Barbara Kruger (American, 1945)

Barbara Kruger

American | 1945

Barbara Kruger is an American photographer who was born in 1945. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Broad have featured Barbara Kruger's work in the past.Barbara Kruger's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 63 USD to 1,562,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,562,500 USD for Untitled (My face is your fortune), sold at Sotheby's New York in 2022. Barbara Kruger has been featured in articles for MOUSSE Magazine, AnOther and ArtDependence Magazine. The most recent article is The Big Big Picture: How Art on The Mart Uses Tech With a Heart written for New City Art in April 2024.

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The Big Big Picture: How Art on The Mart Uses Tech With a Heart
“Coming Soon. While Waiting for Tomorrow” at Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris
The Broad Museum LA Will Expand It's Gallery Space

Coverage

..“The Globe Shrinks” (2010) is a multiple channel video installation that continues Kruger’s engagement with the kindness and brutality of the everyday, the collision of declaration and doubt, the duet...

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Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street

..Using contrasting layers of text and image, Kruger’s work has for almost three decades probed the nature of a media-saturated society in late capitalism, and the significance of highly evolved cultures...

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Sprüth Magers, London

..Coupled with the bold font, the red frames not only create a strong visual impact against the black and white imagery, more importantly they function as a key element in Kruger’s strategy to challenge...

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Skarstedt Gallery, London

..Signed, sealed, delivered.” Drawing on her background in graphic design, Kruger adopts the same visual tools as mass media; the appropriated images and texts acting as both social commentary and political...

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Skarstedt Gallery, London

..According to Kruger, the work reflects “how we are to one another” within “the days and nights that construct us.” These texts, along with Kruger’s own writings, resonate with particular potency in today’s...

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The High Line

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