Renee Cox
| Renée Cox | |
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| Born |
October 16, 1960 Colgate, Jamaica |
| Residence | New York City, New York, US |
| Education |
Syracuse University (B.A.) School of Visual Arts (M.F.A.) |
| Known for | Photography |
| Movement | Feminist |
| Awards | Creative 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) |
Renée Cox (born October 16, 1960 in Colgate, Jamaica) 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. Some of 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 politic. In addition, her work has provoked conversations at the intersections of cultural work, activism, gender, and African Studies. An expert in film and digital portraiture, Renée Cox uses light, form, digital technology, and her own signature style to capture the identities and beauty within her subjects and herself.
As a student at Syracuse University Cox majored in Film Studies. After graduating she decided to devote her energy to the realm of still photography. She began as an Assistant Fashion Editor at Glamour Magazine and then moved to Paris to pursue a career as a fashion photographer. She spent three years working in Paris, shooting for magazines including Votre Beaute and Vogue Homme and for designers Issey Miyake and Claude Montana, among others.
Cox then returned to New York City, where she continued to work as a fashion photographer for ten years. Among her clients were editorial magazines such as Essence, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Seventeen Magazine, and Sportswear International. She also worked with Spike Lee, producing the poster for his 1988 film School Daze.
In the early 1990s, inspired by the birth of her first son, Cox decided to focus primarily on fine art photography. She received her Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and subsequently spent a year working with Mary Kelly and Ron Clark in the Whitney Independent Study Program.
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