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Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (Born 1945) is active/lives in New York, California.  Barbara Kruger is known for Caligra-photo-montage, conceptual, feminist themes.

Feminist conceptual artist Barbara Kruger, born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey, now lives in Los Angeles and New York City. She attended Syracuse University in 1965, the School of Visual Arts, New York City, and studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York with graphic artist Marvin Israel and the famous photographer Diane Arbus.

She has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. She received from the state of New York, a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1976, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982, and a New York Foundation on the Arts fellowship in 1985.

Barbara Kruger exhibited in three Whitney Biennials, 1973, 1983, 1987, and London's Institute of Contemporary Art in 1983. Her art is in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Barbara Kruger


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Appropriation Art: Combining Materials from Various Sources
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Conceptual
  • Design
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Israel
Art School
  • Art Institute of Chicago (School Of), Teacher
  • Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
  • School of Visual Arts, New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Art Basel Miami Beach
Exhibition of Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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