Amalia Ulman

Amalia Ulman
Born 1989
Argentina
Occupation Multidisciplinary artist

Amalia Ulman (born 1989) is an Argentinian-born Spanish-raised (Los Angeles based) artist, whose practice includes performance, installation, video and net-art works.

Life

Amalia Ulman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1989 and was raised in Gijón, in the Spanish province of Asturias, after emigrating with her family.[1] In 2009, she left Spain to study at Central Saint Martins in London, where she graduated in 2011.[2] In 2013, she was in a serious Greyhound bus accident that later informed her art practice.[3]

Ulman lives and works in Los Angeles, since moving there in 2014.[4][5]

Work

Her work deals with issues of class, gender, and sexuality.[6] Ulman is particularly interested in middlebrow aesthetics.[7][8][9]

In 2012, Ulman presented Profit | Decay, a show held with Katja Novitskova at the gallery Arcadia Missa in London.[10] In 2013, she had another duo exhibition, with Lauren Elder, Immune Instability I | s at Steve Turner Gallery, in Los Angeles (LA), CA.[11]

In 2014, she presented two solo shows in LA, CA, Used & New at ltd Los Angeles[12] and Delicious Works at Smart Objects, also in LA. She also presented a solo show, Baby Footprints Crow’s Feet, at Ellis King, in Dublin.[13][14]

The same year Ulman started “Excellences & Perfections”, a four-month performance on her Instagram account.[15] Through her posts, Ulman fabricated a fictional character whose story unfolded in three different episodes[16] presenting her acting as three different personas: a 'cute girl', then a 'sugar babe' and finally a 'life goddess'. "The idea was to bring fiction to a platform that has been designed for supposedly “authentic” behavior, interactions and content. The intention was to prove how easy an audience can be manipulated through the use of mainstream archetypes and characters they’ve seen before."[17][n 1] Ulman's Instagram selfies were mainly taken sneaking into hotels and restaurants in Los Angeles and posted as if they documented her real life.[19][20][21]

In October 2014, during Frieze Art Fair, Ulman presented a solo show The Destruction of Experience at Evelyn Yard in London.[22] For the show Ulman made "The Future Ahead", a video essay about Justin Bieber's "growth from angelic teenager to hetero-normative white male".[23]

In January 2015, she presented Stock Images of War, her first solo show in New York City at James Fuentes Gallery.[24] It consisted of an immersive installation composed of twelve simple wire-frame sculptures, each one being after a different month of the year – i.e. "War in January", "War in February", etc.[25][26]

In 2016 "Excellences and Perfections" was selected to be included in the group exhibition Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern, London (18 February — 12 June 2016).[27] The exhibition, which examined the relationship between photography and performance, brought together over 500 works spanning 150 years from the invention of photography in the 19th century to the selfie-culture of today.[28] Through Ulman's Instagram-based project, social media was examined in the historical context of photographic performances.[29] The installation was also part of the exhibition Electronic Highway at Whitechapel Gallery in London.[30] Ulman has thus been described as the first social network-based artist to enter top institutional galleries.[31][32][33]

Solo exhibitions

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Notes

  1. ↑ The narrative which unfolded over the course of the performance “Excellences & Perfections” was presented as follows: "The provincial girl moves to the big city, wants to be a model, wants money, splits up with her high-school boyfriend, wants to change her lifestyle, enjoys singledom, runs out of money because she doesn’t have a job, because she is too self-absorbed in her narcissism, she starts going on seeking-arrangement dates, gets a sugar daddy, gets depressed, starts doing more drugs, gets a boob job because her sugar daddy makes her feel insecure about her body, and also he pays for it, she goes through a breakdown, redemption takes place, the crazy bitch apologizes, the dumb blonde turns brunette and goes back home. Probably goes to rehab, then she is grounded at her family house."[18]

References

  1. ↑ "Amalia Ulman: sensação da arte contemporânea - Lilian Pacce". Lilian Pacce (in Portuguese). 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  2. ↑ "Artist, Feminist, Immigrant: An Interview With Amalia Ulman - Bullett Media". bullettmedia.com.
  3. ↑ "from plastic surgery to public meltdowns amalia ulman is turning instagram into performance art | read | i-D". i-D. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  4. ↑ "Social media have become a vital tool for artists — but are they good for art?". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  5. ↑ "Amalia Ulman Is the First Great Instagram Artist". ELLE. 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
  6. ↑ diego. "Amalia Ulman — LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial". www.laboralcentrodearte.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  7. ↑ "Amalia Ulman - 15 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy". artsy.net.
  8. ↑ "The New New Face: Amalia Ulman - Interviews - Art in America". artinamericamagazine.com.
  9. ↑ Toro, Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, Nick Scholl, David. "Destruction of Experience - Amalia Ulman at Evelyn Yard". dismagazine.com.
  10. ↑ "Katja Novitskova | Amalia Ulman, Profit | Decay". katjanovi.net. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  11. ↑ Toro, Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, Nick Scholl, David. "Lauren Elder + Amalia Ulman: Immune Stability". DIS Magazine. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  12. 1 2 "Ulman's page at ltdlosangeles gallery" (PDF). Ltd. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  13. ↑ Ulman's cv.
  14. ↑ "Amalia Ulman | Baby Footprints Crow’s Feet | Ellis King". ellisking.net. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  15. ↑ "Amalia's Instagram (@amaliaulman) • Instagram photos and videos". instagram.com.
  16. ↑ "Amalia Ulman: Excellences & Perfections". newmuseum.org.
  17. ↑ Francesca Gavin, Kaleidoscope#23, Winter 2015.
  18. ↑ "How Amalia Ulman Became an Instagram Celebrity". vulture.com. 18 December 2014.
  19. ↑ Emilie Friedlander The Fader, November 2014
  20. ↑ Goodman, Matthew Art in America Magazine June 2014
  21. ↑ ""The app isn’t just about posting pretty pictures": Dazed's editor and social media manager on using Instagram - Creative Review". Creative Review. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  22. 1 2 "Amalia-Ulman_The-Destruction-of-Experience_Evelyn-Yard". Evelyn Yard. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  23. ↑ "The_Future_Ahead_Amalia_Ulman_2014_Last_Edit.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  24. 1 2 "James Fuentes Gallery | Amalia Ulman". www.jamesfuentes.com. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  25. ↑ "Amalia's Website". amaliaulman.eu.
  26. ↑ Tess, Edmonso (March 2015). "Killing in the Name". Texte Zur Kunst (97): 196. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  27. ↑ "Performing for the Camera: 5 key artists | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  28. ↑ Tate. "Performing for the Camera - Exhibition at Tate Modern | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  29. ↑ Baker, Simon. "Performing for the Camera: 5 key artists".
  30. ↑ "Press Release - Electronic Superhighway - Whitechapel Gallery". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  31. ↑ Dazed (2016-01-22). "Instagram artist to feature in major Tate exhibition". Dazed. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  32. ↑ Pillon, Adèle (2016-01-23). "Amalia Ulman fait entrer Instagram au Tate Modern - Pop culture - Numerama". Numerama (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  33. ↑ "Le faux compte Instagram qui affole le monde de l'art contemporain". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  34. ↑ "360 Panorama of "Savings & Shelves"(2012)". 360 Panorama. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  35. ↑ "Overcome, cleanse (July, 2012)". amaliaulman.eu. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
  36. ↑ "Amalia Ulman — Promise a Future – Marbriers 4". marbriers4.ch. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  37. ↑ "Future Gallery". futuregallery.org. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  38. 1 2 "Arcadia Missa".
  39. ↑ "Baby Footprints Crow's Feet, August 2014". amaliaulman.eu. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  40. ↑ "International House Of Cozy, May 2015". amaliaulman.eu. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
  41. ↑ "New Galerie". www.newgalerie.com. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  42. ↑ "Amalia Ulman at New Galerie, Paris". CURA. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  43. ↑ "Last chance: Amalia Ulman at New Galerie, Paris | Artinfo". Artinfo. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  44. ↑ "Amalia Ulman “Dignity”". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  45. ↑ "Dirty Dancing: Amalia Ulman’s Intriguing Show at James Fuentes Rings Hollow | ARTnews". www.artnews.com. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
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