'Ivy (Kenny Angelico) in the Boston Garden, Boston, 1973', 2021
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Ivy in the Boston Garden, 1973, is an image taken from Nan Goldin's seminal slideshow and book, The Other Side, which was produced as an homage to the artist’s transgender friends whom she lived with and photographed from 1972 to 2010. The work celebrates the “gender euphoria” of her friends, in their possibilities for transcendence. In the introduction to the first edition of the book, The Other Side, published in 1992, Goldin wrote: “The people in these pictures are truly revolutionary; they are the real winners of the battle of the sexes because they have stepped out of the ring.” In the updated version of The Other Side, published by Steidl in 2019, Goldin reaffirms it as “a record of the courage of the people who transformed that landscape to allow trans people the freedom of now. My dream since I was a kid was of a world with completely fluid gender and sexuality, which has come true as manifested by all those living publicly as gender non-conforming. The invisible has become visible.”
Nan Goldin has been named the recipient of the 2022 Käthe Kollwitz Prize. The prestigious award, presented by the Berlin Academy of Arts, recognizes contemporary photographers who have made important contributions in their field. The photographer, filmmaker, and activist is being lauded for her intimate, pathbreaking work focused on the LQBTQ+ community. She will receive the prize, which is accompanied by an E12,000 ($12,800) award, in early 2023; an attendant exhibition of her work will run from January to March of that year.
In the early 1970s, while living in Boston, Nan Goldin met a group of drag queens. They quickly became friends, then roommates, and subsequently her primary photographic subjects for several years. "I first saw them—Ivy and Naomi and Colette—crossing the bridge near Morgan Memorial Thrift Shop in downtown Boston. They were the most gorgeous creatures I'd ever seen. I was immediately infatuated.... They became my whole world ." At this time, Goldin was first exposed to the work of Lisette Model and Larry Clark. Impressed by these photographers' harsh beauty and raw vision, Goldin photographed her new friends daily, both in their homes and at what was then Boston's most popular drag bar, The Other Side, which hosted beauty pageants every Monday night. The images she made of the hyper-glamorous beauty of Ivy, Naomi, Colette, and others became her foundation. These photographs mark the beginning of her fascination with and immersion in a marginalized world of nightclubs, drag queens, and what she terms the world of "gender euphoria".
Nan Goldin is a 66-year-old, US photographer, best known for her candid, diary-like depictions of beautiful outsiders. Beginning in her hometown of Boston, she photographed her friends in the city’s gay and transvestite communities, before going on to shoot the inhabitants of New York’s Lower East Side. Her best-known work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency – a slideshow of images, set to the music of the Velvet Underground, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Maria Callas, and Nina Simone among others – began as entertainment for friends, but was included in the 1985 Whitney Biennial, to great acclaim. Eight years later, her inclusion in the 1993 Whitney Biennial truly established Goldin's place in contemporary American art. Since then she has lived and worked across the world, and become one of the most recognisable, satisfying, and bankable photographers active today. Indeed, her prices have risen pretty steeply over recent years.
A major touring retrospective organized by The National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London, UK will open at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, in the fall of 2022, and travel to The NPG, London, in summer 2023, and selected venues thereafter.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a 2022 American documentary film which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family. The film is produced, co-edited and directed by Laura Poitras. Poitras said, "Nan's art and vision has inspired my work for years, and has influenced generations of filmmakers."
The film premiered on September 3, 2022, at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary (following Sacro GRA in 2013) to win the top prize at Venice. It also screened at the 2022 New York Film Festival, where it was the festival's centerpiece film and for which Goldin designed two official posters. The film was released in cinemas by Neon on November 23, 2022. It received acclaim from critics and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards.
2026
'Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well', Grand Palais, Paris, France (March - September 2026)
2025
'Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well', Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy (October 2025 - February 2026)
2024
'Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well', Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (October 2024 - March 2025)
'Nan Goldin', Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (Fall 2024)
'Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls', Gagosian Open, Welsh Chapel, London, UK (5/30 - 6/23)
2023
'Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson', Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Boston, MA (9/19 - ongoing)
'Nan Goldin: Full Moon', Gagosian Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
'Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Nan Goldin: Memory Lost', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022: Nan Goldin', Berlin Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany
2022
'Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
'Nan Goldin', Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
'Nan Goldin: Sirens', 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2021
'Nan Goldin: Memory Lost', Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
2020
'Nan Goldin: The Other Side', Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2019
'Nan Goldin: Sirens', Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
'Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency', Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
'Nan Goldin: Versailles - Visible/Invisible', Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
'Nan Goldin', Tate Modern, London, UK
2018
'Analog Culture: Printer's Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001' (group exhibition), Harvard Art Museums Cambridge, MA
'Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin' (group exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MoCA LA), Los Angeles, CA
2017
'(Un)expected Families' (group exhibition), Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, Boston, MA
'Nan Goldin: Weekend Plans', Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin 8, Ireland
2016
'Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency', Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
2012
'Nan Goldin: Heartbeat', Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011
'Nan Goldin: Scopophilia', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
'Real Venice' (group exhibition), Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
'Street Life and Home Stories: Photographs from the Goetz Collection' (group exhibition), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
'Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency', Walker Art Center (WAC), Minneapolis, MN
'Nan Goldin: Fire Leap', Sprovieri, London, UK
'Nan Goldin: Variety', Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland
'Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs' (group exhibition), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MKG), Hamburg, Germany
2010
'Nan Goldin: Berlin Work - Photographs 1984 to 2009', Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography, and Architecture, Berlin, Germany
'Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography' (group exhibition), Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Köln, Germany
'Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography' (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
'Haunted: Contemporary Photographs/Video/Performances' (group exhibition), Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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