About Ida Applebroog

  • Biography

    Feminist painter-printmaker Ida Applebroog, a conceptualist, performance and video artist, and social critic using a cartoon style of drawing and painting, was born in 1929 in the Bronx, New York. About her art, she says, "I'm conducting a cultural anatomy of what makes us miserable today." She established her studio in New York City.

    In 1980 and 1985, she was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; in 1986 and 1990, from the New York Foundation on the Arts; in 1990, a Guggenheim Fellowship; and in 1998, a MacArthur Foundation award. In 1997, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Parsons School of Design, New York City.

    Her work is in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,...

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