Piccinini patricia biography sample

Australian artist (born 1965)

Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture.

Piccinini patricia biography sample pdf

Her works focus on "unexpected consequences",^[1] conveying concerns surrounding bio-ethics and help visualize future dystopias. In 2003, Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale with a hyperrealist sculpture of her distinctive anthropomorphic animals.

In 2016 The Art Newspaper named Piccinini with her "grotesque-cum-cute, hyper-real genetics fantasies in silicone" the most popular contemporary artist in the world after a show in Rio de Janeiro attracted over 444,000 visitors.^[2] Natasha Bieniek's portrait of Piccinini was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.^[3]

Early life

Piccinini was born in Sierra Leone in 1965 to Teodoro and Agnes Piccinini.^[4][5]

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