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*Echo*, a matriarch engineered to die. Materials: Polystyrene, white paint, acrylic parts, latex, silicone, nylon, glass artificial heart, water pumps, water, potassium chloride, powder-coated metal stand, sound. Part of FOXP2, Nottingham Contemporary, 2016

Marguerite Humeau (born 1986)[1] is a French visual artist. She lives in London.

Early life and education

She studied at the Royal College of Art.[2] Her work focuses on communication between worlds. She has called herself an "Indiana Jones in Google Times".[3]

Career

Humeau had her first major solo show at the Palais de Tokyo in 2016,[4] was part of the Manifesta in Zurich in 2016, and showed at Nottingham Contemporary and other major galleries and institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum.[5]

Lucy, from her Opera of Prehistoric Creatures, was included in The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things[6] curated by Mark Leckey in 2013. She also resuscitated Cleopatra's voice singing a love song of her era for the Serpentine Galleries Extinction Marathon curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist in 2014.[7]

In 2017, she was awarded the Zurich Art Prize.[8] "Birth Canal" at the New Museum in New York City (2018), was Humeau's first solo exhibition in the United States, and received a positive review in Sculpture magazine.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Marguerite Humeau". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. ^ Lescaze, Zoë (23 July 2020). "An Artist Who Reanimates Extinct Species". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Interview // Marguerite Humeau: Communicating the Creaturely". Berlin Art Link. 3 May 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. ^ Herriman, Kat (2016-06-24). "Artist to Know: The 29-Year-Old Effortlessly Melding Science and Romance". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  5. ^ "Artist Website". Marguerite Humeau. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  6. ^ "The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things / Guide Book" (PDF). Research Goldsmiths. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Serpentine Galleries Extinction Marathon". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  8. ^ Abrams, Amah-Rose (2017-01-17). "Marguerite Humeau Wins $100,000 Zurich Art Prize". Artnet News. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
  9. ^ Ingram Allen, Jane (March–April 2019). "Marguerite Humeau New Museum". Sculpture. 38: 88–89.
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