The Artist's Books

Francesca Woodman (1958?1981) lived and worked in Boulder, Colorado; Providence, Rhode Island; Rome, Italy, and New York City. During her lifetime, Woodman had solo exhibitions at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (1976) and Libreria Maldoror, Rome (1978), and group exhibitions at Galleria Ugo Ferrante, Rome (1978); Daniel Wolf, Inc, New York (1980); and the Alternative Museum, New York (1980). Her artist?s book, Some Disordered Interior Geometries, was published by Synapse Press in 1981. Woodman?s first solo museum exhibition was presented at the Wellesley College Museum, Massachusetts, and Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (1986), followed by Fondation Cartier pour l?art contemporain, Paris (1998); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2015), among others. Woodman?s photographs are included in major museum collections including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Tate Gallery, London; and Centre Pompidou, Musée national d?art moderne, Paris.