The artist

Born in 1963 in Connecticut, USA, David LaChapelle is an internationally renowned artist known for his vivid fashion photographs and baroque images populated by celebrities. Skilfully fusing art history with references to popular culture, metaphysical questions with street culture, he paints a disquieting portrait of 21st century values and lifestyles. David LaChapelle is now one of the most widely published photographers in the world. Since 2006 he has been focusing on the artistic side of his work.

Exhibitions

Letter to the World

November 3 - December 29, 2018
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
LAND SCAPE

October 30, 2014 - January 3, 2015
Paris - Beaubourg
Still Life

June 6 - July 26, 2013
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in 1963 in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Residency	Lives and works in New York, and Los Angeles, California, USA
Education	North Carolina School of Arts, Wisten-Salem, North Carolina, USA School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023	Fulmini, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
2022	David LaChapelle, make BELIEVE, Fotografiska, New York, USA
2019	David La Chapelle, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy LaChapelle : Act of Nature, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Acts of God, La Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy Castles in the Sky : Fantasy architecture in contemporary Art, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, USA
2018	David LaChapelle, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, USA David LaChapelle, Letter to the world, Galerie Templon, Paris, France David LaChapelle : After the Deluge, Beaux Arts Mons, Mons, Belgium David LaChapelle : Songs for the World, Stary Browar Art Gallery, Poznan, Poland Good News for Modern Man, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Netherlands LaChapelle – Negative Currency, Geuer & Geuer, Düsseldorf, Germany Back to Nature, Museum Frieder Burda, Berlin, Germany Recollections in America, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne, Germany Solo Show, Art stations Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2017	LOST+FOUND, Casa Dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy; Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico Solo show, Ara Modern Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Solo show, Beaux-Arts Mons, Mons, Belgium
2016	Bling Bling Baby Show, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany Solo show, Ara Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Gas Stations, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, USA Solo show, Centro de la Fotografia, Montevideo, Uruguay Illuminacion, Fundacion Union, Montevideo, Uruguay Solo show, Museo Agadu, Montevideo, Uruguay Solo show, Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay Gas Stations, The Edward Hopper House, New York, USA LACHAPELLE, Moca Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand David Lachapelle, Adler Subhashok gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Muses, DSC Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic Solo show, Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina Pipe Dream, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland
2015	Fotografias 1984 – 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art Chile, Santiago, Chile After the Deluge, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy Fotografias 1984 – 2013, Museo de Arte Contempraneo, Lima, Peru

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2014	Land Scape, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Once in the Garden, OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie, Vienna, Austria Land Scape, Public exhibition at bus stop R / Aldwych, London, UK
2013	Still Life, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2012	Burning Beauty, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Norway David LaChapelle, Lu.C.C.A. Museum, Lucca, Italy Artist of the Year, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum, New York, USA David LaChapelle, BEXCO Art Center, Busan, South Korea Still Life, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Addicted to Passion, Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jesus Is My Homeboy, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Earth Laughs in Flowers, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland; Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, USA; Robilant + Voena, Milan, Italy; Robilant + Voena, London, UK; Reformiere Dorfkirche, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2011	Thus Spoke LaChapelle, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Austria David LaChapelle, Hangaram Design Museum - Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea Nosotros: La Humanidad Al Borde Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte Contemporaño de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico David LaChapelle, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia From Darkness to Light, Lever House, New York, USA David LaChapelle, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany David LaChapelle: Negative Currency and Recollections in America, Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers, Serge Maruani & Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2010	Post Mdern Pop Photography, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel The Rape of Africa Mocca Courtyard, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada David LaChapelle, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan David LaChapelle, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain David LaChapelle: Documents of Desire & Disasters, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey American Jesus, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Eden, Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Deluge – Awakened, Manzoni Gallery, Bergamo, Italy
2009	Delirium of Reason, Museo De Las Artes Guadalajara, Mexico City, Mexico Retrospective, Musée de la Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France Delirium of Reason, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico Cars And Money, Wolfgang Roth + Partners, Miami, Florida, USA The Rape of Africa, David DeSanctis Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA; Galerie Alex Daniels, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008	David LaChapelle, Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy David LaChapelle, National Museum, Krakow, Poland David LaChapelle,, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Heaven to Hell / Bellezas y Desastres, MUBE Museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil Jesus is My Homeboy, Wolfgang Roth + Partners, Miami, Florida, USA ; Robilant + Voena, London, UK Auguries of Innocence, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA Jesus is my Homeboy, St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, Switzerland David LaChapelle, Rhomberg Gallery, Innsbruck, Autria
2007	David LaChapelle, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Heaven to Hell / Bellezas y Desastres, MALBA Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina Awakened, Goss Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA; Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain David LaChapelle, La Galerie Delphine Pastor, Monaco
2006	VIP: Very Important Portraits, Capodimonte Museum, Naples, Italy Men & War, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany Heaven to Hell, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany David LaChapelle, La Galerie Du XX (w/Maruani Noirhomme), Paris, France
2005	David LaChapelle, KALS'ART, Palermo, Italy David LaChapelle Pictures for Italian Vogue, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, USA Grand Opening : David LaChapelle, Goss Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA David LaChapelle, Galerie Alex Daniels, Amsterdam, The Netherlands David LaChapelle, Maruani Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Artists Prostitutes, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2004	Portraits of Musicians, Palais Kinsky - Rudolf Budja Galerie, Freyung, Vienna, Austria
2003	All American, Rockefeller Center (Montblanc International), New York, USA
2002	David LaChapelle, Barbican Museum, London, UK LACHAPELLE, Vienna Kunsthaus, Wien, Austria All American, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
2001	David LaChapelle, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy Fish Stick, Camerawork Gallery, Berlin, Germany David LaChapelle, Photology (Villa Impero), Bologna, Italy David LaChapelle, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, USA
2000	Femmes Plus Que Femmes, Museo de Arte Brazileira, San Paulo, Brazil David LaChapelle, Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1999	Hotel LaChapelle, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy The Beautiful & Bizarre, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA David LaChapelle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1998	David LaChapelle, Palacio Pombal, Portugal LaChapelle Land, Les Recontres d'Arles, Arles, France
1997	LaChapelle Land, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ; Photology, Milan, Italy
1996	LaChapelle Land, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, USA
1995	Javier Cibachromes, Trabia MacAfee, New York, USA
1991	Facility of Movement, Tomoko Ligouri Gallery, New York, USA
1989	David LaChapelle, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA Life Never Dies, Mars, New York, USA Mirrors of God + the Intervention of St. Lucy, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, New York, USA Somewhere Better, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, New York, USA
1988	Your Needs Met, 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York, USA
1986	Taking Pictures is Fun, Palladium, New York, USA
1984	Angels, Saints, & Martyrs, 303 Gallery (Lisa Spellman/ Colin Deland), New York, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2019	Versus, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden, Germany Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning, Germany Showroom, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden, Germany Thierry Mugler, Couturissime, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Dior, From Paris to the World, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, USA
2018	Zurück zur Natur ?, Museum Frieder Burda, Berlin, Germany Photo London, Staley Wise Gallery, London, UK Micheal Jackson : On The Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Portraits of Artists, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, USA Dior : From Paris to The World, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA Castles in the Sky : Fantasy Architecture, Lehman Art College Gallery, New York, USA Images Makes Religion, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany SP-ARTE /FOTO, Sao Paulo, Brazil Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017	Like A Horse, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden Nautilus, Landesmuseum fur Kunst aund Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany Christian Dior: Couturier du rêve, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, France
2016	Boticelli Reimagined, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK The Photography Show, Aipad, New York, New York, USA Divine Decadence, Castle of Gaasbeek, Brussels, Belgium The Fashion world of Jean-Paul Gaultier : from the sidewalk to the catwalk, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea La Grande Galerie du foot, La Villette, Paris, France
2015	The Botticelli Renaissance, Gemäldegalerie Kultureforum, Berlin, Germany Hamster - Hipster - Hand: under the spellbound of the mobile phone, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Open Rhapsody: A journey into photography and video collections, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon Once Upon a Time and Now, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, USA Il Cibo nell’ Arte: Capolavori del Grandi Maestri dal Seicento a Warhol, Associazione Amici di Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia, Italy 20 + 2 Years, ARNDT, Singapour 2050, The Royal museums of fine arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2014	The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Barbican, London, UK A New Selection from the Elgiz Collection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey Images 2014, Fairfield Museum and History Center, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Possession, Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA American Cool, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, Columbia, USA Beyond Earth Art, Cornell University: Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, USA
2013	In God we Trust, Zacheta National Galerie of art, Warsaw, Poland En compagnie de Guy Bourdin: Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach, Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, Fashion and Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Cabinets de Curiosities, Le Musee Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France

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	The Portrait Gallery, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany Foto A–Z, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany Masculin/Masculin. The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
	It’s an American Thing, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, USA Flowers and Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzurg, Austria And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music, Friedman Benda, New York, USA Traumfrauen – Traummanner, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany Divine Bodies, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK Vanity, Muzeum Narodowe W Krakowie, Krakow, Poland Collectible III – Photographies, A. Galerie, Paris, France
2012	About Caravaggio Visioni & Illusioni Contemporanee, Rome, Italy Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography, LACMA- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Everywhere and Nowhere, Oberstdorf, Villa Jauss, Germany Making History, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Unnatural - Natural History, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK Earth Laughs in Flowers, The Solo Project, Basel, Switzerland The Haberdashery East, Eric Firestone Gallery, Hampton, New York, USA Group Show, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2011	Cocktail Culture, Norton Museum of Art, Norton, Florida, USA Leonardo. Il Genio il Mito, Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy Role Models and Role Playing, Museum Der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria The Fashion World Of Jean Paul Gaultier : From the Street to the Stars, The Montreal Museum Of Fine Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Beauty Culture, Annenberg Space For Photography, Los Angeles, California, USA Face Off: Contemporary Portraits by Contemporary Artists, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, USA Body Gestures, Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel The Lords and the New Creatures, NYE+BROWN, Los Angeles, California, USA Boarders and Frontiers: Globalization, Temporality & Appropriation in the Contemporary Image, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, USA
2010	Pervasive Influence :The Mechanical Bride, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada David LaChapelle, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, USA Atopia, Arte Y Ciudad en el Siglo XXI, CCB, Barcelona, Spain Real Interface, Gana Art Busan, Busan, South Korea Popular : Brands Symbols Icons 1960-2010, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany Restart, Tavi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Real Interface, Gana Art, Busan, South Korea David LaChapelle, Photo LA Presented by LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
2009	Who Shot Rock & Roll, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Rape of Africa, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy Who Shot Rock & Roll, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Pop My Cherry, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland Naked!, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
2008	Vanity Fair Portraits, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK REVERB, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany Love Love Love, Jose Martos Gallery, New York, USA
2006	Men, War, & Peace, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany The Other Side #2, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA Magritte, Williams, LaChapelle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
2000	Il Secolo Della Fotoarte, Villa Impero, Bologna, Italy
1989	Don't Bungle The Jungle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1988	Grand Windows, Grand Central Station, New York, USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

	Bayerische Staatsoper Portrait Gallery, Munich, Germany
	LACMA- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
	Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
	National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
	Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
	La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
	LVMH Foundation, Paris, France

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	Brandhorst Foundation, Munich, Germany
	Serge Delsemme Foundation, Belgium
	Arendt & Art, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

AWARDS

2015	Doctorate in Fine Arts (Hon.) from UNCSA
2014	Young Photographers Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award
2012	Artist of the Year, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art National Geographic Magazine Photography Seminar, Featured Speaker
2010	OUT in Art Award, GLAAD Award
2006	Presented with GLAAD's Vito Russo Award for Outstanding Contributions Toward Eliminating Homophobia
2004	13th Annual MVPA Awards - Winner Director of the Year - Best Rock Video of the Year for No Doubt It's My Life Special Juried Prize Mountainfilm, Telluride Special Juried Recognition, Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary, Aspen Film Festival
2003	13th Annual MVPA Awards - Winner Director of the Year - Best Rock Video of the Year for No Doubt It's My Life Special Juried Prize Mountainfilm, Telluride Special Juried Recognition, Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary, Aspen Film Festival 12th Annual MVPA Awards - Adult Contemporary Video of the Year - Elton John This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

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2000	Best Video for Moby's Natural Blues, the MTV Europe Music Awards
1999	Cover of the Year Category, the Eisies
1998	Best Cutting Edge Essay and Style Photography, Life magazine's Alfred Eisenstadt Awards for Magazine Photography (the Eisies)
1997	Art Directors Club Award for Best Book Design for LaChapelle Land
1996	ICP Infinity Award for Applied Photography Photographer of the Year Award, the VH-1 Fashion Awards
1995	Best New Photographer of the Year, French Photo and American Photo magazines

News

David LaChapelle
DAVID LACHAPELLE LECTURE AT ENSBA, PARIS – WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE 2013 AT 06:00 PM

ENSBA, Paris, France

On the occasion of Still Life, his first exhibition in Paris at Galerie Templon (June 6 – July 26), American photographer David LaChapelle will be retracing his practice and presenting his new series during a lecture held at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. World-renowned for his highly colorful fashion photography and flamboyantly baroque portraits of celebrities, David LaChapelle surprises us here with a new approach that bears witness to his interest in the underside of the American dream and the history of art. David LaChapelle is an icon hunter obsessed by the question of notoriety, and when vandals had attacked the Dublin Wax Museum he traveled there to make a record of the broken lookalikes, which led him to investigate many wax museums in the United States (California and Nevada). One of the most widely published photographers of the last twenty years, since 2006 David LaChapelle has been focusing on the experimental artistic sides of his art. In recent years he has exhibited his works at many one-man shows around the world, including the Barbican Museum in London (2002), Palazzo Reale in Milan (2007), the Musée de La Monnaie in Paris (2009) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel (2010), from which he received the honor of Artist of the Year in 2011. Also recently, major retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico (2011), Hangaram Museum in Korea (2012), Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague (2011/2012), and the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm (2012/2013).

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Exhibitions

Letter to the World

LAND SCAPE

Still Life