Nicole Eisenman, The Triumph of Poverty, 2009, Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 208.3 cm. From the Collection of Bobbi and Stephen Rosenthal, New York City, Image courtesy Leo Koenig Inc., New York
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
11 Oct 2023 - 14 Jan 2024
The Whitechapel Gallery is hosting "Nicole Eisenman: What Happened," a major UK retrospective of artist Nicole Eisenman. Born in 1965 in Verdun, France, and now based in Brooklyn, New York, Eisenman's three-decade career is highlighted in this exhibition. It features over 100 pieces, including paintings, sculptures, monoprints, animations, and drawings.
The exhibition is organized chronologically and divided into eight sections. It showcases Eisenman's approach to addressing key social and political issues like gender, identity, sexual politics, US civic turmoil, protest, activism, and the impact of technology on personal relationships.
Accompanying the exhibition is a full-color catalogue and a public program for further exploration of the themes and insights into Eisenman's work. The exhibition has been made possible through the Government Indemnity Scheme, with thanks to HM Government, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Arts Council England.
Who is Nicole Eisenman?
Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965, France, lives and works in Brooklyn, USA) works across painting, drawing, installation and sculpture. She received the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award in 2015 for ‘expanding the expressive potential of the figurative tradition in works that engage contemporary social issues and restore cultural significance to the representation of the human form.’ Additionally, she has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), Carnegie Prize (2013), the Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize (2018), and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018.
Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, such as Nicole Eisenman: Untitled (show) at Hauser & Wirth, New York (2022); Heads, Kisses, Battles: Nicole Eisenman and the Moderns at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld (2021), which travelled to Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2022), Foundation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles (2022) and Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Hague (2022); Nicole Eisenman: Giant Without a Body at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (2021); and Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang at The Contemporary Austin, Austin (2020). Her work has also been included in the Whitney Biennial in 1995, 2012, and 2019, and the 2019 Venice Biennale, as well as having been acquired by public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Tate, London.
Throughout her career, Eisenman has had around 42 solo exhibitions and participated in 271 group shows over the past 31 years. Additionally, her work has been featured in 27 art fairs and 10 biennials. Notably, she participated in the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, as well as in significant shows at the Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. She has been exhibited alongside artists like Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois.
Eisenman's artworks are part of at least eight museum collections, including MoMA in New York City and MOCA in Los Angeles. She ranks among the top 1,000 artists globally and is in the top 100 in the United States. Her ranking has seen a considerable improvement since 1993, with a notable jump in 2023.
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11 Oct 2023 - 14 Jan 2024
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