Kerry James Marshall
Artist
Biography
Kerry James Marshall (born 1955) is an American artist and professor known for his paintings of Black figures. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he moved as a child to South Central Los Angeles and has spent much of his career in Chicago, where he taught painting at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago organised his retrospective Mastry in 2016, and in 2017 he was named to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.