The works of Amalia Ulman (Buenos Aires, 1989) and her staging, always provocative, highlight social differences and how these affect interpersonal interactions,
emotions and human relationships. Working on social stratification, cultural capital, class imitation and seduction, her objective is the scrutiny of hierarchical structures, power relations, charity and empathy. She is a multidisciplinary artist who, from early web works and online performance to new pieces that take sculptural forms and incorporate the use of installations, photographs and performative acts, applies different techniques depending on the
projects, the exhibition or the set of works, trying to generate a conversation and a critical tension between the concept and the device.
Among her most recent exhibitions are Privilege (KWM Art Center, Shanghai 2018), Monday Cartoons (Deborah Schamoni, Munich, 2018), Intolerancia (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2017), Atchoum! (Galerie Sympa, Figeac, 2017), New World 1717 (Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2017), Labor Dance (Arcadia Missa, London, 2016), Reputation, (New Galerie, Paris, 2016), Dignity
(James Fuentes New York, 2016), Annals of Private History (Frieze Projects, New York, 2015) and Stock Images of War (James Fuentes LLC, New York, 2015).
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in important spaces such as Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland, 2019), Ordet (Milan, 2019), This is blitz (Malta, 2019), Wuzhen Contemporary Art
(China, 2019), MCA (Chicago, 2018), Göteborgs Konsthall (Sweden, 2018), de Young (San Francisco, 2018), Arcadia Missa (New York, 2017), M WOODS (Beijing, 2017), 9th Biennial of Art
Contemporary Berlin (2016), International Center of Photography (New York, 2016), Tate Modern (London, 2016), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2016) and Monnaie de Paris (2015). In the
In recent years she has made performances at Ram Highlight 2017: Displace (Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2017). She was part of the BienalSur (Museum of Decorative Arts, Buenos Aires, 2017). His
Her work has been published in Art in America, Art Forum, Art Review, Texte Zur Kunst, The New York Times, and The Guardian, among other publications.
In parallel with her artistic career, Amalia Ulman maintains a constant interest in curatorial practices, the writing of essay texts and literature. She is the founder and director of the MAWU-LISA project and co-founder of the Immune Stability project that combines fashion, art and technology.
She wrote essays such as F/F (Friends & Favorites), published by print and online trade magazines.
She lives and works in New York and Gijón.