Artist Profile - Kalup Linzy
Kalup Linzy (born July 23, 1977) is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn.
Born in Stuckey, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Recently, he was named a Guggenheim fellow for 2007-2008.
Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera.[citation needed] Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag.
Linzy also performs on stage using many of the same characters.
His work has been reviewed in The New York Times [2], Art in America, and Artforum.
Exhibitions
Solo
Le Petit Versailles, East Village, NY (2004).
Kalup Linzy and Charles Nelson, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2005)
All My Churen, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2006)
Kalup Linzy, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2006)
Taxter & Spengemann, New York (2006)
Group
Sunday in the Arts, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, Tampa, FL (2002).
All Together Now, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY (2003)
Faith, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA (2004)
Mommy! I'm! Not! An! Animal!, Capsule Gallery, New York, NY (2004)
African Queen, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2005)
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2005)
Do You Think I'm Disco, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY (2006)
Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2006)
Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2006)
Empathetic, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2006)
AFI FEST 2006, Los Angeles, CA
Vocal Verbal, Studentski Center, Zegreb, Croatia (2007)
Uncertain States of America - American Video Art in the 3rd Millennium, Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia (2007)
Spotlight Film and Video Series, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin (2007)
Prospect.1 New Orleans (2008)