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ID: 500113188 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500113188			Record Type: Person

Vega, Alan (American musician and assemblage artist, 1938-2016)

Note: Better known as a the vocalist for New York-based music duo Suicide, Vega was also active as a sculptor, creating assemblages with electric lights, scrap wood, and pop-culture detritus.

Names:
	Vega, Alan (preferred,V,index,LC O,Dutch-P,NA)
	Alan Vega (V,display)
	Suicide, Alan (V)
	Bermowitz, Boruch Alan (V)
	Alan Suicide (V)
	Bermovwitz, Boruch Alan (U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	musician
	sculptor
	assemblage artist
	painter
	installation artist

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

student of ....	Reinhardt, Ad
..................	(American painter, collagist, and writer, 1913-1967) [500013982]

student of ....	Seligmann, Kurt
..................	(American painter, engraver, and illustrator of Swiss birth, 1900-1962) [500022797]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Vega, Alan (I)

Biographies:


	(American musician and assemblage artist, 1938-2016) ..... [VP Preferred] (American artist, b.1948) ..... [BHA] (American artist, musician, 20th c.) ..... [BHA] (American artist, born 1948) ..... [VP] (artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC] (American painter, 1938-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Alan Suicide ........	[VP]
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Alan Vega ........	[GRISC, VP]
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Bermovwitz, Boruch Alan ........	[RKD]
...............................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 281221

Bermowitz, Boruch Alan ........	[VP]
.............................................	Pareles, Alan Vega, New York Times (2016)

Suicide, Alan ........	[BHA, RKD, VP]
............................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
............................	Frankel, Art-Rite, Artforum (2003)
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 281221

Vega, Alan ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
......................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
......................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
......................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 92113188; accessed 11 November 2005
......................	Pareles, Alan Vega, New York Times (2016) obit.
......................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 281221

Subject: ........	[BHA, GRISC, RKD, VP]
....................	Art in America 65/5 (1977)
....................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................	Frankel, Art-Rite, Artforum (2003)
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 92113188; accessed 11 November 2005
....................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 281221
....................	Smith, Alan Vega, Arts Magazine (1983)
....................	Wikidata online (2000-) Q726280


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Pareles, Alan Vega, New York Times (2016) obit.
	..........	Smith, Alan Vega, Arts Magazine (1983)

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