Artworks

Born in 1948 in Shreveport, Louisiana, and based in New York, Marilyn Minter received a BFA from University of Florida (1970) and an MFA from Syracuse University (1972). Minter has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including All Wet, MO.CO., Panacée, Montpellier, France (2021); Nasty Woman, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia (2020); and Pretty/Dirty, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; and the Brooklyn Museum (2015–17). In 2006, she was featured in the Whitney Biennial. Her work resides in such collections as the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Her many honors include awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2006) and the Guggenheim Foundation (1998).