David Altmejd / Canada

Canada born 1974, works in United States 1999–

David Altmejd is best known for his mysterious, occasionally monstrous and very lifelike forms and figures. Altmejd’s sculptures are suspended between figuration and abstraction and confuse boundaries between their interior and exterior. The artist gives his forms a sense of otherworldliness that hints at fantastical myths and legends. Mother 1 (Relatives), 2013, is part of a suite of sculptures known as The Bodybuilders. The sculpture seems to be transforming itself from inert material, in the process of becoming a body.

BIO

Over the past fifteen years, Altmejd has exhibited widely in North America and Europe and held solo exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, in 2015; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2014; and the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, where he represented Canada. Altmejd’s work is held in public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum, New York.