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Artist: Renee Cox |
| Exhibition: Artificial Afrika |
| Date: January 27 2006 - March 17 2006 |
Curator: C. Daniel Dawson and Vernon Reid
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Bio:
In this current body of work, as in her Rajé series from the late 1990s, Cox portrays a superhero. Queen Nanny was the 18th century leader of the Maroons, escaped African slaves living on the island of Jamaica, who were hunted mercilessly by the occupying British forces. Nanny was known by both the Maroons and the British settlers as a powerful blood-thirsty military leader. She was described as a fearless Ashanti warrior who used guerrilla techniques to fool and beguile the English. She became, in her lifetime and after, a symbol of unity and strength for her people during times of crisis, and was immortalized in song and legend. Cox was born in Jamaica and grew up in Queens and Scarsdale. She received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1992. She has shown at the Whitney Museum of Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem and, in 2001, at the Brooklyn Museum where her photograph Yo Mamas Last Supper caused a major controversy when then Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani objected to Cox portraying herself as a nude Christ.
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