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'''Lisa Yuskavage''' (Born [[May 16]], [[1962]] in [[Philadelphia]]) is a contemporary American figurative painter. She is a controversial painter with loaded subject matter that has been referred to as "outrageous quasi-pornographic sirens"{{fact|date=September 2007}} and "anatomically impossible bimbos"{{fact|date=September 2007}} as they mock the male desires of male fantasy.

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).