Richard Prince: Continuation

Richard Prince (b. 1949), one of the world's most celebrated artists and one of its greatest artistic innovators, has curated his new exhibition Richard Prince: Continuation on–site at the Serpentine Gallery. His first major exhibition in a UK public gallery, Richard Prince: Continuation is the artist's selection of his own work, and includes new works together with highlights of an extraordinary 30–year career in painting, photography and sculpture.

It is a uniquely personal exhibition of the artist's work, selected to create an environment reflecting the Gallery's scale and location. Prince is a voracious collector of art, furniture, memorabilia and books, which he houses in a variety of buildings alongside his own artworks. The exhibition will represent a direct dialogue with these spaces, mirroring the installation of his work in his studios and home.

Prince came to prominence in the 1980s through celebrated series such as Cowboys, Jokes and Hoods, which appropriated images from magazines, popular culture and pulp fiction to create new photographs, sculptures and paintings that respond to ideas about American identity and consumerism. Prince's images, now iconic themselves, are sourced from his obsessive collecting of pictures that began when he worked for Time–Life magazine in the 1970s and continue to resonate deeply with our modern obsession with celebrity culture. These works have also been critical in challenging ideas of authorship and raising questions about the value of the unique artwork.

Richard Prince:
Continuation