Chloe Piene

Chloe Piene is a fine artist known for her skeletal and morbid imagery. Piene was born in the United States. She received her BA in Art History at Columbia University and her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is known for its ability to straddle a very wide spectrum both in the play of her materials and as a certain philosophical position. Her work has made various and diverse associations with prisoners, love letters, failure, history and heroic transformation. Chloe Piene has been called both brutal and delicate; figurative, forensic, erotic and fantastic. Her video and sculpture utilize the greater sensory impact of noise, time, shadow, and heavy materials to dig visibly into the more subterranean levels of experience. She is known widely for her delicate and penetrating drawings, which are typically anchored in the body penetrate and skirt the boundaries of fashion, surface and anatomy. Her video and sculpture often take from ancient burial schemes and reliefs, an arrangement in and of the earth to speak of a greater dimension and language. In Piene's installations what is heavy and solid seems to float in thin air as if gaseous or ghostly. Death is light, and Death is heavy; typical to her work she creates a space which visually and forcefully accommodates both extremes. As part of her repertoire in which she understands life as art, and her art as her life, she has orchestrated performances such as "I See All Who Are Born" in Salzburg, Austria, "Familienaufstellung" in Vienna, Austria and "To Serve" a collaborative discussion with a Special Operations Commander in New York, tandem to her three part video series which worked directly cameras strapped to the heads of soldiers in Afghanistan.

Piene's work has been exhibited worldwide, notably the 2004 Whitney Biennial, The Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, The Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium; the SFMOMA, MOCA, MIA, The Walker and the MOMA in the USA. She is owned by collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Olbricht "Me" Collection, The Albertina, Vienna, The Bruseum, Graz and the Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin, among other notable private and public Collections. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, The Figaro, The Los Angeles Times, BOMB Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Le Figaro and the Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung, among many other publications.

Chloe Piene has visited as a guest speaker and teacher at institutions such as New York University, Cornell University, MICA in Baltimore, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, The Sotheby's Institute, New York, and The Albertina Museum, Vienna, among others. The monograph Chloe Piene with essays by Barry Schwabsky and Francoise Cohen is the most in depth publication of her work to date. Other publications include "Drawing Now" by Taschen, "Contemporary Drawing" by Katherine Stout of the Tate, and "Drawing People" by Thames and Hudson. Piene is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. Chloe Piene lives and works in Berlin and New York.

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