Artist
Vanessa Beecroft
Italian, b. 1969
Vanessa Beecroft is an Italian artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Vanessa Beecroft was born in Genoa.
Vanessa Beecroft is an Italian-born American contemporary performance artist; she also works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting. Many of her works have made use of professional models, sometimes in large numbers and sometimes naked or nearly so, to stage tableaux vivants. She works in the United States, and is based in Los Angeles as of 2009.
Her early work was focused on gender and appeared to be autobiographical; her later work is focused on race. Starting in 2008 she began working with Kanye West on collaborations and commercial projects.
Works by Vanessa Beecroft
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