Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the most groundbreaking photographers of the 20th century, who not only tested the boundaries of his medium but created images that captured the essence of the cultural landscape of his time. His prodigious and powerful body of work consists of editioned, large-format photographic prints that simultaneously adhere to and challenge classical aesthetics, while reinventing the traditional genres of portraiture, the still life and the nude.
In the early 1970s, Mapplethorpe began taking Polaroid pictures, enjoying the immediacy of this new medium. While evoking at times a sense of intimacy and tenderness, at others a toughness and directness, these gave way to more classical forms in the mid-1970s, when Mapplethorpe began using a Hasselblad 500. He photographed participants in New York’s S&M subcultures, using the camera as a subversive tool to portray an underground community, in rebellion against the conservative values that dominated American society. He revolutionised his medium by investing this explicit imagery with an unexpected formality and beauty.
Mapplethorpe refined his style throughout the early 1980s, when he began concentrating on nude figures, flowers and portraits, including the bodybuilder Lisa Lyon, the only female model he photographed extensively and even published in the book book Lady Lisa Lyon (1983). His prodigious and powerful body of work consists of over 2,000 editioned photographs, encompassing not only his iconic portraits, flowers and nudes, but also landscapes, interiors and still lifes. Regardless of their subject matter or format, his photographs are united by a distinctive visual language. They are exquisite in their technical and formal mastery. His direct engagement with questions surrounding sexuality tested the right to individual freedom of expression, sparking debate about public funding for the arts and even definitions of what could be considered an artwork.
Born into a strict Catholic family in Queens, New York, Mapplethorpe attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1963-69, where he studied painting, sculpture and graphic design. During his formative early years, Mapplethorpe worked across media, producing numerous drawings, collages and three-dimensional objects. He began taking Polaroids in 1971 and progressively incorporated photography, along with clippings from books and magazines, into his sculptural assemblages. His first solo exhibition was Polaroids at the Light Gallery, New York in 1973. He only began working exclusively with photography from the mid-1970s, when he was given a Hasselblad 500 camera by curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, who was also his mentor and lover.
In 1988, a year before his untimely death from AIDS, Mapplethorpe's work was shown in four important exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Recent solo exhibitions have been hosted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2019); Museo Madre, Naples (2018); Kunsthal Rotterdam (2017); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016); ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark (2016); Tate Modern, London (2014); and the Musée Rodin, Paris (2014). Beyond the art historical and social significance of his work, his legacy lives on through the work of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, which he established in 1988 to promote photography, support museums that exhibit photographic art and fund medical research in the fight against HIV and AIDS. In 2011, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust jointly acquired the artist's art and archives through a generous gift from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
2021
Robert Mapplethorpe: Intérieur Jour, cur. Jean-Marc Bustamante, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
2020
Robert Mapplethorpe: Selected by Robert Wilson / Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ Portfolios, cur. Robert Wilson, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2019
Robert Mapplethorpe: Artist Portraits, Mignoni NY, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Life, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
Robert Mapplethorpe: Obiettivo Sensible, Galleria Corsini, Rome, Italy
Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Outsiders, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Robert Mapplethorpe: Sheathed, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2018
Robert Mapplethorpe's Minimalism, Weinstein Hammons, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal
Robert Mapplethorpe, Coreografia per una mostra / Coreography for an Exhibition, Madre Museum, Naples, Italy
2017
Robert Mapplethorpe, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Robert Mapplethorpe: A Perfectionist, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fluid Beauty: Robert Mapplethorpe, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Objects, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Alair Gomes and Robert Mapplethorpe, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection, Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo, Japan; KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival 2017, Kyoto, Japan
2016
Teller on Mapplethorpe, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon, McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Focus: Perfection Robert Mapplethorpe, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Objects, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Robert Mapplethorpe: On the Edge, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey
Robert Mapplethorpe: Dark and Light, cur. Vince Aletti, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway
Robert Mapplethorpe: the Perfect Medium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: the Perfect Medium, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
XYZ, curated by Peter Marino, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2015
Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe, The Bowes Museum, Bernard Castle, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Mapplethorpe: Unique, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe, Aberystwyth Arts Center, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Lima, Peru
Robert Mapplethorpe, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe, Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery, Clydebank, Scotland, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014
Robert Mapplethorpe, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Mapplethorpe - Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, France
Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe, Tate Modern, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute Collection, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Sell the Public Flowers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Mapplethorpe, Photographs & Polaroids, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Robert Mapplethorpe, Weinstein Gallery, MN, USA
As Above, So Below, OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museum and Art Gallery, Clydebank, Scotland; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
2013
Robert Mapplethorpe, Curated by Isabelle Huppert, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Artist Rooms Tour 2013, Old Gala House, Galashiels, Scotland, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: Saints and Sinners, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, UK
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
2012
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
XYZ, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Focus, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artist Rooms Scottish Tour, Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland, UK; Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon, Scotland; The Gallery at Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Linlithgow, Scotland, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers, Seibu Shibuya, Shibuya, Japan
Robert Mapplethorpe: Pure, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Portraits, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, USA
Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
Robert Mapplethorpe, Curated by Sofia Coppola, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Forma Foundation for Photography, Milan, Italy
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, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Friends and Acquaintances, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Blossoming, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work, cur. Scissor Sisters, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: Desired, Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
NRW - Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museo d'Arte della Città di Lugano - Villa Malpensata, Lugano, Switzerland
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Robert Mapplethorpe: Black and White and Beautiful, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Robert Mapplethorpe: Horses, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Man Ray/Mapplethorpe, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy
2009
Portraits, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Es Baluard Museuo de Arte Moderno I Contemporeáno de Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Artist Rooms Tour, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, UK
Flowers and Body Parts, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Perfection in Form, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
Weinstein Galllery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
TR 3 Gallery and National Gallery, Ljubiljana, Slovenia
Polaroids, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Portraits, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, USA
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain
Deadline, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Artist Rooms, Museum Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: Silver Prints and Polaroids in Context, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
2008
Sean Kelly Galerie, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 New York Artists and Other Portraits, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Aufhebung, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Lisa, Milton, Thomas & Ken, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Polaroids, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Works 1975 - 1988, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2007
Ken and Lydia, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Women, Galerie Stefan Roepke, Cologne, Germany
Unique Works from the 1970s, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Vanitas, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Robert Mapplethorpe's Y Portfolio, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, MA, USA
2006
Portraits und Erotik, Stadtgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria
Lisa Lyon, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Curated by Robert Wilson, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinbourgh, Scotland, UK
Still Moving & Lady, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Pictures, Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, Germany
2005
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Tra Antico e Moderno, Palazzina della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe, Curated by Hedi Slimane, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Porträts und Erotik, Galerie im Alten Rathaus, Orien am Chiemsee, Germany
Sacred and Profane, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Robert Mapplethorpe: Neoclassicism, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, cur. Vik Muniz, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mapplethorpe's Rooms, Stella Kay Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Robert Mapplethorpe, cur. David Hockney, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers, Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Life Portraits, Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, GA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA; Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia; The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas
The World of Robert Mapplethorpe, Merano arte edificio Cassa di Risparmio, Merano, Italy
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Body Parts, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Pictures, Pictures, cur. Catherine Opie, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe, Weinstein Gallery, MN, USA
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, GA, USA
2003
Eye to Eye, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Robert Mapplethorpe: Flower Photographs, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Flowers, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Weinstein Gallery, MN, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Sculptures and Hand Painted Photographs, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2002
The Portfolios, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Flowers, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Köln, Germany
Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan; Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan
From Life: Robert Mapplethorpe, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Polaroids 1971-1975: Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2001
Robert, Patti and Sam, Asprey Jacques, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
2000
Robert Mapplethorpe: Auto-Portrait Polaroids of the 1970's, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
The Perfect Moment, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Robert Mapplethorpe: Polaroids, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Artists' Portraits, Black Male Torsos, Flowers, Horses, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Robert Mapplethorpe: Colored Flowers Precious Metals - Sculptures in Gold and Silver, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
1999
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galeria Arnes y Ropke, Madrid, Spain
Centre Cultural La Beneficencia, Valencia, Spain
Hamiltons, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Photographs: 1982 - 1985, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1998
Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Daimaru Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Works From 1971-1989, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Portraits Patti Smith Dessins, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Flowers: Robert Mapplethorpe, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
1997
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe European Retrospective, Museo de Art Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Robert Mapplethorpe European Retrospective, Staatdgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Fukishima 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
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Vau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Shinjuku, Japan
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Flowers, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Mapplethorpe, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Robert Mapplethorpe: Unique Works, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
1996
Children, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Flowers, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Les Autoportraits de Mapplethorpe, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Music & Sex. Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Photosommer: Robert Mapplethorpe-Polaroids, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
Right From the Start: The Early Polaroids of Robert Mapplethorpe, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1995
Wessel O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
1994
The Robert Mapplethorpe Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Robert Mapplethorpe European Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, KunstHaus, Wein, Vienna, Austria
1993
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Black and White Polaroids 1971-1975, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
Robert Mapplethorpe, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Centro Per L'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
Residence of Ambassador Negroponte, Manila, the Philippines
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Turun Taidemuseo, Turku, Finland
Robert Mapplethorpe: European Retrospective, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Robert Mapplethorpe: Self-Portraits, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Secret Flowers, Photology, Milan, Italy
1992
Mapplethorpe Versus Rodin, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Robert Mapplethorpe, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Centro di Documetazione di Palazzo di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe, Museo de Monterray, Monterray, Mexico
Robert Mapplethorpe, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu, Japan; Weston Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Robert Mapplethorpe: Early Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galería Weber, Alexander y Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Lady, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Foundation Edelman, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
1990
Robert Mapplethorpe, Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989
Robert Mapplethorpe, Bridgewater/Lustberg, New York, NY, USA
The Modernist Still Life Photographed, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Sala D'Ercole di Palazzo D'Accursio, Bologna, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Robert Mapplethorpe Een Retrospective, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Citadelpark, Gent, Belgium
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1988
Robert Mapplethorpe, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Travelled to: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Mapplethorpe Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C, USA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Photographien, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
New Color Work, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Robert Mapplethorpe, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C, USA
Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
A Season in Hell, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Autoportraits, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1987
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Julia Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe 1986, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Robert Mapplethorpe 1986, Kicken-Pauseback Galerie, Cologne, West Germany
Robert Mapplethorpe, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Obalne Galerije, Piran, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Pierre-Hubert, Geneva, Switzerland
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Francoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs, Claus Runkel Fine Art Ltd., London, UK
1986
Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs 1976 - 1985, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Robert Mapplethorpe, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
New Photographs, Palladium, New York, NY, USA
Pallazzo d'Accursio, Bologna, Italy
1985
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
New Works in Platinum, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe - Black Flowers, Galerie Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Process, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Recent Works in Platinum, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1984
Robert Mapplethorpe: Fotografias - 1970-1983, Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographies - 1978-1984, John A. Schweitzer, Montreal, Canada
Lady, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Matrix 80, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucio Amelio Foundazione, Naples, Italy
1983
New Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Recent Work, Sam Hardison Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Photographs of "Lady, Lisa Lyon", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robert Mapplethorpe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Lady, Rudigar Schottle Galerie, Munich, Germany
Lady, Lisa Lyon, Photografie Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Lady, Lisa Lyon, Olympus Gallery, London, UK
New Work, Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970-1983, Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Midland Group, Nottingham, UK; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Photogravures - 1983, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Centro di Documentazione di Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy; Palazzo Delle Centro Finestre, Florence, Italy
The Agency, Hardison Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Franco American Institute, Rennes, France
Robert Mapplethorpe, Photografie Galerie, Dusseldorf, West Germany
1982
Black Males, Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy
Robert Mapplethorpe Foto's, Galerie Tom Peek, Utrecht, Netherlands
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shore Gallery, The Pines, Long Island, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Recent Work, Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Robert Mapplethorpe, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan
Nikon Foto Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1981
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Lunn Gallery, Washington D.C, USA
Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Kustverein, Frankfurter am Main, Germany; Fotogalerie Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Modern Art Galerie, Vienna, Austria; PPC Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Kunstverein, Munich, Germany; Nikon Foto Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Nagel Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Contretype Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Recent Photographs, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
ART 12 '81, Galerie Jurka, Basel, Switzerland
1980
Black Males, Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vison Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe: Blacks and Whites, Lawson/De Celle Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
In a Plain Brown Wrapper Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Stuart Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Contretype Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
1979
Robert Mapplethorpe: 1970-75, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Contact, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trade Off (with Lynn Davis), International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
1978
Galerie La Remise du Parc, Paris, France
Film and Stills, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, USA
Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1977
Flowers, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Portraits, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Erotic Pictures, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
1973
Polaroids, Light Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
Mapplethorpe - von Gloeden. Beauty and Desire, Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
Aux temps du sida. Œuvres, récits et entrelacs, Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Aranya Plein Air Art Project, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China
L'Argent dans l'art, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
2022
Bangkok Art Biennale 2022 CHAOS : CALM, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
Selected Works From The Collection, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop, Works from the Bank of America Collection, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, USA
Figures and Faces, McCabe Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
By a Thread, Espacio Artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain
Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
BLACK WHITE: Art From 1400BCE to 2019, Milton Art Bank (MAB), Milton, PA, USA
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK; LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Art After Stonewall: 1969–1989, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
2019
Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, Center for Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Body Performance, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany
The Making of a Museum: 100 Years, 100 Works, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA
Christian Liagre Shanghai Flagship, Shanghai, China
On The Turn: Selections From The Collection of Emily Fisher Landau, LX Arts, New York, NY, USA
Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Vantage Points: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art, cur. Carrie Springer, Whitney Museum of American Art & Art Bridges, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, IL, USA
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
Studio Photography:1887-2019, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
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, UK
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, NY, USA
Portraits, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, USA
An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, USA; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA; Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
ARTIST ROOMS Self Evidence: Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ass, The National Exemplar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
A Luta Continua, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, Musée McCord, Montréal, Canada; List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
2018
FAM, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France
Objects to Identify, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA, USA
American Masters, 1940-1980, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Parkes, Australia
Modern Masters Group Show, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Counterpoint: Selections from the Peter Marino Collection, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY, USA
Summer 2018 / Group Show, Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey
Safe, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Flowers, Ordovas Gallery, London, UK
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, Sao Paulo, Brazil
A Luta Continua, The Perlstein Collection: Art and Photography from Dada to Now, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, USA
SuperSet, cur. Jessica Silverman, Fused Space, San Francisco, CA, USA
It smells like... flowers & fragrances, me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Robert Mapplethorpe / Kilian Rüthemann, Xavier Laboulbenne, 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
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
Mapplethorpe and Dureau, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
2017
BLACK AND WHITE REVELATION, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
la mère la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Curated by Dr. Julie Sasse. Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, AZ, USA
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
Histórias da Sexualidade, Museu de Arte São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil
Camerado, this is no book, Curated byJenni Crain. Pratt Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Andy Warhol, CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Art + Commerce: The Exhibition, Art + Commerce, New York, NY, USA
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, CA, USA
SerpentiForm, Organized by Bulgari. ArtScience Museum, Singapore; Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Alair Gomes and Robert Mapplethorpe, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Over the Rainbow, Curated by René-Julien Praz, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Picture Industry, Curated by Walead Beshty, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, New York, NY, USA
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, USA; WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna, Austria
Meet me in Heaven, Schloss Tüssling, Tüssling, Germany
Contemporary Classicism, McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
What I Loved: Selected Works from the '90s, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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, NY, USA
Zie de mens: Honderd jaar, honderd gezichten, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
Trademarks, Stadstriënnale, Hasselt-Genk, Belgium
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, USA
Anthea Hamilton Reimagines Kettle's Yard, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
Shockwave, Japanese Fashion Design 1980s-90s, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Lotería, espacio artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain
Facing the World | Self-Portraits Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Vanitas, Agnews Gallery, London, UK
Invisible Adversaries, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
The Eighties - A Decade of Extremes, M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Allure: Collection Susanne von Meiss, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Modernist Intersections: The Tia Collection, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
Human Interest: Portraits from The Whitney's Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Serpentiform: Snake Through Art, Jewellery and Design, Organized by Bulgari. Museum of Rome - Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy
Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, UK
Still/Moving: Photographs and Video Art from the DeWoody Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Naples Collects, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, USA
Mapplethorpe + Munch, The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Identity Revisited. Curated by Allan Schwartzman, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
ta.bu, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
Art AIDS America, Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta, USA; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA; Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA
2015
Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
La Joie de Vivre, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artist Spotlight: Jack Walls, RARE / Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, NY, USA
Rawhide, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
In The Garden, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA
Flaesh, Rudolfinum Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Patrice Chéreau un musée imaginaire, Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
Proximus Art Collection, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
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, NY, USA
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
A Strong Smell of Incense, Pace London, London, UK
Il Divino: Homage to Michelangelo, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
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
Perfect Lovers, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
Blondie's 40th Anniversary, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY, USA
Urban Theater: NY Art in the 1980s, The Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, New York, NY, USA
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, NY, USA
Mapplethorpe/Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, France
American Cool, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC USA
Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA
Hooray for Hollywood! Mixed Greens, New York, NY and Pavel Zoubok, New York, NY, USA
2013
31 Years: Gifts From Martin Weinstein, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, USA
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, NH, USA
Flowers and Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne-Monchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Les Papesses, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA; Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
SKIN: an artistic atlas, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2012
Death: A Self-Portrait, The Wellcome Collection, London, UK
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, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Korper als Protest, Albertina Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
By Way of These Eyes: The Hyland Collection of American Photography, American Museum in Britain, Bath, UK
Controversy: The Power of Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
Segment #2, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Marianne Faithfull: Innocence and Experience, Curated by Marianne Faithfull. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Mapplethorpe and Michael Sayles, Xavier Laboulbenne, Berlin, Germany
Matters of Fact, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA
The Sports Show, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Eaux précieuses/eaux sauvages, Galerie d'art du Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, MCA, Chicago, IL, USA; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; ICA Boston, Boston, MA, USA
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
2011
The Mask & The Mirror, Curated by Shirin Neshat, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Robert Miller Memorial Exhibition, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Circa 1986, Curated by John Newsom, Astrid Honold and Nicola Trezzi, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream the World Awake, Mode Museum Provincie Antwerpen, 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
Off the Wall/Fora da Parede, Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Heroínas, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Zeitgeist and Glamour, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Another Story, Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
FotoSkulptur, Die Fotografie der Skulptur, von 1839 bis heute, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
I am a Cliché: Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Autour de l'Extreme, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Controverses, Musée de Pietro, Warsaw, Poland; Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
2010
Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA
Catalyst, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, WA D.C., USA
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, WA D.C., USA
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, NY, USA
Vanité: Mort, que me veux-tu? Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
I am a Cliché: Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The Sea Around Us, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, USA
Vom Leben gezeichnet - Leidenschaft in der Grafik der Moderne, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, Tate Modern, London, UK; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Between the Bricks and the Blood: Transgressive Typologies, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Revealed: The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art, Central Connecticut State University Art Galleries, New Britain, CT, USA
In the Vernacular, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Pilot Light: Reflexions d'artistes contemporains sur le Sida, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, 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, PA, USA
Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK
Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives 1961-1991, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring: Objects of Life, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Autour de l'Extreme, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Keeping it Real: From the ready-made to the everyday, The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2009
Sterling Ruby / Robert Mapplethorpe, Curated by Sterling Ruby. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
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, UK
Wall Rockets, Curated by Lisa Dennison, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
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, NY, USA
Ingres et les Modernes, Musée National Des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, Canada; 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, FL, USA
Go Figure, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex art and culture, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Chelsea Hotel: Ghosts of Bohemia, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Art in Embassies Program, Private Residence of Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Mexico City, Mexico
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
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Vanity Fair Portraits, Portrait Gallery Canberra, Canberra, Australia
2008
Burroughs Live, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Political Correct, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Female Trouble: Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
That Was Then This Is Now, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA
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, UK
Punk: No One is Innocent, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Italy
Patti Smith: Land 250, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art contemporain, Paris, France
Controverses, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Vanity Fair Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nina in Position, Curated by Jeffrey Uslip. Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
Leica and Hasselblad: A Selection of Classic Cameras From the David Whitmire Hearst, Jr. Foundation Collection, UCR Arts, California Museum of Photography Collection, Riverside, CA, USA
2007
Warhol on Warhol, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
The Lona-Frey Collection at Rowe Arts, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
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, NY, USA
The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA; the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, WA D.C., USA; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, USA; Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, USA; Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton, NJ, USA; Museum of African American History, Boston, MA, USA; Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA, USA; African American Performing Arts Center, Albuquerque, MN, USA; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL, USA; DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL, USA; National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA, USA; Museum of Art, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA; Historical Society of Saginaw County and the Castle Museum, Saginaw, MI, USA
Conceptual Photography 1964-1989, Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Konzept: Fotografie: Dialogues and Attitudes, DZ Bank, Budapest, Hungary
Pure, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Pretty Baby, Curated by Andrea Karnes, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Final Exhibition at 4 Clifford Street, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Flower Motifs From Five Centuries: Paintings, Drawings and Photography, Galerie Schloss Fuschl/Galerie Bernheimer, Salzburg, Austria
Summer Group Show, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Eros in der kunst der moderne, BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
Into Me/Out of Me, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Family Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
2006
Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
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, NY, USA
Wrestle: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Eros in der kunst der moderne, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Keeping Shadows: Photography at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,MA, USA; Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, USA
The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
(Id). Curated by Crista Cammaroto, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, USA
Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
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, UK
Into Me/Out of Me, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA
Good Vibrations: Le Arti Visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Antinous: the face of the Antique, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
La donna oggetto: miti e metamorfosi al femminile 1900-2005, Castello di Vigevano, Vigevano, Italy
Mapplethorpe / Warhol: Celebrity Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, USA; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Lifestyles, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Martin Maloney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Polamaniacs, Photology, Milan, Italy
The Art of Investing in Art, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, Organized by Independent Curators International, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
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, NY, USA
Family Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland
The myth of the flower, from Van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Celebrate, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
Chronos: Il Tempo nell'Arte dal Seicento all'eta Contemporanea, CeSAC Experimental Centre for Modern Art, Caraglio, Italy
Fay Gold 25th Anniversary Show, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
London in Six Easy Steps: The Real Me, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, Organized by Independent Curators International, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA; Dalhouise University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, USA
2004
Surface Beauty: Photographic Reflections On Glass and China, National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
The Furniture of Poul Kjaerholm and Selected Work, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
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, NY, USA
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Amore, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy
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, CA, USA; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
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, NY, USA
horizont(e) 1984-2004, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
Identities: Canadian Portraits, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Ontario, Canada
Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003
Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
The Secret of Photography, Altes Rathaus, Ingelheim, Rhein, Germany
Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, WA, USA
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, UK
Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith, The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA; Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pandemic: Imaging Aids, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Archeology of Elegance 1980-2000: Twenty Years of Fashion Photography, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; Museum Voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium
2002
Portrait Photography, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
Learning To Look: Photographs From the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Collection, The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, USA
Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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; The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa; The United Nations Vision Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography And Video From The Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Desire, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
The Great American Nude, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USA
A Thousand Hounds: A Walk With the Dogs Through the History of Photography, USB Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA; Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL, USA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
To the Flag: Taking Liberties, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PA, USA
Archeology of Elegance 1980-2000: Twenty Years of Fashion Photography, Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg
Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography, Hotel del Sully, Paris, France; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Promiscuous Flowers: Robert Mapplethorpe and Nobuyoshi Araki, Odakyu Museum; Museum Eki, Kyoto, Japan
2001
The Nature of Still Life, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
APPEARANCES: Photographic Portraits, Wessel + O'Connor, New York, NY, USA
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
Promiscuous Flowers: Robert Mapplethorpe and Nobuyoshi Araki, Niitsu Museum of Art, Niitsu, Japan
2000
Chorus of Light: Photographs From the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Dance, Dance, Dance, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, USA
One Man's Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
100 for 2000: The Century of Photoart, Villa Impero, Bologna, Italy
Couples, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Ecstasy, Wessel + O'Connor, New York, NY, USA
Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids 1971-74, New Works by Nobuyoshi Araki and Saul Fletcher, Yayoi Kusama Walking Piece 1966, Asprey Jacques, London, UK
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, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Love & Desire - Between Neoclassicism and Neuroticism, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy
7 Women 7 Years Later, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Possibilities of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950 - 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Classicism, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY, USA; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA
Il Sentimento del 2000, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Love's Body: rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1998
Love's Body: rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Three Catholics: Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Mapplethorpe, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Beyond Belief: Modern Art in the Religious Imagination, National Gallery of Art, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Photographs: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Katharina Sieverding, Juan Uslé, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK; Musée de la Mode in Marseilles, Marseilles, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1997
Masterpieces of Photography from the Merrill Lynch Collection, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, USA
The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Tabletops: Morandi's Still Lifes to Mapplethorpe's Flower Studies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, USA
Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Arts Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art contemporain, Paris, France
The Coincident Eye, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Dorothy Blau presents Robert Miller Gallery, Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL, USA
Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Biennale de 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, South Korea
Portraits: 19th and 20th Century Photography, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1996
Music & Sex, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Consensus and Conflict: The Flag in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, NY, USA
Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Delirium, Curated by W. M. Hunt. Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Bang! The Gun as Image, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Kinships: Alice Neel Looks at the Family, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA; Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA; Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA; University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, USA; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA
Sex & Crime: Von den Verhältnissen der Menschen, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
American Masters of Photography: A 100 Year Survey, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, USA
1995
XI Monstra da Gravura da Cidade de Curitiba, Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
Blumenstucke/Kunststuck, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Seeing Things, André Emmerich, New York, NY, USA
In the Garden, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Faces: 1975-1995, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, USA
Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
The Garden of Earthly Delights: Weston and Mapplethorpe, UCR Arts, California Museum of Photography Collection, Riverside, CA, USA; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA; International Center for Photography, New York, NY, USA
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, NY, USA
Human/Nature Benefit Exhibition, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
It's Only Rock and Roll, Exhibition Management Inc., Cincinnati, OH, USA
Tibet House Benefit Exhibition, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1994
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Curated byThelma Golden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
The Box: From Duchamp to Horn, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Truth Be Told: It's All About Love, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Old Glory: The Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Investigations 10: Face to Face, Recent Portrait Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Fictions Of The Self: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA; Palazzo del Exhibition, Rome, Italy; Musée d'Art Moderne, Nice, France
The Shaman as Artist, the Artist as Shaman, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
De Kooning in Focus, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Flowers, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Flowers 1850-1994, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
Gay and Lesbian Pride in Policing Display, NYC Police Department, New York, NY, USA
Still Life, Statens Konstmuseum, Helsinki, Finland
The Vered Flower Show, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
The Vered NUDE Show!! Where's My Bathing Suit? Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
1993
Form: Female, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
25 Years, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Blooming: The Art of Nature, Renée Fotouhi Fine Art East, East Hampton, NY, USA
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, PA, USA
In Dialogue: The Art of Elsa Rady and Robert Mapplethorpe, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
I Am the Enunciator, Curated by Christian Leigh, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, USA
A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NY, USA
Almodóvar, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Here's Looking at Me -Contemporary Self-Portrait, Espace Lyonnais d'Art, Contemporain, Lyon, France
Image Makers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, USA
Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Legeme, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
Supreme Shots-Fashion Photography Since 1948, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy
The Image of the Body, Curated by Peter Weiermair, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Flora Photographica, Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England; Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK
From Media to Metaphor : Art About AIDS, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, USA; McKissick Museum, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
1992
Untitled, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
Flora Photographica, Hayward Gallery, London, England; Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
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, USA; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, USA; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Portraits, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Midtown Flower Show, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY, USA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, USA
This Sporting Life, 1978-1991, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA; University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, USA; The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1991
Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art., Cleveland, OH, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA; St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, USA
From Desire… A Queer Diary, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, USA
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, New York, NY, USA
Twentieth-Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
7 Women, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Body, Body, Renée Fotouhi Fine Art West, East Hampton, NY, USA
Erotic Desire, Perspektief Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fashion Photography Since 1945, Curated by Martin Harrison, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Modern Botanical, I.C.A.C. Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA, USA
Motion and Document, Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography, Addison Gallery of Art, Andover, MA, USA Traveled to: National Museum of American Art, Washington, WA, D.C., USA; International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
Photography, 1980-1990, Tarelli Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Photography from 1980 to 1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
The Body in Question, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA
The Power of Theatrical Madness, Fotogalerie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin, Germany
1990
Art That Happens to be Photography, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
The Last Decade: American Artists of the '80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Von der Natur in der Kunst, Messepalast, Vienna, Austria
Great Contemporary Nudes 1978-1990: Selected Works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, C-2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Humanist Icon, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS, USA
Disturb Me, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers and Artists Respond to the Time of AIDS, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
A New York Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Botanica: The Secret Life of Plants, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Altered Truths: Contemporary Photography from the Michael Myers/Russell Albright Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Vollbild Aids, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland; Musée Fondation Deutsch, Lausanne, Switzerland
Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico
Art in Bloom, A.P. Giannini Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jan Fabre Theaterarbeiten, Fotografien von Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton und Carl De Keyzer, Fotogalerie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
Modern Art Market '90, Matsuya Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo
Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers/André Kertész: Vintage Photographs, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Art of Photography: 1839-1989, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Fugitive Gesture, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, USA
1989
CENSORED! AN EVENING OF OBJECTIONABLE ART, Hallwalls, Buffalo
L'invention d'un Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
To Probe & to Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Taboo, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, WA, USA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Modernist Still Life Photographed, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, MO, USA; University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA; University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
150 Years of Photography (5x5 Leibovitz Mapplethorpe Newman Slavin Weber Beaufrand De La Ville Scannone Sigala Vogeler), Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure / Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Ateneo de Valencia, Valencia, Venezuela; Centro de Bellas Artes Ateneo de Maracaibo, Maracaibo, Venezuela; Sala Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Kulturzentrum Mainz, Mainz, Germany; Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Group Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Les Krims, William Klein, Irving Penn, Duane Michaels, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mai 36 Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Self and Shadow, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA
The Legacy of William Henry Fox Talbot, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA
1988
Identity: Representations of the Self, Whitney Museum of American Art, Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY, USA
Life Like, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Mapplethorpe, Prince, Ruff, Wall, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Photographien (with Thomas Ruff), Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
The Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield Greenhouse, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA
First Person Singular: Self-Portrait Photography, 1840-1987, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Flowers, Grand Rapids Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Fotofest 88, Houston, TX, USA
The Fugitive Gesture: Masterpieces of Dance Photography, 1849 to the Present, National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
The Return of the Hero : A Selection of Pictures and Objects, Burden Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1987
Legacy of Light, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
Of People and Places: The Floyd and Josephine Segel Collection of Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Portrait: Faces of the '80s, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA
Contemporary American Figurative Photography, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
Il Nudo Maschile Nella Fotografia 19th-20th Secoli, Commune di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
Photographers Who Make Films, Catskill Center of Photography, Woodstock, New York, NY, USA; Department of Photography & Cinema Studies, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY, USA
The Insistent Object: Photographs 1845-1986, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1986
The First Decade, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
Midtown Review: A Look at Photography of Books of 1986, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
Staging the Self: Self Portrait Photography 1840s-1980s, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK; Ikon Gallery Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
The Fashionable Image: Unconventional Fashion Photography, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, USA
Paravent: Extending the Range of Expression, Artspace, San Francisco, CA, USA
Invitation: La Revue Parkett, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Sacred Images in Secular Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY, USA
A Matter of Scale, Rockland Center for the Arts and Blue Hill Plaza Associates, Pearl River, NY, USA
Contemporary Issues III, Holman Hall Art Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ, USA
intimate/INTIMATE, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, USA
Rules of the Game: Culture Defining Gender, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
OSO Bay Biennial, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
The Nude in Modern Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Sacred and the Sacrilegious: Iconographic Images in Photography, Photo Resource Center, Boston, MA, USA
Bentler Galleries Inc., Houston, TX, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1985
Beautiful Photographs, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, USA
Five Years with 'The Face', Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Image, Insight: Photographic Intuitions of the 1980's, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
The New Figure, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
Messages from 1985, Light Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Picture Taking: Weegee, Walker Evans, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Entertainment, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Flowers: Varied Perspectives, Patricia Heesy Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Nude, Naked, Stripped, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts, MA, USA
Beauty, Palladium, New York, NY, USA
Big Portraits, Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, New York, NY, USA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Self-Portrait: The Photographer's Persona 1840-1985, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Home Work, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Marcus Leatherdale, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Simmons, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY, USA
Style: An Exhibition of Fashion Photographs, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Memento Mori, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1984
Nude, Naked, Stripped, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Memento Mori, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Self-Portrait: The Photographer's Persona 1840-1985, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Five Years with "The Face", Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
Beautiful Photographs, Curated by Gene Thornton, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, USA
Beauty, Palladium, New York, NY, USA
Big Portraits, Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, New York, NY, USA
Entertainment, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Flowers: Varied Perspectives, Patricia Heesy Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Home Work, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Image, Insight: Photographic Intuitions of the 1980s, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
Marcus Leatherdale, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Simmons. James McCoy Inc., New York, NY, USA
Messages from 1985, Light Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Picture-Taking: Weegee, Walker Evans, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Style: An Exhibition of Fashion Photographs, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
The New Figure, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
1983
New Perspectives on the Nude, The Foto Gallery, Wales, UK
Photography in America 1910-1983, Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
New Art, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Self-Portraits, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Presentation: Recent Portrait Photography, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Drawings, Photographs, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Horse Show, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Phototypes: The Development of Photography in New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY, USA
Three-Dimensional Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, USA
The Sailor, 1930-1945: The Image of an American Demigod, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, USA
1982
The Crucifix Show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Erotic Impulse, Roger Litz Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Documenta 7, Curated by Rudi Fuchs, Museum Fridericianum, Neue Galerie, Orangerie, Karlsaue, Kassel, Germany
Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Faces Photographed, Contemporary Camera Images, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
La photographie en Amérique, Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France
Points of View, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Portraits, Concord Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Black Male Image, Harlem Exhibition Space, New York, NY, USA
1981
Instant Fotografie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Figures, Forms, and Expressions, CEPA Art Gallery, Alright Knox Art Gallery / Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, USA
Autoportraits Photographiques, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Inside Out-Self Beyond Likeness, New Port Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, RI, USA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, USA
Surrealist Photographic Portraits 1920-1980, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Couches, Diamonds, & Pie, Curated by Carol Squiers, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA
New York/New Wave, Curated by Diego Cortez, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA
1981 Biennial Exhibition, Curated by John G. Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, Richard Marshall, and Patterson Sims. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Il Gergo Inquieto : Inespressionismo Americano, Genova, Italy
Land/Urban Scapes, Islip Town Art Center, Islip, NY, USA
Lichtbildnisse: Das Porträt in der Photografie, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Marked Photographs, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
US Art Now, Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, Sweden, Traveled to: Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden
1980
Quattro Fotografi Differenti = Four Different Photographer: Barbara Kruger, Judith Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Charles Taub, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
The Norman Fisher Collection, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Presences: The Figure and Manmade Environments, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
In Photography, Color as Subject, School of Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY, USA
New Visions, Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Secret Paintings (Erotic Paintings and Photographs), Jehu Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1979
Artists by Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY, USA
People Watching, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
American Portraits of the Sixties and Seventies, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO, USA
Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Trade-Off (with Lynn Davis), International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1978
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, USA; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Seven Artists' View of the Male Image, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Collection of Sam Wagstaff, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, WA, D.C., USA; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Rated X, Marge Neikrug Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The New York Boat Show, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany
Surrogates/Self-Portraits, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1976
New Work/New York, 1976, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Animals, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Summer Group Show, 1976, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1974
Recent Religious and Ritual Art, Buecker and Harpsichords, New York, NY, USA
Group Exhibition, Bykert Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1973
Soft as Art, The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY, USA
Polaroids: Robert Mapplethorpe, Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol, Gotham Book Mart, New York, NY, USA
Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
Belgium
Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Charleroi
Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, Boussu
Canada
Portrait Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
The Rennie Museum, Vancouver
Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris
Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Hermes International Collection, Paris
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, Mougins
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem
Italy
Kunst Meran Arte, Merano
Uffizi / Galleria dell'Accademia Collection, Florence
Japan
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Kobe City Museum, Kobe
Netherlands
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Portugal
Fundação Serralves, Porto
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
Russia
Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
Spain
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, Palma
Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Switzerland
Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Turkey
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
UK
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Portrait Gallery, London
Tate Modern, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
USA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Mi
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Wa
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Mary & Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milton Art Bank, Milton, PENN
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PENN
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Polk Museum of Art, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN
UCR Arts, California Museum of Photography Collection, Riverside, CA
University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Tampa, FL
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT