Barbara Kruger

Internationally known for her distinctive image and text works that engage issues of power, pleasure, disgust, and desire. She has been active in a range of fields, including video and audio installation, photography, sculpture, architecture, and graphic design as well as in critical writing, curatorship, teaching, and various forms of public advocacy. She has developed a visual language that is strongly influenced by her early work as a graphic designer (at magazines including House and Garden, Mademoiselle, and Aperture). Among her most famous pieces are I shop, therefore I am (1987) and Your body is a battleground (1985). Informed by feminism, her work critiques consumerism and the flow of capital, and has appeared on billboards, bus cards, posters and in public parks, train station platforms, and other public spaces. For the past 20 years her focus has been on creating immersive site-specific installations comprised of video, audio, and room wrapping image and text.