Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger : biography

26 January 1945 –

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they". Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

Books

  • My Pretty Pony, text by Stephen King (1988), Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Barbara Kruger: 7 January to 28 January 1989 by Barbara Kruger, Mary Boone Gallery, 1989
  • Barbara Kruger: 5 January to 26 January 1991, by Barbara Kruger, 1991
  • Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances by Barbara Kruger, 1994
  • Love for Sale, by Kate Linker, 1996
  • Remaking History (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No 4) by Barbara Kruger, 1998
  • Thinking of You, 1999 (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
  • Barbara Kruger, by Angela Vettese, 2002
  • Money Talks by Barbara Kruger and Lisa Phillips, 2005
  • Barbara Kruger by Barbara Kruger, Rizzoli 2010

Exhibitions

In 1979, Barbara Kruger exhibited her first works combining appropriated photographs and fragments of superimposed text at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, in Long Island City, Queens. Her first institutional show was staged in London, when Iwona Blazwick decided to exhibit her work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1983.Caroline Roux (May 9, 2011), The Independent. In 1999, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles mounted the first retrospective exhibition to provide a comprehensive overview of Kruger’s career since 1978, which travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 2000. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Kruger has since been the subject of many one-person exhibitions, including shows organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (1983); the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (1985); Serpentine Gallery in London (1994); Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2005); and Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2008). In 2009, Kruger was included in the seminal show "The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kruger has also participated in the Whitney Biennial (1983, 1985, and 1987) and Documenta 7 and 8 (1982 and 1987). She represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1982 and again participated in 2005, when she received the Leone d’Oro for lifetime achievement.

In 2007, Kruger was one of the many artists to be a part of South Korea’s Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale in Seoul. This marked South Korea’s first women’s biennial. That same year, she designed "Consider This…", an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LACMA In September 2009, Kruger’s Between Being Born and Dying, a major installation commissioned by the Lever House Art Collection, opened at the New York City architectural landmark Lever House. In 2012, as a member of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Kruger volunteered to be the lead funder of the museum’s scholarly exhibit Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 and to create a new work on vinyl to sell with proceeds going entirely toward the show’s $1 million budget.Mike Boehm (March 28, 2012), Los Angeles Times.

Kruger’s words and pictures have been displayed in both galleries and public spaces, as well as framed and unframed photographs, posters, postcards, t-shirts, electronic signboards, façade banners, and billboards.

Literature

  • Heyd, Milly. 1999. Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2618-3.
  • Hyman, Paula E., Moore, Beborah Dash. 1998. Jewish Women in America. An Historical Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Routledge. Sponsored by The American Jewish Historical Society. ISBN 0-415-91934-7.
  • Janson, H.W., Janson, Anthony F. History of Art. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. 6 edition. January 1, 2005. ISBN 0-13-182895-9
  • Kruger, Barbara. 1982. „“Taking“ Pictures.“ Screen 23 (2): 90-96.
  • Linker, Kate. Love For Sale: Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1996.
  • Femme brut(e), [exhibition catalogue] New London: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2006.
  • “Barbara Kruger” ACCA Education Kit. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. http://www.accaonline.org.au/Assets/12/1/BarbaraKrugeredkit-1.pdf
  • Rankin, Aimee. 1987. „“Difference“ and Deference.“ Screen 11 (2): 91-101.