BiographyBarbara Kruger is an American Conceptual artist whose signature works juxtapose black-and-white photographs with bold red-and-white text slogans—Your Body Is a Battleground, I Shop Therefore I Am—to challenge power, consumerism, and the construction of identity through mass media. Drawing on her background as a graphic designer at Condé Nast, she developed a visual strategy that moves fluidly between gallery and public space. Her work remains urgently relevant to contemporary debates about politics, gender, and representation.