About - David LaChapelle

BIO EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming / Current Exhibitions

Bling Bling Baby Show,NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany, November 19, 2016 ­ January 15, 2017

Solo Exhibition, Ara Modern Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea, November 18, 2016 ­ February 26, 2017

Art FairParis Photo Art Fair, Paris France, November 10 ­ 13, 2016

Solo Exhibition, Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 29 ­ December 31, 2016

Art Fair, Ch. ACO Art Fair, Santiago, Chile, October 14 ­ 16, 2016

Iluminación , Fundación Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 24 ­ October 7, 2016

Solo Museum + Public Exhibitions

2016 Símbolos de inmortalidad , Museo Agadu, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 22 ­ August 26, 2016

Art Fair, Exposition Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, September 23 ­ September 25, 2016

David LaChapelle: Gas Stations , Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, July 9­ September 11, 2016

Posmodernidad , Espacio De Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 9 ­ August 26, 2016

Contemporaneidad , Centro De La Fotografia, Montevideo, Uruguay, June 24­ September 4, 2016

Pipe Dream , Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland, December 10 ­ February 19, 2016

The Armory Show, Piers 92 & 94, , NY, March 3­6, 2016

AIPAD:The Photography Show, The Park Avenue Armory, New York City, NY, April 14­ 17, 2016

2015 Festival Foto Industria 02, Bologna, Italy, October 2 – November 1, 2015

David LaChapelle: Dopo Il Diluvio Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, April 29 – September 20

1/12 About - David LaChapelle Fotografias 1984 – 2013 Museum of Contemporary Art Chile, Santiago, Chile, July 29­September 27

Fotografias 1984 – 20100013 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru, January 23 – April 13

2014 Land Scape Public exhibition at bus stop R / Aldwych, London, UK, September 12 – 22

Once in the Garden OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie, Vienna, Austria, June 2 – September 14

2012 Burning Beauty Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, November 30 – March 3

Lucca Center of Contemporary Art Museum, Lucca, Italy, June 29 – November 4

Bexco: Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, Busan, South Korea, June 16 – October 21

2011 Thus Spoke LaChapelle, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, December 7 – February 26, 2012

David LaChapelle In Seoul, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, South Korea, November 22 – March 4

NosOtros: La Humanidad Al Borde, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de , San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 21 – March 25

Lost and Found, Bratislava City Gallery – Pálffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14 – October 31

From Darkness to Light, , New York, NY, June 2 – September 2

Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, April 16 – May 7

Earth Laughs in Flowers, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, February 25 – May 8

2010 Postmodern Pop Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, July 13 – November 20

The Rape of Africa, Museum of Contemporary Canadia Art – Courtyard (part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival), Toronto, Canada, May 1 – 31

Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, April 9 – May 30

2009 Delirios de Razón (Delusions of Reason), Museo de Las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico, September 4 – November 15

Rétrospective, Musée de la Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France, February 6 – May 31

Delirios de Razón (Delusions of Reason), Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, , Mexico, February 4 – June 28

2008 Forte Belvedere Museum, Florence, Italy, July 15 – October 19

2/12 About - David LaChapelle Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, April 12 – May 11

Awards Heaven to Hell: Belezas e Desastres, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paolo, Brazil, January 23 – February 5 Cannes Gold Lion for "Peace and Love Together", 2015 Doctorate in Fine Arts (Hon.) from UNCSA, 2015 2007 Palazzo Reale Museum, Milan, Italy, September 24 – January 6, 2008 2014 Young Photographers Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 Artist of the Year, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Heaven to Hell, Museo de Arte Latinoamericana de Buenos Aires, 2012 National Geographic Magazine Photography Seminar, Featured Speaker Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 30 – May 21 OUT in Art Award, GLAAD Award Best New Photographer of the Year, French Photo and American Photo 2006 David LaChapelle: VIP, Very Important Portrait, Museo di Capodimonte, magazines Naples, Italy, March 24 – June 30 ICP Infinity Award for Applied Photography Photographer of the Year Award, the VH­1 Fashion Awards 2005 KALS'ART, Palermo, Italy, July 1 – September 15 Art Directors Club Award for Best Book Design for LaChapelle Land Best Cutting Edge Essay and Style Photography, Life magazine's Alfred 2003 All American, Rockefeller Center: Montblanc International, October 30 Eisenstadt Awards for Magazine Photography (the Eisies) – January 30, 2004 Cover of the Year Category, the Eisies Best Video for 's Natural Blues, the MTV Europe Music Awards James Gallery at Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia, 12th Annual MVPA Awards ­ Adult Contemporary Video of the Year ­ April 7 – April 25 This Train Don't Stop There Anymore 13th Annual MVPA Awards ­ Winner Director of the Year ­ Best 2002 Photographs, The Barbican, London, UK Rock Video of the Year for It's My Life Special Juried Prize Mountainfilm, Telluride LaChapelle, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria, June 6 – September 22 Special Juried Recognition, Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary, Aspen Film Festival 2000 Photology a Villa Impero, Bologna, Italy, March 4 – July 28 Presented with GLAAD's Vito Russo Award for Outstanding Contributions Toward Eliminating Homophobia 1999 Hotel LaChapelle, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, March 19 – May 24

Public Collections 20th Festival de la Mode, Galleries LaFayette, Paris, France, October 5 – January 5, 2000 Bayerische Staatsoper Portrait Gallery, Munich, Germany Brandhorst Foundation, Munich, Germany The Beautiful & Bizarre, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, March 2 – Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany June 2 La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY 1998 Palacio Pombal, Lisbon, Portugal, September 17 – December 11 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Foundation, Paris, France LaChapelle Land, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, July 5 – National Portrait Gallery, London, UK September 12 Serge Delsemme Foundation, Belgium Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 1997 LaChapelle Land, Photology, Milan, Italy, March 7 – April 30

1989 Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, NM, February 18 – May Videography 18

Daphne Guinness ­ "Evening In Space" Life Never Dies, Mars, New York, NY, February 11 – May 11 ­ "Almost Home" ­ "Spectrum" 1986 Taking Pictures is Fun, Palladium, New York, NY, September 11 – Elton John – " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" December 11 – "Tears Dry on Their Own" – "" Solo Gallery Exhibitions No Doubt – "It's My Life" – "" David LaChapelle: Muses, DSC Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, Blink­182 – "" 2016 March 22­ May 7 – "" Christina Aguilera feat. – "" Land Scape, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, October 20 – December Moby – "Natural Blues" 2014 Jennifer Lopez – "I'm Glad" 23 feat. – "Rich Girl" Land Scape, Robilant + Voena, Milan, Italy, September 16 – October – "Those Sweet Words" 17 – "She Ain't Right for You" http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 3/12 About - David LaChapelle Elton John – "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" Jablonka Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland, April 1 – June 7 – "I'm With You" – "Super Duper Love" Land Scape, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, January 17 – March – "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" 1 Christina Aguilera feat. Lil' Kim – "Can't Hold Us Down" – "Advertising Space" 2013 Gas Stations, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, – "Good Stuff" December 11 – January 31, 2014 The Vines – "Outtathaway" Elton John – "All That I'm Allowed" Still Life, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France, June 6 – July 26 Elton John – "Answer in the Sky" – "Try It on My Own" 2012 Still Life, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, November 28 – January 19, – "Sad Eyes" 2013 Elton John – "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" Mariah Carey feat. and – "Loverboy" Jesus is My Homeboy, Jablonka Galerie Böhm Chapel, Köln, Germany, Elton John – "Original Sin" May 14 – August 19 Penny Ford – "I'll Be There" Space Monkeys – "Sugar Cane" Earth Laughs in Flowers, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland, March 15 – April 29

Critical Essay Earth Laughs in Flowers, ROBILANT+VOENA Gallery, Milan, Italy, February 16 – March 24 Post on Pop Nili Goren, Curator, Tel Aviv Museum Earth Laughs in Flowers, ROBILANT+VOENA Gallery, London, UK, February 14—March 24 David LaChapelle is known internationally and in Israel as a photographer, a director of documentaries, and a video artist whose colorful, smooth and Earth Laughs in Flowers, St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, extroverted style is filled with sensuality, fantasy, and dark adventure, packed Switzerland, February 11 – 26 with accessible popular images, and communicates with a wide and variegated audience. His images have appeared on the covers of scores of leading fashion Addicted to Passion, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg, September 26 and entertainment magazines, and LaChapelle himself has played a pivotal role – December 30 in the promotion of prestigious brands, such as Diesel, Nokia, Tommy Hilfiger, etc. He has photographed hundreds of celebrities, always depicted 2011 Negative Currency and Recollections in America, PRISM, Los Angeles, provocatively, usually in full or partial nudity. CA, September 27 – November 5

Albeit daring, the nudity in these photographs does not result from him being Earth Laughs in Flowers, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, trigger-happy, nor from an attempt to surprise and shock. Even in his commercial Belgium, August 5 – September 12 photographs, LaChapelle combines criticism of the marketing method whose objects are all those taking part in its constitution, including the target audience The Raft, de Sarthe Fine Art, Hong Kong, China, May 25 – July 2 (of both the marketed product and the photograph as an object), and even the photographer himself as the one who creates the bait of the sales scheme. David LaChapelle: Early works 1984 – 1988, Michelman Fine Art, New York, NY, May 2 – June 15 When he photographed rapper Lil Kim for the Louis Vuitton campaign, the company logos were imprinted from head to toe on the dark skin of her naked Cathedral, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany, April 27 – May 24 body as a stamp. In this manner he created a sales­promoting attraction while, at the same time, placing the singer, himself, and the public of viewers and 2010 Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, potential buyers as part of the array responsible for commodification of the December 17 – February 26, 2011 female body. The "brand­name rush," the pursuit of fashionable designer items, the obsessive manicuring of the body in an attempt to resemble the figures on Documents of Desire & Disasters, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Istanbul, the catwalk or in the Oscars ceremony—all these rituals, as means to acquire a Turkey, December 9 – March 1, 2011 social status, make for the body's transformation into a label, and the conversion of the human figure into advertising space. Restart, Tavi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 7 – November 4

LaChapelle does not sanctify the erotic facet in order to satisfy the voyeuristic American Jesus, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, July 13 – urge or the curiosity of an audience of viewers and fans; he prefers to celebrate September 18 the freedom to use it precisely in order to liberate the representation of the body, primarily the female body, from the pornographic context, from erroneous The Rape of Africa, Robilant + Voena, London, UK, April 27 – June 23 interpretation, and from the inevitable association of nakedness with sin, or the mechanical association of passion and lust with sexual gratification, abuse, and Eden, Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, April 20 – May 20 humiliation. Deluge – Awakened, Galleria Manzoni, Bergamo, Italy, March 20 – LaChapelle's first exhibition in Israel, at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, contains April 28 very little nudity, which is not intended to promote sales, but rather to convey an http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 4/12 idea. The show features only a few traces of LaChapelle's familiar body of workAbout - David LaChapelle and the Hollywood icons. Central Connecticut Sate University, New Britain, CT, March 18 – April 22

Exceptional in this context are three monumental photographs of Michael 11x, Mbf­Kunstprojekte, Munich, Germany, February 24—April 1 Jackson, two of them conduct an explicit dialogue with death: one portrays the singer collapsed in the arms of another man, who takes the place of Mary in the 2009 Cars and Money, Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art Gallery, Miami, Pietà pose; the other portrays Jackson as the Archangel Michael defeating FL, December 1 – February 13, 2010 Satan. LaChapelle distances Jackson's controversial personality far from the juicy gossip and horror estates in three images which shift the discussion of the American Jesus, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, legend—that accompanied the singer's intricate biography and continues the September 18 – November 28 mystery around the story of his death—into a new, religious context. The Rape of Africa, David DeSanctis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Most of the photographed subjects in the exhibition are neither actors, singers, September 12 – October 31 or major glamorous figures, but rather models whose very anonymity makes for a criticism devoid of gossipy preaching, of ascription to a specific figure or The Rape of Africa, Galerie Alex Daniels, Amsterdam, Netherlands, episode; criticism directed at a social moral content which converses with life June 6 – July 31 and the art world. 2008 Jesus is My Homeboy, Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art Gallery, To some extent, LaChapelle is considered an outsider in the art world and in the Miami, FL, December 2 – January 10, 2009 world of commercial photography alike. He tends to add subversive ideas and unusual aspects to the marketed product. In an advertising campaign for coffee, Galerie Rhomberg, Innsbruck, Austria, November – January 2009 for example, he chose to emphasize the fact that it is a stimulant, and alluded to the fetishistic dimension inherent in the coffee ritual, complete with the pompous Jesus is My Homeboy, Robilant + Voena, London, UK, October 13 – jargon associated with it, which he compared to the pompous ritualism of November 7 sadomasochistic rituals. Auguries of Innocence, Gallery, New York, NY, LaChapelle is an exceptional practitioner in the field of advertising, among other September 12 – October 24 reasons, since he frequently incorporates in his works metaphors with a moral, religious motifs, and familiar elements from works by the great masters, from the 2007 Awakened, Goss Gallery, Dallas, TX, March 20 – April 11 Middle Ages to the present. Awakened, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, February 24 – August Such references are foreign to the world of magazine advertising and the clean 3 and alienated high­gloss language characterizing the genre. In the critical­ cultural discourse typifying the contemporary art world, and especially Awakened, Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary contemporary photography, on the other hand, there is avoidance, nearly to the Islands, Spain point of loathing, of the use of canonical references and their direct interpretation as an allegory for existential values. 2006 Heaven to Hell, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany. November 30 – February 2 LaChapelle performs an iconoclastic act in the critical discourse. Galerie Du XX Siécle, Paris, France, October 26 – November 18 He avoids academic understatement and educated insertion of cynical preaching into ideological discussions of contemporary theory. At the same time, he does 2005 Pictures for Italian Vogue 2001–2005, Staley­Wise Gallery, New York, not flaunt his clear preference for mundane language rife with hackneyed NY, December – January 2006 symbols and cliché images; instead he simply uses it with rich and piercing, stylized creative freedom. He stages wild scenes and dark adventure stories, Grand Opening: David LaChapelle, Goss Gallery, Dallas, TX, May 20 – replete with images and events, arranged in one­shot across the entire frame, August 12 some of them requiring more than one viewing to grasp fully. David LaChapelle in Amsterdam, Galerie Alex Daniels/ Reflex Modern LaChapelle's work is interspersed with humor, at times even irony, but it is Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 7 – July 16 entirely devoid of cynicism. The Crash works are all but meant to be a cynical comment on the flux of catastrophes passing before our eyes in shocking news Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, March 26—April 20 images to which we have become so accustomed; nor are they oriented toward perversion and dark passions as we know them, for example, from James Artists & Prostitutes 1985—2005, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, Ballard's eponymous novel or from David Cronenberg's film by the same title March 12 – April 21 based on it. 2004 Portraits of Musicians, Rudolf Budja Galerie – Artmosphere Vienna, LaChapelle's crashes address an economic crash, the collapse inherent in the Salzburg, Austria, November 4 – December 18 sanctified capitalistic ideal, and therefore they are accompanied by pathos­filled titles originating in slogans from the marketing campaigns of the depicted cars 2002 All American, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, July 16 – (The Crash: Boundless Freedom, 2008; The Crash: Intelligent Decadence, 2008; September 21 The Crash: Enhanced Performance, 2008). 2001 http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 5/12 About - David LaChapelle The same applies to the banknotes (Negative Currency: 100 Shekel as a Fotografie, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, September 26 – Negative, 2010). These are not replicated in series, like 's dollar November 4 bills from 1962, and although, similarly to early Pop, their very appearance in the photograph conceals a criticism of the values celebrated by affluent society, the Fish Stick, Camerawork Gallery, Berlin, Germany, September 7 – approach to the object in his work is fundamentally different with regard to the art November 23 world and its products, as well as to consumerist society and its commodities. Photology, Bologna, Italy, March 4 – July 28 In the presented bill, in contradistinction to Warhol's endless replication of dollars, the intention is neither to exhaust the eye, nor to indicate the lack of a 2000 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, December 29 – February 16, 2001 focal point in the work or the limitations of the printing technique as opposed to the well­oiled and exact capital mechanism. Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, May 25 – June 8

LaChapelle uses the banknotes themselves as the negative in the enlarger, 1999 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, June 4 – September 15 allowing one to discern in the print details which, ordinarily—namely in ordinary use—remain invisible. 1997 LaChapelle Land, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, March 30 – April 15

The two sides of the banknote appear together and in reversal colors at the final LaChapelle Land,Photology, Milan, Italym March 6 – August 30 print thus associate with art's intricate age­old confrontation of the paradox of two­dimensional representation of a reality which has volume. 1996 LaChapelle Land, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, NY, November 8 – November 30 A discussion that took a significant turn in post­Impressionism and in Cubism after Cézanne, as the painterly surface was opened to concurrent presentation 1993 PomPom Croissant, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY, September of several perspectives, through fragmentary and holographic panoramic 11 – October 9 photography, to 3D cinema and state­of­the­art virtual reality systems. 1991 Facility of Movement, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY, November The two dimensions are superimposed into a single photograph, in fact opting for 9 – December 21 the traditional option of multiple exposures and their printing into a single photograph, a process which distorts the conveyed data, yet generates a new 1989 Mirrors of God, David LaChapelle Cibachromes, Trabia MacAfee occurrence transpiring almost only on the plane of the work. In the case of the Gallery, May 25 – June 18 banknote, the simultaneous manifestation of front and back is familiar from the gesture common among merchants and sellers, who hold the note against the Somewhere Better, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, New York, NY, January 7 – light to reaffirm its originality by means of transparency and the water marks January 28 imprinted in it. 1988 Your Needs Met, 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York, NY, May 25 – June 25 In the context of authenticity and commercialization of art works, in his spectacular banknote photographs the artist furnishes us—consciously and in Javier Cibachromes, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, New York, NY, April 11 – carefully­controlled dosage—with arguments and food for thought in the futile May 12 debate among art lovers regarding the commercial apparatus and the pricing and evaluation methods in the art market. 1986 Taking Pictures is Fun, Palladium, New York, NY

The series of banknotes embodies the answer to a range of superfluous 1984 Angels, Saints, Martyrs, Park South Gallery / 303 Gallery, New York, questions, such as regarding the price of the work and the value of the note NY, October 11 – November 8 documented in it. Good News For Modern Man, 303 Gallery, New York, NY, March 29 – Hence it projects various peculiar comparisons between Picasso's broken April 30 portraits or the color drippings in Jackson Pollock's action paintings and the early scribbling of any child. The banknote assumes a new appearance which calls for Sante Fe Center for Photography, Sante Fe, NM profound perusal of the work's details, and therefore also close acquaintance with the original—the note which passes hands, folded in one's wallet or stuck in Group Exhibitions the pocket—which embodies purchasing power, a source of gratification, dispute and quarrels, economic power, "current money with the merchant," as it is called 2016 Group Exhibition, Drawing Room, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, in Genesis (23:16), when Abraham purchased the Cave of Machpelah. June 28 ­ July 29, 2016

Double-Take Group Exhibition, La Villette, La Grande Galarie du Foot, Paris, France, The negation of the subject, announced in post­modernism as the "death of the June 5 ­ July 10, 2016 author," was already apparent in Pop with the transition from the concept of the author to that of the artist who operates within society, documenting and Divine Decadence, The Castle of Gaasbeek, Belgium, March 27­June gathering existing images, and generating a collective subject of sorts. 26, 2016

Thereby early Pop succeeded, despite its relinquishment of the single subject, to Botticelli Reimagined, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United continue formulating basic feelings and sentiments, such as love, despair, and Kingdom, March 5 – July 3, 2016 hope, which culminated in Roy Lichtenstein's comics works. On the other hand, http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 6/12 About - David LaChapelle Warhol's doctrine represented total renunciation of the emotional disposition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the accompanying the private or collective subject. The artist became a social Catwalk, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul Korea, March 25 ­ June historian, who documents and replicates images as cultural products. 30, 2016

This inclination culminated with Warhol's alienated, cold, and technical treatment 2015 The Botticelli Renaissance,Gemaldegalerie Staatliche Museen, Berlin, of death and disaster. The critics, for the most part, maintained that even death Germany, September 24 ­ January 24, 2016 can be transformed into an emotionless image in a society inundated with images and information. 2050:A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, September 11 ­ January 24,2016 According to post­modernist criticism, and mainly Jean Baudrillard's theory of the simulacrum, the affinity between signs and their origins in reality weakens, and Hamster – Hipster – Hand: Under the Spellbound of the Mobile Phone, sometimes is even eliminated altogether; reality is replaced by a set of images Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, April 25 – July 5 and imitations, sometimes entirely devoid of origin. Bogota Biennial, Bogota, Colombia, March 2 – June 15 A flux of information rife with recurring images and ideas, that do not provide a clear notion regarding the state of affairs or events in the world; rather, they form Once Upon a Time and Now, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & a text, subject to interpretation, which serves as basis for the production of Transgender Community Center, New York, NY, February 3 – March 3 additional texts. The eye adapts itself to the dizzying whirl of the flickering images, as radical as they may be, and the mind becomes accustomed to their Il Cibo Nell’ Arte: Capolavori del Grandi Maestri dal Seicento a Warhol, subversiveness. Associazione Amici Di Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia, Italy, January 24 – June 14 Television, internet, outdoor advertising from monumental street screens to the tiny screen on a cellular phone, reality TV shows and virtual reality—all these 20 + 2 Years, ARNDT, Singapore, January 16 – February 15 have liberated the image from certain limitations, technical, ethical or institutional, while at the same time sentencing it, obviously, to mediocrity 2014 A New Selection from the Elgiz Collection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, resulting from the inability to shock in content or appearance. Back in the 1990s Turkey, June 17 – October 4 this freedom lost its power as a liberating view, art withdrew from its clinging to the simulacrum, to the non­graspable, to the constant flickering of images Images 2014, Fairfield Museum and History Center, Fairfield, CT, May without hierarchy and of myriad realities elusively oscillating between the 11 – June 22 imaginary and the real; a tendency of return to the corporeal, to engagement with the human and social, with the politics of states and citizens, and not only Possession, Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, that of representation and signifiers, became apparent. April 24 – June 27

LaChapelle grew up in an artistic setting which fully exploited the freedom of American Cool, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., February 7 visual expression and the breaching of the boundaries of morality and – September 7 censorship. At the same time, his approach does not quarrel with the numbness to which the liberty of the image has led. Instead it turns to the freedom of Beyond Earth Art, Cornell University: Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, metaphor. LaChapelle strives to return the audience, the individuals in society, NY, January 25 – June 8 from their status as signifiers or as elements in the semiotic discourse, to their human existence, as active partners in the discourse, rather than the subjects 2013 En compagnie de Guy Bourdin: Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. discussed in it. Gundlach, Haus der Photographie/Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, November 1 – January 26 LaChapelle combines religious narratives in his work, which, throughout history, have been introduced into art by the church and were intended to preach and A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, Fashion and Chess, World glorify its power. Devout Christianity used Christ to foster propaganda, and God Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, MO, October 19 – April 18 —to provide an excuse for killing and wars under the guise of reward and punishment. LaChapelle opts for the tolerant facet of religion, focusing on Cavinets de Curiosities, Le Musee Sainte­Croix, Poitiers, France, sermons which preach for love, forgiveness, and acceptance of the other. Via re­ October 18 – March 16 makes of original works he produces a fresh statement of his own. A blend of kitsch with porn chic, incorporating Hollywood and the New Testament in a single Foto A–Z, NRW­Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany, frame, and combining comics with and dark perversions with a soft and September 28 – January 5, 2014 vulnerable human nature. Masculine/Masculine. The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Courtney Love's Pietà photograph with a lookalike of her dead husband, Kurt Day, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France, September 24 – January 12, 2014 Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, as baby Jesus in her lap, sheds a new light on one of the best­known representations of death and compassion in the history of In God We Trust, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, culture, drawing analogies between religion and faith, with the entire spectrum of September 7 – November 10 feelings and emotions they invoke, and the adoration of rock stars and popular culture icons. The work's foreground features an infant with golden locks playing It’s an American Thing, Staley­Wise Gallery, New York, NY, July 29 – with giant dice­like blocks bearing the inscription "Heaven to Hell," sentencing September 14, 2013 the rock star, who committed suicide, to either eternal rest or everlasting torments, depending on the result. The stigmata marks on the arms and feet of Flowers and Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 7/12 About - David LaChapelle the deceased are also the wounds bleeding due to heroin injection, thereby Salzburg, Austria, July 27 – October 27 reinforcing the analogy between the ecstasy offered by religion and that granted by narcotics. AND THOSE WHO WERE SEEN DANCING WERE THOUGHT TO BE INSANE BY THOSE WHO COULD NOT HEAR THE MUSIC, Friedman Marilyn Monroe, the quintessential sex symbol and the ultimate celebrity—the Benda, New York, NY, July 16 – August 17 star who reflected a reality of suffering, exploitation, and a tragic death at a young age, alongside glamor and fame, drew the interest of Pop artists and their Traumfrauen – Traummänner, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany, followers. Much like Japanese artist, Yasumasa Morimura, who quoted her July 14 – September 1 renowned photograph with the fluttering skirt in a self­portrait as Marilyn, LaChapelle also treats her image in a gender context, yet adds another twist, Divine Bodies, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK, June 8 – September since he quotes the star's figure not from a direct photographic documentation of 29 her, but rather from the most hackneyed version of her portrait in Warhol's Pop piece. Morimura used Monroe for a game of sexual identities, as part of which he Vanity, Muzeum Narodowe W Krakowie, Krakow, Poland, May 21 – masqueraded and had his picture taken in the figure of famous actresses who September 1 became icons of the ultimate femininity (Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Greta Garbo). Collectible III – Photographies, A. Galerie, Paris, France, January 21 – March 2 LaChapelle shifted from impersonation to the real thing, from cross­dressing to trans-gender. As homage to Warhol's Marilyn, he photographed , 2012 About : Visioni & Illusiono Contemporanee, Museuo a New York­based transsexual who gained fame mainly through his photographs Tuscolano, Rome, Italy, December 1 – April 7, 2013 where she starred proudly between photographs of models in leading fashion magazines. Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, July 22 – October 14 LaChapelle confronts the hypocrisy and double standard regarding sexuality, especially in America, striving to breach through the conservative approach Unnatural – Natural History, The Royal West of England Academy, which accepts and encourages plastic surgery and remodeling the body based Bristol, UK, July 14 – September 23 on codes of beauty, while the transsexual language and sex­change operations are still foreign and appalling to it. Everywhere and Nowhere, Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany, June 23 – September 30 Of all people, he depicted Lepore in a tribute to "natural birth" to accentuate the miracle, which is still a fantasy—the birth of a baby from the body of a THE HABERDASHERY, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New transsexual. York, May 26 ­ June 18

The one who was born in a male body yet rejected it, fulfilled her dream and Making History, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, became a woman, represents—despite the plasticity and artificiality of her body Germany, April 20 ­ July 8 —an extraordinary truth and direct sincerity. LaChapelle depicts her in numerous photographs: in one she is presented with her back to 's David, the Group Show, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland, ideal masculine form body; in another—as the figure of Marilyn Monroe, and in February 10 ­ May 31 the famous photograph where she sniffs diamonds—as a model of radical addiction to glamor. In the photograph Death by Hamburger, 2001, a giant 2011 Cocktail Culture, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, American burger, alluding to Claes Oldenburg's soft sculpture and the interplay December 15 ­ April 15, 2012 of scale in , strikes and crashes a slender girl, whose well­shaped legs alone manage to escape the bear hug of the epitome of junk food. The Leonardo: Il Genio, il Mito, La Venaria, Turin, Italy, November 18, 2011 hamburger, however, is represented by blown­up vinyl, in heightened ­ February 19, 2012 exaggerated duplication, as synthetic as the greasy patty and as megalomaniac as the aspirations of its makers. Vanity: Mode/Fotografie aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach (Fashion/Photography from the F.C. Gundlach Collection), Kunsthalle The criticism of some of the values consecrated in contemporary society—the Wien, Vienna, Austria, October 21 ­ April 1, 2012 addiction to fast food, the worship of anorectic models of beauty, and their destructive encounter—are conveyed via references to Pop and Surrealism, Daphne Guiness, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, rather than by means of the original. LaChapelle, as an important documenter of New York, NY, September 16 ­ January 7, 2012 Pop culture, also combines a note on in his approach, thereby infusing this concept with a new meaning. The Lords and the New Creatures, Nye + Brown, Los Angeles, CA, September 10 ­ October 31

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Canada, June 2, 2011 – October 2, 2011; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, November 13, 2011 – February 12, 2012; De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, March 24 – August 19, 2012; The Fundación Mapfre–Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, October 6, 2012 – January 6, 2013; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands, February 9 – May 12, 2013; Swedish Center http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 8/12 About - David LaChapelle for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, Sweden, June 17 – September 22, 2013; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, October 25, 2013 – February 23, 2014; Barbican Gallery, London, UK, April 9 – August 25, 2014; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, October 15, 2014 – February 22, 2015; Grand Palais, Paris, France, March 29 – August 3, 2015; Kunsthalle der Hypo­Kultustifung, Munich, Germnay, September 9, 2015 – January 10, 2016, Seoul, South Korea, March 25 ­ June 30, 2016

Role Models­Role Playing, Rudolf Budja Galerie, Salzburg, Austria, June 2 – August 31

Beauty CULTure, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, May 21 – November 27

Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 – September 18

Borders and Frontiers: Collage and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, March 5 – April 10 [cat.]

Body Gestures, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzilya, Israel, February 12 – May28

2010 Popular BRANDS, SYMBOLS, ICONS 1960—2010, Galerie Thomas Modern, November 26 – February 19, 2011

Restart, Tavi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 7 – November 4

Decadence Now! Visions of Excess, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, October 4 – January 2, 2011

Divine Comedy, Sotheby’s, New York, NY, September 30 – October 19

Real Interface, Gana Art Busan, Busan, South Korea, July 30 – August 22

A Star Is Born. Photography and Rock since Elvis, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, July 2 – October 10

POP ART 1960’s – 2000’s from Misumi Collection, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan, May 25 – July 4

Pervasive Influence: The Mechanical Bride, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada, May 1 – June 6

The First Western China International Art Biennial, Yinchuan Cultural Art Centre, Yinchuan, China

Revealed: The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art, Central Connecticut Sate University, New Britain, CT, March 18 – April 22

ATOPIA: Art and City in the 21st Century, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, February 25 – May 24

Knock Knock: Who’s There? That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, NY February 24 – May 15

2009 Fashion Room: Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach (Photographs from the F.C. Gundlach Collection), Städtische Galerie Iserlohn, Iserlohn, Germany, November 27 – January 1, 2010 http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 9/12 About - David LaChapelle

Rape of Africa, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Milan, Italy, November 11 – December 9

Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History 1955 to the Present, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, October 30 – January 31, 2010

Beauty Farm: La bellezza del corpo tra idealizzazione e ossessione, Fondazione Durini – Palazzo Durini, Milan, Italy, October 28 – November 12

Pop My Cherry, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland, September 17 – November 7

Naked!, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, July 9 – September 19

America the Beautiful, Staley­Wise Gallery, New York, NY, March 6 – May 9

2008 Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, November 6 – December 6

Reverb, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany, October 14 – January 31, 2009

Traumfrauen, Deichtorhallen – Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany, September 9 – November 9

Bad Planet, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia, April 15 – May 14

Shoes!, GAVLAK, West Palm Beach, FL, February 12 – January 31

Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 – 2008, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, February 14 – May 26, 2009; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 26 – March 1, 2009

2007 Arte e Omosessualità: Da von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles, Palazzina Reale – Stazione di Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, October 17 – March 24, 2008; Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, Italy, July 9 – November 11

Mode:Bilder, NRW­Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany, October 17 – March 24, 2008

Collection très privée, Galerie Sandrine Mons, Nice, France

Fotonoviembre 2007: IX. Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes – Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Pop Art: 1960's ­ 2000's: From Misumi Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki; traveling to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; and Hachioji Yume Art Museum

An Instinctive Eye: A Selection of Contemporary Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine, June 16 – August 12

2006 Colleziona, Fondazione FORMA per la Fotografia, Milan, Italy, December 15 – January 14, 2007

Men, War & Peace, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany, http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 10/12 About - David LaChapelle December 2 – May 30, 2007

The Other Side #2: Radical Pursuits – Delights in the Subversive and Sublime, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY

The Heartbeat of Fashion: Sammlung F.C. Gundlach, Deichtorhallen – Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany

Joy Pop!: Pop Art 1960’s – 2000’s. From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current Generation, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Kunstrai 2006, Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rendez­vous avec une femme, Galerie Adler, Paris, France

2005 Invito al Collezionismo, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy

A Selection of Vintage and Contemporary Photographs, ArteF Fine Art Photography Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, November 16 – January 7

Passionate Image: The Body in Art and Advertising, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, USA

Here Now, Sims Reed Gallery, London, UK

From the Source, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada, September 10 – October 22

Beauty, Rudolf Budja Galerie – Artmosphere Galerien, Salzburg, Austria

Fashion in Art: Art in Fashion, The Gallery in Cork Street, London, UK

Rene Magritte, Robert Williams, David LaChapelle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, January 15 – April 2

2004 Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, September 25 – January 23, 2005

Love, Rudolf Budja Galerie – Artmosphere Galerien, Salzburg, Austria

Video: 25 Jahre Videoästhetik (25 Years of Video Aesthetics), NRW- Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 24 – April 18

2003 Invito alla Fotografia, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, December 13 – December 31

Looking for Leisure, Staley­Wise Gallery, New York, NY, July – August

Troisieme Anniversaire: Collection Permanente, Acte2Galerie, Paris, France

Vanity Fair, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2002 Buds, Blooms & Blossoms, Staley­Wise Gallery, New York, NY May – June

Archeology of Elegance: 1980–2000. 20 Jahre Modephotographie (20 Years of Fashion Photography), Deichtorhallen – Haus der http://davidlachapelle.com/about/ 11/12 About - David LaChapelle Photographie, Hamburg, Germany, April 26 – September 8

Where is Elvis?: The Man and His Reflection, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY

2001 New York, New York: Streetlife, Architecture and Personalities, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, NY

2000 100 al 2000: Il Secolo della Fotoarte, Villa Impero, Bologna, Italy, January 30 – April 29

A Century of Fashion, Staley­Wise Gallery, New York, NY, October – November

Chic Thrills: Pop­Surealism in Photography, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Femmes plus que femmes: Mulheres, sobretudo mulheres, Museu de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil

1997 The Warhol Look: Glamour Style Fashion, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1989 The Center Show, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY, June 1 – December 1

Don’t Bungle the Jungle: A Benefit Exhibition for the Rainforest, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY

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