Renee Cox

Cox, Renee
(1960- )
photographer
mixed-media artist

One of the most controversial African-American artists working today, Renee Cox has used her own body, both nude and clothe, to celebrate black womanhood and criticize a society she often views as racist and sexist.


http://www.reneecox.net/



http://www.reneecox.net/gallery.html






Using her body
Artist Renée Cox talks about the recent furor over her work, Mayor Giuliani, religion and growing up black in Scarsdale.
http://archive.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/02/22/renee_cox/index.html



http://www.appendx.org/issue3/cox/index1.htm


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'Newseum Radio' Webcast
08.27.01
A photography exhibit in New York that includes a work depicting Jesus as a naked woman is stirring debate at the same museum where a dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month legal battle. The work, "Yo Mama's Last Supper," features the photographer, Renee Cox; nude and surrounded by 12 black apostles. It is part of an exhibit of 94 contemporary black photographers at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. A panel discussed the issue Feb. 20 at the First Amendment Center/New York. Panelists:

• Renee Cox, artist, "Yo Mama's Last Supper"
• William A. Donohue, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
• Moderator: Ken Paulson, First Amendment Center
  

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http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14707

NEW YORK — A photography exhibit that includes a work depicting Jesus as a naked woman is stirring debate at the same museum where a dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary sparked a heated six-month legal battle.

The work, "Yo Mama's Last Supper," features the photographer, Renee Cox; nude and surrounded by 12 black apostles. It is part of an exhibit of 94 contemporary black photographers opening today at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13096

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13153