Renée Cox: A Proof of Being

Renée Cox makes photographs, collages, and installations that draw on art history, fashion photography and popular culture. Her work invokes a critical vision of female sexuality, beauty, power and heroism through nudity, religious imagery and symbolism that inform her interdisciplinary process. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at prominent institutions including Tate Liverpool, The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY), and the Brooklyn Museum. She received the Artists Fellowship Award, New York Foundation for the Arts, among other recognitions. Cox is an associate professor at Columbia University.

New York-based art critic Eleanor Heartney is the author of numerous books on contemporary art. Heartney is a contributor to Art in America, Artpress and Artnet and has written extensively for publications including Artnews, The New Art Examiner, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Her books include Art & Today (2008), Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2004) and Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2019). She is co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art, The Reckoning: Women Artists in the New Millennium (2013) and Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art (2024). She is an Editor-at-Large for the Rail.