Amalia Ulman
Amalia Ulman
Argentina
(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1989) She is an airport based artist with an office in New York City. Born in Argentina, but raised in Spain, she studied Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London. Her works, which are primarily voiced in the first person, blur the distinction between the artist and object of study, often creating humorous, gentle deceptions, while exploring class imitation and the relationship between consumerism and identity. In addition to video, sculpture and installation work, her multidisciplinary practice has involved the use of social media, magazine photoshoots, interviews and brand endorsements as tools for the fabrication of fictional narratives. Ulman’s performance Excellences & Perfections was archived by Rhizome at the New Museum (New York) and exhibited at the Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery (London). Latest works include Buyer Walker Rover, Aka. Then There (commissioned by Feng Boyi for the Wuzhen Biennale of Contemporary Art in China) and El Planeta, a comedy about eviction.