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ID: 500293808
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500293808

 

Record Type: Person
Caja, Jerome (American painter and sculptor, 1958-1995)

Note: Active in San Francisco, California and known for his public persona and performances in a form of 'drag' of his own invention in the 1980s and 90s. Awareness of his visual works, created in a variety of media including ceramics, nail polish, conventional makeup, and ash on found objects such as bottlecaps has grown since his death from HIV/AIDS complications in 1995. He held an MFA in ceramics from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Names:
Caja, Jerome (preferred,V,index)
Jerome Caja (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
LGBTQ

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
sculptor
ceramicist
performance artist
mixed-media artist

Gender: male

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
friend of ....  Rhoades, Jason  
................  (American conceptual and installation artist, 1965-2006) [500114740]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Caja, Jerome (I)

Biographies:
(American painter and sculptor, 1958-1995) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American mixedmedia and performance artist, 1958-1995) ..... [MoMA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Caja, Jerome ........ [MoMA Preferred, VP Preferred]
..........................  Artnet [online] (2003-) accessed 17 June 2009
..........................  Avena and Klein, Jerome: After the Pageant (1996)
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 96062156: accessed 17 June 2009
..........................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-)
Jerome Caja ........ [VP]
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [Gallery Systems, MoMA, VP]
....................  Artnet [online] (2003-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n96062156
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n96062156
....................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-)
....................  SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 26501112
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q20683913
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Avena and Klein, Jerome: After the Pageant (1996)
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