Darren Bader
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Born in 1946, Floral Park, New York, USA
Died in 1989, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
EDUCATION
1963-70 BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
‘Robert Mapplethorpe – Still Life,’ Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
‘Robert Mapplethorpe. L’obiettivo sensibile,’ Galleria Corsini, Rome, Italy
‘Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now,’ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2018
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Madre – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
‘Robert Mapplethorpe’s Minimalism,’ Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
2017
‘Au Début (works from 1970 to 1979),’ Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Fluid Beauty,’ Olga Korper Gallery Inc., Toronto, Canada
‘Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection,’ Chanel Nexus Hall, Chuo-ku Tokyo
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: A Perfectionist,’ Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects,’ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2016
‘Teller on Mapplethorpe,’ Alison Jacques Gallery, London, United Kingdom
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon,’ McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden
‘Focus: Perfection Robert Mapplethorpe,’ The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects,’ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: On the Edge,’ ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark ‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Galeri Nev Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey ‘Dark and Light,’ Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, USA
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Galerie Brandstrup, Oslo
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium,’ J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles [traveled to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017-2018)]
‘Robert Mapplethorpe, Munch Museum,’ Oslo
‘XYZ: Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2015
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Bowes Museum, Durham, United Kingdom ‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland ‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Galeria Pepe Cobo, Lima
‘Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
‘Look at me! Il Corpo nell’Arte dagli anni ’50 a oggi’, Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno, Switzerland
‘Artist rooms. Self Evidence: Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe’, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
‘After Stonewall: 1969 – 1989’, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, USA
‘The Outsiders’, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
‘ASS,’ The National Exemplar Gallery, New York, USA
‘Sheated’, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA
2018
‘Counterpoint: Selections from the Peter Marino Collection,’ Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, New York, USA
‘About Photography,’ Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, California
‘Photo Show,’ Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, USA
‘Robert Mapplethorpe and George Dureau,’ Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2017
‘Pratt Institute Survey Exhibition,’ Pratt Institute Dekalb Hall Gallery, New York, USA ‘Robert Mapplethorpe | Alair Gomes,’ Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Sao Paolo, Brazil ‘Fall is Cancelled,’ Gladstone 64, New York
‘Group Exhibition,’ Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Picture Industry,’ Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
2016
‘Munch + Mapplethorpe,’ The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
‘The Conversation Continues,’ Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
‘Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture,’ Museum of the City of New York, USA
‘Anthea Hamilton Reimagines,’ Kettle’s Yards, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom ‘20 Years,’ Weinstein Gallery, New York, USA
2015
‘Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls,’ Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford ‘After The Moment: Reflections on Robert Mapplethorpe,’ Cincinnati, USA
GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND GENERAL PUBLICATIONS
2014
Gefter, Philip. Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe. New York: Liveright, 2014.
2010
Smith, Patti. Just Kids. New York: Ecco, 2010.
2002
Meyer, Richard. Outlaw Representation: Censorship & Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
1997
Childs, Elizabeth C. Suspended License: Censorship and the Visual Arts. Seattle: University of Washington Press
1996
Waugh, Thomas. Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996
COLLECTIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Bank of America Collection, San Francisco, USA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, USA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Dallas Musuem of Art, Dallas, USA
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA
Getty Museum, Malibu, California, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California, USA
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Art, Norman, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA
Portland Center of the Visual Art, Portland, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
