About Barbara Kruger

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    Feminist conceptual artist Barbara Kruger, born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey, now lives in Los Angeles and New York City. She attended Syracuse University in 1965, the School of Visual Arts, New York City, and studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York with graphic artist Marvin Israel and the famous photographer Diane Arbus.

    She has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. She received from the state of New York, a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1976, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982, and a New York Foundation on the Arts fellowship in 1985.

    Barbara Kruger exhibited in three Whitney Biennials, ...

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