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Barbara Kruger is an artist who has worked across a range of mediums to prompt critical reflection on how language and images shape society. As she remarked, "I try to be vigilant about the ways in which power is threaded through the everyday."

Kruger was raised in Newark, New Jersey, a diverse, working-class city, and this background, in her words, fostered a "consciousness of race and economic struggle [that] shape[d] the development" of her practice.

In 1964, she pursued art at Syracuse University, and the following year she studied with photographer Diane Arbus and graphic designer Marvin Israel at the Parsons School of Design (now part of The New School). Kruger began working for Condé Nast in New York City in 1966 and soon became head designer at Mademoiselle magazine.

She worked in graphic design until the mid-1970s while also painting and experimenting with textiles.

Though her work was positively received in a number of exhibitions, Kruger halted her creat