Gifted by the artist to the present owner
New York, Leila Heller Gallery, The Mask and the Mirror: Curated by Shirin Neshat, November 3–December 21, 2011, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, Leila Heller Gallery, Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, May 8–August 14, 2014, p. 7 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Leila Heller Gallery and Southampton Arts Center, Close Up: Contemporary Portraiture, August 22–September 7, 2014 (another example exhibited)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you": Selections from The Bailey Collection, December 4, 2019–March 29, 2020 (another example exhibited)
Geneva, Wilde Gallery, Into the Wild, July 7–September 1, 2022 (another example exhibited)
Michael H. Miller, "Marina Abramović, Both the Stanislavski and Duchamp of Performance Art," Observer, March 16, 2012, online (another example illustrated)
"Marina Abramović: Not Just Any Body," Barnebys, December 13, 2019, online (another example illustrated)
Andrew Bay, "10 Women in 20th Century Art," Composition Gallery, October 5, 2022, online (another example illustrated)
Serbian • 1946
Marina Abramovic is celebrated as a pioneering practitioner of performance art, best known for her works that explore the physical limitations of the body, as well as the body’s potential as a vehicle to spiritual metamorphosis. Born in Belgrade, Abramovic studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and in Zagreb, Croatia. She was among the first generation of performance artists of the 1970s, a group that often resorted to using their own bodies as an artistic medium. Her works often explore extremes of sensation, and, frequently, the audience is invited to participate in the intense, and often exhausting, painful performances. She later regularly collaborated with German artist Ulay on other performative works, exploring the capacities of the body, as well as constructions of gender and social systems in their pieces.
She also began traveling around the world to perform, exploring the body and nature as a means of achieving spiritual transformation, in locations ranging from the Gobi Desert to the Tibetan mountains, and the Great Wall of China. Abramovic’s presentations of her work include sound, video, photography, language, and sculpture, in addition to using her body as the central medium for her work. She has exhibited her work at the Venice Biennale, where she won a Golden Lion award in 1997, and at Documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Art Basel in Switzerland, and the Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan, among many other venues.
She currently lives and works in Amsterdam and New York.
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