Question 1

True or false: Richard Prince has never worked with text or written jokes in his art.

Accepted Answer

False. He's famous for his 'Joke Paintings'—text-based works featuring crude, often sexist one-liners on canvas.

Question 2

True or false: Prince once claimed that all his art is original because he 'makes' images by recontextualizing them.

Accepted Answer

True. He famously said, 'I’m not a photographer; I’m a thief,' defending appropriation as a creative act.

Question 3

True or false: Prince's 2014 'New Portraits' exhibition consisted entirely of screenshots of other people's Instagram posts.

Accepted Answer

True. He printed enlarged Instagram photos, adding his own comments, sparking debates about authorship and consent.

Question 4

True or false: Richard Prince once rephotographed a Marlboro ad and sold it for over a million dollars.

Accepted Answer

True. His 'Untitled (Cowboy)' from the Marlboro Man series set auction records, highlighting his controversial appropriation art.

Question 5

True or false: He was sued by a photographer for using her Instagram selfies in his 'New Portraits' series.

Accepted Answer

True. Donald Graham sued Prince in 2015 over an Instagram photo, though the case was eventually settled.

Question 6

True or false: He studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design before becoming a conceptual artist.

Accepted Answer

False. Prince never attended art school; he worked for Time-Life and learned by rephotographing magazine ads.

Question 7

True or false: Prince's first solo exhibition featured original paintings of nurses, not appropriated images.

Accepted Answer

False. His first solo show in 1980 featured rephotographed ads from magazines, not nurse paintings—that series came later.

Question 8

True or false: The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a complete set of Prince's 'Cowboy' series from the 1980s.

Accepted Answer

False. No museum holds a complete set; the series is scattered across private collections, with key works at MoMA and the Whitney.

Richard Prince Trivia Questions