asked: ‘‘Who are you?’’ and answered ‘‘I am the soul
in limbo.’’
JulieMellbySeealso:Feminist photography
Biography
Born 3 April 1958 in Denver, Colorado. Early education in
Boulder, Colorado; Florence, Italy; and Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts. B.F.A., Rhode Island
School of Design, 1979. Fellow at MacDowell Colony,
Peterborough, New Hampshire 1980. PublishedSome
Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Committed suicide
on 19 January 1981 in New York City.
Individual Exhibitions
1976 Francesca Woodman; Addison Gallery of American
Art, Andover, Massachusetts
1978 Francesca Woodman; Libreria Maldoror, Rome, Italy
1979 Swan Song; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1986 Francesca Woodman: Photographic Work; Hunter Col-
lege Art Gallery, New York and Wellesley College
Museum, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts
1987 Francesca Woodman; Fine Arts Gallery, University of
California, Irvine, California
1987 Francesca Woodman; The Galleries, University of Col-
orado, Boulder, Colorado
1989 Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work; Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 Francesca Woodman, Photographische Arbeitren;
Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, and traveling
1994 Francesca Woodman; PaceWildensteinMacGill, New
York, New York
1996 Francesca Woodman; Galleria Civica di Mode`ne, Italy
1998 Francesca Woodman; Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1998 Francesca Woodman; Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain, Paris, France
1999 Francesca Woodman; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts
1999 Francesca Woodman; The Photographers’ Gallery,
London, England
2000 Francesca Woodman; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome,
Italy
Group Exhibitions
1976 Juried Competition; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1977 Juried Competition; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1977 Photographs and Portraiture; Womanspace, Boulder,
Colorado
1978 Group Show; Rhode Island School of Design Gallery,
Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy
1978 Cinque Giovani Artisti; Galleria Ugo Ferrante, Rome, Italy
1980 Pictorialism; Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, New York
1980 Friends of the Gallery; Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York,
New York
1980 Beyond Photography 80; Alternative Museum, New
York, New York
1986 Memento Mori; Centro Cultural de Arte Contempor-
a ́neo, Mexico City, Mexico
1987 Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera; CEPA
Gallery, Buffalo, New York and traveled to
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New
York, New York
1988 Identity: Representation of the Self; Whitney Museum
of American Art Downtown Branch, New York, New
York
1989 Vanishing Presence; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and traveling
1992 Current 92: The Absent Body; Institute of Contempor-
ary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, and traveling
1996 Inside the Visible; Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston, Massachusetts, and traveling
1997 Recent Acquisitions; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York, and traveling
1998 From the Heart, the Power of Photography; South
Texas Institute of the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas
1998 Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self Repre-
sentations; List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge,
MassachusettsSelected Works
House 3, Providence, 1975–1976
Providence, 1976–1977
On Being an Angel, Spring 1977
Self-Deceit #1, Rome, 1978
New York, 1979–1980Further Reading
Gabhart, Ann, Rosalind Krauss, and Abigail Solomon-
Godeau. Francesca Woodman: Photographic Work.
Wellesley, MA.: Wellesley College Museum, 1986.
Goldberg, Vicki. ‘‘Francesca Woodman: Photographic
Work.’’American Photographer17 (July 1986): 30.
Haus, Mary Ellen. ‘‘Francesca Woodman.’’Artnewsno. 1
(April 1986): 168.
Francesca Woodman. Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain, 1998.
Hirsch, Faye. ‘‘Old Geometry: The Photographs of Fran-
cesca Woodman.’’The Print Collector’s Newsletter25,
no. 2 (May-June 1994): 45–48.
Kenny, Lorraine. ‘‘Problem Sets: The Canonization of
Francesca Woodman.’’Afterimage14, no. 4 (November
1986): 4–5.
Krauss, Rosalind E. ‘‘Francesca Woodman: Problem Sets.’’
InBachelors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999: 161—
177.
Lux, Harm, and Kathryn Hixson.Francesca Woodman:
Photographic Works. Zurich: Shedhalle, 1992.
Valtorta, Roberta. ‘‘Francesca Woodman.’’ Progresso
Fotografico. LXXVI, no. 10 (October 1979): 46–50.
Weinberg, Adam D. Vanishing Presence. Minneapolis:
Walker Art Center, 1989.
Woodman, Francesca.Some Disordered Interior Geome-
tries. Philadelphia: Synapse Press, 1981.WOODMAN, FRANCESCA