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Identity

Who gets represented, by whom, and under what terms? These artists make identity something constructed, lived, performed and contested.

01Cindy ShermanIdentity as a role the camera can manufacture.02Frida KahloThe self becomes the battlefield.03Gordon BennettAustralian history is an image system that can be dismantled.04Jean-Michel BasquiatThe street enters the canon.05Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeShe paints people who never existed - and gives them lives we can almost remember.06Salman ToorQueer intimacy enters the old-master room.07Zanele MuholiThe portrait becomes evidence, celebration and self-possession.08Zhang XiaogangThe family photograph becomes a portrait of modern China.