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Join us on 9 March for the opening of major international exhibition Ryan McGinley: YEARBOOK, presented in partnership with PHOTO 2024.
This landmark photographic project is a feature of the PHOTO 2024 festival program and marks the first Australian presentation of a solo exhibition from McGinley. The opening event will include opening remarks from Justine Dalla Riva (CEO, Victorian Pride Centre), followed by an exclusive, in-person artist conversation with Ryan McGinley, Elias Redstone (Artistic Director, PHOTO 2024) and Melinda Martin (SAM CEO).
Please note: This exhibition contains full-frontal artistic nudity. Adult supervision is required for visitors under the age of 16.
About YEARBOOK
Presented in partnership with PHOTO 2024, American artist Ryan McGinley’s ever-evolving project YEARBOOK is a large-scale photographic installation consisting of over seven hundred studio portraits of musicians, artists, and creatives living and working in New York. A joyful celebration of the diversity of the human body, each photograph in YEARBOOK features its subject posing against vibrant candy-coloured backgrounds, appearing like fashion or rock band promotional posters. First presented in 2008, YEARBOOK has featured in several in major public institutions across Japan, Denmark, Korea, and Spain. This presentation of YEARBOOK marks McGinley’s first major solo exhibition in Australia
YEARBOOK is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography.
Image: Ryan McGinley, YEARBOOK, installation view 'Body Loud' at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2016. Courtesy the artist.
