Robert Mapplethorpe

(American, 1946–1989)

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Ken Moody , 1984

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Jack Walls, 1982

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Joe / Rubberman, 1978

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Phillip, 1979

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Biography

Timeline

1946
Born in Floral Park, Queens, NY
1963 - 1970
BFA in Painting & Sculpture from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1967
Befriended artist, poet, and musician Patti Smith
1969
Staff photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine
Account executive with Andy Warhol’s Factory
1971
Became aquainted with John McKendry, Curator of Prints and Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1972
Became aquainted with Sam Wagstaff
1989
Died in 1989, Boston, MA

Exhibitions

2016
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California (solo)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (solo)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway (solo)
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Robert Mapplethorpe: Living Sculpture, mima: Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK (solo)
Munch + Mapplethorpe, The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Robert Mapplethorpe, Bowes Museum, Durham, UK (solo)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Mai 37 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Robert Mapplethorpe, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Lima, Peru (solo)

Public Collections

Tampa Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Bank of America Collection, San Francisco, California
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin