Renée Cox
(American, born 1960)
Biography
Renée Cox is a Jamaican-born African-American artist known for her provocative photographs and videos that address racism and sexism in society. Cox’s feminist critique is exemplified in her self-portrait Hot en Tot (1994). “I believe that images of women in the media are distorted and women are imprisoned by those unrealistic representations of the female body,” she has said. “I am interested in taking the stereotypical representations of women and turning them upside down, for their empowerment.” Born on October 16, 1960 in Colgate, Jamaica, she later moved with her family to Scarsdale, NY, before attending Syracuse University. After finishing her undergraduate degree, Cox worked as a fashion photographer in Paris and then New York. In the early 1990s, Cox received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and later participated in the Whitney Independent Study program. She was famously criticized by Rudy Giuliani for the alleged profanity of her work Yo Mama’s Last Supper (2001). The artist continues to live and work in New York, NY. Today, Cox’s works are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, MI.
Renée Cox Artworks
Renée Cox
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.jpg "Yo Mama's Last Supper (5 works), 1996")
.jpg "Untitled I (God), 2000")
Renée Cox
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, 1998
Sale Date: November 18, 2020
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.jpg "Untitled I (God), 2000")
.jpg "Yo mama's last supper (in 5 parts), 1996")
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