Kerry Tribe

1973–

Introduction

Kerry Tribe (born 1973) is an American visual artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work includes video, film and sound installations, sculpture, performance, drawing and photography. Tribe's art investigates subjective aspects of consciousness such as memory, language, cognition, and empathy through subjects including medical conditions and clinical training, historical incidents, and collective and personal experience.

Tribe's work belongs to the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Hammer Museum, among others. She has exhibited at the latter four institutions, and others including The Power Plant, the High Line in New York and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. In 2017, she received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for film and video.

Wikidata identifier

Q18158933

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Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, installation artist, video artist

ULAN identifier

500127961

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First acquired
2009

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artists/10258




On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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