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Faith Ringgold
Trained in Western art, including the copying of Greek busts during her undergraduate education at City College, New York, Faith Ringgold has
come to create art that reflects her heritage as an African American woman. Over the course of her rich and varied artistic career, Ringgold has incorporated into her work non-Western aesthetic ideas and strategies, as
well as her political perspective and feminist sensibility. She emerged as a strong and forceful voice of the African American community and African American women and one of the preeminent artists of her generation and
all generations.
She was born in New York City in 1930 and received both a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Fine Art from the City College of New York.
She works in the media of painting and sculpture, but is today most widely known for her powerful story quilts, the first of which she undertook in 1979 in collaboration with her mother. It was a pivotal point in the artist’s career. For her the medium of quilt provided a link with family tradition and would become a most effective vehicle for telling the stories of our lives.
Ringgold continued to combine text and images upon quilts that told or retold stories. She has had three major retrospectives all of which have travelled over a period of several years to museums throughout the U.S. Her work is in the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum, all in New York City; the High Museum in Atlanta, GA; as well as numerous prestigious private collections. She has received numerous honors and awards including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She has received seven honorary degrees; is a prolific writer, painter, sculptor and performance artist. She is also a lecturer, curator and guest professor at the University of California in La Jolla, California.
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