represented by ® o living artist has had more influence on the photog- brought it to a global audience that continues to treasure Nraphy of intimate life than Nan Goldin. In a peerless the piece for its vulnerable beauty and political resonance. career spanning five decades, her instantly recognizable photographs have featured in hundreds of exhibitions and The photographer still delights in presenting her imagery catalogues. She has staged upwards of 125 solo shows since using sound, motion and unconventional hanging strategies 1973 and published over 25 books of her images, many to create atmospheres and spectacles designed to envelop the of which are considered seminal texts in their field. Her viewer in emotion. In Le Feu Follet, Goldin’s 2001 exhibi- artwork features in the world’s foremost public and private tion marking a shift from her iconic indoor portraiture to collections. Yet career was never an incentive for Goldin: lighter, perhaps more spiritual landscape scenes, she created she draws no distinction between her life and her work. The grids of images on walls that echoed the seriality of her motivation behind her pictures – which are shot mainly as early slideshows. The show toured extensively as Devil’s discrete encounters, rarely as thematic projects – is always Playground, to venues including the , deeply personal and emotional. London, and as Still on Earth to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Fundação de , Porto and Goldin produced her first significant body of photography Castello di Rivoli, Turin. Sisters, Saints and Sibyls, her 2004 – a black-and-white series of two drag queens with whom exhibit commissioned by the French Minister of Culture, she lived – in her late teens, several years before attending used three screens and an audio soundtrack to tell the story the famous photography program at the School of Fine of her sister’s suicide and its devastating impact. Goldin has Arts in in the mid-1970s. She took a gap year from also made several films, most notably the 1995 documenta- college, which prevented her from accessing a darkroom ry about her life, I’ll Be Your Mirror, a collaboration with and prompted her to start using colored slides. This happy Edmund Coulthard. accident would come to give her work its rich, dark, signa- ture palette and serial form. Moving to the Lower East Side Goldin has won numerous prestigious prizes, including the of New York in 1978, Goldin began staging a constantly Commandeur des Arts et Des Lettres from the French gov- evolving slideshow in nightclubs around the city. Eventually ernment in 2006, the in 2007 and the Ed- comprising approximately 700 images and entitled The ward MacDowell medal in 2012. Today, she is highly sought Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the groundbreaking 1981 slide- after as an assignment photographer. Her exquisite lighting, show depicted Goldin’s adopted family of friends and lovers rich palette and ability to draw out an sensitive performance in various states of ecstatic abandon and social isolation. Set from a sitter have created exemplary editorial stories for to a soundtrack of music and spoken word, the piece has magazines including V, Vogue Homme and Harper’s Bazaar, been interpreted as a tribute to the generation ravaged by as well as definitive campaigns for luxury brands such as AIDS in the early 1980s when the majority of the pictures Jimmy Choo, Homme and Bottega Veneta. were taken. Goldin’s inclusion in the 1985 Whitney Biennale marked the first major institutional endorsement of her By Penny Martin photography; the publication of the Ballad book in 1986 BIOGRAPHY

440x285PrintDiorHommeParfumAmbMosaic_Presse.indd Toutes les pages 07/05/14 08:38 Published: December 2013 by Rizzoli 1000 LIVES The book, released in congruence with the campaign, features 11 large posters of in Dior

s kid’ wearFor nearly a decade, Nan has shot over a dozen issues for kid’s wear. A selection of the collaborations:

In October 2013, Nan Goldin was one of six artists invited by Atelier Persol to participate in the Phoenix project, a five-day workshop at Venice’s Bauer Palladio Hotel to create the luxury eyewear company’s 2014 communication campaign. All participating artists were shot by Tom Craig for the special campaign. Persol Nan created a slideshow for the label featuring her friend and muse Masumi Roja, which played at a special show in Venice, on Persol’s website and various press outlets. Other participating artists include Abel Ferrara, Soundwalk, Akram Khan, Loris Greaud, Giovanni Ozzola and Theo Mercier. Read a special interview between Nan and Abel Ferrara that took place over the project here Nan Goldin: I remember your face Directed by Sabine Lidl and released in 2014, this documentary shows Nan’s work and personal life in an intimate and endearing light. Read the Blouin Art Info review here Scopophilia The commissioned Nan to create the series Scopophilia, which granted Nan private access to the Louvre for 8 months to photograph their collection. Nan created diptychs, triptychs and collages with her photographs of the classic artworks and her documented intimate life; this series showcases the uncanny similarities in lighting and composition across the mediums and artists. Read more about it here.

EDEN AND AFTER Published December 2013 by Rizzoli / Review here THE Devil's playground Published: 2003 by Phaidon I 'll be your mirror Published: October 1996 by Scalo THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY Published: 1986 by Aperture THE Other Side Published: 1993 by Scalo awa r d s 2014 Lucie Award for Achievement in Portraiture 1995 Dritter Graphikpreis; Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, 2012 Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement in Hamburg, Germany the arts 1995 Special Jury Commendation, Prix Italy 2011 ReD Award for outstanding work in the field of HIV/ 1994 Brandeis Award in Photography AIDS, Berlin, Germany 1994 Emery Award, Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York 2007 Hasselblad Award, Göteborg, Sweden 1993 Golden Light Photographic Book of the Year Award (for 2006 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, France The Other Side), Maine 2004 Medaille de la Ville de Paris, France 1991 DAAD, Artists-in-Residence Program, Berlin, Germany 2002 First prize, Foto España Festival, Spain 1991 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards 1997 The Art Director’s Club 76th Annual Awards, Silver 1990 Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award, San Award, Nan Goldin for Matsuda, Naked New York, New Francisco

York 1989 Camera Austria Prize for Contemporary Photography, 1997 Medal Award, The Museum School, Boston Graz, Austria 1996 Prix du Meilluer Reportage, Montreal International 1987 Photographic Book Price of the Year, Les Recontres Festival of Films on Art, Montreal d’Arles

1996 Teddy Bear Award, Berlin Film Festival for Best Essay 1986 Englehard Award, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Film, I’ll Be Your Mirror, Berlin Boston Contact:

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