Colette Justine
Colette Justine, better known as Colette Lumiere, is a Tunisian-American multimedia artist. Since the 1970s, her career has spanned performance art, street art, and photographic tableau vivant. She is also known for her work exploring male and female gender roles, use of guises and personas, and for soft fabric environments, where she often appears as the central element.
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Colette Justine
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- Name
- Colette Justine
- Birthplace
- Tunis, Tunisia
- Known for
- Multi Media, Installation Performance, Street Art, Conceptual art, Painting, Photography
- Awards
- Guggenheim 2016, Daad Grant 1984
- Born
- 1947 · Tunisia.
- Nationality
- France · United States
- Occupation
- artist · photographer
- Fields
- conceptual art
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Colette Justine, better known as Colette Lumiere, is a Tunisian-American multimedia artist. Since the 1970s, her career has spanned performance art, street art, and photographic tableau vivant. She is also known for her work exploring male and female gender roles, use of guises and personas, and for soft fabric environments, where she often appears as the central element.
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• Name — Colette Justine • Birthplace — Tunis, Tunisia • Other Names — Colette Lumiere • Known for — Multi Media, Installation Performance, Street Art, Conceptual art, Painting, Photography • Awards — Guggenheim 2016, Daad Grant 1984
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1947
Colette Justine was born in 1947 at Tunisia.
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- 1.A History of Installation Art and the Development of New Art Forms, Faye Ran. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York, 2009. .
- 2.Bloch, Mark. Notes on Colette Lumiere's Notes on Baroque Living, Whitehot Magazine, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/s-notes-on-baroque-living/5305. February 2022.
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