Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955 in Birmingham , Alabama ) is an American artist .
Life
Marshall studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and was a MacArthur Fellow in 1997 . In 1997 he was represented at the documenta X , in 2003 at the Biennale di Venezia and in 2007 at the documenta 12 in Kassel .
In his paintings, collages and videos , Marschall takes up his own experiences as an African American , as well as historical as well as popular and political motifs. In his panoptics, black figures stand in the center of the picture surface.
At documenta 12 he showed paintings and collages in the Museum Fridericianum , including the large-format Could This Be Love (1992, acrylic and collage, 215 × 233 cm), which depicts the bedroom interaction of a black couple, and La Venus Negra (1984, acrylic on paper, 152 × 101 cm) whose motif results from the title. In the Aue pavilion, the installation Rytm Master was shown, which uses comic drawings to deal with the conflict among African-Americans between “museum education and gang violence”.
In 2014 he was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize of the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig , and in the same year he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2017, Time (magazine) named him one of the 100 most influential personalities. In the British art magazine “Art Review” he is (after gallery owner David Zwirner ) number 2 on the “Power 100” ranking list with the current one hundred most influential personalities in the international art world.
The artist lives and works in Chicago.
Exhibitions
- 2012: Who's Afraid of Red, Black and Green , Wiener Secession
- 2009: Kerry James Marshall , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- 2009: SLOW MOVEMENT OR: Half and the whole Kunsthalle Bern
- 2008: Heartland , Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven March 1, 2008 - July 27, 2008
- 2007: THE COLOR LINE , Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Public collections
United States
- MIT List Visual Arts Center , Cambridge, MA
- Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago: Untitled (Painter) , 2009, acrylic on PVC, 113 × 110 × 10 cm, Inv. No. 2009.15 and numerous other works
- The Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago, IL
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
- The Progressive Art Collection , Mayfield Village, OH
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, DC
Web links
- Materials by and about Kerry James Marshall in the documenta archive
- Kerry James Marshall on kunstaspekte.de
- Interview (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documenta 12 , catalog. Taschen, Cologne, 2007 ISBN 978-3-8228-1677-6 , pp. 134, 282, 342, 373
- ^ Website of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marshall, Kerry James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , Alabama |