Rising to prominence in the 1980s, iconic conceptual artist Barbara Kruger pioneered a combination of type and image in her signature colors of black, white and red that continues to captivate audiences and posit a forceful feminist critique of media and politics.
Kruger examines social issues and cultural forces like sexism and consumerism in her typically large-scale, widely imitated work, which sees her layering terse chunks of text in fonts such as Futura Bold Oblique over found black and white mass media photographic images. Radical and stimulating, her collages draw on her background as a commercial graphic designer for magazines at Condé Nast as well as her albeit brief time as a student at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, where Kruger studied under artists such as Diane Arbus.
Kruger’s use of straightforward, accessible language to make powerful statements recalls advertising slogans or magazine headlines — by employing the structure of the very thing she is critiquing, she subverts that specific medium’s reach and meaning.
The phrases that Kruger superimposes onto the imagery in her work are as pointed, direct and authoritative as the visuals, with best-known examples including I Shop Therefore I Am and You Are a Captive Audience. The artist is also a staunch feminist, using her work to make overt political statements such as in Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground), which was initially created in 1989 to promote a women’s march in Washington, D.C., aimed at antiabortion legislation. By using “you” and “I,” Kruger invites viewers into the piece and forces them to reflect on their own position in society as well as how they interact with one another in contemporary life. In an increasingly politicized era that finds us engulfed in imagery like never before, her art is more urgent and arresting than ever.
Kruger’s works can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Whitney Museum of American Art and other institutions.
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$8,000
Contemporary Pop Art 'You're Right (And You Know It And So Should Everyone Else'
By Barbara Kruger
Located in White Plains, NY
'You're Right And You Know It (And So Should Everyone Else)' by Barbara Kruger features colors of green, pink, black, and white. Rising to prominence in the 1980s, Barbara Kruger b...
Lithograph
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
BARBARA KRUGER Untitled (Kiss) (2019), 2019 Hand-Signed
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Size: 17 x 14 inches ( 43.18 x 35.56 cm ) Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Untitled (Kiss) (2019) marries Alvar Aalto’s classic piece of modern furniture design, Stool 60, wit...
Other Medium
$2,500
Barbara Kruger, Don't Be a Jerk skateboard, silkscreen skate deck, Lt. Ed, new
By Barbara Kruger
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Kruger Don't Be a Jerk skateboard, 2017 Screenprint on skate deck 31 × 8 inches From the Barbara Kruger "The Drop" show at Performa 17 in NYC. which sold out. An ironic play ...
Wood, Mixed Media, Screen
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei 1983-1986 (announcements)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei Gallery 1983-1986: A set of 2 rare, historic Barbara Kruger announcement cards published on the occasion of: - Barbara Kruger, Annina Nosei Gallery, New ...
Offset
Barbara Kruger, I Shop Therefore I Am - Editioned Multiple from 1990
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Hamburg, DE
Barbara Kruger (1945, American) I Shop Therefore I Am, 1990 Medium: Photolithograph on paper shopping bag Edition size: 9000 Dimensions: 17 5/16 x 10 3/4 in (43.9 x 27.3 cm) Publishe...
Lithograph
$2,500 / item
Untitled 'Vase' by Barbara Kruger
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Part of the proceeds from this edition directly benefit our partner at Performa, New York, USA. At Kruger's celebrated Performa 17 Commission Untitled (Skate), the artist took contr...
Stoneware
Culture Vulture
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Debossed archival pigment print on surface Gampi Chine collé to Strathmore Bristol. Published in 2012 by Lincoln Center’s Vera List Art Project, New York, to commemorate the project’...
Giclée, Etching
Barbara Kruger Artists Space 1987 (announcement)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Artists Space invitation announcement card, 1987: Rare folding announcement card for the Artists Space's Spring Benefit Party held at Federal Hall, New York City, Apri...
Offset
Barbara Kruger, Never Enough - Screenprint on Cotton Bag
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Hamburg, DE
Barbara Kruger (American, b. 1945) Never Enough, 2019 Medium: Screenprint in on cotton Dimensions: 42 x 38 cm (16 1/2 x 15 in) Edition of 200: Not signed, not numbered Condition: Exc...
Cotton, Screen
My Pretty Pony
By Barbara Kruger
Located in New York, NY
"My Pretty Pony" is a short story written by Stephen King and illustrated by the artist Barbara Kruger. It was the sixth publication in the Whitney Museum...
Lithograph, Screen
$180Sale Price|20% Off
Original Barbara Kruger Vinyl Record Art
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage original Barbara Kruger Record Art, 1994 Off-set lithograph on vinyl record cover Measure: 12 x 12 inches Minor shelf wear; in otherwise good vintage condition. Very cool fr...
Lithograph, Offset
Too Big to Fail Fiberboard Wall Clock
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Draper, UT
Combining images with provocative text, Kruger uses direct address—along with humor, vigilance, and empathy—to expose and undermine the power dynamics of identity, desire, and consum...
Fiberboard
$9,500
Barbara Kruger - War Platter LtEd hand made ceramic in bespoke box political art
By Barbara Kruger
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Kruger War Platter, 2018 Glazed Earthenware Artists name fired on the underside which is considered her authorized signature as she officially does not sign her works Hand nu...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Mixed Media, Screen
Flag Screenprint on Cotton Blend Bandana by Barbara Kruger
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Draper, UT
This limited edition bandana from Barbara Kruger was part of a 2020 campaign titled "Artists Band Together," in support of organizations working to increase voter turnout. Using lang...
Screen
$1,160Sale Price|20% Off
Untitled (Flag), Bandana (Limited timed release)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Barbara Kruger's powerful interpretation of the American flag is screen printed onto a large cotton bandana. These were a limited timed released where they were only sold for about a...
Cotton, Screen
![Untitled [Kiss] -- Artek Stool 60, Chair, Furniture, Text Art by Barbara Kruger](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_8091/a_172567321763716584002/Barbara_Kruger_Stool_60_1024x1024_2x_master.jpg?width=240)
![Untitled [Kiss] -- Artek Stool 60, Chair, Furniture, Text Art by Barbara Kruger](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_8091/a_172567321763716584664/Barbara_Kruger_Stool_60_Motif_View_1024x1024_2x_master.jpg?width=240)
$4,068
Untitled [Kiss] -- Artek Stool 60, Chair, Furniture, Text Art by Barbara Kruger
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
BARBARA KRUGER Untitled [Kiss], 2019 Stackable 3-legged Artek Stool 60 Designed by Alvar Aalto A collaboration between Barbara Kruger and Artek Numbered from the edition of 300 Wit...
Wood
$180Sale Price|20% Off
Original Barbara Kruger Vinyl Record Art
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage original Barbara Kruger Record Art, 1994 Off-set lithograph on vinyl record cover Measure: 12 x 12 inches Very good vintage condition Very ...
Paper
$1,379Sale Price|20% Off
Untitled (Flag)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Barbara Kruger Untitled (Flag), 2020 Screenprint on Cotton unknown edition size 22.00 x 22.00 in 55.9 x 55.9 cm Barbara Kruger is a seminal figure in contemporary art known for h...
Cotton, Screen
Price Upon Request
Barbara Kruger 'Don't Be A Jerk' Skateboard Deck
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Skateboard Deck, "Don't Be Jerk," a sold out limited edition, first-ever Barbara Kruger skate deck. Published in conjunction with Kruger's 2017 New York City performan...
Screen
$1,930
H 39.38 in W 33.47 in D 1.97 in
Foyer, Milan - Two Framed Italian Interior Architecture Color Photographs
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Foyer VII & VIII, Italian interior architecture color photographs from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan There is a reoccurring linear, structural theme throughout the ...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$90
H 28.75 in W 19.75 in D 0.1 in
Le Jeune Couple, Saul Steinberg, 1971, Vintage Original Poster
By Saul Steinberg
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original poster lithograph titled The Young Couple by the renowned artist Saul Steinberg is a first edition exhibition poster, published by the prestigious Galerie Maeght in Par...
Lithograph
$7,500
H 23 in W 19 in
PLAYMATES Signed Lithograph, For My People by Margaret Walker, Black Children
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
PLAYMATES is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. PLAYMATES portrays a colorful portrait of two black children playing; a young girl and boy artistically expressed featuring fabric scraps used for the girl's cobalt blue dress and for the boy's blue and white pin striped shirt creating a collage effect in this eye-catching composition by Elizabeth Catlett. Attractive color palette comprised of bright lemon yellow, cobalt blue, turquoise, warm red, warm brown, golden ochre, and black. From the FOR MY PEOPLE suite of prints, a set of 6 lithographs illustrating the well known 1942 poem by Margaret Walker. "For my playmates in the clay and dust and sand of Alabama backyards playing baptizing and preaching and doctor and jail and soldier and school and mama and cooking and playhouse and concert and store and hair and Miss Choomby and company;" stanza from the poem FOR MY PEOPLE by Margaret Walker...
Lithograph
$427
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 1.38 in
Fish and Chips Van Square, Haddenham - English Vintage Countryside Color Photo
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic British fish & chips van, on a classic English day Haddenham Steam Rally Country Fair, photograph by Richard Heeps. This artwork is a limited edition of 50 gloss photogra...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Vivien in White Coat, 2021
By Alex Katz
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Alex Katz Vivien in White Coat, 2021 is a work of subtle admiration that the artist holds for her daughter-in-law, Vivien Bittencourt. The gentle hues...
Screen
Untitled (Still Life)
Located in New York, NY
William Bailey Untitled (Still Life) Etching and aquatint on wove paper, with full margins 1982 S. 27 1/2 x 22 in. (69.9 x 55.9 cm) Signed and dated in pencil lower right "Bailey ...
Etching, Aquatint
$2,000
H 8.69 in W 6.07 in
Plymouth Street ( a twilight scene is set in the Brooklyn section of DUMBO)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges is looking down "Plymouth Street" to the intersection of Jay Street. It is #35 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif & Salzer and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of City of New York...
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Bistro 1900
By Liudmila Kondakova
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bistro 1900 is a serigraph on black paper with an image size of 24 x 36 inches, signed ‘Kondakova’ lower right and numbered lower left. From the edition of 525 and numbered 38/100 (there were also 200 Arabic on white paper, 25 APs, 100 Roman, and 100 on canvas). Framed in a contemporary, mahogany-style moulding. You might happen upon Bistro 1900 as you round a Parisian street corner leading onto a light-filled courtyard. The bistro door...
Paper, Screen
Jitterbug. 1998
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in Bristol, GB
Colour lithograph on Rives wove paper Edition 33 of 50 44.5 x 57.7 cm (17.5 x 22.7 in) 53 x 67 x 3 cm, 20.9 x 26.4 x 1.2 in Signed on the front Artwork in excellent condition. Some m...
Glass, Lithograph
$488Sale Price|29% Off
H 27.25 in W 39.25 in
BUS STOP Signed Lithograph, Black Men Waiting, Chic Woman, Small Orange Handbag
By Maurice Evans
Located in Union City, NJ
BUS STOP by the African American artist Maurice Evans is an original, hand drawn limited edition lithograph (not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using traditional hand...
Lithograph
$2,482
H 8.5 in W 11.3 in
Mask - Set of Four - Framed Ai Weiwei Artwork - Contemporary Fine Art
By Ai Weiwei
Located in Manchester, GB
Ai Weiwei, Free Speech Series (Set of 4 Masks), 2020 Framed - minor wear to the frame - artworks in excellent condition Limited Edition - Unknown Edition Size Accompanied with Cer...
Mixed Media, Screen
$5,516
H 20.87 in W 15.75 in
David Shrigley - Sorry I Snapped At You - Edition of 30
By David Shrigley
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley Sorry I Snapped At You, 2025 Woodcut 53 x 40 cm Edition of 30 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Shäfer Editions and comes with COA from the publisher...
Woodcut
Sold
H 4 in W 6 in
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei 1984 (Kruger Surveillance is your Busy Work)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei Gallery 1984: A historic Barbara Kruger announcement card published on the occasion of: Barbara Kruger, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, March 10-April...
Offset
Sold
H 23.63 in W 19.69 in
Untitled (Mirror), 2024 Lougher contemporary silkscreen limited edition print
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Bristol, GB
Catalyzed ink 3 colour silkscreen on mirrored polished steel Edition of 100 60 x 50cm (23.6 x 19.7 in) Artist stamp on the reverse Mint The seller can only provide the specific edi...
Steel
Kiss
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Catalysed ink 2 colour silkscreen on mirrored polished steel 300 x 300mm Edition of 300 + 10 APs Artist stamp (printed), numbered Devoted to the exploration of visual culture and im...
Mirror, Screen
Vintage Barbara Kruger exhibition announcements, 1987-1999
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Barbara Kruger exhibition pamphlets (2 items): 2 rare vintage Barbara Kruger exhibition & benefit pamphlets published on the occasions of: Barbara Kruger, The Museum of Cont...
Paper
Sold
H 22.05 in W 21.07 in
Untitled (Flag) -- Screen Print, Text Art by Barbara Kruger
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Untitled (Flag), 2020 Barbara Kruger Screenprint in colours, on cotton Published by Artists Band Together In the original black envelope Sheet: 56 × 53.5 cm (22 × 21 in)
Screen
Untitled 'Vase' by Barbara Kruger
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Part of the proceeds from this edition directly benefit our partner at Performa, New York, USA. At Kruger's celebrated Performa 17 Commission Untitled (Skate), the artist took contr...
Stoneware
Sold
H 4 in W 6 in
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei 1983-1984 (Kruger Surveillance is your Busy Work)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei Gallery 1983-1984: A set of 2 rare, historic Barbara Kruger announcement cards published on the occasion of: - Barbara Kruger, Annina Nosei Gallery, New ...
Offset
Sold
H 4 in W 6 in
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei 1983-1984 (Kruger Surveillance is your Busy Work)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei Gallery 1983-1984: A set of 2 rare, historic Barbara Kruger announcement cards published on the occasion of: - Barbara Kruger, Annina Nosei Gallery, New ...
Offset
You're Right and You Know It
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Barbara Kruger is one of the world's most provocative, distinctive, and original artists. In 2005, she was awarded the "Leone d'Oro" for lifetime achievement by the Venice Biennale....
Lithograph
Sold
H 4 in W 6 in
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei 1983-1984 (Kruger Surveillance is your Busy Work)
By Barbara Kruger
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Barbara Kruger Annina Nosei Gallery 1983-1984: A set of 2 rare, historic Barbara Kruger announcement cards published on the occasion of: - Barbara Kruger, Annina Nosei Gallery, New ...
Offset
Flag Screenprint on Cotton Blend Bandana by Barbara Kruger
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Draper, UT
This limited edition bandana from Barbara Kruger was part of a 2020 campaign titled "Artists Band Together," in support of organizations working to increase voter turnout. Using lang...
Screen
Sold
H 17.29 in W 10.75 in
Barbara Kruger, I Shop Therefore I Am - Printed Paper Shopping Bag
By Barbara Kruger
Located in Hamburg, DE
Barbara Kruger (1945, American) I Shop Therefore I Am, 1990 Medium: Photolithograph on paper shopping bag Edition size: 9000 Dimensions: 17 5/16 x 10 3/4 in (43.9 x 27.3 cm) Publishe...
Lithograph