Barbara Kruger
(born 1945 , Newark, New Jersey, USA)

American conceptual artist whose billboard-style photo-montages subvert mass media representations of interpersonal authority. Kruger typically appropriates photographic images of women, blows them up so the half-tone dots are visible, crops them and tattoos them with feminist slogans, eg ÒYour gaze hits the side of my faceÓ, set in crude newspaper type. Her work has been successful since the 1970s.