Kerry James Marshall

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• Publications

  → Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints, Publisher: Ludion/D.A.P, 2023

  → Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting, Publisher: David Zwirner Books, 2019

  → Kerry James Marshall: Inside/Out, Publisher: WALTHER KÖNIG, KÖLN, 2019

• Exhibitions

  → "Kerry James Marshall: The Garden Project" , The Contemporary Austin, 2021

  → "Kerry James Marshall: Works on Paper", The Arts Club of Chicago, 2020

  → "Kerry James Marshall: Black and White", David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 2019

  → "Kerry James Marshall: Painting and the Black Body", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , 2018

  → "Kerry James Marshall: History of Black Art", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019

• Awards

• Links

  → https://www.instagram.com/kerryjamesmarshs/

Black and Part Black Birds in America: (Magpies and Baltimore Orioles) , 2023 Acrylic on PVC panel, 60 7/8 x 60 7/8 inches (154.6 x 154.7 cm)

Bang, 104 x 120 inches, acrylic and collage on canvas, 1994

Vignette (The Kiss), 72 × 60 inches (panel)72 9/16 × 60 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (framed), acrylic on PVC panel, 2018

Untitled (Studio), 2014, Acrylic on PVC panels, 83 5/16 × 119 1/4 in (211.6 × 302.9 cm)

Black and part Black Birds in America (Red wing Blackbirds, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Scarlet Tanager), 2021 Acrylic on PVC, 36 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches (92.8 x 77.4 cm)

Souvenir II, 108 × 156 inches, acrylic, collage and glitter on unstretched canvas banner, 1997

Great America, 103 × 114 inches, acrylic and collage on canvas, 1994

Untitled (Curtain Girl), 30 × 24 inches, acrylic on PVC panel, 2016

Untitled, 61 1/8 × 72 7/8 × 3 7/8 inches, acrylic on PVC panel, 2009

School of Beauty, School of Culture, 108 × 158 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2012

Kerry James Marshall, Born October 17, 1955, in Birmingham, Alabama, realized that he wanted to be an artist at a very early age. Inspired by pictures in a book, Marshall decided he wanted to be a visual artist.

Themes and ideas present in Marshall's work reflect the complex web of personal and social issues that have been instrumental in molding his life. When Marshall was eight, his family moved to the Watts community in Los Angeles, California. As the epicenter of intense struggle for civil rights, including a riot in 1965 and a confrontation between city police officers and the Black Panthers, Watts and its imagery have dramatically influenced the form and content of Marshall's work. His celebrated series, "The Garden Project", critiqued low-income housing projects whose names denoted an idyllic Eden-like world, camouflaging the poverty and violence within.

Marshall received his training from the incomparable Charles White while enrolled at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Best known for his stylized, large-scale paintings depicting the beauty and complexity of African American life, Marshall also designs sculpture and has served as a production designer for such films as Daughters of the Dust (1989) and the Hendrix Project (1991).

With ground-breaking shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin and the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, Marshall's childhood dreams have been realized. He recently was named the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" grant and his work has become incorporated into the permanent collections of many museums across the nation. Marshall is currently an art professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago.