Kerry James Marshall

BIOGRAPHY

Kerry James Marshallis an internationally recognized artist who lives in Chicago. He received his B.F.A. from Otis Arts Institute in Los Angeles and is currently Associate Professor of Art at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His recent one person exhibitions include "Mementos," a travelling exhibition, "The Garden Project," at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, "Telling Stories: Selected Paintings," a travelling exhibition organized by The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and "Terra Incognita," at the Chicago Cultural Center. His work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, "Documenta X," in Kassel, Germany, and "No Doubt: African American Art of the 90s," at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut. In addition to his painting and other visual work, Marshall has also worked as a production designer on several films, including Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust and Haile Gerima’s Sankofa. He has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts for Visual Arts, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.