Marilyn Minter was born on 1948 and is an American visual artist who is perhaps best known for her sensual paintings and photographs done in the photorealism style that blur the line between commercial and fine art.
17 Facts About Marilyn Minter
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Marilyn Minter eschews digital manipulation, instead favoring a conventional darkroom process for developing stills.
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Marilyn Minter's career began while she was a student at the University of Florida, where she created a series of photographic studies involving her drug-addicted mother with the guidance of Diane Arbus.
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Marilyn Minter later moved to New York City in 1976, after earning a master of fine arts degree at Syracuse University, and began collaborating with the German expressionist painter Christof Kohlhofer.
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In 1989 Marilyn Minter questioned the subject matter of women artists, and why women did not address pornography in their work.
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Marilyn Minter was initially accused of being in collusion with the porn industry when in fact, Minter was pushing the boundaries of the kind of work women artists could create.
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In 1990, Marilyn Minter produced her first video, 100 Food Porn, shot and directed by NY documentary filmmaker Ted Haimes.
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Marilyn Minter used the gallery's art advertising budget to buy 30 second slots on Late Night with David Letterman in lieu of traditional print advertising, becoming the first artist to advertise an artists' exhibition on late night television.
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In 1998, Marilyn Minter received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts.
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Marilyn Minter's book involved a heavy gloss, multi-colored paper making it feel almost wet, setting the book apart.
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In 2007, Marilyn Minter produced a series of photographs of the actress Pamela Anderson, commissioned by the art quarterly Parkett.
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In 2014, Marilyn Minter published a 500 limited edition book called PLUSH, which is a compilation 70 photographs of female pubic hair.
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Since the beginning of her career Marilyn Minter published in numerous popular American magazines and networks.
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In 2018 Marilyn Minter collaborated with For Freedoms, an artist-run platform for civic engagement, to create a billboard poster for the 50 State Initiative, a major billboard campaign that aims to encourage political participation and voting.
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Marilyn Minter's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Marilyn Minter has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including:.
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Marilyn Minter is represented by the following galleries: Salon94 in New York, Regen Projects in Los Angeles, and Baldwin Gallery in Aspen.