David Lachapelle

David LaChapelle is an American photographer who was born in 1963. His work is currently being shown at Camera Work in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Albertina Museum have featured David LaChapelle’s work in the past.David LaChapelle’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $78 USD to $211,874 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $211,874 USD for The Last Supper (Série Jesus is my Homeboy), sold at Christie’s Paris in 2021. David LaChapelle has been featured in articles for The Art Newspaper, The Independent and HYPEBEAST. The most recent article is Looking again at Amy Winehouse, 10 years after her death written for ArtDaily in December 2021.

Artist’s alternative names: David La Chapelle, Davide Lachapelle

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • David LaChapelle, Camera Work, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
2019
  • David LaChapelle, Mucciaccia Gallery, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • David LaChapelle: Atti divini, La Venaria, Turin, Italy
  • David LaChapelle: Act of Nature, Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
  • David Lachapelle: Letter to the World , Galerie Templon, Paris (Grenier Saint-Lazare), 3e, Paris, France
  • David LaChapelle: Recollections in America, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne, Germany
  • LaChapelle: Good News for Modern Man, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2017
  • David LaChapelle: Scapes, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore Dempsey Hill, Singapore, Singapore
  • David LaChapelle: New World, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • David Lachapelle: Scapes, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
  • David LaChapelle, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia
2016
  • David LaChapelle: Múzy, DSC Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2015
  • David LaChapelle: Dopo il Diluvio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Rome, Italy
2014
  • David LaChapelle: LAND SCAPE, Galerie Templon, Paris (rue Beaubourg), 3e, Paris, France
  • David LaChapelle, Land Scape, Kasmin Gallery, New York (293 10th Av), Chelsea, New York, USA
2012
  • David LaChapelle, Kasmin Gallery, New York (293 10th Av), Chelsea, New York, USA
2011
  • David LaChapelle: Thus Spoke, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  • David LaChapelle, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2010
  • David LaChapelle: Postmodern Pop Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • David LaChapelle: American Jesus, Kasmin Gallery, New York (293 10th Av), Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
  • David LaChapelle, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
  • David Lachapelle, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Firenze, Italy
2008
  • David La Chapelle: Auguries Of Innocence, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • ONLINE: Christmas Selection, Camera Work, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • American Photography, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
  • ONLINE: Ready, Set, Go, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • Resistance(s), Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Botticelli: His Time. And Our Time, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
  • ONLINE: Face It!, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • ONLINE: Let’s Fall in Love…, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • The Unseen, Fondazione Sozzani, Milan (Como), Milan, Italy
2020
  • On Everyone’s Lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • ONLINE: Women Of Distinction, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • ONLINE: Summer, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • ONLINE: Best In Show, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • Online: Men Of Style, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • ONLINE: In Bloom, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • What Will The Neighbours Say?, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Online: Snow Day, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • Shaping Dialogues, Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
  • Group Show 2019, Galerie Bene Taschen, Cologne, Germany
  • Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Look At Me! The Body In Art From The 1950s Up To Today, Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno, Switzerland
  • Michael Jackson: On the Wall, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
  • Cafe Culture, Gallery Different, London, UK
  • Icons, Gallery Different, London, UK
  • Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kallmann-Museum Ismaning, Ismaning, Germany
  • Through the Looking Glass, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Piracy (vol.5), Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium
2018
  • Michael Jackson. On the Wall, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 8e, Paris, France
  • Su Xiaobai, Zhu Jinshi and David LaChapelle, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore Gillman Barracks, Singapore, Singapore
  • Portaits of artists – Photographs 1926 – 2008, Staley-Wise Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • Made in Berlin, Camera Work, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • Down The Rabbit Hole, Imitate Modern, Mayfair, London, UK
2017
  • Love Among the Ruins: 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80s New York, Howl! Happening, New York, USA
  • St Moritz Art Masters, Robilant+Voena, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Letters to Andy Warhol, 101/EXHIBIT, La Peer Drive, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
2016
  • Bling Bling Baby, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Shades of Blue, Opera Gallery, Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
  • drawing ROOM, David Nolan, Upper West Side, New York, USA
  • Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2015
  • David Lachapelle and Gerard Rancinan: Raw Footage, Opera Gallery, London, London, UK
  • 20 + 2 YEARS, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
  • Peter Marino: One Way, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
  • A New Selection From The Elgiz Collection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  • The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
  • beyond earth art, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2013
  • Flowers & Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
  • Vanity Fashion Photography from the F.C. Gundlach Collection, NMK, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
  • The Naked Man, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2012
  • Folklore and Naive Traditions in Contemporary Art, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2011
  • Role Models – Role Playing, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
  • Body Gestures, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliyya, Israel
2010
  • Popular: Brands, Symbols, Icons, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • ATOPIA: Art and City in the 21st Century, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2008
  • Fashion Show, Camera Work, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

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