I've Got A Secret
Richard Prince (b. 1949) is widely recognized for his incisive examinations of American image culture and the myths that shape it. Since the late 1970s, he has drawn from advertisements, pulp novels, magazine photography, and other forms of mass media to create works that blur the line between appropriation and invention, challenging conventional ideas of originality, authorship, and authenticity.
Throughout his career, Prince has explored subjects as varied as humor, pulp fiction, soft-core pornography, cowboys, bikers, customized cars, and celebrities—all enduring myths of American culture. Rather than simply appropriating these images, he reworks them to expose the fantasies and assumptions they carry, creating artworks that are at once playful, unsettling, and sharply observant of how American identity is constructed and consumed.
Prince’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions at institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Serpentine Gallery, London. His work is represented in the collections of leading museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Tate.
Richard Prince has collaborated with Two Palms since 2007.
