Artist as Subject: Photographic Portraits from the Collection 

Explore the relationship between the artist as maker and the artist as subject in this intimate exhibition of eleven photographs from HoMA’s works on paper collection. Whether appearing in front of the camera or behind the lens, the artist-photographer determines which aspects of themselves to reveal and which to conceal.  

See works by Herbert R. Bauer, Meidor Hu, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yasumasa Morimura, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Edward Steichen, Shuzo Uemoto, and Paul Weiss.  

Contemplative, experimental, or playful, these photographs shed light on some of the techniques and motivations behind how artists choose to represent themselves to the world. 

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Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). Untitled, 1979 (detail). Reprinted in 1989 as part of the portfolio: The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers + Friends, United Against AIDS. Chromogenic development print. Gift of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2011, and gift of Sharon and Thurston Twigg-Smith (TCM. 2009.23.177.h)