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McArthur Binion

McArthur Binion (Born 1946) is active/lives in Mississippi, New York.  McArthur Binion is known for Mixed-media minimalist abstraction, drawings with crayon and ink.

McArthur Binion (born 1946) is an American artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Binion was born in Macon, Mississippi. He holds a BFA from Wayne State University (1971) in Detroit, Michigan and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has been a Professor of Art at Columbia College in Chicago since 1992.

Binion was born in 1946 on a cotton farm in Macon, Mississippi. He began picking cotton at age 3 as one of 11 children, and by 1951 his family of 18 moved to Detroit where they found jobs in an auto plant. Binion was the first African American to get an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1973 he moved to New York, where he stayed until his move to Chicago in 1991.

An active artist since the 1970s, Binion's work has been featured in group shows and the focus of solo shows at the Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan Council for the Arts, the Small Walls Gallery, the Peg Alston Gallery, Saginaw Museum of Art, Artist Space, and the Susan Caldwell   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7210 characters.]  Artist bio

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