Richard Prince

Richard Prince (born 1949) was born in the Panama Canal Zone and has lived and worked primarily in New York. He is a leading figure in postmodern and appropriation art, best known for rephotographing existing images and for bodies of work including the Cowboys, Nurses, and joke paintings. Working across photography, painting, collage, and artist’s books, Prince has long explored authorship, consumer culture, desire, and the circulation of images in mass media, often drawing on advertising, pulp fiction, and popular American mythology. His works are held in major institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. Prince has been the subject of major museum exhibitions and is widely recognised as one of the most influential American artists of his generation. In the art market, his work has been highly visible and frequently traded, with strong demand for key series, although prices can vary considerably by body of work; overall, his market is established, active, and relatively liquid at the top end.