February 2023
We are thrilled to announce Barbara Kruger has been awarded the 2023 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College Arts Association (CAA). CAA is an international organization that promotes the visual arts, as well as scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts. By honoring outstanding member achievements, CAA reaffirms its mission to encourage the highest standards of scholarship, practice, connoisseurship, and teaching in the arts. With these annual awards, CAA seeks to honor individual artists, art historians, authors, curators, and critics whose accomplishments transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large. In 2005, Kruger was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, where she was also commissioned to design the facade of Italy’s national pavilion. In 2019, the artist was awarded the Kaiserring (or “Emperor’s Ring”) prize from the city of Goslar, in Germany. Learn more at the College Arts Association.