Allison Zuckerman

Allison Zuckerman (born 1990 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American contemporary artist based in New York. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has developed a practice combining painting, collage and digital manipulation.

Her work is recognisable by its teeming compositions, in which she assembles references drawn from art history, popular culture and digital imagery. In these painted collages, she revisits the representations of women in the Western artistic canon and turns muses, traditionally passive, into assertive figures.

Zuckerman brings different periods and styles together in highly colourful works dense with references. Her work questions the representation of women in art history and the way they are looked at.

Her work has been exhibited in many international institutions and galleries, notably in New York, Miami, Akron and Herzliya. She has also collaborated with brands and figures from fashion and music, including Moschino and Charli XCX, and interpreted a Louis Vuitton collection for Vogue Italia.