Piotr Uklanski
Untitled (The Thing)
Born in 1968 in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in New York City.
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw and photography at Cooper Union, New York. Since he emerged in the mid-1990s, the Polish artist Piotr Uklanski has created a provocative and wide-ranging body of work that defies categorization.
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Born in 1968 in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in New York City.
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw and photography at Cooper Union, New York. Since he emerged in the mid-1990s, the Polish artist Piotr Uklanski has created a provocative and wide-ranging body of work that defies categorization. He engages with nearly all forms of visual media, including installation, large-scale paper reliefs, tie-dyed paintings, textile-based immersive sculptures, resin-based sculptures and paintings, photography, performance, and even a feature-length film titled Summer Love. Uklański’s work has been collected and exhibited by museums worldwide, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Britain, London; François Pinault Foundation, Venice; and Kunsthalle Basel. His work was included in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003); the 26th São Paulo Biennale (2004); the 2010 Whitney Biennial; and Documenta 14 (2017).