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Artist
Joan Semmel
b. 1932, New York, New York, USA · American · Based in New York, New York
- MFA, Pratt Institute (1972)
- BFA, Pratt Institute (1963)
- Art Students League of New York
- Painting
- Works on Paper
Joan Semmel has created a sustained painting practice around the body, sexuality, aging and self-representation. Beginning with explicitly erotic works in the 1970s, she later turned the camera toward her own body and built a radical archive of aging from the first-person viewpoint.
Painting
Gallery Representation
DOCUMENTATION
EXHIBITION IMAGES via Contemporary Art Library ↗Major Works
- 1974Intimacy-Autonomy
- 1974Me Without Mirrors
- 1978Sunlight 1
- 2002Centered
- 1991Double Take
- 2001With Camera
- 1975Touch
- 1970sSexual Series
- 1980sMirror Image series
- 2000s–20sRecent Self-Portraits
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