Barbara Kruger’s artworks & exhibitions
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Born January 26, 1945, in New Jersey, Barbara Kruger is an American graphic artist, designer, collagist, and photographer. She’s a leading figure in The Pictures Generation. Most of her works center on postmodernism, feminist art, conceptual art, and photomontage.
Kruger is most recognized for her black-and-white photo art featuring white-on-red captions in Helvetica Ultra Condensed or Future Bold Oblique text. These silkscreen prints often convey ironic satire and often use pronouns like ‘they’, ‘we’, ‘I’, ‘your’, and ‘you’ to tackle cultural constructions of gender, consumerism, identity, and power.
Barbara Kruger shares her time between New York and Los Angeles, where she teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles School of the Arts and Architecture.
Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground) is an iconic 1989 silkscreen portrait made by artist, feminist and activist Barbara Kruger. Though the poster was meant for the pro-choice march on April 9th, 1989, in DC, the portrait is now used mainly to voice the artist’s own opinion about gender inequality. The piece is much more […]
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I Shop Therefore I Am (1987) is the work of Barbara Kruger. It became an iconic artwork, being reproduced on items such as shopping bags and other consumer products such as t-shirts. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in Futura Bold. She then uses advertising
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Barbara Kruger’s art is easily one of the most recognizable on the planet. Characterized by the bold white Futura Oblique and sometimes caps locked sans serif, her artwork forces audiences to take a hard look at the institutions that she satirizes. Both direct and political, her art is designed to question the modern political and
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Since being introduced in 2000, Art Basel’s Unlimited section shows artworks such as large-scale sculptures, video installations and performances that may not fit in the traditional art-booth framework. This is our top 10 selection of this year’s Unlimited. All comments on the works below are citations from Gianni Jetzer, the curator of Unlimited (2017). “Nick
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From the late 1990s to recent years, Pictures Generation conceptual artist/activist Barbara Kruger has wrapped several buses in her prints – in New York, Los Angeles and Cologne. Her work is usually known for its bold, eye-catching design and philosophical themes. About Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is a New Jersey-born conceptual artist known for her
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