Renee Cox

Renee Cox (fødd 16. oktober 1960)^[1] er ein jamaicansk-amerikansk kunstnar, fotograf, førelesar, kurator og politisk aktivist. Verket hennar blir rekna som del den feministiske kunstrørsla i USA. Nokre av dei best kjende og kontroversielle verka hennar er Queen Nanny of the Maroons, Raje og Yo Mama's Last Supper, som også er døme på black feminism-perspektivet hennar.^[2]

Renee Cox
Pseudonym	Cox, Renee
Statsborgarskap	USA, Jamaica
Fødd	16. oktober 1960 (64 år) Jamaica
Yrke	fotograf, ny-mediekunstner
Renee Cox på Commons

Bakgrunn

Cox vart fødd i Colgate på Jamaica. Familien hennar høyrde til den øvre middelklassen. Dei flytta seinare til Scarsdale i New York.^[1]

Cox studerte film ved Syracuse University. Ho tok mastergrad ved School of Visual Arts i New York, og studerte deretter i eit år på Whitney Museum of American Art sitt Independent Study-program.^[3]

Etter studia konsentrerte ho seg om fotografi. Ho verka som assisterande moteredaktør ved Glamour Magazine og var deretter tre år i Paris der ho verka som motefotograf for blad som Votre Beaute og Vogue Homme og for designerar som Issey Miyake og Claude Montana.^[4]

Utstillingar

2016

• Black Pulp!, Yale School of Art, New Haven
• Remix, Themes and Variations in African American Art, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina

2015

• Family Affair, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum,
• Solo:
  • Tropiques-Atrium, Fort-de-France, Martinique, (Dominique Brebion, Curator)

2014

• Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany, Me.Myself.Naked
• Perez Art Museum, Miami, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Posing Beauty in African American Culture
• The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography

2013

• El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World

2012

• Kade / Kunsthal in Amersfoort, Holland. Who's More Sci-Fi Than Us, contemporary art from the Caribbean.

2011

• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Heroines

2010

• Tate Liverpool, Afro Modern, Journeys through the Black Atlantic

2009

• Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body
• Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, Kréyol Factory
• Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Georgia, Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities

2008

• Arlington Arts Center, Virginia, She's So Articulate, (Jeffry Cudlin & Henry L. Thaggert Co-Curators)
• Mabel Smith Douglass Library Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Never Has She Ever...
• Solo:
  • Discreet Charm of the Bougie, Gallery Nodine Zidoun, Paris, Frankrike

2007

• Jamaican Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
• New York Historical Society, Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New York
• Rhodes College, Tennessee, Taking Aim, Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection
• Yale Center for British Art, Art & Emancipation Worlds

2006-2008

• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Soul Food!

2006

• Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, Artificial Afrika

2005

• The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, African Queen
• Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, The Forest: Politics, poetics, and Practice
• Solo:
  • Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Renee Cox: Queen Nanny of the Maroons

2004

• Busan Biennale 2004, Busan, South Korea

2003-2004

• Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Splat Boom Pow! The influence of Comics in Contemporary Art

2003

• Henry Radford Hope School of fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Feminine Persuasion

2002

• Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Art & Outrage (exhibition presented by the Trio Network, Inc, and USA Cable)

2001

• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Committed to the Image (Barbara Millstein, Curator)
• Solo:
  • Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Renee Cox: American Family

2000

• Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photography (Deborah Willis, Curator)
• Solo:
  • Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, Peoples Project 2000

1999

• Fin de Siecle, Nantes, Frankrike, New York a Nantes (Patricia Solini, Curator)
• The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Picturing of the Modern Amazon (Laurie Fierstein, Curator)

1998

• Looking Forward Looking Back, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit
• Venice Biennale, Oratorio di S. Ludivico/New School, Venice (Kathy Goncharov, Curator)

1997

• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Gendered Visions (Prof. Salah Hassan and Dorothy Desir-Davis, Curators)

1996

• Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, No Doubt (Renee Cox, Curator)
• Solo:
  • Cristinerose Gallery, New York, Raje: A Superhero: The Beginning of a Bold New Era

1995

• Pace/McGill Gallery, New York, Large Bodies (Peter McGill Curator)
• The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, Sites of Being (Milena Kalinovska and Lia Gangitano, Curator)

1993

• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art (Thelma Golden, Curator)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Bad Girls (Marcia Tucker, Curator)