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'''Lisa Yuskavage''' (Bornborn [[May 16 May]], [[1962]] in [[Philadelphia]]) is a contemporary American figurative painter known for her overtly sexualized representations of the painted female nude.
==Biography==
Lisa Yuskavage attended [[Tyler School of Art]] and received her MFA from Yale in 1986 but came to prominence in the mid-nineties in a series of seminal museum shows "Figure as Fiction" (1993) Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; "My Little Pretty" (1997) Museum of contemporary Art, Chicago; "Presumed Innocence" (1997) "Pop Surrealism" (1998) Aldrich Museum; "The Nude in Contemporary Art" (1999).
Yuskavage was born in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States]], [[North America]].
Her work is held in the collection of the [[Museum of Modern Art]], New york.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042000406.html ''The Washington Post'', April 22, 2007.]</ref>▼
Yuskavage attended the [[Tyler School of Art]] and received her MFA from [[Yale University|Yale]] in [[1986]].
She is currently represented by [[David Zwirner]], New York and [[greengrassi]], London.▼
Yuskavage came to prominence in the mid-[[1990s]] in a series of seminal museum shows:
*"Figure as Fiction" (1993), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
*"My Little Pretty" (1997), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
*"Presumed Innocence" (1997)
*"Pop Surrealism" (1998), Aldrich Museum
*"The Nude in Contemporary Art" (1999)
▲HerYuskavage's work is held in the collection of the [[Museum of Modern Art]], in New yorkYork. <ref>"Lisa Yuskavage: Critiquing Prurient Sexuality, or Disingenuously Peddling a Soft-Porn Aesthetic?" in ''The Washington Post'', [[April 22]] [[2007]]. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042000406.html ''The Washington Post'', April 22, 2007.]</ref>
▲SheYuskavage is currently represented by [[David Zwirner]], New York, and [[greengrassi]], London.
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