Modern Art

Born in New York, NY, USA, 1963
Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Education
1986

School of Visual Arts

New York, NY, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2021

Joint Ventures: Day for Night presented by Modern Art, London

KOW, Berlin, Germany

2019

Stonewall at 50

Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY, USA

2018

In Front of the Camera

Modern Art, London

2014

8 1/2 Women

Karma, New York, NY, USA

8 Women

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011

Ars Cameralis

Katowice, Poland

German Faces

CoCA Kronika, Bytom, Upper Silesia, Poland

2010

Journals & Notebooks

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

German Faces

Berardo Collection (as part of Photo España), Lisbon, Portugal

German Faces

Modern Art, London

2009

Hier hielt die Welt den Atem an

Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany

2008

Blumen

Villa Romana, Florence, Italy

There I Was

Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Jens F

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA

2007

There I Was

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Forests & Fields

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006

Other Women

Modern Art, London

2005

Jens F

Roth, New York, NY, USA

2004

Fotogalleriet

Oslo, Norway

303 Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Modern Art

London

2002

Consorcio Salamanca

Salamanca, Spain

2001

303 Gallery

New York, NY, USA

2000

Emily Tsingou Gallery

London

1999

303 Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Georg Kargl Gallery

Vienna, Austria

Neue Soldaten

Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC, USA

1998

Archipelago: New Rooms

Stockholm Kultur 98, Stockholm, Sweden

1997

303 Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Galerie Drantmann

Brussels, Belgium

1995

Galerie Drantmann

Brussels, Belgium

1994

303 Gallery

New York, NY, USA

1993

303 Gallery

New York, NY, USA

1991

303 Gallery

New York, NY, USA

1990

Standard Graphik

Cologne, Germany

The Chase

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1988

Cable Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024

Modern Art

London

2023

Modern Art

Paris, France

Skin in the Game

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2022

Ghostscript

Modern Art, London

Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

After August Sander People of the 21st Century

Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen gGmbH, Siegen, Germany

2021

Winter of Discontent

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2020

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Barbican, London

2019

Orlando, curated by Tilda Swinton

Literaturhaus, Munich, Germany

Orlando, curated by Tilda Swinton

Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA

Balticana, curated by Zane Onckule

CCS Bard Galleries, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

Piracy (vol.5), selected by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte

Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium

2018

KALEIDOSCOPE Issue 33 Takeover

Spazio Malocchi, Milan, Italy

After Documentary

Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Hyper-Real

The Arts Club, London

The House of Fame

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I)

Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY, USA

2017

Like a Moth to a Flame

Officine Grandi Riparazione / Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Histórias da Sexualidade

São Paolo Museum of Art, São Paolo, Brazil

2017 Canadian Biennial

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Invitation – FRAC at Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

20/20

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin

The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

March Madness

Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY, USA

Double Take

Skarstedt Gallery, London

Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors – Part 1: Figuration

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Divided States of America

The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY, USA

2016

Tough & Tender

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Systematically Open? New Forms of Contemporary Image Production, with Anne Collier

Luma Foundation, Arles, France

NACHERLEBT: Zwischen Geschichtserfahrung und Karneval

MeWo Kunstalle, Memmingen, Germany

Field Portraits of Contemporary Western Culture

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men

Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA

In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy, a Hayward Gallery show curated by Elizabeth Price

The Whitworth, Manchester, travelling to De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2017); Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2017)

Theories of Modern Art

Modern Art, London

Camera of Wonders (Reprint)

Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, Colombia

Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The End of Innocence: Childhood Torments in the Contemporary Art Collection

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA

Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Bad Mood Show

Plymouth Rock, Zürich, Switzerland

2015

NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA

Camera of Wonders, curated by Jens Hoffmann

Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City, Mexico

Greater New York

MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA

Popular Images

Karma, New York, NY, USA

2014

Soft Target

M+B, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1984-1999. The Decade, curated by Stéphanie Moisdon

Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

New Generation

Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France

L’Almanach 14

Le Consortium, Dijon, France

2013

Lens Drawings: Section IV, Department of Light Recordings

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

Under My Skin

Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Lost Boys: The Territories of Youth

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

2012

Lost & Found: Anonymous Photography in Reflection

Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

The Perfect Show

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Abundant Throat

Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Myths and Realities

School of Visual Arts - Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011

Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex

Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

Transformed Land

Centre Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France

More American Photographs, curated by Jens Hoffmann

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, travelling to: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO (2012); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2013); California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, USA (2013-14)

12th Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul, Turkey

Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Venice, Italy

History in Art

Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland

2010

You and Now

Balice Hertling, Paris, France

The Art of Camo

Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy

Sent by Mail

Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany

NOT IN FASHION Fashion and Photography in the 90s

MMK Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Closed for Installation

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures

Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Postcards from the Edge

Zieher Smith & Horton, New York, NY, USA

2009

Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1)

Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany

The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women

Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA

Photography Rotation Summer 2009

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, travelling to: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (2009); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2010); Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (2010); Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT (2011); The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2011); Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA (2011)

Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now

International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA

2008

Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA

Listen Darling… The World is Yours, curated by Lisa Phillips

Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal

Hard Targets: Masculinity and Sport, curated by Christopher Bedford

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Freeway Balconies: Contemporary American Art, curated by Collier Schorr

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

2007

Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage

Gagosian, New York, NY, USA

Star Power: Museum as Body Electric

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO, USA

History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art, curated by Jens Hoffmann

Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany; travelling to KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2007-8)

Three for Society

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Memorial to the Iraq War

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Rebel Rebel: Remembering Karlheinz Weinberger

Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA

Family Pictures

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

2006

Modern Photographs: The Machine, The Body, The City

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

People

Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy

Artist's Choice: Herzog & de Meuron Perception Restrained

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Human Game, curated by Francesco Bonami

Fondazione Pitti, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy

Die Jugend Von Heute (Youth of Today)

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

2005

The Forest: Politics, Poetics and Practice, curated by Kathy Goncharov

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Sport

Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York, NY, USA

The Lost Paradise

Zentrum für Kunst, Stiftung Opelvillen, Frankfurt, Germany

Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2004

Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Masculinity in Contemporary Art, curated by Shamim M. Momin

The Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, travelling to: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO (2005); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (2005-6); Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA (2006-7)

Photography: Inaugural Installation

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Opportunity and Regret

Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty

BCE Place, Toronto, Canada, travelling to: Fairview Mall, Toronto; Lifefest, Toronto; Manulife Place, Edmonton; Chinook Centre, Calgary; Pacific Place Centre, Vancouver; Complex Desjardins, Montreal; St. Laurent Center, Ottawa; Dam Square, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Pavilhão de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal

Open House: Working in Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

The Muse

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA

2003

Hovering, curated by Daniele Balice and Anne du Boucheron

Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Strangers

Triennial of the International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA

Terror Chic, curated by Eva Karecher

Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany

Attack! Art and War in Times of the Media

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes, curated by Francesco Bonami and Raf Simons

Fondazione Pitti, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy

2002

Screen Memories

Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

Some Options in Realism, curated by Klaus Kertess

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

2002 Biennial Exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography

ICA Boston, Boston, MA, USA; travelling to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

2001

American Tableaux, curated by Joan Rothfuss

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Uniform: Order and Disorder

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA

Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, curated by Louise Neri

White Cube, London

2000

Lightness, curated by Amy Steigbigel

The Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, curated by David S. Rubin

Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

Innuendo, curated by Doug Wada

Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Presumed Innocent: Contemporary Art and Childhood

CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

29th International Film Festival

Rotterdam, Netherlands

1999

Prepared

Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, Austria

Foul Play

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, USA

1998

Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams, and the Contemporary Awakening, curated by Francesco Bonami

Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA

From the Corner of the Eye

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Arkipelag

Kultur 98, Stockholm, Sweden

1997

Heaven: Public View, Private View

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA

Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum

Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1996

Ideal Standard Life

Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Collier Schorr and Larry Clark

Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden

Inbetweener

Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland

a/drift: Scenes from a Penetrable Culture, curated by Joshua Decter

Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA

Persona

Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, USA, travelling to Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Collier Schorr, Martin Honert, and Tom Gidley, curated by James Roberts

Entwistle Gallery, London

1995

Portraits

Janice Guy Gallery, New York, NY, USA

La Belle et la Bete: Un Choix de Jeunes Artistes Americains, curated by Lynn Gumpert

Musee d'Art de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

fag-o-sites, curated by Doug Ischar and John Paul Ricco

Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Narcissistic Disturbance

Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1994

Images of Masculinity

Victoria Miro Gallery, London

In The Field: Landscape in Recent Photography

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Stonewall 25: Imaginings of the Gay Past, Celebrating the Gay Present

White Columns, New York, NY, USA

Bespoke

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1993

Everyday Life, curated by Simon Watson

Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

10 year anniversary exhibition

Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany

Über-Leben

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

The Subject of Rape

Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

Fall from Fashion

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA

1992

Benefit Auction

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA

Boys & Girls Together/ Recent Photography

Beaver College Art Gallery, Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France

The Edge of Childhood

Heckscher Museum, Huntingdon, NY, USA

MOCArt Auction '92

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Drawings

Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience

Whitney Museum at the Equitable Center, New York, NY, USA

One Leading to Another

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

How It Is, curated by Jonathan Seliger

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1991

All Grown Up, curated by Liz Dalton & Cindy Smith at CUNY

The Graduate Center in collaboration with Catherine Clarke, New York, NY, USA

Childs Play: Steven Beyer, James Croak, Kate Moran, Collier Schorr, curated by Catherine Liu

Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Liz Larner, Karen Kilimnik, Collier Schorr, Anne Walsh

Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1991

When Objects Dream And Talk In Their Sleep, curated by Janine Cirincione

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Subversive Stitch

Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Someone or Somebody, curated by Simon Watson

Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Gulliver's Travels

Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany

From Desire... A Queer Diary, curated by Nan Goldin

St. Lawrence College, New York, NY, USA

Something Pithier and More Psychological

Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Group Exhibition

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1990

All But the Obvious

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA

In the Beginning, curated by Bill Radawec

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

Commitment, curated by Tom Folland

The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

1989

New Langton Arts

San Francisco, CA, USA

Erotophobia: A Forum on Sexuality

Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

After the Gold Rush, curated by Howard Halle

Milford Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1988

A Drawing Show, curated by Jerry Saltz

Cable Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Collier Schorr, Brenda Miller, Svetlana Kapanskaya

Cable Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1987

Group Exhibition, curated by Collier Schorr

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Galerie Hufkens

Brussels, Belgium

Selected Collections

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

Burger Collection

Hong Kong, China

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

Cleveland, OH, USA

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Turin, Italy

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Henry Art Gallery

Seattle, WA, USA

The Jewish Museum

New York, NY, USA

The Museum of Modern Art

New York, NY, USA

Neuberger Berman

New York, NY, USA

North Carolina Museum of Art

Raleigh, NC, USA

Rubell Family Collection

Miami, FL, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco, CA, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

New York, NY, USA

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hartford, CT, USA

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, NY, USA