Face to Face: Portraits of Artists

Helen Molesworth is a writer and a curator based in Los Angeles. Her new podcast is “Death of an Artist: The Story of Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre” (Pushkin and Sony Entertainment). She also recently hosted a podcast series called “Recording Artists” with The Getty, and is the host of Program with David Zwirner Gallery. She has curated many major museum exhibitions and has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, and others. The author of numerous catalogue essays, her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. She is the recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2022 Clark Art Writing Prize.

Tacita Dean works primarily in film. She lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, where she was the Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2014- 2015. Dean has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009 and the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2006. Solo exhibitions were most recently held in 2022 at MUDAM, Luxembourg, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Dean designed the sets and costumes for The Dante Project, a collaborative production with the Royal Ballet. In 2011 Dean’s work FILM, a part of the Unilever Series of Tate Modern and shown in the Turbine Hall, marked the beginning of the campaign to preserve photochemical film.

For four decades, Brigitte Lacombe has created iconic and intimate photographs of many of the most celebrated artists, actors, politicians and intellectuals. Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Phillips, New York; Sotheby’s, London; Qatar Museums, Doha; and elsewhere. Her books include Lacombe Anima | Persona (Steidl/Dangin, 2009) and Lacombe Cinema | Theater (Schirmer/Mosel). She has received the Lucie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Travel & Portraiture (2012), among other awards. Her photography has appeared in publications including Vanity Fair, GQ, and Harper’s Bazaar. Lacombe has worked on many film sets, major theater productions and fashion advertising campaigns. She lives in New York City.

Catherine Opie is an artist working with photography, film, collage, and ceramics who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad and is held in over 50 major collections throughout the world. Opie was the Robert Mapplethorpe Resident in Photography at the American Academy in Rome for 2021 and was a recipient of The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, among other awards. Her first monograph, Catherine Opie, was published by Phaidon in 2021. She holds the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Art at UCLA where she is a professor of Photography and also Chair of the Department of Art.

Formerly Associate Professor at Ohio State University, Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 2021).