Couple in Bed, Chicago

1985

“Ballad” at the Whitney Biennial

The slideshow of “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” is screened at the Whitney Biennial; a year later it is published as a book.

1986

“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” appears as a book

Aperture publishes the “Ballad” as a book, with help from Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Goldin's friend Suzanne Fletcher: its 125 pictures are sequenced like the slideshow, with song titles. In her foreword she calls it a diary she lets people read, and the people in it her “tribe”.

1987

“Ballad” in Arles and the Kodak Photobook Award

The slideshow and exhibition of the “Ballad” are shown at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival; the book wins the Kodak Photobook Award.

16 November 1989 – 6 January 1990

Curates “Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing”

At Artists Space she invites New York artists to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis; demonstrators protest against censorship outside on opening night. David Wojnarowicz's essay in the catalog draws criticism, and the National Endowment for the Arts withdraws its support for the publication.

1996

Retrospective “I'll Be Your Mirror” at the Whitney

The Whitney Museum of American Art stages her retrospective “I'll Be Your Mirror”; the show then travels to Wolfsburg, Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum), Winterthur, Vienna (Kunsthalle Wien) and Prague (National Museum).

2001

Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou: “Le Feu Follet”

Her exhibition “Le Feu Follet / The Devil's Playground” opens at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and then travels to the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, Serralves in Porto, Rivoli Castle in Turin and Ujazdów Castle in Warsaw.