Robert Mapplethorpe

• (1946 - 1989)
  
  Born in 1946, Floral Park, US

Education

• 1966-69     B.F.A. in Graphic Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, US (Dropout)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2021
  Mapplethorpe: Escultura, Curated by Tobias Ostrander, Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico
  Robert Mapplethorpe: More Life, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2020
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Selected by Robert Wilson / Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ Portfolios, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany  
  
  2019    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Artist Portraits, Mignoni, New York, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Life, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain                      
  Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
  
  2018    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Pictures, Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, Portugal                         
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  
  2017    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (traveled to  Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France)
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
  
  2016    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon, McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden                           
  Robert Mapplethorpe - On the Edge, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
  Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US (Traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, 2016 - 2017; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2017; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2017 – 2018)
  
  2015    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Femmes, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Unique, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US                  
  
  2014    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Sell the Public Flower, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany Mapplethorpe, Photographs & Polaroids, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium       
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Grand Palais, Paris, France (Traveled to Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 2015)
  ARTIST ROOMS: Robert Mapplethorpe, Tate Modern, London, UK (Traveled to Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery, Clydebank, Scotland; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales; The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK, 2015)
  
  2013    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Saints and Sinners, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Fetish, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Figure and Flower Studies, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
  
  2012    
  In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  
  2011    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US          
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Desired, Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey
  
  2010    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Eros and Order, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina  
  
  2009    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Silver Prints and Polaroids in Context, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Women, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, US
  
  2008   
  Mapplethorpe: Polaroids, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (Traveled to Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2009)
  Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 New York Artists and Other Portraits, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
  
  2007    
  Vanitas: Robert Mapplethorpe, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
  Robert Mapplethorpe’s Y Portfolio, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, US
  
  2006    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Moving & Lady, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
  
  2005    
  Sacred and Profane / Sagrado y Profano, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Neoclassicism, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers, Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  2004    
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Body Part, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Black Nude Man, Galeria Senda Espai 292, Barcelona, Spain
  Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin (Traveled to The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004-2005; Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia, 2005; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US, 2005; The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas, US, 2006–2007)
  
  2003 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Eye to Eye, Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Flower Photographs, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
  
  2002          
  Polaroids 1971–1975: Robert Mapplethorpe, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
  Robert Mapplethorpe. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan (Traveled to Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2002; Daimaru Museum, Shinsaibashi-Osaka, Japan, 2003)
  
  2001 
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, US
  
  2000 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Artists’ Portraits, Black Male Torsos, Flowers, Horses, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Auto-Portrait Polaroids of the 1970s, Cheim and Read, New York, US          
  
  1999 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Centre Cultural La Beneficencia, Valencia, Spain
  Photographs: 1982 – 1985, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, US
  
  1998 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Works From 1971-1989, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
  
  1997  
  Mapplethorpe, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
  
  1996   
  Les Autoportraits de Mapplethorpe, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
  Photosommer: Robert Mapplethorpe–Polaroids, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
  Right From the Start: The Early Polaroids of Robert Mapplethorpe, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  
  1993 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Self-Portraits, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  
  1992 
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (Traveled to Centro di Documentazione di Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, 1992; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 1992; Moderna Museet, Stockholm,1992; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy, 1993; Residence of Embassador Negroponte, Manila, Philippines ,1993; Museo Pecci Prato, Prato, Italy, 1993; Turun Taidemuseo, Turku, Finland,1993; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 1993; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel      Aviv, Israel, 1994); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 1994; KunstHaus, Wien, Vienna, Austria,1994; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1995; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1995; City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 1995; Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 1996; Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland, 1996; Museo de Art Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil, 1997; Staatdgalerie, Stuttgart, 1997)
  
  1991          
  Lady, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  1990 
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, US
  
  1989 
  Robert Mapplethorpe En Retrospective, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Citadelpark, Gent, Belgium
  
  1988 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Mapplethorpe Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Ten by Ten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  1987          
  Robert Mapplethorpe 1986, Raab Galerie, Berlin / Kicken-Pausenback, Cologne, Germany
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Photograph, Claus Runkel Fine Art Ltd., London, UK
  
  1986 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Photographs 1976-1985, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
  
  1985 
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Recent Work in Platinum, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Flowers, Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
  Process, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  
  1984  
  Matrix 80, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Terrae Motus, Fondazione Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
  
  1983 
  Robert Mapplethorpe Flowers, Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan
  Lady, Lisa Lyon, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US (Traveled to Rüdiger Schöttle Galerie, Munich, Germany; Fotografie Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany; Olympus Gallery, London, UK)
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  
  1982 
  Black Males, Galleria il Ponte, Rome, Italy
  
  1981 
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (Traveled to Fotogalerie Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Modern Art Galerie, Vienna; PPS Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg; Kunsthalle, Basel; Kunstverein, Munich; and Nikon Foto Galerie, Zurich)
  
  1980 
  Black And White Photographs, In a Plain Brown Wrapper Gallery, Chicago, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
  
  1979    
  Contact, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Foto’s/ Photographs. Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  1978    
  Censored, 80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco, US
  X Portfolio, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  
  1977    
  Flowers, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, US
  
  1973    
  Polaroids, Light Gallery, New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2020    
  Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, US
  Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (Traveling to LUMA Foundation, Arles, France, 2020; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2020 – 2021)
  Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, Center for Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Body Performance, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany
  
  2019    
  Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, US
  Vantage Points: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, US
  Look At Me! The Body in Art from the 1950s up to today, Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno, Switzerland
  1989 - Culture and Politics, National museum, Stockholm, Sweden
  Blossomed and Captured: Flowers in Photography / Aufgeblüht und abgelichtet, Blumen in der Fotografie, Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Waiblingen, Germany
  ARTIST ROOMS Self Evidence: Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  2018    
  Objects to Identify, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, US
  American Masters, 1940-1980, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Parkes, Australia
  DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  Safe, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  Flowers, Ordovas Gallery, London, UK
  IN THE CUT – The Male Body in Feminist Art, STADTGALERIE SAARBRÜCKEN, Saarbrücken, Germany
  Robert Mapplethorpe / Kilian Rüthemann, Xavier Laboulbenne, Berlin, Germany
  
  2017    
  BLACK AND WHITE REVELATION, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
  Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, US
  La Parte Más Bella / The Most Beautiful Part, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
  The Unflinching Gaze: Photo Media & the Male Figure, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia
  Histórias da Sexualidade, Museu de Arte São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil
  Powermask, The Power of Masks, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  This Is Not a Selfie, Curated by Deborah Irmas and Eve Schillo. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US
  Blurred Lines: A Matter of Attitude, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth TX, US (Traveled to WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna, Austria, 2017- 2018; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2018; C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2018; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, 2018-2019; Musée McCord, Montréal, Canada, 2019; List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US, 2019-2020)
  Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  
  2016    
  REBEL REBEL: Art+Rock, Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand Hornu, Brussels, Belgium
  Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York, US
  Facing the World | Self-Portraits Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Vanitas, Agnews Gallery, London, UK
  Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Mapplethorpe + Munch, The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  
  2015    
  Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, US
  La Joie de Vivre, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  In The Garden, George Eastman House, Rochester, US
  Flaesh, Rudolfinum Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Arts & Foods, Fondazione La Triennale Di Milano, Milan, Italy
  The Story Of A Bad Boy, espacio artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain
  In the Studio, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
  A Strong Smell of Incense, Pace London, London, UK
  
  2014    
  Urban Theater: NY Art in the 1980s, The Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, New York, US
  Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
  Mapplethorpe/Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, France
  American Cool, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., US
  
  2013    
  The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, US
  Masculin / Masculin: l'homme nu dans l'art de 1800 à nos jours, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
  Shadowplay: Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US
  Flowers and Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne-Monchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
  The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, US (Traveled to Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, US)
  
  2012    
  Death: A Self-Portrait, The Wellcome Collection, London, UK
  From Van Gogh to FaceTime: Self-portraits in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  By Way of These Eyes: The Hyland Collection of American Photography, American Museum in Britain, Bath, UK
  Controversy: The Power of Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
  Mapplethorpe and Michael Sayles, Xavier Laboulbenne, Berlin, Germany
  This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, MCA, Chicago, US (Traveled to Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, 2012; ICA Boston, Boston, US, 2012-2013)
  
  2011    
  Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
  Polaroid [Im]Possible, WestLicht Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna, Austria
  Off the Wall/Fora da Parede, Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  Heroínas, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
  Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  2010    
  HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., US (Traveled to Brooklyn Museum, New York, US, 2011-2012; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, US, 2012)
  Disquieting Images, Fondazione Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
  Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mayumi Terada, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, Tate Modern, London, UK (Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US, 2010-2011; Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, US, 2011)
  Revealed: The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art, Central Connecticut State University Art Galleries, New Britain, US
  In the Vernacular, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
  Keeping it Real: From the ready-made to the everyday, The D. Daskalopoulos Collection. Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  
  2009    
  Sterling Ruby / Robert Mapplethorpe, Brussels, Belgium
  Tears of Eros, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
  Messiások / Messiahs: Western man and the idea of redemption in modern and contemporary visual arts, MODEM Centre for Modern & Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
  The Portrait: Photography as a Stage, From Robert Mapplethorpe to Nan Goldin, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Go Figure, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
  sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex art and culture, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
  Everywhere: Sexual Diversity Politics in Art, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  
  2008    
  Political Correct, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
  Female Trouble: Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  
  2007    
  Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
  Exposures: The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
  Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Role Exchange. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (Traveled to Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK, 2007)
  Conceptual Photography 1964–1989, Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, New York, US
  Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, US
  Flower Motifs From Five Centuries: Paintings, Drawings and Photography, Galerie Schloss Fuschl/Galerie Bernheimer, Salzburg, Austria
  
  2006    
  Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  Eros in der kunst der moderne. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (Traveled to: BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Austria, 2007)
  Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
  Flutter, The Approach, London, UK
  Into Me/Out of Me, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, US (Traveled to Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2007)
  Good Vibrations: Le Arti Visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
  Mapplethorpe / Warhol: Celebrity Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, US
  Martin Maloney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
  
  2005    
  The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
  The Subjective Figure, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  London in Six Easy Steps: The Real Me, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
  
  2004    
  Surface Beauty: Photographic Reflections On Glass and China, National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
  The Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  Rose c’est la vie: On Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Speaking With Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, US
  Istinti Istantanei—Arte in Polaroid/Instant Instincts—Art in Polaroid, in the works of Nobuyoshi Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlo Mollino, Yasumasa Morimura and Mario Schifano, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy
  material-immaterial, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
  The Nude: Ideal and Reality, A History of the Nude from Neoclassicism to Today, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
  
  2003    
  Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, US (Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US, 2004)
  Phantom der Lust: Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst, Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
  
  2002    
  Pandemic: Imaging Aids, Museum d’art Contemporani de Barcelona / FAD Convent dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain (Traveled to The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa; The United Nations Vision Gallery, New York, US; Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 2003)
  Desire, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
  The Great American Nude, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, US
  
  2001    
  The Nature of Still Life, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  APPEARANCES: Photographic Portraits, Wessel + O’Connor, New York, US
  Promiscuous Flowers: Robert Mapplethorpe and Nobuyoshi Araki, Niitsu Museum of Art, Niitsu, Japan (Traveled to Odakyu Museum, 2002; Museum Eki, Kyoto, Japan, 2002)
  
  2000    
  Chorus of Light: Photographs From the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  Dance, Dance, Dance, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, US
  Ecstasy, Wessel + O’Connor, New York, US
  São Paulo Art Biennial, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo da Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  
  1999    
  Rock Style, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850–2000. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  Love & Desire – Between Neoclassicism and Neuroticism, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy
  Il Sentimento del 2000, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
  
  1998    
  Love's Body: rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan, 1999)
  From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
  Three Catholics: Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Mapplethorpe, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  Beyond Belief: Modern Art in the Religious Imagination, National Gallery of Art, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Photographs: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Katharina Sieverding, Juan Uslé, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
  
  1997    
  Tabletops: Morandi's Still Lifes to Mapplethorpe's Flower Studies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, US
  Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Paris, France
  The Coincident Eye, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, US
  Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Biennale de Firenze, Florence, Italy
  
  1996    
  Music & Sex, Texas Gallery, Houston, US
  Consensus and Conflict: The Flag in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, US
  Delirium, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, US
  Sex & Crime: Von den Verhältnissen der Menschen, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
  The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art, Ubu Gallery, New York, US
  
  1995    
  Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, US
  Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US
  The Garden of Earthly Delights: Weston and Mapplethorpe, UCR Arts, California Museum of Photography Collection, Riverside, US (Traveled to The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US, 1995; International Center for Photography, New York, US, 1995)
  
  1994    
  Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Investigations 10: Face to Face, Recent Portrait Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
  The Shaman as Artist, the Artist as Shaman, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
  
  1993    
  Form: Female, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, US
  In Dialogue: The Art of Elsa Rady and Robert Mapplethorpe, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US
  A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, US
  Almodóvar, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  Here’s Looking at Me —Contemporary Self-Portrait, Espace Lyonnais d'Art, Contemporain, Lyon, France
  The Image of the Body, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  1992    
  Flora Photographica, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (Traveled to Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1992; Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, UK, 1993; Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK,1993)
  Becher Mapplethorpe Sherman, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
  From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, US (Traveled to Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 1992; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, US, 1992; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 1992; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, US, 1993; McKissick Museum, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, US, 1993; Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, US, 1993; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, US, 1993; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, US, 1994)
  The Midtown Flower Show. Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, US
  
  1991    
  From Desire… A Queer Diary, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, US
  Body, Body, Renée Fotouhi Fine Art West, East Hampton, US
  Erotic Desire, Perspektief Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, US
  The Body in Question, Burden Gallery / Aperture Foundation, New York, US
  
  1990    
  Botanica: The Secret Life of Plants, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, New York, US
  Jan Fabre Theaterarbeiten, Fotografien von Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton und Carl De Keyzer, Fotogalerie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany
  Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers/André Kertész: Vintage Photographs, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  The Fugitive Gesture, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, US
  
  1989    
  CENSORED! AN EVENING OF OBJECTIONABLE ART, Hallwalls, Buffalo, US
  L’invention d’un Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  To Probe & to Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, US
  Taboo, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, US
  Les Krims, William Klein, Irving Penn, Duane Michaels, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mai 36 Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Self and Shadow, Burden Gallery / Aperture Foundation, New York, US
  
  1988    
  Identity: Representations of the Self, Whitney Museum of American Art, Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, US
  Mapplethorpe, Prince, Ruff, Wall, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  The Fugitive Gesture: Masterpieces of Dance Photography, 1849 to the Present, National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, US
  The Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield Greenhouse, Inc., Chicago, US
  
  1987    
  Legacy of Light, International Center of Photography, New York, US
  Portrait: Faces of the ‘80s, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, US
  
  1986    
  Paravent: Extending the Range of Expression, Artspace, San Francisco, US
  Invitation: La Revue Parkett, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  Sacred Images in Secular Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, US
  A Matter of Scale, Rockland Center for the Arts and Blue Hill Plaza Associates, Pearl River, US
  Contemporary Issues III, Holman Hall Art Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, US
  intimate/INTIMATE, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, US
  Rules of the Game: Culture Defining Gender, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, US
  
  1985    
  Nude, Naked, Stripped, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US
  Memento Mori, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, US
  Home Work, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, US
  Picture-Taking: Weegee, Walker Evans, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, US
  
  1984    
  The Heroic Figure, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US (Traveled to: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, US; Alexandria Museum/Visual Art Center, Alexandria, US; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US)
  Investigations 10: Face to Face, Recent Portrait Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
  Allegories of the Human Form: A Photography Exhibit, Dowd Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, US
  Armed, Interim Art, London, UK
  Sex-Specific: Photographic Investigations of Contemporary Sexuality, Superior Street Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
  Twelve on 20 x 24, The New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, US (Traveled to: Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US; Westbrook College, Portland, US; Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, US; Smith College Museum, Northampton, US; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, US)
  
  1983    
  New Perspectives on the Nude, The Foto Gallery, Wales, UK
  New Art, Tate Gallery, London, UK
  The Horse Show, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, US
  
  1982    
  The Crucifix Show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
  The Erotic Impulse, Roger Litz Gallery, New York, US
  Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum/ Neue Galerie / Orangerie/ Karlsaue, Kassel, Germany
  Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  The Black Male Image, Harlem Exhibition Space, New York, US
  
  1981    
  Instant Fotografie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  New York/New Wave, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, US
  1981 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  1980    
  Quattro Fotografi Differenti = Four Different Photographer: Barbara Kruger, Judith Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Charles Taub, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
  Presences: The Figure and Manmade Environments, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, US
  
  1979    
  People Watching, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US
  
  1978    
  Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  1977    
  Documenta 6, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
  
  1976    
  Animals, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, US
  Summer Group Show, 1976, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, US
  
  1974    
  Recent Religious and Ritual Art, Buecker and Harpsichords, New York, US
  
  1973    
  Soft as Art, The New York Cultural Center, New York, US
  Polaroids: Robert Mapplethorpe, Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol, Gotham Book Mart, New York, US

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, US
  Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
  Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
  Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, US
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
  Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
  Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US
  National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Canberra, Australia
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., US
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Tate Modern, London, UK
  The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Uffizi / Galleria dell'Accademia Collection, Florence, Italy
  Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan