Tom Sachs was born in New York on July 26, 1966. After studying briefly at the Architectural Association in London in 1987, he received a B.A. from Bennington College in Vermont in 1989. Throughout the 1990s, Sachs developed a technique based on the concept of bricolage, a sort of “do-it-yourself” ethic that he deployed in both video and sculpture. Hello Kitty Nativity Scene (1994) is a traditional depiction of the Christian Nativity with modern characters such as Hello Kitty and Bart Simpson substituted for the religious figures. This work, along with others such as Prada Toilet (1997) and White Ghetto Blaster (2000), epitomize Sachs’s humorous approach to object making. Nutsy’s (2002), a model of an imaginary city complete with “ghetto” and “modernist art park” areas and featuring sculptural, mechanical, and video elements, is intended as an amalgam of the Modernist utopianism of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation housing block and the capitalist modernism of McDonald’s.

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