Biography – Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965) was born in Freetown, Piccinini has exhibited internationally in both solo Sierra Leone, West Africa. She is the child of an and group shows. Her first major retrospective English mother and an Italian father. In 1972 the exhibition Curious Afection was held at Queensland family emigrated to Australia, where Piccinini was Art Gallery in Brisbane in 2018. Other exhibitions raised. She holds a BA in Economic History from the include Patricia Piccinini and : Through Australian National University and a BA in Painting Love (TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, AU, from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2018), Curious Imaginings at the Patricia Hotel where she has worked as an Enterprise Professor (Vancouver Biennale, CA, 2018), GOSH! IT IS ALIVE since 2017. She lives and works in Melbourne with her (ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, DK, 2017) and husband, the artist Peter Hennessey, and their two Revival (National Museum of Women in the Arts, children Hector and Roxy. Washington DC, US, 2017).

Patricia Piccinini represented Australia at the Venice Piccinini’s work is held in a number of museum Biennale in 2003 with the exhibition We Are Family. collections such as ARKEN Museum of Modern Art In 2013 she was commissioned to create a work of (Ishøj, DK), Middelheim Museum (Antwerp, BE), celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Monash University Museum of Art (Victoria, AU), foundation of the Australian capital, . For National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, AU), National this occasion, she created a large flying hot-air Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC, US), balloon with the title Skywhale. Piccinini received a Pheonix Art Museum (Pheonix, USA) and Queensland Lifetime Achievement Award from the Melbourne Art Gallery (Brisbane, AU). Art Foundation in 2014.

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