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Kerry James Marshall

American painter and professor · United States · On the map · Artists · Born 1955 · age 71

Kerry James Marshall is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

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2018“A part of what I’m doing is making work that functions in those same capacities, but that centralizes the Black figure.”In their wordsKerry James Marshall, interview with Apollo Magazine, 2018.Read the whole statement

“For generations of young people, they have to see it as a possibility. So they can start using their minds to further imagine it.”In their wordsKerry James Marshall, interview with Apollo Magazine, 2018.Read the whole statement

2008“It is more important to resolve whatever those deficiencies are and to bring that work, on its own terms, into a space where it can be dealt with differently.”In their wordsKerry James Marshall, Art21, 2008.Read the whole statement

“Art is a way of thinking about things. It has nothing to do with an innate ability to do anything.”In their wordsKerry James Marshall, Art21, 2008.Read the whole statement

1955Born17 October 1955

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MacArthur Fellows Program

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He was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved in childhood to South Central Los Angeles. He has spent much of his career in Chicago, Illinois.

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