American contemporary master artist, Nan Goldin is internationally renowned as one of the world's most prominent and influential photographers.
Born in Washington, D.C., Goldin grew up in Boston where she began taking photographs at the age of fifteen. Since then, she has lived in New York, Bangkok, Berlin, Tokyo, and Paris, amassing an extensive body of work that serves as an intimate and compelling portrait of our time. Although intensely diaristic, Goldin's work points to such universal themes as sex, love, friendship and identity
Her works have been shown in most important MUSEUMS and COLLECTIONS around the world.
SELECTED MUSEUMS and COLLECTIONS:
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Harn Museum at the University of Florida
Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts Collection, Boston
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Tate Gallery, London
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
IN HER OWN WORDS:
"My desire is to preserve the sense of people's lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back."