Michel Auder

French photographer and filmmaker

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Viva

(m. 1969, divorced)

Cindy Sherman

(m. 1984; div. 1999)

Websitewww.michelauder.com

Michel Auder (born 1945) is a French and American photographer and filmmaker. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Art career

His earliest works are travel logs and endearing portraits of friends including Hannah Wilke, Alice Neel, Annie Sprinkle, Eric Bogosian, Louis Waldon, and Larry Rivers. His work is often in the format of a video diary.^[2]

In 2004, the Williams College Museum of Art held a comprehensive exhibition of Auder's work.^[3]

His work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.^[4]

Auder's work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum Brandhorst.^[5]

Personal life

Auder married painter/actress and author Viva^[6] in 1969 and together they had one daughter, Alexandra Auder, in February 1971. This event is included in the couple's film diaries.^[3]

Auder was married to Cindy Sherman from the early 1980s until the late 1990s.

Selected works

Keeping Busy, 1969
Cleopatra, 1970
The Valerie Solanas Incident, 1971
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, 1971–1976
Chronicles: Family Diaries, 1971-1973 (Excerpts)
Made for Denise, 1978
Seduction of Patrick, 1979
Portrait of Alice Neel, 1976–1982
Chasing the Dragon, 1982
Flying, 1983
The Games: Olympic Variations, 1984
My Last Bag of Heroin (For Real), 1986
Brooding Angels, Made for R.L., 1988
Roman Variations, 1991
Voyage to the Center of the Phone Lines, 1993
Polaroid Cocaine, 1993
Louis Waldon, 1994
The Vanuatu Chronicles, 1998
T.W.U. Richard Serra, An Unsolicited Video by Michel Auder, 1980–82, re-edit 2002
Louis Waldon in Chronicles: Los Angeles/Bel-Air (July 1999), 2002
Chronicles: Columbian Wedding (April 1999), 2002
Morocco 1972: The Real Chronicles with Viva, 2002
Chronicles: Van's Last Performance, 1971, edited 2002
The World Out of My Hands, 2006
New Mexico Chronicles, 2006
The Feature (with SeeThink Productions), 2007
Endless Column, 2011

Collections

Museum Brandhorst, Münich^[5]
Kadist Collection, Paris^[7]^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "Michel Auder | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
^ "Michel Auder | Frieze". Frieze.
^ ^a ^b Shearer, Linda; Chavoya, C. Ondine. "Michel Auder Chronicles and Other Scenes" (PDF). Williams College Museum of Art. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^ "Michel Auder". whitney.org.
^ ^a ^b "The collection | Museum Brandhorst". museum-brandhorst.de.
^ "Untitled Document".
^ "Michel Auder: The Town". Kadist Collection. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^ "Michel Auder: Talking Head". Kadist Collection. Retrieved 3 December 2020.