Sue Coe was born on 21 February 1951 and is an English artist and illustrator working primarily in drawing, printmaking, and in the form of illustrated books and comics.
17 Facts About Sue Coe
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Sue Coe's work is in the tradition of social protest art and is highly political.
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Sue Coe's work has been shown internationally in both solo and group exhibitions and has been collected by various international museums.
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Sue Coe was born 21 February 1951 to a working class family in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
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Sue Coe had been an art teacher, and decided to fully dedicated herself to art making by 1978.
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Sue Coe's influences include the works of Chaim Soutine and Jose Guadalupe Posada, Kathe Kollwitz, Francisco Goya, and Rembrandt.
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Sue Coe uses books and visual essays to explore various social topics including: factory farming, meat packing, apartheid, sweatshops, prison-industrial complex, AIDS, and war.
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Sue Coe cites activists as the primary audience for her work.
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Sue Coe's work is coupled to her activism, though the artist recoils from the "political artist" label.
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Sue Coe expressed anti-war sentiments during Desert Storm through an illustration published in Entertainment Weekly.
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Sue Coe often depicts harsh realities, and her subjects are largely animals and humans oppressed by social and political forces beyond their control.
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Sue Coe was elected into the National Academy of Design, as an Associate Academician in 1993, and became a full Academician by 1994.
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Sue Coe was awarded the 2015 Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts award from Women's Caucus for Art, for her dedication to art and activism.
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In 2017, Sue Coe was awarded the SGCI Lifetime Achievement award in Printmaking from Southern Graphics Council International.
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Sue Coe's work is in the collections of various international museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, and others.
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Sue Coe has been criticized for using stereotypes, thereby creating dimensional representations of depicted victims.
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Sue Coe is a harsh critic of herself, retroactively condemning X, her graphic companion to Malcolm X's autobiography for the way it iconized him.