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Signe Pierce
NationalityAmerican
EducationSchool of Visual Arts
Notable workamericanreflexxx.com
Websitesignepierce.tumblr.com

Signe Pierce is an American artist. She has worked in performance, photography, video and digital art. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, at the New Museum, New York, and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.[1]

Pierce has a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.[2]

In 2013 she performed in a short film, American Reflexxx, shot by her girlfriend Alli Coates.[3] It shows Pierce, in a short dress and a mirror-finish mask, moving through the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she is derided and then attacked.[4][5][6] It was shown at "Bushwick Gone Basel", an event in a bar in Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami in 2013,[7] and at the BHFQU Brucennial in 2014.[8] It has been watched more than 1.7 million times on YouTube.[9]

Rhizome called it "a brave work that construes many related topics within current cyberfeminist discourses",[10] while Art F City said it was "terrifying, surreal—and true."[11]

Notes

  1. ^ ""What's Real ? Signe Pierce"". Vogue Italia (in Italian).
  2. ^ "School of Visual Arts, NYC".
  3. ^ ""Inside the Hot Pink Barbie Bungalow of Artists, 'Cyberfeminists' and Real-Life Couple Signe Pierce and Alli Coates"". Paper Magazine.
  4. ^ "'We Didn't Set Out to Make a Piece About Dehumanization, Mob Mentality, or Violence': Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Talk 'AMERICAN REFLEXXX'". ArtNews.
  5. ^ ""Watch Transphobia Fuel an Angry, Violent Mob in Myrtle Beach"". Vice.
  6. ^ ""Masking Against The Neoliberal Gaze"". Open Space: SF MoMA.
  7. ^ ""One More Thing About Miami: Bushwick Goes Basel"". Art F City.
  8. ^ ""Ladies' Night: On the BHFQU's Record-Breaking Last Brucennial"". The Observer.
  9. ^ "American Reflexxx". YouTube.
  10. ^ ""Interview: American Reflexxx"". Rhizome.
  11. ^ ""One More Thing About Miami: Bushwick Goes Basel"". Art F City.