Piotr Uklanski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1968. He studied painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and photography at the Cooper Union School for Advancement of Science and Art, in NY. Uklanski emerged on the New York art scene in the mid-90s with an emblematic artwork, the Untitled (Dance Floor), a sculpture that integrates the legacy of minimalism with the blurring of art and entertainment that characterizes the current era. Uklanski has since constructed a diverse body of work that exploits as many types of media (sculpture, photography, collage, performance, and film) as it promiscuously absorbs cultural references. His work has been internationally exhibited in various contexts including the MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in NY, the 26th Sao Paolo Biennale 2004, Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.

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