ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

One-Artist Exhibitions

1973
Light Gallery, New York, "Polaroids"

1977
The Kitchen, New York, "Erotic Pictures"
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, "Flowers"
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, "Portraits"

1978
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Galerie Remise du Pare, Paris
Langdon Street Gallery, San Francisco, "Censored"
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Film and Stills"

1979
International Center of Photography, New York, "Trade Off" (with Lynn Davis)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Contact"
Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, "Robert Mapplethorpe 1970- 1975"
Texas Gallery, Houston

1980
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, "Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Males"
In a Plain Brown Wrapper Gallery, Chicago
Lawson/De Celie Gallery, San Francisco, "Robert Mapplethorpe: Blacks and Whites"
Vision Gallery, Boston

1981
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Galerie Contretype, Brussels
Galerie Nagel, West Berlin
Galerie Texbraun, Paris
Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Black Males"

1982
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
Galerie Ton Peek, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Galerie Watari. Tokyo
Galleria il Ponte, Rome, "Black Males"
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Shore Gallery, The Pines, Long Island, New York
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

1983
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, "Robert Mapplethorpe: Lady, Lisa Lyon"
Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto
Galerie Rudiger Sch6ttle, Munich, "Lady, Lisa Lyon"
Galerie Watari, Tokyo, "Flowers"
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, "Photogravures"
Hardison Fine Arts Gallery, New York, "Robert Mapplethorpe: Fashion and Head Shots"
Hardison Fine Arts Gallery, New York
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, "Robert Mapplethorpe 1970-1983"
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Musee National d'Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Olympus Centre, London, "Lady, Lisa Lyon"
Photographie Galerie, Dusseldorf, "Lady, Lisa Lyon"
The Saint Louis Art Museum. "Flowers"

1984
Centro di Documentazione, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Fondazione Lucio Amelio, Naples
Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, "Fotografias 1970-1983"
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, "Robert Mapplethorpe: Process"
Palazzo delle Cemo Finestre, Florence

1985
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, "Robert Mapplethorpe: Recent Work in Platinum"
Galene Daniel Templon, Paris
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "Robert Mapplethorpe: New Works in Platinum"

1986
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, South Yarra, "Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs 1976-1985"
Palladium, New York
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston

1987
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva
Galerie Kicken-Pauseback, Cologne
Galerie Francoise Lambert, Milan
Galerie Raab, West Berlin
Julia Gallery, New Orleans
Obalne Galerije, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1988
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
Hamiltons Gallery, London
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Group Exhibitions

1973
Gotham Book Mart, New York, "Polaroids: Robert Mapplethorpe, Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol"

1974
Bykert Gallery, New York, "Group Exhibition"

1976
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, "Animals"

1977
Museum Fridericianum. Kassel, West Germany, "Documenta 6"
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, "Surrogates/Self-Portraits"

1978
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "The Collection of Sam Wagstaff"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Mirrors and Windows: Photography 1960 to the Present"
Marge Neikrug Gallery, New York, "Raled X"
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, "The New York Boat Show"

1979
The Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Colorado, "American Portraits of the Sixties and Seventies"
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Attitudes: Photography in the 1970's"
Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, "Artists by Artists"

1980
Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, "New Visions"
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, "Presences: The Figure and Manmade Environments"
Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, "The Norman Fisher Collection"
Jehu Gallery, San Francisco, "Erotic Paintings and Photographs"
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, "Quarrro fotografi differenti"
School of Visual Arts Museum, New York, "In Photography: Color as Subject"

1981
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Figures: Forms and Expressions"
Marlborough Gallery, New York, "Surrealist Photographic Portraits, 1920-1980"
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, "Autoportraits photographiques"
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, "Inside Out: Self Beyond Likeness"
Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, "US Art Now"
P.S. I, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York, "New York/New Wave"
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, "Lichrbildnisse: Das Portrat in der Forografie"
Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, "Marked Photographs"
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, "Instant Forografie"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "1981 Biennial Exhibition"

1982
Concord Gallery, New York, "Portraits"
Galerie Texbraun, Paris, "La photographie en Amerique"
The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, "Faces Photographed"
Harlem Exhibition Space, New York, "The Black Male Image"
Roger List Gallery, New York, "The Erotic Impulse"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs"
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, "Points of View: 1982"
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany; "'Documenta 7"

1983
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, "Drawings and Photographs"
Castelli Graphics, New York, "Three-Dimensional Photographs"
Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, "Phototypes: The Development of Photography in New York City"
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, "Self-Portraits"
The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, "Presentation: Recent Portrait Photography"
The Tampa Museum, Florida, "Photography in America: 1910-1983"
The Tare Gallery, London, "New Art"

1984
Cable Gallery, New York, "Sex"
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, "The Heroic Figure"
Delahunry Gallery, Dallas, "Portrait Photography"
Fondazione Lucio Amelio, Naples, "Terrae Motus"
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, "Face to Face: Recent Portrait Photography"
Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, "Still-Life Photographs"
Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, "Radical Photography: The Bizarre Image"
School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, "Twelve on 20 x 24"
Superior Street Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "Sex-Specific: Photographic Investigations of Contemporary Sexuality"
Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, "Flower as Image in 20th Century Photography"

1985
Josh Baer Gallery, New York, "Entertainment"
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, "Picture Taking"
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, "Nude, Naked, Stripped"
Jeffrey Hoffeld and Company, New York, "Big Portraits"
Palladium, New York, "Beauty"
Photographer's Gallery, London, "Five Years with 'The Face'"

1986
Artspace, San Francisco, "Paravent"
Mead Art Museum, Amherst CoIlege, Amherst, Massachusetts, "Rules of the Game: Culture Defining Gender"
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, "The Fashionable Image: Unconventional Fashion Photography"
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, "Invitation: la revue Parkett"
Photography Resource Center, Boston University, "The Sacred and the Sacriligious: Iconographic Images in Photography"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Nude in Modern Photography"
Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, "Intimate/Intimate"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Sacred Images in Secular Art"

1987
Comune di Ravenna, Italy, "II nudo maschile nella fotographia"
Inrernational Center of Photography, New York, "Legacy of Light"
Milwaukee Art Museum, "Of People and Places: The Floyd and Josephine Segal Collection of Photography"
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, "Portrait: Faces of the '80s"

1988
Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, "The Return of the Hero"
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, "Flowers"
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, "First Person Singular: Self-Portrait Photography, 1840-1986"

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