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DAVID HAMMONS

DAVID HAMMONS (b. 1943) confronts cultural stereotypes and racial issues. He uses materials such as grease, hair, barbecued ribs, cheap wine bottles, and basketball hoops, often displaying his work on city streets and in vacant lots rather than in art galleries. Hammons has exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, and in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan, although rarely in New York. Hammons is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award.