Richard Prince emerged in the 1980s as part of a generation of influential and innovative New York based artists who worked with the margins of American sub-culture and visual debris. Working with such media as painting, artist's books, assisted ready-mades and photography,

Prince extracts images from a small selection of parallel words - the words of advertising, bike gangs and others - to create his own idiosyncratic non-reality, which we all strangely recognize. His eclectic subject matter, such as one-line jokes enter his work either as plain text, or lifted directly from found images and re-photographed or painted. His signature writing style is represented by his own autobiography, observation and confessions.

Prince's work has been exhibited in major museums and art galleries across US and Europe, among them IVAM, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 1992 he had a solo retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Richard Prince
Do you know what it means..., 1991
Coloured pencil and pen on paper
76x56.5cm unframed, 82.3x76cm

Museums collections:

Richard Prince work may be found in the collection of many important public institutions, including Guggenheim Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angles; Victoria and Albert Museum, London among many others.

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