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Njideka Akunyili Crosby 3
Kay Hassan 4
Nathaniel Mary Quinn 5
Ellen Gallagher 6
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Lorna Simpson 7
Mark Bradford 8
Julie Mehretu 9
Lyle Ashton Harris 10
Ebony Patterson 11
Henry Taylor
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Bill Traylor 15
Paul Verdell (turn book sideways to view images) 16
David Hammons
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Jacob Lawrence 18
Aaron Douglas 19
Mickalene Thomas 20
Lois Mailou Jones 21
Faith Ringgold 22
Kehinde Wiley 23
Frida Kahlo
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Robert Pruitt
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Bmike 27
Elizabeth Catlett
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Charles White (turn book sideways to view image) 31
Francisco Mora
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Emory Douglas (turn book sideways to view image) 33
Brianna McCarthy 34
Toyin Ojih Odutola 35
Felandus Thames (turn book sideways to view images) 36
Kerry James Marshall (turn book sideways to view image) 37
Barkley Hendricks 38
Titus Kaphar (turn book sideways to view images) 39
Deana Lawson 40
Carrie Mae Weems 41
Seydou Keïta 42
Malick SidibĂŠ 43
Khadija Saye 44
Graciela Iturbide
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Beverly Buchanan 47
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons 48
Lubaina Himid 49
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Romare Bearden
Hannah Höch
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Known for Collage Born 1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina Attended New York University (NYU) and The Sorbonne in Paris Died 1988 (Age 76) in New York City Period/Movement: Harlem Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Modernism, Social Realism
Known for Collage Born 1889 in Gotha, Germany Attended Berlin College of Arts & Crafts; School of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts Died 1978 (Age 88) in Berlin, Germany Period/Movement: Dada
ABOUT His collages, watercolors, oils, photomontages and prints are imbued with visual metaphors from his past in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Harlem and from a variety of historical, literary and musical sources.
ABOUT Known for her incisively political collages and photomontages (a form she helped pioneer), Hannah Höch appropriated and recombined images and text from mass media to critique popular culture, the failings of the Weimar Republic, and the socially constructed roles of women. Source: https://www.moma.org/artists/2675
Source: https://beardenfoundation.org/romarebearden/
QUOTE “You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.”
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
BASIC INFO Known for Painting & Collage Born 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, West Africa Lives and works in Los Angeles, California Attended Queens College in Lagos, Nigeria; Swathmore College; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Yale University Period/Movement: Contemporary
ABOUT Akunyili Crosby's art "negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transferbased paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds.”
Kay Hassan
BASIC INFO Known for Collage Born 1956 in Johannesburg, South Africa Lives and works in Johannesburg Attended Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre, Natal, South Africa Period/Movement: Contemporary
ABOUT Though he is best known for his large scale ‘constructions’ made of torn, reconfigured, and pasted pieces of printed billboard posters, Hassan works in numerous media including painting, collage, installation, video, sculpture, and photography. Source:http://www.jackshainman.com/artists/kay -hassan/
Source:https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/nj ideka-akunyili-crosby-2014-winner-smithsonianamerican-art-museum-s-james-dicke-contempor
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Nathaniel Mary Quinn Ellen Gallagher
BASIC INFO Known for Collage Born 1977 in Chicago, Illinois Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York Attended Wabash College and New York University (NYU) Period/Movement: Contemporary
QUOTE “When I was five, I began to scribble on the walls of our apartment whenever I could. My mother, Mary, would shout at me, until my brother Charles pointed out that I was actually pretty good. After that, she encouraged me to draw, cleaning the marks off the paint without a word.” Source:https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nathaniel -mary-quinn-artwork
BASIC INFO Known for Painting and Mixed Media Born 1956 in Providence, Rhode Island Lives and works in New York and Rotterdam, Holland Attended Oberlin College and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Period/Movement: Contemporary
ABOUT Repetition and revision are central to Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines like Ebony, Our World, and Sepia. Source:https://art21.org/artist/ellen-gallagher/
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Lorna Simpson
Mark Bradford
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BASIC INFO Known for Photography and Mixed Media Born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York Lives and works in Brooklyn Attended School of Visual Arts, New York; and University of California, San Diego Period/Movement: Contemporary, Conceptual Photography Instagram @lornasimpson
ABOUT She is most well known for her powerful artworks that combine photographs with words. She started off taking photographs of things she saw around her – but soon realized that she wanted more directly to explore the ideas and issues that she felt strongly about. So she began to take carefully posed photographs in her studio. By putting words alongside the photographs she could express even more powerfully what she felt.
Known for Large Scale Collage using Found Materials, Mixed Media Born 1961 in Los Angeles, California Lives and works in L.A. Attended California Institute of the Arts Period/Movement: Contemporary
QUOTE / ABOUT "I like the idea of putting the citizens or the viewer inside the middle of my artwork, at the center of the hurricane.” (1) “My practice is both collage and décollage at the same time. Décollage, I take it away—and then collage, I immediately add it right back.” The artist, who got his start crafting hand-lettered signage for his mother’s hair salon in Los Angeles, seeks to infuse his abstraction with real-world events and issues. (2) (1) Source:https://www.cnn.com/style/article /mark-bradford-hirshhorn/index.html (2) Source:https://news.artnet.com/exhibitio ns/art-21-mark-bradford-1370596
Source:https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who -is/who-lorna-simpson
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Julie Mehretu
BASIC INFO Known for Large Scale Mixed Media Paintings Born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, East Africa Lives and works in New York. Attended University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar in Senegal, West Africa, Kalamazoo College, Michigan and Rhode Island School of Design Period/Movement: Contemporary
Ebony Patterson
BASIC INFO Known for Mixed Media and Installation Born 1981 in Kingston, Jamaica Lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky Attended Washington University in St. Louis Period/Movement: Contemporary
Lyle Ashton Harris
BASIC INFO Known for Photography and Photo Installation Born 1965 in The Bronx, New York Lives and works in New York and Accra, Ghana, West Africa. Attended California Institute of the Arts and Wesleyan University Period/Movement: Contemporary
Henry Taylor
BASIC INFO Known for Mixed Media and Installation Born 1981 in Kingston, Jamaica Lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky Attended Washington University in St. Louis Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @chinatowntaylor
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Bill Traylor
BASIC INFO Known for Drawing/Illustration Born 1854 in Benton, AL Died 1949 in Montgomery, AL Period/Movement: Modern, Folk
ABOUT During daylight hours, Traylor would use supplies he had found such as cardboard pieces from shirt packaging and pencil stubs to create his impression of the people he saw passing by, and of plantation life as he remembered it from his youth. He would then exhibit his drawings by hanging them on a fence for passers-by to see.
Paul Verdell
BASIC INFO Known for Pastel Drawing/Illustration Born 1991 in Long Beach, California Lives and works in Bowling Green, Ohio Attended Owens Community College and Bowling Green State University, Ohio Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @paulverdell
Source: https://artanddesigninspiration.com/billtraylor-southern-self-taught-artist-born-intoslavery/
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David Hammons
Jacob Lawrence
BASIC INFO Known for Painting Born 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Attended Pratt Institute in New York Died 2000 in Seattle, Washington Period/Movement: Cubism, Harlem Renaissance, Social realism, Modernism Mentored by Charles White; Married to Artist Gwendolyn Knight
BASIC INFO Known for Conceptual, Performance Art Born 1943 in Springfield, Illinois Lives and worked in Los Angeles, now lives and works in New York City. Attended Los Angeles Trade & Technical College, Otis College of Art & Design, and Chouinard Art Institute Period/Movement: Contemporary, Conceptual Art, Postmodernism Taught by Charles White
Aaron Douglas
ABOUT David Hammons once commented that "outrageously magical things happen when you mess around with a symbol." For the past 50 years, Hammons has created a vocabulary of symbols from everyday life and messed around with them in the form of prints, drawings, performances, video, found-object sculptures, and paintings. Source: https://www.moma.org/artists/2486
BASIC INFO Known for Painting Born 1899 in Topeka, Kansas Attended Detroit Museum of Art classes, the University of Nebraska and University of Minnesota Died 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee Period/Movement: Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism, Art Deco
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Mickalene Thomas
Faith Ringgold
BASIC INFO Known for Mixed Media Paintings Born 1971 in Camden, New Jersey Lives and works in New York. Attended Pratt Institute and Yale University Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @mickalenethomas
ABOUT Mickalene Thomas is best known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic and enamel.
Lois Mailou Jones
BASIC INFO Known for Paintings and Story Quilts Born 1930 in Harlem, New York City Lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey Attended City College of New York Period/Movement: Contemporary, Black Arts Movement
QUOTE “I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.� Source: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminis t_art_base/faith-ringgold
BASIC INFO Known for Painting, Illustration/ Drawing Born 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts Attended Howard University; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Died 1998 in Washington, DC Period/Movement: Cubism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism
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Kehinde Wiley
Frida Kahlo
BASIC INFO Known for Large Scale Paintings Born 1977 in Los Angeles, California (Nigerian-American) Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York Attended San Francisco Art Institute and Yale University Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @kehindewiley
BASIC INFO Known for Self-Portrait Paintings Born 1907 and Died 1954 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico Period/Movement: Modern, Surrealist, Magical Realism, Social Realism, Cubism
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Robert Pruitt
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” "Amurallar el propio sufrimiento es arriesgarte a que te devore desde el interior." / “To wall up your own suffering is risking that it devours you from the inside.”
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BASIC INFO Known for Drawings/Illustration and Sculpture Born 1975 in Houston, Texas Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York Attended Texas Southern University and the University of Texas, Austin Period/Movement: Contemporary
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Elizabeth Catlett
Bmike (Brandan Odums)
BASIC INFO Known for Sculpture, Linocut Prints Born 1915 in Washington, DC Attended Howard University and University of Iowa Died 2012 in Cuernavaca, Mexico Period/Movement: Social Realism, New Negro Movement/Chicago Renaissance Married Charles White (Divorced 1946), Married Artist Francisco Mora
BASIC INFO Known for Large Scale Portraits and Mural Installation with Spray Paint Born 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana Lives and works in New Orleans Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @bmike2c
Charles White
BASIC INFO Known for Painting, Illustration/Drawing Born 1918 in Chicago, Illinois Died 1979 in Los Angeles, California Attended Arts Students League of NY Period/Movement: Social Realism, Chicago Renaissance/New Negro Movement Married Elizabeth Catlett (Divorced 1946)
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Francisco Mora
Brianna McCarthy
BASIC INFO Known for Paintings, Lithograph Prints Born 1922 in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico Attended La Esmeralda, Mexico City Died 2002 in Cuernavaca, Mexico Period/Movement: Social Realism, Member of “Mexican School� of mural artists Married Elizabeth Catlett
Emory Douglas
BASIC INFO Known for Paintings and Illustrations/Drawings Born 1984. Live and works in Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @macabrii
ABOUT She is a self-taught artist and aims to create a new discourse examining issues of beauty, stereotypes, representation as well as documenting the process. Source:http://www.briannamccarthy.com/index.p hp/about/
BASIC INFO Known for Illustration/Drawing, Paintings and Prints Born 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan Attended City College of San Fransisco Period/Movement: Black Arts Movement/Black Power Artist for the Black Panthe
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Toyin Ojih Odutola
Felandus Thames
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BASIC INFO Known for Illustration/Drawings Born 1985 in Ife, Nigeria, West Africa Lives and works in New York, NY Attended University of Alabama in Huntsville; California College of the Arts Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @toyinojihodutola
ABOUT Her work explores her personal journey of having been born in Nigeria then moving and assimilating into American culture in conservative Alabama. “I’m [drawing] black on black on black, trying to make it as layered as possible in the deepness of the blackness to bring it out. I noticed the pen became this incredible tool. The black ballpoint [pen] ink on blackboard would become copper tone and I was like ‘wow, this isn’t even black at all!’ The black board was like this balancing platform for the ink to become something else. I instantly recognized this notion, of how we think something is a certain way and in reality it is something else.”Source:http://www.jackshainman.com/arti sts/toyin-odutola/
Known for Images made out of objects, Mixed Media Born in Jackson, Mississippi Lives and works in Connecticut and New York, NY Attended Jackson State University and Yale University Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @felandus
Kerry James Marshall
BASIC INFO Known for Paintings Born 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama Lives and Works in Chicago, Illinois; Grew up in Los Angeles Attended Otis College of Art & Design Period/Movement: Contemporary Taught by Charles White
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Barkley Hendricks
Deana Lawson
BASIC INFO Known for Paintings/Portraiture Born 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Yale University Died 2017 in New London, Connecticut Period/Movement: Contemporary, Black Arts Movement
Titus Kaphar
BASIC INFO Known for Paintings, Installation, Scuplture Born 1979 in Rochester, New York Lives and works in New York Attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Pennsylvania State University Period/Movement: Contemporary
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BASIC INFO Known for Paintings, Installation, Scuplture Born 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan Lives and works in Connecticut Attended San Jose State University and Yale University Period/Movement: Contemporary, Black Arts Movement
Photographer Deana Lawson shoots carefully staged portraits of black families in their homes. In their homes, she rearranged their belongings and guided them into specific poses to stage “a mirror of everyday life, but also a projection of what I want to happen,� she says. Source:https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/deanalawson-interview.html
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Carrie Mae Weems
Malick Sidibé
BASIC INFO Known for Photography Born 1953 in Portland, Oregon Lives and works in New York Attended California Institute of the Arts; University of California, Berkeley; and University of California, San Diego Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @carriemaeweems
Seydou Keïta
BASIC INFO Known for Photography Born 1936 in Soloba, Mali, West Africa Attended Institut National des Arts de Bamako Died 2016 in Bamako, Mali Period/Movement: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Khadija Saye
BASIC INFO Known for Photography Born 1921 in Bamako, Mali, West Africa Died 2001 in Paris, France Period/Movement: 1940s to 1960s
QUOTE / ABOUT Keïta went to exceptional lengths to bring out the beauty of his subjects and the brilliant patterns of his backdrops proved a particularly effective foil. He worked intuitively, reinventing portrait photography through his search for extreme precision. Source: http://www.seydoukeitaphotographer.com/en/biograph y/
BASIC INFO Known for Photography Born 1992 in London, England (BritishGambian) Attended University of the Creative Arts at Farnham Died 2017 in London Period/Movement: Contemporary Instagram @saye_photo
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Graciela Iturbide
BASIC INFO Known for Photography Born 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico Attended Centro de Estudios Cinematograficos at the Universidad Nacional Autonama de Mexico Period/Movement: Contemporary
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Lubaina Himid
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Known for Painting and Installations Born 1954 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa Lives and works in Lancashire, England Attended Wimbledon College of Art and the Royal College of Art in England Period/Movement: Contemporary
Known for Photography, Installation and Performance Art Born 1959 in Matanzas, Cuba (Cuban) Lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. Attended Escuela National de Arte, Institute Superior de Arte (ISA) both in Havana, Cuba and Massachusetts College of Art and Design Period/Movement: Contemporary
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Beverly Buchanan
Nick Cave
BASIC INFO Known for shack sculptures, pastel drawings and site-specific sculpture Born 1940 in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina Attended Bennett College in Greensboro, NC and Columbia University in NY Died 2015 in Ann Arbor, Michigan Period/Movement: Contemporary Mentored by Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden
BASIC INFO Known for fabric sculpture and performance Born 1959 in Fulton, Missouri Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Attended Kansas City Art Institute and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan Period/Movement: Contemporary
ABOUT Nick Cave is an American fabric sculptor, dancer, and performance artist. He is best known for his Soundsuits: wearable fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey. Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave_ (performance_artist)
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