Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce Marilyn Minter’s first exhibition in Hong Kong. The gallery will exhibit recent paintings and photographs by the New York-based artist. Since the 1980s, Minter has been at the forefront of the ongoing dialogue surrounding depictions of women in art and media with her raw, honest, and at times explicit paintings and photographs of women. By pushing the boundaries of beauty and glamour imagery, Minter exposes the double standards that influence women’s identities and presents brazen alternatives to the depictions of women that we consume daily. The gallery will host an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, August 30, from 6 to 8 PM. In Conversation with Marilyn Minter is organized by the Asia Society Hong Kong Center as part of their Women of Impact Series on Wednesday, August 29, from 6:30 to 8 PM. Tickets will be available at asiasociety.org/hong-kong on Tuesday, August 7th, 2018.

Minter gained notoriety during the 1990s, at the height of what was known as “the culture wars” in the United States, a period of extreme political correctness that led to art censorship. Not surprisingly, Minter became a target on both sides of the divide—both for being provocative and for working outside of dominant feminist ideology at the time. Steadfastly, Minter continued her work, going on to develop her signature style of hyperrealistic paintings, eventually earning institutional recognition and art critical praise for her traveling retrospective, Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, starting in 2015 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and leading up to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, in 2017. In recent years, Minter has been celebrated for her subversion of beauty standards and cultural ideals that relate to women, as well as her lifelong activism that has benefitted and brought attention to major political issues.