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Ragnar Kjartansson was born in 1976 in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he lives and works. He studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland, from 1997 to 2001, and spent a year studying at ...

In 2008, twenty of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits (1989–1990) were exhibited at Skarstedt Gallery in New York City. In the following interview, Sherman walks Art21 through the exhibition and ...

Wangechi Mutu was born in 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya. In her collages, drawings, sculptures, and films, Mutu centers the female body to create powerful and self-possessed figures that are hybrids of human ...

Kerry James Marshall discusses the complexities of representational work, and how he sees his portraits existing outside of time. ART21: You’ve said before that when you were young you knew you wanted ...

Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, a township southwest of Durban, South Africa, in 1972. From self-portraiture to photographs of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people living ...

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. An artist working at the intersection of architecture and performance art, Lozano-Hemmer creates participatory artworks that utilize technology ...

Jafa draws from a varied pool of cultural artifacts and media, among them, images of musicians like Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, and Lateria Wooten, video documentation of police violence against ...

Precious Okoyomon was born in 1993 in London and lives and works in New York City. The artist received their BA from Shimer College in 2013. Okoyomon works in sculpture, installation, and poetry: ...