Identity Politics

The identity politics art movement rose to prominence between the 1960s and 1980s. It followed a series of pioneering political movements concerning the diversity and visual representation of personal identity. As tensions arose from the marginalization of certain socio-political and cultural groups in the USA and across Europe, art quickly became a vehicle of social emancipation and empowerment.

Galvanized by the 1960s Black Civil Rights Movement in the USA, identity politics refers to a series of artists and exhibitions which sought to honor the experiences of historically oppressed groups. Those belonging to the movement revolutionized the depiction of personal identity in art, vehemently protested the discrimination against certain races, genders and sexualities, and ushered in a new age of celebratory, diversely representative, and often deeply subversive art.

Champions of the identity politics movement included Robert Mapplethorpe, Lorna Simpson, Judy Chicago, Martha Rosler, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The proliferation of identity politics was radical and widespread: artists celebrated queer spaces, interrogated racial biases, and drove forth the second wave of feminist efforts. See our selection of works inspired by the identity politics movements.

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Stay Together

If I have you

Entrelazar 202

Le rouge nous va mieux au teint

Bliss Queen

Untitled (Plate 1)

La toque ou la plume

Decorative sculpture - Vase

Sky is the limit 01

Grow old with you

But by choice

Unresolved

I choose peace 02

Le hall de gare

Without you

Resisting the present

Heal

Red roofs 21

Entrelazar 204

Mi Cielo

Love Letter to her

Because hopes are high

Dont just exist, Live

No life without whimsy

The one who loves you a lot 24

I am back

Lead from the heart

Summer nights

Where you are

Believer

Does this path have a heart?

1002 Windows

Mirages #14

Knowing the presence

Faith 03- sailing boat

Eden

Magnolia - Artemis

Floral Tapestry

Scars to your beautiful 03

Live in my soul 2

Sisters

Reflection

Better off alone 01

Sky is the limit 02

Même profil

Untitled 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women with Large Afro Hair

Lost somewhere

Mirages #0

L'éloquent

Premonicion

To create the meaning

Realms of life

Red roofs 22

2007 Windows

Portrait

Falling Leaves 02

Falling Leaves 01

Let's bloom again

An insipid notion #177. Framed

Man up

Breathing in your dust

Untitled 1

Nothing is perfect

An escape from emotion 02

The Last Goodbye

Having so much inside