Chloe Piene (born 1972) is a

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known primarily for her drawing.

Biography

Piene received her BA in Art History with a concentration in Northern Renaissance Art from

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and her MFA in Fine Art from

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, University of London.

Drawing

Her drawing has been described as "brutal, delicate, figurative, forensic, erotic, and fantastic". Her work has made various and diverse associations with prisoners, love letters, neolithic burial schema failure, history, heroic transformation, and epic sagas such as the Finnish ''

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.'' One of her many art historical references is ''Death and the Maiden'' (1517) by Hans Baldung Grien. In this, a panicked maiden is seized by a kiss from a grotesque and rotten death. "Yet with Piene, the two mythological figures melt together, since in her charcoal drawings we encounter not Death and the Maiden, but rather the Maiden as Death."

Video

Her large-scale video works utilize the greater sensory impact of noise, time, darkness, and misrecognition to visibly extend into the more subterranean levels of experience. Her video “Blackmouth” premiered at the 2004 Whitney Bienniall. “You’re Gonna Be My Woman” was shown at Kunsthalle Bern in 2003 and “Little David” for the first time at Marianne Boesky Gallery in 2000. Her military triptych “I’m Hit”, “Gun” and “Shrapnel” 2015 premiered at Suzanne Vielmetter Projects in Los Angeles.

Sculpture

Steel, iron, and plasticine cast from skulls reflect an "under-structure" prevalent in all her work.

Performance

Chloe Piene's exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery (2000) included drawings, video and a live performance in which nine former convicts and nine women read from correspondence Piene had with a prisoner serving a 99-year sentence, the performance stemmed from her publication from the correspondences entitled "Lovelady, Texas". Other performances include To Serve (2015), a collaborative dialogue with a United States Special Operations Commander in New York, tandem to her three-part video series which worked directly with cameras strapped to the heads of soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. Piene performed Familienaufstellung (2016) in Vienna with Diethard Leopold as an arrangement where people played family members, both living and dead included were

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as her brother, and Petra Morzé as her mother.

Selected Exhibitions

''All Sins Are Murder Even As All Life Is War: Chloe Piene and Erna Rosenstein.'' Chloe Piene and Erna Rosenstein, Galeria Szydłowski, Warsaw, Poland, 2024; ''A Passion for Drawing'', ''Selections from The Guerlain Collection'' at the Centre Pompidou and Drawing Now, ''Drawing Now'' at the

Albertina The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well ...

, Vienna, 2019; ''Schiele Reloaded'', in which Piene paired with

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as part of his Centennial at the

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, Vienna, 2018; ''HB + CP - Hans Bellmer and Chloe Piene'' at Galerie

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, Paris, 2008; ''Bodies of Desire: Works on paper by

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and Chloe Piene'' at the Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2007; and the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

Selected Public Collections

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, Ithaca, New York *

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's ori ...

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, New York *

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

, San Francisco *

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in ...

, Minneapolis *

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

, New York * Burger Collection, Berlin * Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin * Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin * Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden * The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France * Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA * The Marie-Luise Hessel Collection, Bard College, New York, USA * Fondation d'art contemporain Daniel et Floerence Guerlain, Paris, FRANCE

Awards

2022 Laurate, 15th Prix de dessin contemporain, Fondation Daniel & Florence Guerlain.

References

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