A Rare Exploration of Andy Warhol’s Self-Portraits and Celebrity Portraiture as Part of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Global Program
Opening this fall in Seoul, Looking for Andy is the latest installment of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-mursprogram—a global exhibition series that brings works from the Paris-based collection to international audiences. Following tributes to Alberto Giacometti and Gerhard Richter, Espace Louis Vuitton Seoul will shine a focused spotlight on one of contemporary art’s most enigmatic figures: Andy Warhol.
Rather than showcasing his well-known soup cans or Brillo boxes, this exhibition explores Warhol’s lifelong obsession with identity, surface, and self-reinvention. The selection features rare and exclusive works from the Collection, including early self-portraits, filmed Screen Tests, and late-career Polaroids that show the artist transforming himself into a wide range of personas. As Warhol himself famously quipped:
If you want to know about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.
– Andy Warhol
Looking for Andy also includes Warhol’s 1975 series Ladies and Gentlemen, which paid homage to New York’s drag performers with bursts of color and stylized flair. Additional works include his Polaroid portraits of celebrities, Jewish cultural icons, and group portraits constructed from archival materials—all of which underscore Warhol’s status as both documentarian and mythmaker.
From his earliest experiments with a photo booth in 1963 to his ghostly late self-portraits made shortly before his death in 1987, the show traces the evolution of Warhol’s image-making and identity play. His art becomes a mirror, not only for himself, but for a culture obsessed with appearances and fame.
The exhibition runs alongside a complementary show in Tokyo, Andy Warhol: Serial Portraits – Selected Works from the Collection, on view at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo through February 15, 2026. Together, they deepen the Fondation’s commitment to making key works from its holdings accessible around the world—one Warhol at a time.
Photo – Courtesy Of The Andy Warhol Foundation/Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris/© Primae /Louis Bourjac