Born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois (United States), lives and works in New York, United States
Biography
Through strategies of humour, displacement and disruption, David Hammons has developed a practice that interrogates notions of identity, concealment, and exclusion, rooted in the fight of the African American community for civil rights and against racism. Through a multifaceted body of work marked by autonomy from the rules and institutions of the art world and by a continual displacement of symbols, the artist has described his practice as “tragic magic”.