits Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Vanitas. Agnews Gallery, London, England
    Invisible Adversaries. Curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    The Eighties – A Decade of Extremes. Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
    Allure: Collection Susanne von Meiss. C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    Modernist Intersections: The Tia Collection. University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, US
    Human Interest: Portraits from The Whitney’s Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    SerpentiForm: Snake Through Art, Jewellery and Design. Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy (Traveled to: ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 2017; Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017)
    Performing for the Camera. Tate Modern, London, England
    Still/Moving: Photographs and Video Art from the DeWoody Collection. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
    Naples Collects. Baker Museum, Naples, US
    Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, US
    Identity Revisited. Curated by Allan Schwartzman. The Warehouse, Dallas, US
    ta.bu. Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

    2015
    Art AIDS America. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, US (Traveled to: Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta, GA, 2016; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, 2016; Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2016 – 2017)
    Flaesh. Rudolfinum Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
    La Joie de Vivre. Grand Palais, Paris, France
    Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection. me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
    Patrice Chéreau un musée imaginaire. Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
    Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
    Proximus Art Collection, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Artist Spotlight: Jack Walls. RARE / Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, US
    Rawhide. Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
    In The Garden. George Eastman House, Rochester, US
    America Is Hard to See. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Arts & Foods. Fondazione La Triennale Di Milano, Milan, Italy
    The Story Of A Bad Boy. Espacio Artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain
    In the Studio. Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
    HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, US
    Il Divino: Homage to Michelangelo. Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
    A Strong Smell of Incense. Pace London, London, England
    Tell Me A Story So I Don't Fall Asleep. Toneelgroep Oostpool, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    The Unknown, Eden Rock Gallery and Art Saint Barth, Saint Barthélemy, France

    2014
    Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Perfect Lovers. Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
    Blondie’s 40th Anniversary. Curated by Jeffrey Deitch. PRESS HERE (Chelsea Hotel Storefront Gallery), New York, US
    Urban Theater: NY Art in the 1980s. Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, New York, US
    Michelangelo e il Novecento. Galleria civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
    Formes Simples. Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
    Darren Bader: Photographs I Like. Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, US
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    American Cool. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., US
    Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, US
    1984?. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Hooray for Hollywood! Mixed Greens, New York, NY and Pavel Zoubok, New York, US

    2013
    Photography at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Los Angeles, US
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    31 Years: Gifts From Martin Weinstein. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, US
    The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, US
    Dance! Moves That Moves Us. Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
    Masculin / Masculin: l'homme nu dans l'art de 1800 à nos jours. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
    Shadowplay: Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US
    Flowers and Mushrooms. Museum der Moderne-Monchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
    Self, Model, and Self as Other. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
    Les Papesses. Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, US (Traveled to: Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
    SKIN: an artistic atlas. Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
    The Nexus: Selections from the Chrysler Museum. Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, US
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

    2012
    Death: A Self-Portrait. Wellcome Collection, London, England
    Nude Men: From 1800 to the Present Day. Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
    Private/Corporate VII: The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv and the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin. Curated by Dr. Renate Wiehager. Daimler Contemporary, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
    From Van Gogh to FaceTime: Self-portraits in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US (Traveled to: Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013)
    Korper als Protest. Albertina Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
    By Way of These Eyes: The Hyland Collection of American Photography. American Museum in Britain, Bath, England
    Controversy: The Power of Art. Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia,
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Segment #2. Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Marianne Faithfull: Innocence and Experience. Curated by Marianne Faithfull. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
    Naked before the Camera. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
    Matters of Fact. Curated by Tom Eccles, Nathan Lee, Suzy M. Halajian, Alicia Ritson, Kelly Taxer and Marieluise Hessel. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography. MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, US
    Ladies and Gentlemen! Curated by Magnus af Petersens, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    The Sports Show. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, US
    This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s. MCA, Chicago, US (Traveled to: Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2012; ICA Boston, Boston, MA, 2012 – 2013)
    Eaux précieuses/eaux sauvages. Galerie d'art du Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

    2011
    The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg. Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
    The Mask & The Mirror. Curated by Shirin Neshat. Leila Heller Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Miller Memorial Exhibition. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Circa 1986. Curated by John Newsom, Astrid Honold and Nicola Trezzi. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, US
    Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream the World Awake. ModeMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
    Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
    Polaroid [Im]Possible. WestLicht Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna, Austria
    Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
    Heroínas. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Zeitgeist and Glamour. Curated by Ira Stehmann. NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Another Story. Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Autour de l’Extreme. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (Traveled to: Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
    FotoSkulptur. Die Fotografie der Skulptur, von 1839 bis heute. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

    2010
    Global Africa Project. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US
    Catalyst. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., US
    The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt. Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, Ocala, US (Traveled to: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 2011-2012; Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR, 2012)
    Portraits d’écrivains de 1850 a nos jours. Paris-Musées, Paris, France
    HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., US (Traveled to: Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, 2011 – 2012; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2012)
    Disquieting Images. Curated by Germano Celant. Fondazione Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
    Decadence NOW. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
    Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mayumi Terada. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Portraits/100 Years: August Sander, Robert Mapplethorpe and Alec Soth. Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, US
    The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (Traveled to: Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland)
    I am a Cliché: Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic. Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France (Traveled to: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2011)
    Off the Wall: Part 1- Thirty Performative Actions. Curated by Chrissie Iles. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (Traveled to: Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 2011)
    Contemporary Art from the Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Vanité: Mort, que me veux-tu? Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
    Group Exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    The Sea Around Us. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, US
    Vom Leben gezeichnet – Leidenschaft in der Grafik der Moderne. Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
    Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870. Tate Modern, London, England (Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2010 – 2011; Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, 2011)
    Between the Bricks and the Blood: Transgressive Typologies. Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, US
    Revealed: The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art. Central Connecticut State University Art Galleries, New Britain, US
    In the Vernacular. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
    Pilot Light: Reflexions d'artistes contemporains sur le Sida. FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
    C'est La Vie!: Vanites de Pompei a Damien Hirst. Musée Maillol, Paris, France
    Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection. Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, US
    Moving Portraits. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, England
    Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives 1961-1991. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, US
    Patti Smith and Steven Sebring: Objects of Life. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Keeping it Real: From the ready-made to the everyday. The D. Daskalopoulos Collection. Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
    Naked. Fox Jensen McCroy, Auckland, New Zealand (Traveled to Fox Jensen, Sydney, Australia, 2011)

    2009
    Tears of Eros. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    Deadline. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
    Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid. Pump House Gallery, London, England
    Wall Rockets. Curated by Lisa Dennison. Flag Art Foundation, New York, US
    Messiások / Messiahs: Western man and the idea of redemption in modern and contemporary visual arts. MODEM Centre for Modern & Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
    Naked! Paul Kasmin, New York, US
    Ingres et les Modernes. Musée National Des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, Canada (Traveled to: Musée Ingres, Montauban, France)
    The Portrait: Photography as a Stage, From Robert Mapplethorpe to Nan Goldin. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
    Through the Lens: Photography from the Lowe Art Museum. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, US
    Flowers and Body Parts. Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
    Go Figure. Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
    Chelsea Hotel: Ghosts of Bohemia. DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
    sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex art and culture. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
    Art in Embassies Program. Private Residence of Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Mexico City, Mexico
    Darkside II - Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
    Everywhere: Sexual Diversity Politics in Art. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    Fotográfica Bogotá. FotoMuseo National Museum of Photography, Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
    Nella luce di Morandi / Im Licht von Morandi. Curated by Peter Weiermair. Galleria Goethe Galerie, Bolzano, Italy

    2008
    Burroughs Live. Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
    Recent Photography Acquisitions. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, US
    Leica and Hasselblad: A Selection of Classic Cameras from the David Whitmire Hearst, Jr. Foundation Collection. UCR Arts, California Museum of Photography Collection, Riverside, US
    Diana und Actaeon: Der Verbotene Blick Auf Die Nacktheit, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
    2 x [ (2 x 20) + (2 x 2) ] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world. Curated by Konrad BitterliMai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
    Political Correct. BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
    Female Trouble: Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
    Archetypes and Icons. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, US
    That Was Then This Is Now. MoMA PS1, Queens, US
    Soul and Body: Kertész to Mapplethorpe Through the Eyes of the Greatest Masters of Photography. Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
    Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography. Tate Modern, London, May 22 – August 31, 2008. Traveled to: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
    Punk: No One is Innocent. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
    Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
    Controverses. Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 5 – June 1, 2008. Traveled to: Musée de Pietro, Warsaw, Poland (2011); Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
    Patti Smith: Land 250. Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Paris, France
    Vanity Fair Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, London, England, February 14 – May 18, 2006.
    Traveled to: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2008; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2008 – 2009; Portrait Gallery Canberra, Canberra, Australia, 2009)
    Nina in Position. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip. Artists Space, New York, US

    2007 
    Warhol on Warhol. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
    The Lona-Frey Collection at Rowe Arts. University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, US
    Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood. Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France (Traveled to: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia, 2010)
    Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Curated by Matthew Higgs. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now. Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
    Exposures: The Contemporary Self-Portrait. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Role Exchange. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    The Naked Portrait. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (Traveled to: Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England, 2007)
    Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years. Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
    Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits. International Center of Photography, New York (Traveled to: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI; Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton, NJ; Museum of African American History, Boston, MA; Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA; African American Performing Arts Center, Albuquerque, NM; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL; DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL; National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH; Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA; Museum of Art, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC; Historical Society of Saginaw County and Castle Museum, Saginaw, MI)
    Conceptual Photography 1964–1989. Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, New York, US
    Konzept: Fotografie: Dialogues and Attitudes. DZ Bank, Budapest, Hungary
    Andy Warhol. Gallery H, Seoul, Korea
    Pure. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    Pretty Baby. Curated by Andrea Karnes. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, US
    Final Exhibition at 4 Clifford Street. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
    Flower Motifs From Five Centuries: Paintings, Drawings and Photography. Galerie Schloss Fuschl/Galerie Bernheimer, Salzburg, Austria
    Summer Group Show. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US

    2006 
    Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    I Love Louise with a Large L. - Un salon pour Louise Bourgeois. Curated by Xavier Tricot. Foundation De Elf Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
    Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    Wrestle: Marieluise Hessel Collection. Curated by Tom Eccles and Trevor Smith. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, US
    Eros in der kunst der moderne. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (Traveled to: BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Austria, 2007)
    Keeping Shadows: Photography at the Worcester Art Museum. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, US (Traveled to Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL)
    Lifestyles - From Subculture to High Fashion. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
    The Eighth Square. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
    (Id). Curated by Crista Cammaroto. The Light Factory, Charlotte, US
    Surprise, Surprise. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
    New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema Performance, Photography, and Video. Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Italy
    Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
    Flutter. The Approach, London, England
    Into Me/Out of Me. MoMA PS1, Queens, US (Traveled to Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2007)
    Artist’s Choice: Herzog & de Meuron Perception Restrained. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
    Good Vibrations: Visual Arts and Rock Culture. Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
    Antinous: the face of the Antique. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
    La donna oggetto: miti e metamorfosi al femminile 1900-2005. Castello di Vigevano, Vigevano, Italy
    Polamaniacs. Photology, Milan, Italy
    The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984. Grey Art Gallery, New York, US (Traveled to: Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, 2006; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, 2006 - 2007)
    Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship. Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, US
    Martin Maloney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson. Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    The Art of Investing in Art. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US

    2005
    Thank you for the Music. Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany
    Sujeto. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla Y León, León, Spain
    The Vanity of Allegory. Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
    The Subjective Figure. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
    Chronos: Il Tempo nell’Arte dal Seicento all’eta Contemporanea. CeSAC-Experimental Centre for Modern Art, Caraglio, Italy
    The myth of the flower, from Van Gogh to Jeff Koons. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
    Family Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum. Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland, (Traveled to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2007)
    Celebrate. Cook Fine Art, New York, US
    Fay Gold 25th Anniversary Show. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
    London in Six Easy Steps: The Real Me. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
    Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear. Recontres de la Photographie, Arles, France (Traveled to: Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2005-2007)

    2004 
    Surface Beauty: Photographic Reflections On Glass and China. National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
    The Flower as Image. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
    20 Jahre-20 Years. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Rose c’est la vie: On Flowers in Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
    Speaking With Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Amore. Artandgallery, Milan, Italy
    Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed. Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, US
    Istinti Istantanei: Arte in Polaroid / Instant Instincts: Art in Polaroid, in the works of Nobuyoshi Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlo Mollino, Yasumasa Morimura and Mario Schifano. Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy
    material-immaterial. Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
    Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists. Organized by Independent Curators International. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US (Traveled to: McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 2005; Dalhouise University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2005; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2005; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2006; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, 2006)
    The Nude: Ideal and Reality, A History of the Nude from Neoclassicism to Today. Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
    The Muse. Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US
    horizont(e) 1984-2004. Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
    Identities: Canadian Portraits. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Canada

    2003   
    Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions of the American Self. International Center of Photography, New York, US (Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2004)
    The Secret of Photography. Altes Rathaus, Ingelheim, Rhein, Germany
    Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., US
    Phantom der Lust: Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst. Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
    Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art. Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England

    2002     
    Portrait Photography. Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
    Learning To Look: Photographs From the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Collection. Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, US
    Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography. Hotel del Sully, Paris, France (Traveled to: Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 2003)
    Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith. Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, US (Traveled to: Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, 2003; Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2003; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2003; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2004; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004)
    l'Herbier & le Nuage. Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand Hornu, Brussels, Belgium
    Pandemic: Imaging Aids. Museum d’art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain and FAD Convent dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain (Traveled to: Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa; United Nations Vision Gallery, New York, NY; Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 2003)
    Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography And Video From The Guggenheim Collection. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    The Great American Nude. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, US
    Desire. Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany (Traveled to: Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, 2002)
    Archeology of Elegance 1980–2000: Twenty Years of Fashion Photography. Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg (Traveled to: Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 2003; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, 2003; Museum Voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium, 2003)
    A Thousand Hounds: A Walk With the Dogs Through the History of Photography. USB Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, US (Traveled to: Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL, 2002; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 2002 – 2003)
    To the Flag: Taking Liberties. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, US
    To The Flag: Taking Liberties. Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, US

    2001   
    The Nature of Still Life. Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    APPEARANCES: Photographic Portraits. Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, US
    Artists’ Collections. Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    Future Perspectives. Gallery Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
    Vrai que Nature. Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    2000           
    Chorus of Light:  Photographs From the Sir Elton John Collection. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
    Dance, Dance, Dance. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, US
    One Man’s Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, US
    100 for 2000: The Century of Photoart. Villa Impero, Bologna, Italy
    Couples. Cheim & Read, New York, US
    Ecstasy. Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, US
    Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids 1971-74, New Works by Nobuyoshi Araki and Saul Fletcher, Yayoi Kusama Walking Piece 1966. Asprey Jacques, London, England
    São Paulo Art Biennial. Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo da Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    The Century of the Body: 100 Photoworks 1900-2000. Curated by William Ewing. Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

    1999     
    Rock Style. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
    Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850–2000. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
    The Promise of Photograhy: Selections from the DG Bank Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Love & Desire – Between Neoclassicism and Neuroticism. Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy
    7 Women, 7 Years Later. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
    The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950 - 2000. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    The Possibilities of Portraiture. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
    Contemporary Classicism. Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, US (Traveled to: Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL.)
    Il Sentimento del 2000. Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

    1998 
    Love's Body: rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to: Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan, 1999)
    From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
    Ideal and Reality: The Image of the Body in 20th Century Art. Salzburger Landessammlungen Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
    Three Catholics: Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Cheim & Read, New York, US
    Beyond Belief: Modern Art in the Religious Imagination. National Gallery of Art, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Male. Curated by Vince Aletti. Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, US
    Photographs: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Katharina Sieverding, Juan Uslé. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

    1997   
    Masterpieces of Photography from the Merrill Lynch Collection. James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, US
    The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 8 (Traveled to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 1998; Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, 1998; Musée de la Mode in Marseilles, Marseilles, France, 1998; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1998; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999)
    Tabletops: Morandi's Still Lifes to Mapplethorpe's Flower Studies. California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, US
    Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century. Milwaukee Arts Museum, Milwaukee, US (Traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 1997-1998)
    Amours. Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Paris, France
    The Coincident Eye. 123 Watts Gallery, New York, US
    Dorothy Blau presents Robert Miller Gallery. Dorothy Blau Gallery, Miami, US
    Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Biennale di Firenze. Florence, Italy
    Künstlerportraits. Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
    Masterworks of Photography from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Portraits: 19th and 20th Century Photography. Marlborough Gallery, New York, US

    1996 
    Music & Sex. Texas Gallery, Houston, US
    Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
    Consensus and Conflict: The Flag in American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, US
    Delirium. Curated by W. M. Hunt. Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, US
    Kinships: Alice Neel Looks at the Family. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, US (Traveled to: Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA; Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA; University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA)
    Bang! The Gun as Image. Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, US
    Sex & Crime: Von den Verhältnissen der Menschen. Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
    The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art. Ubu Gallery, New York, US
    American Masters of Photography: A 100 Year Survey. Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, US
    Master Prints from Graphicstudio. Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, US

    1995
    XI Monstra da Gravura da Cidade de Curitiba. Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
    Blumenstucke/Kunststuck. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    100 Bilder, 100 Jahre: Eine Geschichte der Fotografie 1895 - 1995. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
    Seeing Things. André Emmerich, New York, US
    Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    An erroneous perception of reality. Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, US
    In the Garden. Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, US
    Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, US
    Faces: 1975–1995. Pelham Art Center, Pelham, US
    Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, US
    Semblances. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Decadence. Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway
    Fashion and Art from the 50s to the Present Day. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
    Flowers. 20th Century Photographs Ltd., New York, US
    It’s Only Rock and Roll. Exhibition Management Inc., Cincinnati, US
    Une Aventure Contemporaine, la Photographie 1955-1995. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

    1994 
    Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. Curated by Thelma Golden. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    The Box: From Duchamp to Horn. Ubu Gallery, New York, US
    In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
    Truth Be Told: It’s All About Love. Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, US
    Gay and Lesbian Pride in Policing Display. NYC Police Department, New York, US
    Old Glory: The Flag in Contemporary Art. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, US
    Investigations 10: Face to Face, Recent Portrait Photography. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
    Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art. Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1994)
    The New Portrait. PS1 (Project Studios One), Queens, New York, US
    Fictions Of The Self: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, US (Traveled to: Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Palazzo del Exhibition, Rome, Italy; Musée d’Art Moderne, Nice, France)
    The Shaman as Artist, the Artist as Shaman. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
    Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
    De Kooning in Focus. Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, US
    Flowers. Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, US
    Flowers 1850–1994. Hamiltons Gallery, London, England
    Still Leben. Statens Konstmuseum, Helsinki, Finland, 1994 (Traveled to: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden)
    The Vered Flower Show. Vered Gallery, East Hampton, US
    The Vered NUDE Show!! Where’s My Bathing Suit? Vered Gallery, East Hampton, US

    1993 
    Form: Female. Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, US
    A History of Photography: 15 Years at The Chrysler Museum. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, US
    25 Years. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, US
    LEGEME. Galleri F 15, Alby, Norway
    Art and Advertising: Commercial Photography by Artists. Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to: Hokkaido Obhiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan)
    American Made: The New Still Life. Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to: Hokkaido Obhiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan)
    Azure. Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
    Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
    Tema: AIDS. Kim LevinHenie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
    Here’s Looking at Me —Contemporary Self-Portrait. Espace Lyonnais d'Art, Contemporain, Lyon, France
    I Am the Enunciator. Curated by Christian Leigh. Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
    A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image. Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, US
    Almodóvar. Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
    Blooming: The Art of Nature. Renée Fotouhi Fine Art, East Hampton, US
    Image Makers. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, US
    Künstler der Galerie. Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
    Supreme Shots-Fashion Photography Since 1948. Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy
    The Image of the Body. Curated by Peter Weiermair. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

    1992
    Untitled. Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
    Flora Photographica. Hayward Gallery, London, England (Traveled to: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1992; Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England, 1993; Mead Gallery, Coventry, England, 1993)
    À visage découvert. Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Paris, France
    The Collection: Inaugural Painting. Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
    Pour La Suite du Monde. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
    This Sporting Life, 1978–1991. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US (Traveled to: University of Houston, Houston, TX; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY)
    Becher Mapplethorpe Sherman. Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
    Die 29. Ausstellung. Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
    From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, US (Traveled to: Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 1992; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 1992; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 1992; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, 1993; McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1993; Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1993; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, 1993; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, 1994)
    Portraits. Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, US
    The Midtown Flower Show. Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, US (Traveled to: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine)

    1991
    Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art., Cleveland, US (Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Dayton, OH; St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY)
    From Desire… A Queer Diary. Curated by Nan Goldin. Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, US
    I Love Art. Watari-Um, Tokyo, Japan
    La Revanche de l’image. Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
    Luis de Jesus: Warm Cabinet. Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, US
    7 Women. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
    The Kiss of Apollo: Photography and Sculpture, 1845 to the Present. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
    20th Century Collage. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Altered Truths: Contemporary Photography from the Michael Myers/Russell Albright Collection.  New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
    A New York Style. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Body, Body. Renée Fotouhi Fine Art West, East Hampton, US
    Erotic Desire. Perspektief Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945. Curated by Martin Harrison. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
    Framed. Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, US
    Modern Botanical. I.C.A.C. Weston Gallery, Carmel, US
    Motion and Document, Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography. Addison Gallery of Art, Andover, US (Traveled to: National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.,1991; International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 1992)
    Photography, 1980–1990. Tarelli Gallery, Aspen, US
    Photography from 1980 to 1990. Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, US
    Selections from the Permanent Collection. Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
    The Body in Question. Burden Gallery / Aperture Foundation, New York, US
    The Power of Theatrical Madness. Fotogalerie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
    Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin, Germany

    1990
    Art That Happens to be Photography. Texas Gallery, Houston, US
    The Last Decade: American Artists of the ‘80s.

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
    Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
    Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
    Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
    Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
    Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, US
    Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
    J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
    Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
    Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, US
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
    Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
    Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
    Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
    National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US
    National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Canberra, Australia
    Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US        
    Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., US
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
    Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Tate Modern, London, UK
    Uffizi / Galleria dell'Accademia Collection, Florence, Italy
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

Publications

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Selected Press

2024-02-17 Financial Times
2022-03-04 SSENSE
2021-05-00 사진예술
2021-03-18 theNEIGHBOR
2021-03-00 월간사진
2021-03-00 The NEIGHBOR
2021-03-00 VOGUE Korea
Edward Enninful on Robert Mapplethorpe   pdf Financial Times
Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s New York Show Will Be in Collaboration With the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation   pdf Vogue
루도빅 드 생 세르냉의 뉴욕 쇼, 메이플소프를 기리다   pdf Vogue
An Expansive New Exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s Lesser-Known Works   pdf AnOther Magazine
MAPPLETHORPE’S VIOLENT LIGHT   pdf SSENSE
Robert Mapplethorpe and the continued appreciation for his body of work   pdf Esquire
Robert Mapplethorpe More Life   pdf 사진예술
메이플소프의 작품 세계   pdf theNEIGHBOR
Robert Mapplethorpe’s controversial photos arrive in Korea   pdf The Korea Times
First Mapplethorpe show in Korea highlights iconic status of US photographer   pdf The Korea Herald
문제적 작가 메이플소프…사진으로 세상의 금기를 ‘저격’하다   pdf 한겨레
문제적 남자: 앓음다움   pdf 월간사진
로버트 메이플소프, 초과적 가십과 고요한 오브제 사이에서   pdf Public Art
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE   pdf The NEIGHBOR
墮落天使   pdf VOGUE Korea
로버트 메이플소프의 아름다운 도발   pdf LUXURY
Kukje opens Korea's first Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective in Seoul, Busan   pdf Korea JoongAng Daily
외설과 예술·탐미를 넘나들다…'논쟁적 작가’ 메이플소프   pdf 경향신문
이루지 못한 사랑처럼…서로를 향하는 튤립   pdf 매일경제