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Kalup Linzy

Born in Stuckey, FL, 1977
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Day 5: Kalup Linzy

Classic daytime TV soap operas such as All My Children and The Days of Our Lives have fueled many of Kalup Linzy’s hilarious video vignettes. He lampoons the stilted acting performances and risible plots while subversively making pointed commentaries about race, class, and sexual identity. Perhaps part of the appeal of Linzy’s videos is the way he flips the casting script. Soap operas have long been popular in the African American community, but the actors are mostly white.

Oftentimes, Linzy provides the voiceovers for all of the characters and does the post-production editing, taking the absurdity of TV soap operas to an even more outlandish level. Last year, Linzy even made his way as a performer on a bona fide soap opera classic, General Hospital.

Watch this 2003 vignette, All My Churen, which stars Linzy as all of the characters in the Braswell family. Then take the quiz below to test your knowledge of black roles in some of the most popular soap operas.

Pop Quiz

Who portrayed Jessie Hubbard and Angie Baxter, the first black super-couple on ABC's All My Children?

Who became the first black woman to appear on a TV daytime soap opera when she appeared on ABC's One Life to Live in 1968?

Education

2003 M.F.A., University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2000 B.F.A., University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2009 Recessed, Repressed, Child Just Tell Me, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Quebec
If it Don’t Fit, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, April 2-June 28
2008 Kalup Linzy, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
Modern Mondays: An Evening with Kalup Linzy, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
2007 We the People: Kalup Linzy and Wardell Milan, Context Galleries, Derry, Northern Ireland
2006 Kalup Linzy: Shades of Black and White, International & National Projects, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art
Center, Long Island City, NY
Revelation 23:7 – His Rod Got Gold in It, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Kalup Linzy: All My Churren, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK [cat.]
2007 Playback, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France [cat.]
Television Delivers People, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2006 Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
Australia [cat.]
2005 Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY [cat.]

Selected Collections

Marlene Meyerson, Tesuque, NM
Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, New York, NY
The Museum of Old and New Art, State Collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania,
Australia
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

30 Americans is organized by the Rubell Family Collection, Miami. The presenting sponsor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art is Altria Group.

Additional support has been provided by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.



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