Untitled (I shop therefore I am)

Contemporary Art

1987/2019

Barbara Kruger
American, born 1945

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Barbara Kruger
Title: Untitled (I shop therefore I am)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1987
Medium: Single-channel video on LED panel, sound; 57 sec.;
Edition: 1 of 1, plus 1 artist's proof
Dimensions: 350 × 350 cm (137 7/8 × 137 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2022.338

Peter Eleey, Robin Farrell, Michael Goven, Rebecca Morse, James Rondeau, eds.; THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU. exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021), 30-31(color ill.), 43, 48, 96-97 (color ill.), 191.
Jessica Baran, “Reviews: Barbara Kruger, Art Institute of Chicago, USA,” Frieze, no. 225 (Mar. 2022):147 (color ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU., Sept. 19, 2021–Jan. 24 2022, no cat. no.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. July 17, 2022; New York, Museum of Modern Art, as Atrium Installation, July 15, 2022-Jan. 2, 2023 (Chicago and Los Angeles only).
New York, David Zwirner, Barbara Kruger, June 30-Aug. 12, 2022, no cat. (artist’s proof edition).

The artist; sold through Spruth Magers, Los Angeles, to the Art Institute of Chicago, April 12, 2022.

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