BORN
Egestorf, Germany

LIVES AND WORKS
New York, New York

Upon the completion studies in science and sociology at secondary school, Kruse began her career as one of Germany's top high fashion models in 1992, living first in Milan, and then Paris and New York. In 1997, she bought a Mamiya camera and began the first of her "books" (an ongoing project), a series of mixed media journals chronicling her world travels and composed of collages, drawings, writings in several languages and photographic self-portraits. Almost incidentally, the books came to the attention of several of the art directors of the magazines in which her work as a model appeared, and she was approached to work as a photographer on fashion assignments. As such, she has published in  Mixte Magazine, Nerve, Amica, I.-D., Glamour in Italy, Harper's Bazaar and American Vogue. As an artist, working primarily in photography and mixed media, she had shows in Paris (at the Sanchez Gallery, 1998, and the Cueto Gallery, 1999), New York (Spencer Brownstone, 1999), and will be shown in Hamburg, Germany early in 2007. In 2005, she received an award from GLAAD for "best emerging artist in photography."

Kruse's recent projects include three series of photographs (WOMEN ON BEACHES and RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS,PERSPECTIVE PEOPLE), a performance art piece printed on canvas (NO-SERIES). At present, in addition to her ongoing "books" project, Kruse has two additional series of photographs in progress (DOMESTIC AFFAIRS and UNDERWATERWORLDS) ,a series of sculptures and a 2-panel video installation.


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