David LaChapelle
The artist
Born in 1963 in Connecticut, USA, David LaChapelle is an internationally renowned artist known for his vivid fashion photographs and baroque images populated by celebrities. Skilfully fusing art history with references to popular culture, metaphysical questions with street culture, he paints a disquieting portrait of 21st century values and lifestyles. David LaChapelle is now one of the most widely published photographers in the world. Since 2006 he has been focusing on the artistic side of his work.
Exhibitions
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Letter to the World
November 3 - December 29, 2018
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
LAND SCAPE
October 30, 2014 - January 3, 2015
Paris - Beaubourg -
Still Life
June 6 - July 26, 2013
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1963 in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA |
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| Residency | Lives and works in New York, and Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Education | North Carolina School of Arts, Wisten-Salem, North Carolina, USA School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | Fulmini, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy |
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| 2022 | David LaChapelle, make BELIEVE, Fotografiska, New York, USA |
| 2019 | David La Chapelle, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy LaChapelle : Act of Nature, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Acts of God, La Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy Castles in the Sky : Fantasy architecture in contemporary Art, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, USA |
| 2018 | David LaChapelle, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, USA David LaChapelle, Letter to the world, Galerie Templon, Paris, France David LaChapelle : After the Deluge, Beaux Arts Mons, Mons, Belgium David LaChapelle : Songs for the World, Stary Browar Art Gallery, Poznan, Poland Good News for Modern Man, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Netherlands LaChapelle – Negative Currency, Geuer & Geuer, Düsseldorf, Germany Back to Nature, Museum Frieder Burda, Berlin, Germany Recollections in America, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne, Germany Solo Show, Art stations Gallery, Poznan, Poland |
| 2017 | LOST+FOUND, Casa Dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy; Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico Solo show, Ara Modern Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Solo show, Beaux-Arts Mons, Mons, Belgium |
| 2016 | Bling Bling Baby Show, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany Solo show, Ara Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Gas Stations, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, USA Solo show, Centro de la Fotografia, Montevideo, Uruguay Illuminacion, Fundacion Union, Montevideo, Uruguay Solo show, Museo Agadu, Montevideo, Uruguay Solo show, Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay Gas Stations, The Edward Hopper House, New York, USA LACHAPELLE, Moca Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand David Lachapelle, Adler Subhashok gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Muses, DSC Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic Solo show, Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina Pipe Dream, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2015 | Fotografias 1984 – 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art Chile, Santiago, Chile After the Deluge, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy Fotografias 1984 – 2013, Museo de Arte Contempraneo, Lima, Peru |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2019 | Versus, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden, Germany Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, Germany Showroom, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden, Germany Thierry Mugler, Couturissime, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Dior, From Paris to the World, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, USA |
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| 2018 | Zurück zur Natur ?, Museum Frieder Burda, Berlin, Germany Photo London, Staley Wise Gallery, London, UK Micheal Jackson : On The Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Portraits of Artists, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, USA Dior : From Paris to The World, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA Castles in the Sky : Fantasy Architecture, Lehman Art College Gallery, New York, USA Images Makes Religion, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany SP-ARTE /FOTO, Sao Paulo, Brazil Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | Like A Horse, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden Nautilus, Landesmuseum fur Kunst aund Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany Christian Dior: Couturier du rêve, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, France |
| 2016 | Boticelli Reimagined, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK The Photography Show, Aipad, New York, New York, USA Divine Decadence, Castle of Gaasbeek, Brussels, Belgium The Fashion world of Jean-Paul Gaultier : from the sidewalk to the catwalk, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea La Grande Galerie du foot, La Villette, Paris, France |
| 2015 | The Botticelli Renaissance, Gemäldegalerie Kultureforum, Berlin, Germany Hamster - Hipster - Hand: under the spellbound of the mobile phone, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Open Rhapsody: A journey into photography and video collections, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon Once Upon a Time and Now, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, USA Il Cibo nell’ Arte: Capolavori del Grandi Maestri dal Seicento a Warhol, Associazione Amici di Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia, Italy 20 + 2 Years, ARNDT, Singapour 2050, The Royal museums of fine arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2014 | The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Barbican, London, UK A New Selection from the Elgiz Collection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey Images 2014, Fairfield Museum and History Center, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Possession, Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA American Cool, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, Columbia, USA Beyond Earth Art, Cornell University: Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| 2013 | In God we Trust, Zacheta National Galerie of art, Warsaw, Poland En compagnie de Guy Bourdin: Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach, Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, Fashion and Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Cabinets de Curiosities, Le Musee Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| Bayerische Staatsoper Portrait Gallery, Munich, Germany | |
| LACMA- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA | |
| Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| National Portrait Gallery, London, UK | |
| Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France | |
| LVMH Foundation, Paris, France |
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AWARDS
| 2015 | Doctorate in Fine Arts (Hon.) from UNCSA |
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| 2014 | Young Photographers Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 2012 | Artist of the Year, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art National Geographic Magazine Photography Seminar, Featured Speaker |
| 2010 | OUT in Art Award, GLAAD Award |
| 2006 | Presented with GLAAD's Vito Russo Award for Outstanding Contributions Toward Eliminating Homophobia |
| 2004 | 13th Annual MVPA Awards - Winner Director of the Year - Best Rock Video of the Year for No Doubt It's My Life Special Juried Prize Mountainfilm, Telluride Special Juried Recognition, Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary, Aspen Film Festival |
| 2003 | 13th Annual MVPA Awards - Winner Director of the Year - Best Rock Video of the Year for No Doubt It's My Life Special Juried Prize Mountainfilm, Telluride Special Juried Recognition, Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary, Aspen Film Festival 12th Annual MVPA Awards - Adult Contemporary Video of the Year - Elton John This Train Don't Stop There Anymore |
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Press
Numéro - décembre-janvier 2018
La sélection du mois
Connaissance des Arts - décembre 2018
L'Oeuvre du mois
Point de Vue - novembre 2018
Le mois de la photo
The New Yorker.com - décembre 2017
What can David LaChapelle's celebrity-fuelled fantasias tell us now?
Dan Piepenbring
Le Monde - novembre 2017
David LaChapelle, le spectacle à satiété
France 2 - novembre 2017
Télématin Europe - Photographe iconique
Le Figaroscope - novembre 2014
Surnaturel David LaChapelle
The times - mai 2014
The man who hung up on Madonna
Photo Magazine - mars-avril 2014
Ça gaze pour David laChapelle
Beaux Arts Magazine - août 2013
David LaChapelle
Paris Capitale - Hors Série - juillet 2013
David Lachapelle
Le Nouvel Observateur - juin 2013
Triste Cires
News
David LaChapelle
SOLO SHOW – FULMINI
Salone degli Incanti, Trieste
From April 22 to August 15, 2023
A retrospective of the work of David LaChapelle including more than 90 works created over the past five decades will open on April 22, 2023 in Trieste.
David LaChapelle
PERMANENT COLLECTION – GRACE CATHEDRAL
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco From March 11, 2023
Our Lady of the Flowers by David LaChapelle is entering the permanent collection of the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
David LaChapelle
SOLO SHOW – MAKE BELIEVE
Fotografiska, New York - USA
From Septembre 9, 2022 to January 8, 2023
David LaChapelle’s new exhibition “make Believe” at Fotografiska Museum, mark the artist’s first major museum solo exhibition in North America. With over 150 works, the collection highlights LaChapelle’s most iconic images while also presenting new creations for the very first time.
David LaChapelle
GROUP SHOW – THIERRY MUGLER : COUTURISSIME
Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States.
From November 18, 2022 to May 7, 2023
Opening on November 18, the exhibition “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime” will present photographies by David LaChapelle. Already seen by more than one million visitors in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and France since its launch in 2019, the exhibition is about to conclude its world tour in Brooklyn.
David LaChapelle
SOLO SHOW – I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES
David LaChapelle - I Believe in Miracles
MUDEC, Italy
Through September 11, 2022
With a new project, the MUDEC is offering an exhibition based on a critical look at the human soul, explored in its folds of pain, solitude, joys, passions and ideals. Man and his relationship to himself, man in his environment and in human society, man in Nature.
David LaChapelle
“MARIA MAGDALENA” – GROUP EXHIBITION
Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, Netherlands
From June 24, 2021 to January 9, 2022
Mary Magdalen is a woman of extremes and has given rise to a multiplicity of interpretations: a wealth of representations, conspiracy theories and controversies. This special exhibition will introduce the visitor to the rich, paradoxical and constantly evolving imagery surrounding this mysterious biblical figure. From the time of the New Testament to the present day, Mary Magdalen has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists.
David LaChapelle
“BOTTICELLI. SON TEMPS. ET NOTRE TEMPS” – GROUP EXHIBITION
Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Corso Bettini 43, Rovereto, Italy
From May 22 to August 29, 2021
With its latest exhibition, the Mart continues comparing artists and art movements spanning different eras, overcoming temporal limits. The undisputed protagonist of “His Time” and “Our Time” is Sandro Botticelli. On display, as part of the exhibition are a series of masterpieces, including Pallade e il Centauro on loan from the Uffizi Gallery, Venere from the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, andCompianto sul Cristo morto from the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan. Botticelli’s influence also echoes the works of contemporary artists, including Giosetta Fioroni, David LaChapelle, Michelangelo Pistoletto and John Currin, and the worlds of film and fashion, comparing the image of Venus with that of Chiara Ferragni.
David LaChapelle
“ON EVERYONE’S LIPS. FROM PIETER BRUEGEL TO CINDY SHERMAN” – GROUP SHOW
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Until June 6, 2021
The exhibition “On everyone’s lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman” is dedicated to the theme of the oral cavity, from the mouse to the lips, the tongue and the teeth. Science and medicine have always been involved in the exploration of the specific part of the body, so as art and cultural history, from antiquity to present. The exhibition presents over 250 works of art by among others, David Lachapelle, Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Max Klinger, Marina Abramović, Andy Warhol, and Louise Bourgeois comprising paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, drawings, prints and video art, juxtaposed with individual exhibits from ethnological and scientific collections, film and advertising, music and literature.
