Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists

Curator Matthew Higgs brings together an international cast of artists (including Roy Arden, AA Bronson, Heather Cantrell, Chuck Close, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Richard Prince) who have made portraits of other artists (such as Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Mary Kelly, Felix Partz, Dieter Roth, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and many more) in a variety of media, offering the viewer an intimate look inside a usually private and privileged milieu. Likeness investigates the various ways that artists have questioned and reimagined what exactly constitutes a "portrait"; it is the first contemporary exhibition in this genre where both the portrayers and the portrayed share a similar defined social role. 



The exhibition Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists is co-organized by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, and circulated by ICI. The guest curator is Matthew Higgs. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, by an in-kind donation from Philips Electronics North America.