Deborah Kass

Born 1952, San Antonio, TX, Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Board of Directors Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Board Member Oregon College of Art and Craft, Doctor Of Arts, Honoris Causa. Everybody (2020), acrylic and neon on canvas, 100 x 108 inches (installed) Kass’s work is collected by many of the most important museums in the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Kass’s influence extends beyond museums through her service to art education and support for arts nonprofits. From 2005-12, she was appointed Senior Critic in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. In addition, Kass currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, one of the nation’s most important funders of visual arts, as well as for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, an artist residency program that provides rent-free studio space for 17 artists in Brooklyn. (Carnegie Mellon University School of Art)