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.

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

Amalia Ulman currently lives and works in Los Angeles and Gijon.

Her work deals with issues of class, gender, and sexuality. Ulman is particularly interested in middlebrow aesthetics.

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

In 2014, she presented two solo shows in Los Angeles, CA, "Used & New" at ltd los angeles and "Delicious Works" at Smart Objects, also in Los Angeles. She also had the solo show "Baby Footprints Crow’s Feet" with Ellis King in Dublin.

The same year Amalia Ulman started “Excellences & Perfections”, a four month performance taking place on her personal Instagram account. Through her posts, Amalia Ulman fabricated a fictional character whose story unfolded in three different episodes 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." Ulman's Instagram selfies were mainly taken sneaking into hotels and restaurants in Los Angeles and posted as if they documented her real life.

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