Lisa Yuskavage
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Lisa Yuskavage (born 16 May 1962) is a contemporary American figurative
painter known for her overtly sexualized representations of the painted
female nude.
Yuskavage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States,
North America. She attended the Tyler School of Art and received her MFA
from Yale in 1986.
In the mid-1990s she participated in the group exhibitions "Figure as
Fiction" (1993), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; "My Little
Pretty" (1997), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; "Presumed
Innocence" (1997); "Pop Surrealism" (1998), Aldrich Museum; and "The
Nude in Contemporary Art" (1999).
Yuskavage's work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern
Art in New York.
The artist is currently represented by David Zwirner, New York, and
greengrassi, London.
