Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993 Biennial Exhibition, February 24 - June 20, 1993, p. 279 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 157; erroneously titled Chiclet at Bruce's Dinner Party, NYC)
New York, Matthew Marks, Nan Goldin and David Armstrong: A Double Life, December 8, 1993 - January 29, 1994 (another example exhibited)
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts; Glasglow, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bad Girls, October 7, 1993 - March 12, 1994, p. 45 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document, January 18 - April 30, 1995, no. 97, p. 171 (another example exhibited)
São Paulo, Centro Cultural Alumni, Nan Goldin: 20 Anos de Balada, 1996, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror, October 3, 1996 - January 5, 1997, p. 467 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 300-301)
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century, 1997, no. 31, pp. 53, 154 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 57)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Emotions & Relations: Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson, Philip-Loca diCorcia, March 27 - June 1, 1998, p. 195 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 68-69)
"Nan Goldin", Camera Austria, Graz, 1995, vol. 50, p. 9 (another example illustrated)
T. McEvilley, "Sam Difference", ArtForum, May 1993, p. 14 (another example illustrated)
American • 1953
American artist Nan Goldin uses photography to expose the intimate and vulnerable nature of her personal life. Her photographs are raw, authentic, sexual and, at times, highly violent. Her most famous series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, chronicles Goldin's life during the late 1970s and '80s, following the artist through the gritty, abusive and often dangerous situations she put herself through.
The material being half-autobiographical and half-universal, Goldin attempts to depict the complexities of city living by way of diaristic practices. Having shot New York during its golden years, she has created an expansive archive of the AIDS crisis, drug abuse in the 1980s, underground culture and urban development.
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