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Red Grooms

American, born 1937


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Names

Red Grooms

Grooms, Red

Occupation or Type

printmaker

performance artist

Bio

Red Grooms made his name in performance art when he initiated a series of Happenings in the late 1950s in New York. He is also an accomplished and highly witty printmaker, often cutting, folding, and shaping lithographs into three-dimensional tableaux.

Gender

Male

Related People

Associate of: Shark's Ink (American, established 1976)

Associate of: Bud Shark (American, active 20th century)

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