Gina Czarnecki

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Gina Czarnecki (born 1965, in Immingham) is a British artist. Her art spans a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, installation art, and video and is frequently informed by biomedical science. She is the daughter of a Polish father and an English mother. Czarnecki currently resides in Liverpool, England. [1]

Since the start of her career in the early 1980s, she has participated in several group exhibitions including the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) (1998), [2] Ars Electronica (1999), [3] and the Brisbane Festival for international arts (2009). She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Creative Scotland Award (2002), [4] Fleck Fellowship Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Award (2004), [5] Australian/New Zealand Best Dance Film Award (2005), [6] and Australian Dance Award for Dance on Film (2005). [1] [6]

Czarnecki's works 'Nascent', 'Cell Mass N2' and 'Infected' were included in the 2010 edition of 'New Frontier' at the Sundance Film Festival. [7] [8] She had a retrospective exhibition [9] at Bluecoat (formerly Bluecoat Chambers) from 9 December 2011 to 19 February 2012, which included the work 'Palaces' commissioned for the exhibition. [10] As a bioartist, Czarnecki's project ‘Heirloom’, created in collaboration with John Hunt from the University of Liverpool, was included in the exhibition ‘No Such Thing as Gravity’ [11] at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in 2017 as well as the Medical Museion (Copenhagen) in 2018. [12] [13] Her sculpture ‘Tooth Fairy Palace' was exhibited at the Science Museum, London followed by the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry in 2013. [14] Czarnecki’s work ‘I’, employing iris scanning technology, was exhibited as part of the Lumiere festival, Durham, also 2013. [15] [16]

Czarnecki's works 'Cell Mass 2 [17] and 'Quarantine' [18] were commissioned by Forma UK. [19] Her work Spintex (2008) [20] is held in the Animate Projects [21] archive. Czarnecki's works Tattoo 2 (1991), [22] Parade (1987), [23] Facade (1987) [24] and Moral Judge (1987) [25] are held as part of LUX [26] (formerly London Video Arts).

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  11. ↑ "No Such Thing as Gravity". 11 November 2016.
  12. ↑ "This Bioartist is Exhibiting Living Portraits of her own Daughters". 14 January 2017.
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  14. ↑ "The thought-provoking 'tooth fairy palace'". BBC News. 8 December 2011.
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  16. ↑ "Art in the 2010s: The most striking – and shocking – images".
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  18. ↑ "Quarantine".
  19. ↑ "Artistic Programme".
  20. ↑ "Animate Projects - Gina Czarnecki".
  21. ↑ "Animate Projects: About - About".
  22. ↑ "Tattoo 2".
  23. ↑ "Parade".
  24. ↑ "Facade".
  25. ↑ "Moral Judge".
  26. ↑ "LUX Artists' Moving Image - What We do".
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