Renee Cox
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Renée Cox (born 1960 in Jamaica) is an Jamaican-American artist, photographer, political activist and curator. Cox currently lives and works out of New York.
In 1999, Cox’s work was shown in the Venice Biennale, in the Oratorio di S. Ludivico, a 17th Century Catholic Church. Cox’s piece "Yo Mama's Last Supper" a contemporary re-imagining of Leonardo Da Vinci’s classic, was first shown there. In Cox’s version she stood nude in the place of Jesus Christ and was surrounded by all black apostles, except Judas who is white.
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