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KALUP LINZY (1977 - )
Dream Giant, Becoming Real. Collage and ink on paper, 2008. 360x260 mm; 14 1/8x10 1/4 inches. Signed, inscribed "Shaun 'EIC' Leonardo, Katonya 08 (Kalup Linzy)" and dated in pencil, lower right verso.
Provenance: the artist, donated to the Senator Chuck Allen III Scholarship fund; sold at Swann Galleries on February 17, 2009; private collection, New York.
This drawing is inspired by the fictitious character Katonya featured in Linzy's soap opera video series Conversations Wit De Churen. The drawings serve as storyboards that illustrate the character's experiences offscreen.
Kalup Linzy is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Stuckey, FL, Linzy received his MFA from the University of South Florida in 2003 and also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Linzy has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in 2005, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2007 and a 2008 Creative Capital Foundation grant. Linzy's best known work is a series of politically charged videos that satirize the conventions of the television soap opera.
His works have been included in exhibitions as far ranging as Melodies, Dramas, Limerents, La Conserva Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, Spain, 2011; If it Don't Fit, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY, 2009; Kalup Linzy: Shades of Black and White, International & National Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, 2006; 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, 2008. Awards and grants include Alumni Awards Residency, Headlands Center For The Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2012; the Jerome Foundation Grant, 2008; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award, 2007; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, 2005.
