by Danielle Olivier | Aug 31, 2017
Liza Lou was born in New York and currently lives and works in Los Angeles and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her boundary-breaking work first gained international attention when her sculpture, Kitchen (1991-96), was shown at the New Museum in New York in 1996....
by Danielle Olivier | Aug 31, 2017
Roger Ballen was born in New York. During the late 60s and early 70s, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was exposed to the anti-psychiatry movement led by R.D. Laing, the theatre of the absurd, and the work of colourfield artists like Mark...
by Danielle Olivier | Aug 25, 2017
Glenn Ligon was born in New York, where he lives and works. At the age of 22, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University (1982) and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1985. Whether through the sampling of prominent African American...
by Cornelius Rykaart | Aug 2, 2017
Kehinde Wiley was born in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in New York. Wiley obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and received his Master of Fine Art from Yale University School of Art in 2001. In all his work, Wiley...
by Cornelius Rykaart | Aug 2, 2017
Hank Willis Thomas was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in the United States of America. In 1998 he graduated with a BFA in Photography and Africana studies at New York University, completing an MFA in Photography and an MA in Visual Criticism at California College of...
