The Performative Self-Portrait
About
This exhibition explores the work of
photographers who turn the camera back upon themselves. From capturing
themselves in shadows and reflections to trying on alternative or speculative identities, The Performative Self-Portrait explores the body as material and medium and photography as vehicle to consider ways
artists use self-portraiture to enact the self, question history, and
articulate identity. Made between 1930 and the present, works in the exhibition
range from new acquisitions to older works on view for the first time.
Curated by Conor Moynihan, Assistant
Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, and Matthew Kluk (Brown PhD student, History of Art and
Architecture).
RISD Museum is supported by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with the generous partnership of the Rhode Island School of Design, its Board of Trustees, and Museum Governors.