In the early part of the 20th century, European artists had also questioned accepted ideals of beauty, and the choice of Rossy de Palma, often referred to as «a Picasso portrait come to life» — her asymmetric
features so impressed film director Pedro Almodóvar that he gave her a starring
role in
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)-- to
model the latest Portable Art project collection is apposite.
Select group exhibitions
featuring her work include Selections from the Permanent Collection: Catherine Opie and Sterling Ruby, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017); Breaking News, Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2016 - 2017); A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2016 - 2017); Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2016); Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015); Residue: The Persistence of the Real, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2015); America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2014); and
Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography, National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (2008).