Judy Rifka

Bio: Judy Rifka, an American artist, first emerged in the 1970s as a painter and video artist, and is associated with Colab, Tribeca, the Lower East Side arts scene of that period, and such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard, John Ahearn, Richard Mock, Ron Gorchov, Becky Howland, Keith Haring, Matthew Geller, Joseph Nechvatal, Bruce Nauman, Elizabeth Murray, Jenny Holzer, Cookie Mueller, Richard Prince, Kiki Smith, Lynne Tillman, David Wojnarowicz and Ruth Root.

Born: September 25, 1945 in New York City, New York, United States