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Collier Schorr

Over four decades, Collier Schorr has used photography to scrutinise the conditions and realities of contemporary subjectivity and what it means to visually represent a body - and a self. Motivated, in part, by an underlying search for alternatives to the desirous heterosexual gaze; her work has remained focused on several key themes including beauty, desire, selfhood, and masculinity and its discontents. Schorr’s early work was made in the 1980s and 1990s in New York and Germany, during the coalescence of postmodernism and identity politics. Her work from that period navigated the tension between documentary and fiction, and tested out the capacity of photography to unveil desire and repression, explore taboo identities, and highlight the contradictions inherent in subjectivity, especially in relation to gender norms. In more recent times, the artist has incorporated dance into her practice predominantly through adapting Chantal Ackerman’s film, ‘Je Tu Il Elle’ (1975), into a full-length filmed ballet performance featuring Schorr as Ackerman and a core group of professional dancers collaborating to create a multi-channel video installation.

Collier Schorr was born in New York City in 1963, and she continues to live and work there. Her photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at KOW, Berlin (2021); Alice Austen House, Staten Island (2019); Modern Art, London (2018); 303 Gallery, New York (2014); Le Consortium, Dijon (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2008); and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2007). Schorr has participated in recent group exhibitions at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2022); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2020); Aperture Foundation, New York (2019); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2019); Nottingham Contemporary (2018); São Paulo Museum of Art (2017); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); and The Jewish Museum, New York (2017). Her works are held in collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MoMA, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Schorr is also a writer, and has contributed texts to publications such as Artforum, Parkett, and Frieze.

Press
Biography
Kate Asleep, 2006
Two Shirts, 1998
C-print Image, 50.5 x 40.4 cm, 20 x 16 in
1/3
Spielplatz (Lindenfeld), 1997
C-print, 22 x 31.7 cm, 8.7 x 12.5 in
1/3
Die Blaumann Akademie II, 2009
archival pigment print, 76 x 57 cm, 29.9 x 22.4 in
1/2
Kate Asleep, 2006
silver gelatin print, 11.8 x 17.2 cm, 4.6 x 6.8 in
1/2
Kate in Bed, 2006
c-print, 83.5 x 71 cm, 32 7/8 x 28 in
1/2
New Emotions (65-75), 2000
c-print, 49 x 57 x 5 cm, 19 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 2 in
The Rape of Rabelais I (Michelle), 2014-18
silver gelatin print mounted on Dibond, 158.1 x 116.8 cm, 62 1/4 x 46 in
1/2
Wes with Lipstick, 2009-2018
silver gelatin print mounted on Dibond, 158.1 x 120.7 cm, 62 1/4 x 47 1/2 in
1/4
Color AKT, 2014-18
pigment print mounted on Dibond, 165.7 x 119.7 cm, 65 1/4 x 47 1/8 in
1/2
Whirl, 2009
archival pigment print, 60.5 x 45.2 cm, 23.8 x 17.8 in
1/2
Your Waist, 2014
pigment print, 91.4 x 66.7 cm, 36 x 26 1/4 in
Dorothea, 2012
pigment print mounted on aluminium, 127 x 101 cm, 50 x 39 3/4 in
1/2
Spielplatz (Lindenfeld), 1997

Press

Interview Magazine21 October 2019
Frieze1 October 2019
Bomb13 September 2019
Guardian1 July 2023
Aperture1 September 2017
Flash Art1 November 2006

Biography

Collier Schorr

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 50Alice 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
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

2023
Paris
Modern Art, Paris, France
Skin in the GameKW 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 SwintonLiteraturhaus, Munich, Germany
Orlando, curated by Tilda SwintonAperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Balticana, curated by Zane OnckuleCCS 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 DocumentaryReynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Hyper-RealThe Arts Club, London
The House of FameNottingham 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 SexualidadeSão Paolo Museum of Art, São Paolo, Brazil
2017 Canadian BiennialNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Invitation – FRAC at Centre PompidouCentre Pompidou, Paris, France
20/20The 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 BenjaminThe 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 & TenderNational 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 CultureSouthern 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 PriceThe 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
The End of Innocence: Childhood Torments in the Contemporary Art Collection
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary CollectionHammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Bad Mood Show
Plymouth Rock, Zürich, Switzerland
2015
Camera of Wonders, curated by Jens Hoffmann
Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City, Mexico
Greater New YorkMoMA 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 14Le 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, SexJewish 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 BiennialIstanbul, Turkey
Commercial Break, curated by Neville WakefieldGarage Center for Contemporary Culture, Venice, Italy
History in ArtMuseum 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 PhotographyMuseum 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 NowInternational 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 BedfordLos 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 ElectricMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO, USA
History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art, curated by Jens HoffmannHartware 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 WarInstitute 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 PicturesSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
2006
Modern Photographs: The Machine, The Body, The City
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
PeopleMuseo D’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
Artist's Choice: Herzog & de Meuron Perception RestrainedMuseum 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 GoncharovNasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
SportSocrates 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 InstallationMuseum 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 BrooklynBrooklyn 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
StrangersTriennial 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 ExhibitionWhitney 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 DisorderP.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 BonamiBard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA
From the Corner of the EyeStedelijk 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 DecterBard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA
PersonaRenaissance 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 CUNYThe 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
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
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY, USA