Jan 2, 2017 · Artists as varied as Theaster Gates and Joan Jonas have long used alter egos to unlock or enhance aspects of their work—as well as shock the art world.

May 17, 2021 · From Marcel Duchamp's Rrose Sélavy to Richard Prince's literary other-self, these artists have used the alter ego to push their practices.

Mar 26, 2012 · Let’s meet classic alter-egos from art history and contemporary performance practice. Be warned: Gender-bending, age-regression, metamorphosing, and dimension-crossing may occur. Marcel...

Jan 12, 2016 · For years artists have been exploring the self by creating and existing as fictional characters – as seen in the many faces of Claude Cahun, the pseudo-life of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s alter ego Roberta Breitmore and in contemporary artist Juno Calypso’s haunting ‘self-portraits’ as the made-up character Joyce.

Aug 18, 2023 · In 1981, Andy Warhol and his friend Christopher Makos produced the "Altered Images" series in which Warhol was transvestite. In homage to Duchamp and his aforementioned alter ego, Warhol explored his feminine side in a series of fierce poses taken with a …

Jun 10, 2024 · Painter Ebecho Muslimova discusses her alter ego Fatebe and harnessing the essence of FOMO across two new exhibitions.

Aug 17, 2021 · Works of art in which people appear as someone other than themselves – as mythological deities, as historic figures, as members of other cultures, in a myriad of roles and guises including specific characters or broad types different from their ordinary, everyday personalities – have long fascinated me.

Avatars and Alter Egos Through introspection, concealment, and revelation, these artists examine possibilities for representation in everyday life. Videos 34 Artists 21 Read 3

Nov 22, 2021 · Drawn primarily from The Met collection, the works in this exhibition demonstrate how, especially in recent decades, many artists have deployed themselves as photographic subjects in order to experiment with identity, invent or disrupt narratives, and intervene in the medium of photography itself.

The paper explores the use of alter egos in contemporary art, particularly how artists harness this concept to challenge and deconstruct traditional notions of identity, gender, and representation.