Marina Abramovic Biography
Marina Abramovic was born on November 30, 1946 in Belgrade.
Since the 1970s she has been one of the main exponents of Performance Art, together with artists such as Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Chris Burden. His work focuses on the relationships between the audience and the artist, and on the physical and mental aspects of the body.
His work has also been included in many major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1976 and 1997) and Documenta VI, VII and IX, Kassel, Germany (1977, 1982 and 1992). In 1995 Abramovic's Objects Performance Video Sound exhibition traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
In 1997, he received the Golden Lion award for best artist at the Venice Biennale. In September 2009 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by the University of Plymouth, UK. In 2010, he had his first major retrospective in the United States and presented "The Artist is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which ran for over 700 hours. In 2016, he released his autobiography Walk Through Walls: A Memoir, published by Crown Archetype. In February 2017 he presented his retrospective "The Cleaner" at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 2021, she will be the first female artist to occupy the entire space of the Royal Academy in London with the solo exhibition "After Life".
Today he lives and works in New York.
