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American artist

Richard Hawkins (born 1961 in Mexia, Texas) is an American artist. He lives and works in Los Angeles. His works are held by museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, Austin in 1984 and a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1988. After graduating from Cal Arts, Hawkins worked for a time as a short story writer. Hawkins' art largely consists of sculpture and collage. His works combine "ubiquitous pop-culture images and objects with arcane references and quotes"; frequent themes include "current celebrities, literary lions of yesteryear, haunted houses, Asian sex tourism, Greek and Roman statuary and the American Indian experience". He is gay, and his sexuality also informs his artwork. According to art historian Richard Meyer, Hawkins' "mash-up avant-garde, kitsch and kink", including the use of traditionally feminine consumer items, "challenge us to rethink our hierarchies of value and visual pleasure."

Hawkins was instrumental in reviving the work of the late artist Tony Greene, including co-curating (with Catherine Opie) an exhibition of Greene's work that was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial exhibition in New York.

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ "Richard Hawkins". Whitney Museum of Art. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  2. "All Artists in the Collection: H". Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  3. "Richard Hawkins (American, born 1961)". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  4. "Hawkins, Richard". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  5. Neil Schlager, ed. (1998). Gay & Lesbian Almanac. Detroit: St. James Press. p. 516. ISBN 9781558623583.
  6. Mark Coetzee, ed. (2007). Red eye: L.A. artists from the Rubell Family Collection, December 6, 2006-May 31, 2007. Miami, Fla.: Rubell Museum. ISBN 9780978988876.
  7. ^ Young, Paul (February 2011). "Richard Hawkins: The Beautiful and the Damned". LA Times Magazine.
  8. ^ "In Conversation with Richard Hawkins". Gayletter. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  9. Whitney Museum of American Art, "Tony Greene curated by Richard Hawkins and Catherine Opie"
  10. ^ "Corvi Mora - Richard Hawkins".
  11. "Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist". Tate Liverpool. February 20, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.

Further reading

  • Dorin, Lisa; George Baker; Ali Subotnick (2010). Richard Hawkins : third mind. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. ISBN 9780300166255.
  • Müller, Christopher (2008). Richard Hawkins. Of two minds, simultaneously. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung. ISBN 9783865604255.
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