Marshall, Kerry James, 1955-

found: Sultan, Terrie. Kerry James Marshall, 2000:t.p. (Kerry James Marshall) text (b. 1955 in Birmingham, Ala.; grad. of the Otis Art Inst. in Los Angeles)

found: Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, 2016:page 270 (Kerry James Marshall is an artist, educator, and author. He earned a BFA in 1978 from the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. After being an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (1985), he moved to Chicago, where he continues to live and work)

found: African American National Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Marshall, Kerry James; painter, photographer, printmaker, installation artist, professor; born 17 October 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States; completed the Otis Art Institute (1978); created Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, a painting that unified completely process and meaning (1980); had his first solo exhibition at Koplin Gallery in Los Angeles (1985); worked in Chicago as production designer for Dash's film Daughters in the Dust (1989); second show at Koplin led to a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Art Fellowship grant (1991); his painting The Lost Boys epitomized a period of artistic growth (1993); received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in painting for his first New York gallery show, at the Jack Shainman Gallery; became a professor at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1998); explored social and political issues in the comic book RythmMastr; honors include, the Alpert Award in the Arts, MacArthur Foundation's Fellows Program grant (1997))