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Kerry James Marshall's work was seen at The Aldrich in No Doubt (1996).He lives in Chicago, where he has been a professor since 1993 at the School of Art and Design and the University of Illinois, Chicago.  

Born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, Marshall was educated at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, from which he received a BFA, and an honorary doctorate in 1999. The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is often drawn from African-American popular culture, and is rooted in the geography of his upbringing: “You can’t be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central [Los Angeles] near the Black Panthers headquarters, and not feel like you’ve got some kind of social responsibility. You can’t move to Watts in 1963 and not speak about it. That determined a lot of where my work was going to go,” says Marshall.