Women in Art History: Elizabeth Catlett

Barbara Kruger

American conceptual artist

Barbara Kruger grew up as the only child of a middle class Jewish family.

1964 / Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts
1965 / Parson's School of Design in New York - studied under Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel

her graphic design background
poet Patti Smith

feminism
gender roles
power
identity
sexuality
cultural stereotypes
classicism
consumerism
mass media
individual desire

1945 / born on January 26 in Newark, New Jersey
1964 / attends Syracuse University
1965 / attends Parsons School of Design
1966 / begins work at Conde Nast Publications
1967 / named head designer at Mademoiselle Magazine
1976 / begins reading social and cultural theory by writers like Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin
1976 / awarded a Creative Artists Service Program Grant
1977 / stops painting, and begins to make works based on words and photography
1979 / stops taking photographs
1980 / awarded a Project Studio One (PS1) grant
1983 / solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
1983 / awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1999 / solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
2002 / solo exhibition at the Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena
2005 / honored at the 51st Venice Biennale with the "Golden Lion" for Lifetime Achievement

"Barbara Kruger" exhibition / 1991 / Mary Boone Gallery

I Shop Therefore I Am / 1987 / photographic skilkscreen on vinyl / 111 x 113 inches

Your Body is a Battleground / 1989 / photographic skilkscreen on vinyl / 112 x 112 inches