Amalia Ulman facts for kids
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Amalia Ulman
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Ulman in 2016
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| Born | 1989 (age 35–36) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Alma mater | Central Saint Martins |
| Occupation | Multidisciplinary artist |
| Years active | 2012–present |
Amalia Ulman (born in 1989) is an artist and film director from Argentina and Spain. She creates art using different methods like performance, installations, videos, and internet art. Her work often explores ideas about social class, gender, and how people see beauty in everyday things. In 2021, Amalia Ulman released her first full-length movie, El Planeta.
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Early Life and Education
Amalia Ulman was born in Argentina in 1989. She grew up in Gijón, a city in Spain, after her family moved there.
In 2009, she left Spain to study at Central Saint Martins in London. She finished her studies there in 2011. In 2013, she was in a serious bus accident. This accident caused her to have a permanent disability.
Amalia Ulman's Art Career
In April 2013, Amalia Ulman shared a video essay called Buyer, Walker, Rover. She presented it as a lecture using Skype.
In 2014, she had two art shows in Los Angeles. These shows were called Used & New and Delicious Works.
Instagram Art Projects
In 2014, Ulman started a special art project on her Instagram account. It was called Excellences & Perfections. For four months, she pretended to be different made-up characters. Their stories unfolded in three parts. Her goal was to show how easily people can be tricked online. She used common types of characters to do this.
She took many selfies in hotels and restaurants in Los Angeles. She posted them as if they were her real life. This project changed where performance art could happen. It also added new ideas to feminist art. Excellences and Perfections was later shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2016.
In October 2014, Ulman had another show in London called The Destruction of Experience. For this show, she made a video essay. It was about Justin Bieber's journey from a young star to a grown-up.
In January 2015, she had her first solo show in New York City. It was called Stock Images of War. This show was an installation with twelve simple wire sculptures. Each one was named after a month, like "War in January."
Later in 2015, Ulman started another Instagram performance called Privilege. This project lasted for a year. It showed an exaggerated version of Ulman herself. She explored showing different sides of her personality in a business office setting.
Exhibitions and Recognition
In 2016, Excellences and Perfections was part of a group show. This show was called Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern in London. The exhibition looked at how photography and performance are connected. It showed over 500 works from the past 150 years. This included early photos and today's selfie culture.
Ulman's Instagram project helped show how social media fits into the history of photo performances. Her work was also part of the Electronic Highway exhibition. This was at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Ulman has been called the first social network artist to be shown in major art galleries. Elle magazine even called her the "First great Instagram Artist."
In 2018, Excellences & Perfections was turned into a book. It included her Instagram posts and essays by other artists and writers.
Film Work
In 2021, Amalia Ulman's first feature film, El Planeta, was shown. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received good reviews. Ulman wrote, produced, and directed the movie. She also starred in it with her mother.
The film is a funny, unusual comedy. It tells the story of a mother and daughter who are about to be evicted from their home in Spain. They try to find clever ways to get by. The movie is loosely based on a real-life mother-daughter duo from Spain. El Planeta was filmed in black and white in Gijón, Spain. This is the town where Ulman grew up.
In March 2021, a film company called Utopia bought the rights to show El Planeta in North America. The movie was also shown at film festivals in Brisbane and Sydney in late 2021.
Amalia Ulman's next film will be about climate change. It will be filmed in northern Argentina, where she was born.
Personal Life
As of 2021, Amalia Ulman lives in New York City with her husband. Amalia Ulman is autistic.
See also
In Spanish: Amalia Ulman para niños
- Aliza Shvarts
- Post-Internet art
