Barbara Kruger

Artist, Visual Artist

1945 –

49

Who is Barbara Kruger?

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they". Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

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Born
Jan 26, 1945
Newark
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Syracuse University
  • School of Visual Arts
  • Parsons The New School for Design
  • Weequahic High School
Lived in
  • Newark

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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