Amalia Ulman facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Amalia Ulman
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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 1989) is an artist and film director from Argentina and Spain. She creates art using many different methods, like performances, art installations, videos, and internet art. Her work often explores topics like social groups, gender, and popular culture. In 2021, Amalia Ulman released her first full-length movie, called El Planeta.
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Early Life and Education
Amalia Ulman was born in Argentina in 1989. When she was young, her family moved to Gijón, a city in Spain, where she grew up.
In 2009, she moved from Spain to London to study at Central Saint Martins, a famous art school. She finished her studies there in 2011.
What Kind of Art Does Amalia Ulman Make?
Amalia Ulman is known for her unique art projects. She often uses social media, like Instagram, to create her art. This is a new way to do performance art, where the artist uses their own actions and body as part of the artwork.
Excellences & Perfections
In 2014, Amalia Ulman started a four-month-long art project on her Instagram account. It was called Excellences & Perfections. For this project, she pretended to be different made-up characters. She wanted to show how easily people can be tricked or influenced by what they see online, especially when it looks like real life.
She took many selfies, often secretly in fancy hotels and restaurants in Los Angeles. She posted these pictures as if they were her real life. This project changed how people thought about performance art and how it could be done online. It also added new ideas to feminist art.
This Instagram project became very famous. It was later shown in big art exhibitions, like the Electronic Superhighway Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in 2016. It was also part of the Performing for the Camera show at Tate Modern in London in 2016. This helped people see how social media fits into the history of art. Many people called her the "First great Instagram Artist."
Other Art Projects
In October 2014, Amalia Ulman had a solo art show in London called The Destruction of Experience. For this show, she made a video presentation called "The Future Ahead." It was about the singer Justin Bieber and how he grew up in the public eye.
In 2015, she had her first solo show in New York City called Stock Images of War. This was an art installation where she created twelve simple wire sculptures. Each one was named after a month, like "War in January" or "War in February."
Later in 2015, Ulman started another year-long Instagram performance called Privilege. In this project, she played an exaggerated version of herself working in an office. She explored different sides of her personality in a business setting.
In 2018, her famous Excellences & Perfections project was turned into a book. The book included all the Instagram posts from the project, along with essays from other artists and writers.
Amalia Ulman's Films
El Planeta
In 2021, Amalia Ulman's first full-length movie, El Planeta, was shown for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival. Critics really liked it. Amalia Ulman wrote, produced, and directed the movie. She also starred in it alongside her own mother.
El Planeta 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 scam people to make their lives more comfortable. The movie is loosely based on a real-life mother-daughter duo in Spain who committed small crimes. The film was shot in black and white in Gijon, the Spanish town where Ulman grew up.
Future Film Projects
Amalia Ulman is planning her next movie. It will be about climate change and 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. She is also autistic.
See Also
In Spanish: Amalia Ulman para niños
- Aliza Shvarts
- Post-Internet art
