Amalia Pica
Amalia Pica, Photo by Mark Blower, Courtesy Herald St, London
Amalia Pica (Neuquén, Argentina, 1978) lives and works in London. She employs a wide range of media, including sculpture, performance, installation, and photography, to explore the subtle conditions of communication such as civic participation, education, transmission and reception of messages both verbal and non-verbal, censorship and human misunderstandings.
Her recent solo exhibitions include please open hurry at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2018) and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2017–2018); and ears to speak of at The Power Plant, Toronto (2017). Pica also exhibited at renowned venues including SFMOMA, San Francisco; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014). Her work was featured in the 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018), the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016) and the 54th Venice Biennale (2011). She has forthcoming solo exhibitions at The New Art Gallery, Walsall; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, and at Brighton CCA. Pica’s work is held in public collections including Tate, London; Guggenheim, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Fundação De Serralves, Porto; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.