Olivia Plender

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Olivia Plender (born 1977) is an artist based in London.

Plender was born in London. Her work is based on drawing and references pulp novels, magazines and comic strips.^[1] She is best known for a project entitled The Masterpiece (2002 onwards), an epic hand-drawn comic book about the life of a fictional artist in 1960s London.^[2]

Plender has been co-editor of Untitled Magazine since 2002.^[3]

She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design between 1995 and 1998.

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

"2007"

"Information, Education, Entertainment", Marabou Parken, Stockholm

"Art Now Live", Tate Britain, London (performance)

"Athens Biennial: How to Endure", Athens, Greece

"Moscow Biennial: Left Pop", Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

"Le Truc", The Project, Dublin

"Mystic Truths", Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

"Cult Fiction", New Art Gallery Walsall, Hayward Touring Show

"2006"

"The Folly of Man Exposed or the World Turned Upside Down", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

"Tate Triennial", Tate Britain, London

"Busan Biennial", Busan, South Korea

"In Search of the New Republic (or the Tables Turned)", Serpentine Gallery, London (performance)

"2nd International Biennial of Young Artists", Bucharest, Romania

"Slowly Learning to Survive the Desire to Simplify", conference, Iaspis, Stockholm (commission)

"Becks Futures", ICA, London; touring to Arnolfini, Bristol and CCA, Glasgow

"2005"

BMW - 1X Baltic Triennale of International Art, CAC, Vilnius

The Medium & Daybreak, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

A Public Meeting to Address the Phenomenon of Materialization, Man in the Holocene, London

2004

Romantic Detachment, PS1/ MoMA, New York

"East End Academy", Whitechapel Gallery, London

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Untitled Magazine
• 2006 Tate Triennial
• Images, texts and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
• Olivia Plender’s graphic novel A Stellar Key to the Summerland
• Beck’s Futures 2006