Prune Nourry is a French multidisciplinary artist currently working at the Invisible Dog Art Center in

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, NY. Specialized in sculpture, she also explores a multitude of media notably through installations that include photography, film and performance. Prune works on topics ranging from

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st c ...

and

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

. She brings attention to some of the preoccupying issues that arise from fast-growing scientific discoveries such as

sex selection Sex selection is the attempt to control the sex of the offspring to achieve a desired sex. It can be accomplished in several ways, both pre- and post-implantation of an embryo, as well as at childbirth. It has been marketed under the title family ...

, artificial procreation, and

genetic engineering Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of Genetic engineering techniques, technologies used to change the genet ...

Biography

Nourry was born in

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in 1985. She received a degree in wood sculpture from the

École Boulle The École Boulle is a college of fine Arts and Crafts, arts and crafts and applied arts in Paris, France. It is located at 9-21, rue Pierre-Bourdan in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, 12th arrondissement of Paris (France). It accepts students a ...

in Paris, and began her career as independent multidisciplinary artist at the end of her final year at the school. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, NY since 2011. She is married to the artist JR. In 2016, at age 31, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and by 2019 had undergone a mastectomy. She made a non-fiction film about these experiences called ''Serendipity''. As of 2018, she was in remission.

Selected exhibitions and performances

Conferences and lectures

References

* Kourlas, Gia "Art at the Food Cart and in the Park", ''

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'', New York, September 20, 2011. * Tripathi, Shailaja "The Cow Girl", ''

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'', September 25, 2010. * Tripathi, Shailaja "The Cow Girl", ''

'', September 25, 2010. * Genestar, Edouard "Prune, Une Sacrée Artiste", ''Polka Magazine'', France, March 2011. * Tripathi, Shailaja "The Cow Girl", ''

'', September 25, 2010. * Marcum, Anna "A Visit to the Sperm Bar", ''The Eye'', '' Columbia Spectator'', New York, October 6, 2011. * Marcum, Anna "A Visit to the Sperm Bar", ''The Eye'', '' Columbia Spectator'', New York, October 6, 2011. * Rolin, Gaelle "Les filles sacrées de prune Nourry",

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, France, 2011.
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''The Invisible Dog''
"China Terracotta Artist"
CNN, 2013

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"Prune Nourry et l'Armée des filles"

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, Mars 2016

Videos

Terracotta Daughters, Trailer

Imbalance, Chinatown

Holy River, Procession

Holy Holi

Holy Daughters, Exhibition View

The Procreative Dinner

External links

* Official website, https://www.prunenourry.com/
Vimeo
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