NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting Self-Portraits, a group exhibition on view in New York and next Saturday, 13 April, in Amsterdam. The exhibition draws together a group of 22 international artists with the provocation to create a self-portrait in the classical sense: a window into the soul of the maker for the viewer to experience.

Featuring artists from across GRIMM’s network and beyond, Self-Portraits presents a challenge to this selection of acclaimed contemporary artists to apply their distinctive style to the framework of self-portraiture. The resulting work enacts a shared moment of recognition between artist and viewer, reflecting the spectrum of emotion from introspective to joyful encounters throughout the exhibition. For some artists, the exhibition marks their first self-portrait; Matthias Weischer and Alex Dordoy among them. Others, such as Philip Akkerman, have made a career out of limiting their practice to only painting self-portraits.

The self-portraits presented across GRIMM’s New York and Amsterdam spaces are direct, lively, intimate, and authentic, true to our contemporary confessional age. Taking a classical, painterly approach, the works included here are the result of painters looking directly at themselves and depicting what they see.

In New York, Self-Portraits will feature work by Philip Akkerman, Charles Avery, Gabriella Boyd, Anthony Cudahy, Alex Dordoy, Louise Giovanelli, Tommy Harrison, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Neo Matloga, Rosalind Nashashibi, Polina Pak, Emil Sands, Benjamin Sasserson, and Rafał Topolewski.

Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, Self-Portraits will present new work by artists, including Hannah van Bart, Volker Hüller, Nathaniel Oliver, Christine Safa, Anj Smith, Jonathan Wateridge, Matthias Weischer, and Arisa Yoshioka.