Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red... Wikipedia
Born: January 26, 1945 (age 79 years), Newark, NJ
Known for: Visual art and graphic design
Period: Contemporary art
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Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. ... She is an Emerita Distinguished Professor of New Genres at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
Barbara Kruger is a contemporary American artist known for her use of bold red, white, and black type overlaid with images of cultural critique.
Barbara Kruger (*1945) is a key artist of the Pictures Generation and in the development of appropriation art, post-conceptualism and feminist art.
In recent years, Kruger has extended her aesthetic project, creating public installations of her work in galleries, museums, municipal buildings, train stations ...