Artist Kruger to receive award
Conceptual artist Barbara Kruger will receive this year’s Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 51st annual Venice Biennale.
On display during the international exhibition, which opens June 12 and runs through November, will be Kruger’s large-scale installation “Untitled (Facade),” which will cover a wall of the Italian Pavilion with Kruger’s trademark combination of slogans, text and images, in this case using the colors of the Italian flag.
Kruger, known for her pop-art sensibility and images exploring the dynamics of power, identity, sexuality and representation, had her first major museum retrospective at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in October 1999. The artist, who lives in Los Angeles and New York, is also a writer, publisher and curator.
Diane Haithman
The biggest entertainment stories
Get our big stories about Hollywood, film, television, music, arts, culture and more right in your inbox as soon as they publish.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
