On View
Francesca Woodman in
The Performative Self-Portrait
Through November 12, 2023
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
risdmuseum.org
The Performative Self-Portrait explores the body as material and medium and photography as a vehicle with which to consider the ways that artists use self-portraiture to enact the self, question history, and articulate identity. Made between 1930 and the present, the exhibited photographs include both new acquisitions and older works on view for the first time. Work by Francesca Woodman is included.
Francesca Woodman, Space², Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Opening Soon
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron
Portraits to Dream In
March 21–June 30, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk
Photographers Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) lived a century apart—Cameron working in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka from the 1860s onwards, and Woodman in the United States and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture, going beyond its ability to record appearance, and using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation, and storytelling. Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, this exhibition presents an overview of both artists’ careers, and suggests new ways both to look at their work and to examine how photographic portraiture was created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975–78 © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Francesca Woodman
Obras de la colección Sammlung Verbund, Viena
March 8–May 7, 2017
Patio Herreriano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
museoph.org
This exhibition explores work from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, by Francesca Woodman (1958–1981). Woodman’s stark, black-and-white photographs explore an intense curiosity and ambivalence toward the feminine self, while her often playful, surreal, and symbolic gestures also demonstrate her ability to incorporate elements of humor into her otherwise sober iconography.
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Francesca Woodman
On Being an Angel
September 5–December 6, 2015
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
www.modernamuseet.se
Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) created a body of fascinating photographic works in a few intense years before her premature death. Her work explores gender, representation, sexuality, and the body. This traveling exhibition presents more than a hundred photographs and one video around these themes, including several self-portraits.
Francesca Woodman, On Being an Angel #1, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977 © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York