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Chelsea
[Kamikaze Nightclub]

1984

September 28: AntiPasto: A Roman Appetizer

Mike Bidlo, Rolando Briseño, Marina Cappelletto, Peter Drake, Katherine Fishman, Luis Frangella, Don Herron, Ruth Kligman, Marcus Leatherdale, Peter Lourekas, Brad Melamed, Hope Sandrow, Kit-Yin Snyder, David Wojnarowicz, Phyllis Yes, Rhonda, Zwillinger


ROME, Italy
Via di Ripetta, 22, 4th Floor

1985

October 15–November 9: The Discovery of America

Mike Bidlo, Rolando Briseño, Marina Cappelletto, Craig Coleman, Pierluigi Consagra, Peter Drake, Kimberly du Ross, R.M. Fischer, Luis Frangella, Judy Glantzman, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Ruth Kligman, Christof Kohlhofer & Marilyn Minter, Mark Kostabi, Marcus Leatherdale, Joe Lewis, Izhar Patkin, Walter Robinson, Hope Sandrow, Kit-Yin Snyder, David Wojnarowicz, Tony W.H. Wong, Rhonda, Zwillinger

December 13–January 11: Craig Coleman: Santo Nero

1986

January 14–February 8: Mike Bidlo: Nature Morte

March 14–April 5: Rhonda Zwillinger: Tearjerkers

April 10–May 3: Walter Robinson

May23–June 14: Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs, 1983–1986
(Canadian Cultural Center, Rome)

June 14–July 19: Senza Paura (Without Fear)


TRIBECA, NY
60 Thomas Street, 6th Floor

1987

December–January: Alfredo Pirri

1988

January 12–February: Marina Cappelletto: Still Lifes

February 5–March: Mario Fernandez

March 11–April: Guillermo Conte

April 14–May: Paolo Laudisa: Blue Tigers

May 5–June: Matt Baumgardner

May 13th: Craig Coleman: Year 8000: A Go-Go Space Adventure

October 6: Gianni Melotti

November 2–26: Pio Galbis, Doug Henders, Jim Napierala: Formation

December 1–31: Jon Cockrell: Men in Color

1989

March 2–25: Marcus Leatherdale

March 30–April 22: Marina Cappelletto

April 27–May 20: Donald Moffett: Homo Art: I Love It When You Call Me Names

May 25–June 17: Mario Fernandez

Bruce Sargeant—February 1997
242 W. 26 Street, Chelsea, NY

Steven Klein—September 2006
111 Front Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY

Andy Warhol—December 2013
7 N. Main Street, Lambertville, NJ

Out / Loud—June 2019
5785 York Road, Lahaska, PA


SOHO
580 Broadway, 8th Floor

1989

October 7–November 4: To Probe & To Push: Artists of Provocation

Mike Bidlo, Félix González-Torres, Larry Johnson, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Donald Moffett, Dread Scott, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol

November 8–December 2: Matt Baumgardner: Totem and Taboo

December 6–30: Gaudeamus Igitur: The Male Nude in Historic and Contemporary Photography

The Bone Boyz, Jon Cockrell, Herbert List, George Platt Lynes, Eadweard Muybridge, Stanley Stellar, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Joe Ziolkowski

1990

January 4–27: Corrado Levi: Milanese Monocle

February: Donald Moffett: Oh-Oh-Harder-Oh-Oh

March 10–31: The Grand Tour: Italian Geo-Romantic

Giovanni Albertini, Stefano Giovanazzi, Marco Lavagetto, Piera Legnaghi, Carlo Marzuttini, Giancarlo Neri, Bruno Sacchetto, Satprakash, Giovanni Sgarbossa

April: Bruce of Los Angeles: The Male Figure: Color Prints by the Physique Photography Master

May–June: The Power of Childhood

James Brown, Luisa Chase, Ivan Chermayeff, Gene Davis, Jenny Holzer, Roberto Juarez, Alex Katz, Tom Slaughter, Rhonda Zwillinger, and the art of Young Children; curated by Wickham Boyle; with text by Henry Geldzahler

June–July: Dread Scott: Kinder & Gentler; Marlene McCarty: Shut up! You Shut up!; and, Ridgeway Bennett: Cum Paintings

September: Queer–Out in Art, Group Show of 63 Out Artists

Gaetano Alaimo, Mark Anderson, Eve Ashcraft, Bastille, Juan Botas, Craig Coleman, Arch Connelly, John Copoulos, Steve De Frank, Luis de Jesus, Joseph Dunn, Sean Early, Robert Bruce Eves, Rainer Fetting, John Germain, Howard Goldstein, Melissa Harris, Rinaldo Hopf, Charles Hovland, Katurah Hutcheson, Doug Ischar, Andrew Jones, Adam Kurtzman, Lynn LaPointe / Martha Fleming, Cary Liebowitz, Corrado Levi, Scott Lifshutz, John Lindell, Stephen Lott, Robert Marshall, Linda Matalon, Loring McAlpin, Martin Michael McElhiney, Mark McGarity, Keith Milow, Donald Moffett, Shozo Nagano, Achille Parizzi, Mike Parker, Hunter Reynolds, Ridgeway / Bennett, David Robilliard, Adam Rolston, Craig Rowe, Angel Saint Marx, Marcia Salo, William Sande, Robert Schwartz, Les Simpson, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Hugh Steers, Michael Stolbach, Tom of Finland, Ernest Thorington, Pepe Vives, Anthony Viti, George Wittman, Millie Wilson, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Carrie Yamaoka

October: Joe Ziolkowski: “Diuturnal”, New Photographs; and: Adam Rolston: Sell Homosexuality

November–December: Loring McAlpin: Purple Men; and: Stanley Stellar: Recent Photographs

December–January: Bruce of Los Angeles: Vintage Black & White Photographs; and Jose Villarrubia: New Color Photographs

1991

January–February: Donald Moffett: Wet Holes; and: Scott Lifshutz: New Paintings

February–March: Marina Cappelletto: New Paintings; and: John Dugdale: New Photographs

March–April: Luis de Jesus: Warm Cabinet

also, Paul Blanca, Alan Bonicatti, Bruce of Los Angeles, Jon Cockrell, Craig Cowan, John Dugdale, Charles Hovland, Jim Long, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steve Morrison, Jean-Marc Prouveur, Stanley Stellar, Jose Villarrubia, Joe Ziolkowski

May: Lowell Nesbitt: The Male Nude, 1963-1991; and: Alan Bonicatti: Imago

June: White Heat: Paintings and Photography

Christopher Ciccone, Luis de Jesus, Rinaldo Hopf, Corrado Levi, Loring McAlpin, Ridgeway Bennett, Adam Rolston, Stephen Schofield, Jose Villarrubia

September–October: Adam Rolston: Trojans; and, Jim Long: Recent Photographs

October–November: Joe Ziolkowski: Pressure

November: Christopher Ciccone: Figurate

December: Physique: 1950-1960, photographs from the collection of Vince Aletti also, John Dugdale, Steven Morrison, Jose Villarrubia: New Photographs


TRIBECA
60 Thomas Street

1992

March–April: Bob Mizer/Athletic Model Guild:1950s Physical Culture Photographs

June–July: E. Ira McCrudden: Outsiders: A Celebration, Black & White Photographs

1993

October: George Platt Lynes: A New Look, 1931–1955

1994

February–March: Jim Long: Recent Photographs

April–May: Steven Arnold: Exotic Tableaux of Photographs

June–July: Jim French: Still Point

September–October: Blake Little: Photographs, 1990–1994

October–November: John Dugdale: Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall

December–January: Unfamiliar Exposures: Ten Photographic Visions

Steven Lee Ashmore, Bradley J. Braverman, Vincent Cianni, Erik Hanson, Kary Ka-Che Kwok, Harriet Leibowitz, George Mott, Sharon Steward, Cyndy Warwick, Frank Yamrus

1995

January–February: Andy Warhol: Double Torsos

March–April: Erwin Olaf: Ten Years of Photographs

May–June: Corrado Levi: Physical Disassociations

June–July: Summer, An erroneous perception of reality (48 photographers)

Steven Arnold, Steven Lee Ashmore, Tom Bianchi, Paul Blanca, Bradley J. Bravermen, Bruce of LA, Rick Castro, Cavalier Studio, Champion Studio, Vincent Cianni, Jon Cockrell, Craig Cowan, Robert Cusido, George Daniell, Patrick Demarchelier, John Dugdale, Bill Emrich, Jim French, Greg Gorman, David Felix-Velez, Daniel Hernandez, Peter Hujar, S.D. Jouhan, Kary Ka-he Kwok, Joe Lally, Marcus Leatherdale,Harriet Leibowitz, Corrado Levi, Blake Little, Herbert List, Lon of NY, Jim Long, George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, E. Irs McCrudden, Bob Mizer/ AMG, Dteve Morrison, George Mott, Michael O'Keefe, Erwin Olaf, PaJaMa, Anthony Potts, Herb Ritts, Stillman Rockefeller, Patrick Sarfati, Stewart Shining, Skrebneski, Peter Stakpole, Lou Stoumen, Christian Thompson, Norbert Torriente, Jose Villarubia, Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, Bruce Weber, Don Whitman/W.P.G, Frank Yamrus, Lisa Young

September–October: Iké Udé: Celluloid Frames

October–November: Nobodies & Somebodies

Mark Beard, Lynn Bianchi, Exum, Allen Frame, Frank Franca, Donna Francis, Keith Kotick, E. Ira McCrudden, Stanley Stellar; curated by John Bennette

November–January: John Dugdale: And Dreamier the Gloaming Grows

1996

January–February: George Daniell: Vintage Photographs, 1936-1966

March–April: Lisa Young: Stroke

May–June: David Bolger: Paintings

June–August: Dearest Comrades:

Walt Whitman, & Mark Beard, John Dugdale, Robert Flynt, Bill Jacobson, Russell Maynor, Steve Morrison, Frank Yamrus

November–December: John Dugdale: Elysium

December: Blake Little: Dichotomy (Book-signing and Reception)


CHELSEA, NY
242 West 26th Street, Storefront

1997

February–March: Bruce Sargeant: Paintings; and, Mark Beard: Photographs

March–April: Matthias Herrmann: Self-Portraits

April–May: Adam Rolston: New Works

May–June: Howard Roffman: Photographs

June–August: George Platt Lynes

September–October: An Anonymous Artist, late 20th Century

October–November: Bill Costa (1944-1995): Photographs from the Estate

November–January: John Dugdale: Illuminato dal Sole

1998

January–February: Male Curated by Vince Aletti (75 photographers)

John Ahearn, Richard Avedon, Aziz & Cuchar, Stephen Barker, Cecil Beaton, Ilse Bing, Miguel Rio Branco, Marco Breuer, James Brown, Bruce of LA, Bill Burke, Jean Cocteau, Lois Conner, Jesse DeMartino, John Dugdale, Michael Fajans, Jed Fielding, Robert Flaherty, Lee Friedlander, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Nan Goldin, Janine Gordon, P. Kleir, Meg Handler, Erik Hanson, Keith Haring, Matthias Herrmann, C.J. Hill, Lewis Hine, Peter Hujar, Vaclav Jirasek, Seydou Kaita, Robert Flynt, David Hockney, Peter Hujar, Keith Kotick, Marcus Leatherdale, Leon Levinstein, Lon of NY, George Platt Lynes, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kerry James Marshall, Leo Matiz, Ray Metzker, Andrea Modica, Steve Morrison, Mario Cravo Neto, John O’Rielly, Jaime Palacios, Jack Pierson, Quaintance, Carlos Quiroz, Rex, Eric Rhein, Walter Rosenblum, Bruce Sargeant, Jeffrey Scales, Gary Schneider, Aaron Siskind, Huck Snyder, Rosalind Solomon, Michael Spano, Tom of Finland, Rigoberto Torres, Tseng Qwong Chi, Pierre Verger, May Wilson, Walter Rosenblum, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Andy Warhol, Frederic Weber, Dale Wittig, David Wojnarowicz

February–April: Bruce Sargeant: Paintings, The Centennial Exhibition Mark Beard: Photographs

April–May: The Body in Question: Curated by Francis Packer:

Paul Ferman, Jeff Gibson, David Hutchinson, David Lebe, Marcia Lippman, Blake Little, Marcelo Pontes, Hunter Reynolds, Anne Zahalka

May–June: David Bolger: New Paintings

June–August: Rinaldo Hopf: Golden Queers, 100 Paintings; and, Pictures for a Summer Afternoon F. Holland Day, John Dugdale, Max Dupain, Peter Hujar, Herbert List, Duane Michals, Raymond Voinquel, Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden

September–November: Eadweard Muybridge: Men in Motion

November–January: John Dugdale: Nature and Spirit

1999

January–February: Bruce Cratsley: The Complete Picture

February–March: Lon of New York: Devotion to Beauty, a retrospective, male physique photographs, 1948-1998

April–May: Jean Cocteau, Artist; & Jean Cocteau, Model

May–June: The Influence of the Nineteenth Century Ecole des Beaux-Arts on Three Painters of the Twentieth Century: Hippolyte Alexandre Michallon, Bruce Sargent, Edith Thayer Cromwell, & Brechtholdt Streeruwitz

June–August: Jim French: Masc.

September–October: Female (93 + photographers; curated by Vince Aletti)

Anonymous, Shelby Lee Adams, Merry Alpern, Steven Arnold, Richard Avedon, Tracey Baran, Tina Barney, Lillian Bassman, Cecil Beaton, Sasha Bezzubov, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Anuschka Blommers / Niels Schumm, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Bill Burke, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Ellen Carey, Elinor Carucci, Tracy Chiang, Marianne Courville, Bruce Cratsley, Lesley Dill, John Dugdale, Mitch Epstein, Barbara Ess, Louis Faurer, Dan Estabrook, James Fee, Fernand Fonssagrives, Eve Fowler, Don Freeman, Annette Frick, Arnold Genthe, Steve Giovinco, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, Katy Grannan, Alexei Hay and Justine Parsons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Paul Himmel, Horst P. Horst, George Hugnet, Peter Hujar, Bill Jacobson, Consuelo Kanaga, Sy Kattelson, Steven Klein, William Klein, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Saul Leiter, Leon Levinstein, David Levinthal, Susan Lipper, George Platt Lynes, Sally Mann, Tanya Marcuse, Michael Martone, Ellen McNeilly, Lisette Model, Andrea Modica, Tracey Moffatt, Hiromitsu Morimoto, Martin Munkacsi, Vik Muniz, Nicholas Nixon, Richard Poisette-Dart, Man Ray, Judith Joy Ross, August Sander, Ken Schles, Gary Schneider, Grundula Schulze, Fazal Sheikh, Ross T. Smith, Todd Smith, Rosalind Solomon, Amy Steiner, Mark Steinmetz, Robert Stivers, Kathryn Turczan, Ed Van Der Elsken, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Andy Warhol, Frederic Weber, Carrie Mae Weems, Randy West, Susan Wides, Calvin Wilson, Garry Winogrand, Francesca Woodman, Masao Yamamoto

October–November: Dale Wittig: A Bunch of Rebellious Slaves

November–January: John Dugdale: The Unanswered Question

2000

January–February: Ecstasy

Christian Aschman, Bruce of Los Angeles, Matthias Herrmann, Harriet Leibowitz, Andrew Kennedy, Peter Mahoney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eadweard Muybridge, Glen Walls, William Yang

February–April: Anderson & Low: Recent Photographs

April–May: David Halliday

May–June: Horst P. Horst: The Male Form

June–August: Cool

Anderson & Low, Bruce Cratsley, John Dugdale, Brian English, Robert Flynt, David Halliday, Tom Hawkins, Horst P. Horst, Ron van Dongen

September–October: Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931): Vintage Photographs

October–November: Wouter Deruytter: Cowboys and Indians: Brave in the West

November–January: John Dugdale: Epic of the Starry Heavens

2001

January–February: Ron van Dongen: Vulgaris

February–April: Anderson & Low: Athletes and Architecture

April–May: Robert Flynt: Double Standard

May–June: David Halliday: Landscape and Still Life

June–August: 50s Physique

Apollo, Studio Arax, Athletic Model Guild, John Barrington, Bruce of LA, Lon of NY, Douglas of Detroit, Ralph Kelly, Kris, Milo, Bob del Monteque, Dave Martin, George Quaintance, Al Urban, Russ Warner, and Western Photography Guild

September–October: APPEARANCES: Photographic Portraits

Anderson & Low, Mark Beard, Bruce Cratsley, Wouter Deruytter, Robert Flynt, Jim French, Luis González-Palma, David Halliday, Matthias Herrmann, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Heune, Harriet Leibowitz, Blake Little, George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Leni Riefenstahl

October–November: Luke Smalley: GYMNASIUM

December: The Last Picture Show


DUMBO, Brooklyn
5111 Front Street, 2nd Floor

2005

March 17–April 30: John Hinde The Butlin's Holiday Camp Photos

May 4–June 18: Eadweard Muybridge Men, Women and Animals

June 24–July 29: George Platt Lynes Men

September 29–November 5: Wouter Deruytter Billboards NY

November 12–January 7, 2006: 20th Anniversary Show

2006

January 7–February: 25 Bert Morgan Best in Show

March 2–April 15: Andy Warhol Photographs

April 22–June 10: Herb Ritts A Personal Vision

June 14–July 28: Western Photography Guild (Don Whitman 1917-1998)

September 21–November 4: Steven Klien

November 9–December 23: Howard Roffman The Boys of Bel Ami

2007

January 11–February 24: Brandon Herman

March 10–April 21: National Beauty Service

June 22–July 27: Athletic Model Guild (Bob Mizer, 1922-1992)

October 18–November 24: Aaron Cobbett

November 29–February 2, 2008: Luke Smalley Exercise at Home

2008

February 7–March 8: In Your Face 70's Gay Porn Stills

April 3–May 3: Vintage/Vantage

May 8–June 21: CZANARA The Art & Photographs of Raymond Carrance

June 27–August 1: Sale! Show

September 18–November 1: Blake Little The Company of Men


LAMBERTVILLE, NJ
7 North Main Street

2010

April 3–May 30: David Halliday

June 12–August 29: David Levinthal

October 16–December: 25 years / 25 Works

2011

January 15–February 27: Jefferson Hayman

2012

March 31–May 27: Jason Langer

June 23–July 29: Ron van Dongen

November 10–December 23: Richard Renaldi

2013

June 1–July 28: Brian English

December 13–February (2014): Andy Warhol

2014

(December 13, 2013)–February 2: Andy Warhol

May 17–July 13: Jim French

November 22–January 11 (2015): George Platt Lynes

2015

(November 22, 2014)–January 11: George Platt Lynes

May 16–July 26: Jean Cocteau

August 14–September 27: David Graham

October 10–Decemeber 20: Diamonds vs. Pearls: 30 Years of Photography

2016

May 28–July 31: Jefferson Hayman

November 19–January 29 (2017): Eadweard Muybridge

2017

(November 19, 2016)–January 29: Eadweard Muybridge

September 22–November: Horst


LAHASKA, PA
5785 Lower York Road

2017

December 2–January 27 (2018): Derek Mohr

2018

(December 2, 2017)–January 27: Derek Mohr

July 14, 2017–September 2, 2018: The It's Hot Show

David Halliday, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jefferson Hayman, Brandon Herman, John Hernic, Matthias Herrmann, Ken Hicks, David Hilliard, John Hinde, Rinaldo Hopf, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, David Hutchinson

2019

June 29–September 1: OUT/LOUD 40 LGBTQ+ Artists:

Athletic Model Guild, Steven Arnold, David Bolger, Bruce Of Los Angeles, Paul Cadmus, Aaron Cobbett, Jean Cocteau, Craig Coleman, Bill Costa, Craig Cowan, Jimmy Desana, Jess T. Dugan, John Dugdale, Evergon, Rainer Fetting, Robert Flynt, Jim French, Nan Goldin, Greg Gorman, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brandon Herman, David Hilliard, Horst, Steven Klein, Herbert List, George Platt Lynes, Donald Moffet, Slava Mogutin, Richard Renaldi, Herb Ritts, Adam Rolston, Bruce Sargeant, Luke Smalley, Raymond Voinquel, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Andy Warhol, Dale Wittig, David Wojnarowicz, Blake Little, Rinaldo Hopf

2020

October 10: 35 Years / 35 Works:

Steven Arnold, Athletic Model Guild / Bob Mizer, Mike Bidlo, Paul Cadmus, Ellen Carey, Jean Cocteau, Wouter Deuytter, John Dugdale, Jim French, David Halliday, Brandon Herman, Jefferson Hayman, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, Kary Ka-Che Kwok, Steven Klein, Keith Kotick, Joe Lewis, Herbert List, Lon of New York, Jim Long, George Platt Lynes, Dave Martin, Tracey Moffatt, Donald Moffett, Eadweard Muybridge, Richard Renaldi, Walter Robinson, Bruce Sargeant, Luke Smalley, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Andy Warhol, Western Photography Guild/Don Whitman, David Wojnarowicz, Lisa Young

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