Hauser & Wirth Monaco is presenting "Stream of Consciousness," a comprehensive exhibition featuring works by renowned American artist Annie Leibovitz, showcasing landscapes, still lifes, and portraits created over the past two decades. This marks Leibovitz's first exhibition in Monaco and follows her induction into the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Paris in 2024, the latest recognition for this multi-award-winning artist who was named Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2006.

The exhibition, previously shown at Hauser & Wirth New York on 22nd Street, abandons linear chronology and conventional thematic constraints to reveal Leibovitz's associative thought processes and fluid visual dialogue between photographs. This unique approach draws attention to major cultural markers of our time, allowing viewers to experience the artist's intuitive connections between different subjects and periods.

"Stream of Consciousness" presents both well-known images of iconic writers, performers, and visual artists, including Amy Sherald, Billie Eilish, and Salman Rushdie, alongside images that have rarely been exhibited before. The exhibition also features contemporary cultural figures such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, demonstrating the breadth of Leibovitz's portrait work.

Beyond portraiture, the exhibition showcases Leibovitz's diverse subject matter through images of landscapes, interiors, and historical objects, including Abraham Lincoln's top hat and Elvis Presley's bullet-riddled television set. These juxtapositions highlight the artist's versatility and her ability to balance intimacy with theatricality, the delicately personal with the grandly universal, guided by her intuitive eye and exceptional sense of narrative.

Reflecting on her approach, Leibovitz explained, "Exhibitions of my work are most often organized chronologically. The images tell a story shaped by time. But certain photographs—Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Hill, the portrait of Joan Didion in Central Park—correspond with others taken elsewhere, at different times. They are not anchored to the single moment of their creation. I keep coming back to these images."

Throughout her distinguished career, Leibovitz has received numerous accolades, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center of Photography, the first Creative Excellence Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors, the Centenary Medal from the Royal Photographic Society of London, the Distinguished Women in the Arts Award from the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Wexner Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities. The United States Library of Congress has designated her a Living Legend.

Living in New York with her three children—Sarah, Susan, and Samuelle—Leibovitz has published several major collections of her work. These include "Annie Leibovitz: Photographs" (1983), "Annie Leibovitz: Photographs 1970-1990" (1991), "Olympic Portraits" (1996), "Women" (1999) in collaboration with Susan Sontag, "American Music" (2003), "A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005" (2006), "Annie Leibovitz at Work" (2008; reissued in 2018 and 2024), "Pilgrimage" (2011), "Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016" (2017), "Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970-1983" (2018), and "Annie Leibovitz: Wonderland" (2021).

"Annie Leibovitz: Stream of Consciousness" runs from July 2 through September 27, 2025, at Hauser & Wirth Monaco, located at One Monte-Carlo Place du Casino, 98000 Monaco. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visitors can call 377 92 00 04 20 or visit monacohauserwirth.com and hauserwirth.com.