Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

A self-portrait is a depiction of oneself created by oneself.

Self-portraiture is a type of art where the artist creates an image of themselves. Typically found in paintings or photographs, artists have employed various styles, including photorealistic and expressive techniques, to capture their self-perception through visual representation.

19 results found for "Self-Portrait"

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Ai Weiwei: Decoded

A guide to the symbols at play in a divine self portrait by Ai Weiwei.

Ai Weiwei: Decoded
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Gemma Rolls-Bentley's Collection

For Gemma Rolls-Bentley, collecting begins with understanding your own values and what you represent. As a curator and creative consultant, this is how she approaches her own collection as well as those she builds for others – guided by the idea that art should hold real meaning for those who spend time with it. The art that fills her South London home is a reflection of the queer family she is creating with her wife, poet and dementia specialist, Danielle Wilde.

Gemma Rolls-Bentley's Collection
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Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City. She was painter known for her many self-portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.

Frida Kahlo
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Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore met as teenagers and stayed together for the rest of their lives. They were collaborators, step-siblings and lovers and they both changed their birth names to make them gender neutral.

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
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Devan Shimoyama

Devan Shimoyama (he/him) was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1989. He lives and works in Pittsburgh.

Devan Shimoyama
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Deborah Brown

Deborah Brown (she/her) was born in Pasadena, California in 1955. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Deborah Brown
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Antony Micallef

Antony Micallef (he/him) was born in 1975 in Swindon, England, and now lives and works in London.

Antony Micallef
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Hideaki Kawashima

Hideaki Kawashima (he/him) was born in 1969 in Aichi, Japan, and now lives and works in Tokyo.

Hideaki Kawashima
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Zhang Ruyi

Zhang Ruyi was born in 1985 in Shanghai, China, where she continues to live and work.

Zhang Ruyi
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Mike Lee

American visual artist Mike Lee was born in 1983 in Placentia, California, and now lives and works in New York.

Mike Lee
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LY

LY was born in in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan, where she continues to live and work.

LY
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Alexis Ralaivao

Alexis Ralaivao was born in Rennes, France, in 1991, where he continues to live and work.

Alexis Ralaivao
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Ekene Emeka-Maduka

Ekene Emeka-Maduka, born 1996, was raised in Kano, Nigeria, before moving to Canada as a student. She now lives and works in Winnipeg.

Ekene Emeka-Maduka
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Claire Tabouret

Claire Tabouret was born in 1981 in Pertuis, France, and is currently based in Los Angeles, USA.

Claire Tabouret
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Stickymonger

Joohee Park, aka Stickymonger, (she/her) was born in South Korea and is now based in Brooklyn, New York.

Stickymonger
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Lina Iris Viktor

Lina Iris Viktor was raised in the UK by Liberian parents, and now divides her time between London and Italy.

Lina Iris Viktor
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Le Mat

Glistening with rhinestones, glitter and gold, Devan Shimoyama celebrates identity and sexuality in an extension of his Tarot series. Le Mat, translating to The Fool, questions the ways in which gender can be ascertained through the lens of clothes, pattern, colour and demeanour. Though Le Mat is a self-portrait, his figures – or ‘deities’ – are often intentionally androgynous. Holding on tight to the heel of Le Mat is a cat-denom, a recognisable character from the manga series Inuyasha. As well as manga, Shimoyama’s Tarot series draws from two other central sources of inspiration – his Baptist Christian upbringing and the popular Rider-Waite Smith tarot deck, creating a visual language with which to explore identity, race and sexuality. The use of silkscreen glitter inks, gold foil embossing and rhinestones creates a “dazzling illusion” in the same way that drag might on a performer’s body.

Le Mat

Sumergidos

Okokume's celestial alter-ego Cosmic Girl is submerged in a pastel ocean, surrounded by reminders of climate change.Cosmic Girl looks back at the viewer with a hopeful expression, urging them to reflect on the rising sea levels around her. A small self-portrait of the artist appears amongst the flooded infrastructure. Complimenting the optimistic neon hued palette, Okokume hand-finishes each print in acrylic and diamond dust. “Cosmic Girl represents the fragility of the moment we are facing and the vulnerability we have with nature – nature that we have modified.”

Sumergidos
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Bed/Beach

Aubrey Levinthal deconstructs familiar domestic scenes on canvas – subtly exploring the visual clues through which we understand an image, and the emotional connections we ascribe to them.As suggested by its title, Bed/Beach, our debut collaboration entails an abstracted self-portrait muddling two familiar moments of relaxation.“I hope it adds to the implication that the painting is about an interior psychological experience as much as, or really more than, an exterior one.”

Bed/Beach

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    Parra's studio, with Parra at the centre, his back to the camera as he works on the large painting takes centre stage, showing a faceless blue woman in a striped dress, painted in red, purple, blue and teal. The studio is full of brightly coloured paints, with a large window on the right and a patterned rug across the floor under the painting.