Renee Cox

Renee Cox
Cox at the premiere of Baby Mama at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born (1960-10-16) October 16, 1960 (age 64)
Colgate, Jamaica[1]
EducationSyracuse University (B.A.)
School of Visual Arts (M.F.A.)
Known forPhotography
Notable workYo Mama's Last Supper
MovementFeminist art
AwardsCreative Time Inc. for Street Poster Project (1993)
Artists Fellowship Award from The New York Foundation for the Arts (1996)
Artists-in-Residence Program at Light Works (1997)
Aaron Matalon Award from The National Gallery of Jamaica (2007)
Tribeca Film Festival Art Award (2007)
Chrysalis Award from The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (2006)
Gold Rush Award (2015)

Renee Cox (born October 16, 1960)[2] is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator. Her work is considered part of the feminist art movement in the United States. Among the best known of her provocative works are Queen Nanny of the Maroons, Raje and Yo Mama's Last Supper, which exemplify her Black Feminist politics.[3] In addition, her work has provoked conversations at the intersections of cultural work, activism, gender, and African Studies.[4] As a specialist in film and digital portraiture, Cox uses light, form, digital technology, and her own signature style to capture the identities and beauty within her subjects and herself.

  1. ^ Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0714878775. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Renee Cox Biography". Renee Cox. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. ^ Liss, Andrea (2009). Feminist art and the maternal. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 96–107. ISBN 978-0-8166-4622-7.
  4. ^ Nanda, Shaweta (2019-12-10). "Re-Framing Hottentot: Liberating Black Female Sexuality from the Mammy/Hottentot Bind". Humanities. 8 (4): 161. doi:10.3390/h8040161. ISSN 2076-0787.