Sem Título (Seu Olhar Bate em Meu Rosto) (1981).
Kruger is a conceptual artist and film critic. She received her education from Syracuse University, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Early in her art career, she was a graphic designer, art director, and picture editor in the art departments at Mademoiselle, House and Garden, and other publications. This greatly influenced her later work as an artist. Her highly recognized style combines images and text addressing cultural representations of power, identity, and sexuality while challenging stereotypes and clichés. Her work has been written about or included in numerous publications including: The New York Times, Idea (Tokyo), Atelier (Tokyo), La Recherche Photographique, Art in America, VogueAperture, New York Magazine, Artforum, Art News, Art Monthly, Metropolis MJournalisten (Stockholm), Przeglad Polski, The Village Voice, Harper's Bazaar, Time Out (London), The Guardian (London), Photographic Insights, Elle, Art Press, Arts MagazineThe New Yorker. She was awarded a Creative Artists Service Program Grant, 1976-'77 and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1983-'84. Kruger has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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