Born in 1953 in Washington, D.C., USA. Lives and works in New York, USA and Paris, France.
Nan Goldin’s uncompromising and intimate images were ground breaking for entire generations of younger photographers. Initially only edited into slide shows to be presented at local night clubs, Nan Goldin’s photographic impressions of her not so ordinary everyday life shows a parallel world on the glittery edge of society between identity search and intoxication, lust and loss, love and pain. After publishing the book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a reference to a song of the same title from Berthold Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s Three Penny Opera, her work was exhibited at a number of museums and galleries. Most recently until April 16th, 2017, the Museum of Modern Art in New York was showing a selection of 700 images from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”.
Goldin’s works are represented in international collections such as Tate Modern, London, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA; MOCA, Los Angeles, USA; Lambert Collection, Avignon, France; The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany.
