MARILYN MINTER
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Marilyn Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and currently lives and works in New York. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including a show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Minter was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. This spring Minter had a solo exhibition at Salon 94, New York. In September, both the Zaha Hadid designed Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and the newly opened contemporary art space ‘La Conservera’ in Murcia, Spain will present installations of Minter’s work, including large scale projections of her video, Green Pink Caviar.