Born 1954, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
Lives in New York City
Solo exhibitions
2018
Film retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2017
USED (solo show) + LIKE (group show curated by Richard Kern), Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva
2016
Polarized, Fortnight Institute, New York
2015
Viewing Room, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
Medicated, Cabinet, London
2013
La Termica, Malaga, Spain
Feature Inc., New-York
Upheaval, Galerie Sebastian Betrand, Geneva
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Film Retrospective)
2012
Vivacom Art Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria
Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
2011
Bjokholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (Film retrospective)
Anthology Film Archives, New York (Film retrospective)
2010
Kaune, Sudendorf, Cologne, Germany
Shot by Kern, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK
Studio Gallery, toronto, Canada
Vice Gallery, Mexico City
2009
Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
Guidi & Schoen Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles, USA
Rental Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Feature Inc., New York, USA
The Soft and the Hardcore, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
2006
Guidi & Schoen Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
Hotel, London, UK
Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
Gallery Speak F O R, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Feature Inc., New York
Gallery Speak F O R, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Milan, Italy
Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Berlin, Germany
Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
2002
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland
Gallery Speak F O R, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Gijon, Spain
Feature Inc., New York, USA
The Deep, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Galerie Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
1999
M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Canada
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Torch, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France
1997
Feature Inc., New York
Galerie Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
The Deep, Tokyo, Japan
Austerlitz @utrement, Paris, France
1996
Feature Inc., New York, USA
Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France
1995
PURR Gallery, London, UK
The Deep, Tokyo, Japan
1990
FourFiveFive, San Francisco, USA
1985
You Killed Me First, Ground Zero, New York, USA (collaboration with David Wojnarowitz)
Selected group exhibitions
2020
Portraits & Some Standing Figures, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Switzerland
2019
Still Life: An Ongoing Story, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland
2016
Summer Show, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland
NADA (art fair), Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, New-York
2014
Mystic Fire, curated by Darren Flook, Paradise Row, London, UK
A Shit in the Face of History, Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013
ArtGenève13 Art Fair, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland
Coconut Water, White Flag Projects, curated by Matthew Strauss, St Louis, Missouri
2012
Ideal Pole, Ramiken Crucible, NY, curated by Bjarne Melgaard
A rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, NY, curated by Adam Lindemann
You killed me first, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, curated by Susanne Pfeffer
Portraits : Cabinet de Curiosités, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
2011
After Shelley Duvall 72, Maccarone, NY, curated by Bjarne Melgaard
The Lead Awards, Deichtorhalle Hamburg, Germany
2010
Accessories to an Artwork, Glen Horowitz (NY) and Paul Stopler (London), curated by Peter Saville
Salad Days, The Journal Gallery, NY, curated by Michael Nevin
Sonic Youth : Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany and other places, curated by Roland Groenenboom
2009
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA
Shot by Kern, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK
2008
PM Dawn, Taxter & Spengemann, New York
Off, Off Bowery, Colette, Paris
Accessories to an Artwork, Paul Stolper, London
Sonic Youth, etc.: Sensational Fix, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Political Corect, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (brochure)
Explicit Fantastic, Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto
Sympathy for the Devil, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
2007
Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2006
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974–84, Grey Art Gallery, New York; Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, PA; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Vice, Silverstein Photography, New York
The Kate Show, Amsterdam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Tiny Vices, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; curated by Tim Barber Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
2005
Bienal de Valencia, Solares Foundazione Culturale, Valencia
Trade, White Columns, New York
East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2004
XXX, Galerie Davide DiMaggio, Berlin
Indigestible Correctness, Participant, New York; curated by Rita Ackerman and Lizzi Bougatsos
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco;
The Human Face, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam; curated by Rita Ackerman and Lizzi Bougatsos
2003
Lumpenedlyness, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; curated by Hudson
Against All Evens, Goteborg International Biennial, Goteborg, Sweden; curated by Miki Von Hausswolfe
Femmes, Celine, Tokyo; curated by Olivier Zahm
Snapshots Now, Angell Gallery, Toronto; curated by Randy Gladman
Educational Books, Hotel, London; curated by Daren Flook
Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie und Stadtmuseum, Graz, Austria
Martha Graham, ConTEMPorary, New York, curated by Kenny Schachter
Not Ordinary People, Galerie In Arco, Torino, Italy; curated by Sergio Bertaccini
2002
Strip & Tease, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
2001
Selected Works, Eye Five Gallery, Los Angeles
Wet, Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Face Off, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
2000
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Kim's Bedroom, Parco Gallery, Tokyo; MU, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; curated by Kim Gordon
Full Serve: Celebrating Ten Years of Shows, Rove, New York; curated by Kenny Schachter
Reali Artecontemporanea, Brescia, Italy
1999
B.m.W. (black met white), ANP, Antwerp, Belgium
Shake the Disease, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland;
Salome: Images of Women in Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1998
Disidentico, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy; curated by Achille Bonito
Move 2, New Image Art, Los Angeles; curated by Rich Jacob
1997
Scared Stiff, Grey Art Gallery, New York; curated by Annie Stanley
Flying Buttress Please, Torch, Amsterdam; curated by Hudson
El Ojo Tambien Penetra, Organismo Autonomo de Cultura, Centro de Fotografia, Isla de Tenerife, Spain
The Bite Generation, Lola Productions, Nantes, France; curated by Romain Slocombe
1996
One Hundred Photographs, American Fine Arts, New York
The Experimenters, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York; curated by Kenny Schachter
B-Side Gallery, New York; curated by Rick Prole
Picture This, CBGB Gallery, New York
Kunsthaus, Cologne, Germany; curated by Reiner Opoku
1995
High Anxiety, 66 Crosby Street, New York; curated by Kenny Schachter
Oy!, 121 Greene Street, New York; curated by Kenny Schachter
1994
Winter of Love, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY; curated by Olivier Zahm and Dike Blair
Monographs
2017
Polarized, Fortnight Institute & Victoria Press
2015
Bed Bath & Beyond, Innen, Geneva
2013
Contact High, Picturebox, New York
Shot by Kern, Taschen Books, Cologne
2011
10:41,The Oversea Books, New York
2008
Looker, Harry Abrams Books, New York
2007
Digital Kern, Charta, Milan
Action, Taschen Books, Cologne
2004
Soft, Universe Publishing, New York
2002
Kern Noir, Charta, Milan
2001
XXModels, Fiction Inc. Books, Tokyo
2000
Model Release, Taschen Books, Cologne
1998
Richard Kern, Charta, Milan
1997
New York Girls, Taschen Books, Cologne
1996
XXGirls, Fiction, Inc. Books, Tokyo
1995
Richard Kern: New York Girls, Purr Books, London