Self-portrait

Painter Edie Nadelhaft's magnified iris portraits subvert the male gaze, recontextualizing intimacy, identity, and observational roles in the digital...

Portrait painter Jess Broze uses color as the emotional core of her work, exploring the complexities of identity and experience in a rapidly changing...

In ‘Point Nemo,’ Mako Lomadze transforms the most remote location on Earth into a private sanctuary where she can heal from past traumas.

Our seventh exhibition of 2024, Beyond Likeness, investigates the evolving role of self-portraiture in an era dominated by selfies, TikTok videos, and...

Painted with pop colors, Caitlin Carcerano’s semi-autobiographical portraits invite curious onlookers into private spaces where healing rituals occur.

Vibrant, opulent, and even impish on first impression, Mickayel Thurin’s mixed-media paintings reflect her ongoing struggle with anxiety and depressio...

Arit Emmanuela Etukudo discusses ‘Dreamstate,’ a series of self-portraits that unearth deeper truths about the nature of Black existence.

Working in new media, San Francisco-based artist Avital Meshi strives to understand widespread cultural attitudes about race, gender, beauty, and sexu...

Based in California, genderqueer artist Brian Oldham creates hybrid works that “explore caricatures of popular American ideals” through self-portraitu...

Before leaping into February, we’re slowing down to revisit a few artists who contemplate existence and identity through their self-portraiture.

Cara Guri turns traditional portraiture on its head, commanding audience attention with mind-bending compositions and a hyper-realistic style.

Vietnamese American artist Tommy Kha sums himself up as a ‘left-handed, Queer, Asian-American from the American South, who is not supposed to exist.’