Gladstone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, London
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
New York, Skarstedt Fine Art, Richard Prince: Early Photographs 1977-1979, February 21 - April 20, 2001
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Richard Prince: Photographs, December 8, 2001 - February 24, 2002
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Richard Prince: Spiritual America, September 28, 2007 - January 9, 2008, then traveled to Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (March 22 - June 15, 2008), London, Serpentine Gallery (June 26 - September 27, 2008)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Richard Prince: American Prayer, March 29 - June 26, 2011
Richard Prince: Early Photographs 1977-1979, exh. cat., Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2001, pp. 4-5 (illustrated)
Richard Prince: Photographs, exh. cat., Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2001, pp. 11-13, no. 12 (illustrated)
R. Brooks, J. Rian, Richard Prince, New York: Phaidon, 2003, pp. 100-01 (illustrated)
Richard Prince: Spiritual America, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008, pp. 62-63 (illustrated)
Richard Prince: American Prayer, exh. cat., Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 2011, p. 106 (illustrated)
American • 1947
For more than three decades, Prince's universally celebrated practice has pursued the subversive strategy of appropriating commonplace imagery and themes – such as photographs of quintessential Western cowboys and "biker chicks," the front covers of nurse romance novellas, and jokes and cartoons – to deconstruct singular notions of authorship, authenticity and identity.
Starting his career as a member of the Pictures Generation in the 1970s alongside such contemporaries as Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and Sherrie Levine, Prince is widely acknowledged as having expanded the accepted parameters of art-making with his so-called "re-photography" technique – a revolutionary appropriation strategy of photographing pre-existing images from magazine ads and presenting them as his own. Prince's practice of appropriating familiar subject matter exposes the inner mechanics of desire and power pervading the media and our cultural consciousness at large, particularly as they relate to identity and gender constructs.
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