Petra Collins b. 1992, Toronto, Canada Lives and works in New York, USA
Solo Exhibitions 2021 SHE / POSITION, MINE PROJECT, Hong Kong, China
2018 Pacifier, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2017 A Magazine Curated By, Art Basel, Hong Kong, China
2016 24 Hour Psycho, Evergold, San Francisco, USA
2015 Discharge, Curated by Petra Collins, Capricious 88, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 In Search of Us, MoMA, New York, USA Cuz The Grass Don’t Grow Greener And The Sky Is Blue, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2016 Female Gaze, Base, Milan, Italy The Collective, Uncontaminated Art Festival, Oslo, Norway Sans Titre, 45, Quai de la Tournelle , Paris, France Comforter, Curated by Petra Collins, SFAQ Project Space, San Francisco, USA
2015 Pussy Pat, Curated by Petra Collins, Mud Guts, Brooklyn, USA It’s An Invasion, The National Arts Club, New York, USA
Books 2020 “Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is?” BARON BOOKS, 1st edition, 166 pages, Hardcover, 22.00 x 28.50 cm With the book’s Hungarian title Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? Collins asks us: Why be you, when you can be me? Collins uses the camera as the third person. It captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. Working with the sculptor Sarah Sitkin, Collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities. This new body of work features Collins first experiments with self-portraiture.
2019 “OMG, I’m Being Killed” SUPER LABO BOOKS, 1st Edition, Soft Cover In a world where filters give us solace, OMG! I’m being killed, is the baby that was birthed in response to 2019. This book is Petra’s ultimate fashion magazine - one that she feels is a good representation of the truth about the age we live in. Filled with unpublished editorials and new works this book offers horrendously satisfying images.
2018 “SIX BY XX” Nazraeli Press, 1st Edition, Hardcover The six titles (and print image sizes on 11 x 14-inch paper) are:
MINE PROJECT 11F, The Hennessy, 256 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong ⾹港灣仔軒尼詩道 256 號 The Hennessy11 樓 mine-project.com
* Petra Collins: “Kamasz Nyar” (print image size 14 x 11 inches - no border) * Lalla Essaydi: “Lalla Essaydi” (print image size 12 x 9.5 inches) * Marilyn Minter: “Cunt” (print image size 11 x 14 inches - no border) * Catherine Opie: “Girlfriends” (print image size 8 x 8 inches) * Laurie Simmons: “How We See” ("Doll Girls") (print image size 13.5 x 9.5 inches) * Mickalene Thomas: “Black is Beautiful” (print image size 13.5 x 10.5 n inches)
2017 “Petra Collins: Coming of Age” Rizzoli, 1st Edition, Hardcover The first monograph by photographer Petra Collins presents the world of a thoroughly modern creative.
2015 “BABE” Prestel, 1st Edition, Hardcover Curated by Petra Collins, featuring artists Arvida Bystrom, Harley Weir, Sandy Kim, Jeanette Hayes, Kristie Muller, and more. Forward by Tavi Gevinson.
“DISCHARGE” Capricious. 1st Edition, Softcover
MINE PROJECT 11F, The Hennessy, 256 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong ⾹港灣仔軒尼詩道 256 號 The Hennessy11 樓 mine-project.com