Kerry James Marshall School of Beauty, School of Culture, 2012, acrylic and glitter on unstretched canvas, 107 7/8 x 157 7/8 inches; Untitled (Studio), 2014, acrylic on PVC panel, 83 ½ x 118 7/8 inches; 7 am Sunday Morning, 2003, acrylic on canvas, banner, 120 x 216 inches.

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KERRY JAMES MARSHALL

Kerry James Marshall (b.1955, Birmingham, Alabama) grew up in Watts, Los Angeles,and is a 1978 graduate of the Otis College of Art and Design. After being an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1986, he moved to Chicago,where he continues to live and work today. Marshall is the recipient of several awards, grants, and fellowships including the MacArthur genius grant in 1997 and an honorary doctorate from Otis College of Art and Design in 1999. In 2013 he was named to President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Marshall has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Kerry James Marshall: In the Tower was most recently on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.(2013). Other recent solo exhibitions include Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff, organized by the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, traveling to the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark; the Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona;and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2014);and exhibitions at Secession, Vienna (2012); the Wexner Center for the Arts (2008); Camden Arts Centre (2005); MCA Chicago (2003); and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1998).