Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman produced a remarkable body of work before her untimely death in 1981 aged only 23. Her romantic, surreal, and often disturbing black and white photographs reference the history of modernist photography as well as presciently gesture towards more recent art about objectification and the female gaze. Her work is groundbreaking due to her unconventional methods of imaging the female body. By radically placing her own body at the fore of her photographs as a means of inquiry and self-expression, Woodman is firmly situated alongside her contemporaries of the late 1970's such as Ana Mendieta and Hannah Wilke. Her work also presaged artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Nan Goldin and Karen Finley in their subsequent dialogues with the self and reinterpretations of the female body.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005

Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Berlin

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris

2003

Francesca Woodman: Photographs, Herbert F. Johnson

Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 12 July - 26 October (exhibition catalogue)

2000

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2 February – 27 March (exhibition catalogue)

1998

Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France, 11 April – 31 May;

exhibition tour: Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 12 September – 15 November; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, 22 January 1999- 15 April 1999; The photographers’Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 6 August – 18 September 1999; Centro Cultural TeclaSala, L’Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain, 11 November – 30 March 2000 (exhibition catalogue); Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan, Italy, 10 January – 25 February 2001; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 18 May – 21 July 2001; PhotoEspana, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain, 12 June – 14 July, 2002

Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France, 6 July – 16 August (exhibition catalogue)

1996

Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy, 24 November 1996 – 9 February 1997 (exhibition catalogue)

1995

Casetti Galleria Libreria, Rome, Italy, 6 December 1995 – 30 June 1996

1992

Francesca Woodman, Photographic Works/Photographiche Arbeiten, exhibition tour: Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 31 May – 26 July; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 18 September – 25 October; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 December 1992 – 7 February 1993; Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museo SAATIO, Helsinki, Finland, 26 March – 28 April 1993; DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 8 May – 13 June 1993; Galleri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway, 7 August – 3 October 1993 (exhibition catalogue)

1989

Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 14 December 1989 – 28 January 1990

1986

Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work, exhibition tour USA: Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY, 13 February – 14 March; Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA, 9 April – 8 June; University of Colorado Fine Arts Gallery, Boulder, CO, 2 February – 15 March 1987; UCI Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, 2 April – 2 May 1987; Krannet Art Museum, Champaign, IL, 25 January – 6 March 1988 (exhibition catalogue)

1979

Swang Song, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 16 – 22 November

1978

Libreria Maldoror, Rome, , 20 – 30 March

1976

Addison Gallery of Art, Andover, MA, March

Selected Group Museum Exhibitions

2008

"The Bearable Lightness of Being - The Metaphor of the Space", event of 11th International Exhibition of Architecture - La Biennale di Venezia, organized by Galerie Davide Di Maggio

2006

Galleria Davide Di Maggio, Artissima Turin, together with Yoko Ono

2004

That bodies speak has been known for a long time, Generali Foundation, Vienna, 22 January – 25 April (exhibition catalogue)

Ideal and Reality: A History of the Nude, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, , 20 January – 9 May

The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, Maine, ME, 25 September – 7 December; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, MO, 5 March – 23 May;

Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, TX, 11 September – 28 November

After Image, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edimburgh, 2 August – 2 September

2002

Hexenwahn, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2 May – 6 August

Camera Women, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 6 October – 6 January 2002; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 25 January – 6 March 2002 (exhibition catalogue)

Relative Positions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 19 October – 9 December (exhibition catalogue)

2000

The Wounded Diva: Hysteria, Body, Technology in 20^th Century Art, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, 3 March – 7 May; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 25 June – 27 August

1999

The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950 – 2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 23 September 1999 – 27 February 2000 (exhibition catalogue)

1998

Space/Sight/Self, The University of Chicago David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, 19 November – 10 January 1999 (exhibition catalogue)

F-Comme Photographie, Fri-Art Centre d’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, , 1 November – 20 December

From the Heart: The Power of Photography - A Collector’s Choice, The Sondra Gilman Collection, South Texas Institute of the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX, March (exhibition catalogue)

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representations, exhibition tour USA: MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 10 April – 28 June; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FLA, September – December; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, February – March 1999 (exhibition catalogue9

1997

Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 20 February – 15 April

Objectif corps, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, , 6 March – 1 June

Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France, 3 June – 2 November (exhibition catalogue)

Im Reich der Phantome, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, 12 October 1997 – 4 January 1998; Kunsthalle Krems, 21 February – 1 June 1998; Fotomuseum Winterthur, 13 June – 16 August 1998 (exhibition catalogue)

Engel, Engel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, , 11 June – 7 September (exhibition catalogue)

1996

Inside the Visible, exhibition tour: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 31 January – 12 May; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, June – September; Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom, October – December (exhibition catalogue)

1992

Current 92: The Absent Body, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 22 January – 22 March

Sprung in die Zeit, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany, 20 November 1992 – 17 January 1993 (exhibition catalogue)

1989

Vanishing Presence, exhibition tour USA/Canada: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 29 January – 16 April; The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, 9 May – 2 July; Winnipeg Art Center, Winnipeg, Canada, 27 August – 22 October; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 14 November 1989 – 7 January 1990; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 30 January 1990 – 27 March 1990; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 22 April 1990 – 17 June 1990 (exhibition catalogue)

1988

Identity: Representation of the Self, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY, 14 December 1988 – 10 February 1989

Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, 29 March – 7 May

1986

Memento Mori, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, November 1986 – January 1987

1980

Beyond Photography 80, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY, 19 April – 17 May (exhibition catalogue)

1978

Group Show, Rhode Island School of Design Gallery in Palazzo Cenci, Rome, , May

1977

Juried Competition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1976

Juried Competition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI