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BIOGRAPHY
‘Reality Artist’, Signe Pierce uses her body, the camera and her surroundings to produce films, performances and photographs, and with a singularly flashy, neon, Instagram aesthetic. Through her work, she posits questions regarding gender, identity, sexuality and reality within an increasingly digital world.
Signe Pierce’s practice encompasses performance, video, photography, writing and digital installations. She aligns and identifies with the notion of being a ‘Reality Artist’, a term Pierce acknowledges is at once enigmatic and paradoxical by nature, melding two highly subjective and contested concepts (reality and art). Pierce uses her body, the camera and her surroundings to produce films, performances, photographs and web-based works with a singularly flashy, neon, urban aesthetic. Through her work, she posits questions regarding gender, identity, sexuality and reality within an increasingly digital world.
The artist starred in and was the co-creator of the highly acclaimed short film, “American Reflexxx” (dir. Alli Coates, 2015). Her performance in Reflexxx was shown earlier this year at MoMA, New York and upon its release on YouTube reached over two million views within its first week. The 14-minute film features real, unscripted footage of Pierce walking down a frenetic Myrtle Beach boardwalk whilst wearing a mirrored mask and electric blue mini-dress. Her presence was met with a malevolent curiosity from the surrounding public, who quickly turned violent in an attempt to unmask and gender-identify her. The shocking displays of dehumanisation and mob mentality, along with the Pierce’s tenacious performance, garnered immediate critical acclaim for the film, as well as instant viral attention online.
And while Reflexxx served as an introduction to Pierce’s conceptual oeuvre, her hyper-saturated photographs of Los Angeles palms and neon strip malls have also developed a following of their own.
Signe Pierce was born in Arizona in 1988 and currently lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2011. Pierce debuted at Annka Kultys Gallery in 2017 with “Faux Realities”, an exhibition of 30 photos that questioned the nature of truth and artifice within the digital image, and showed again at the gallery in 2018 with “Metamirrorism”, an exhibition the artist also presented that year at the Athens Biennial. Pierce’s upcoming shows include “World Receivers” at Zabludowicz Collection in London, and “Maske” at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn.
Her video work and performances have been shown at MoMA, New York (2019); MdbK, Leipzig, Germany (2018); Athens Biennial, Greece (2018); Düsseldorf Photo, Germany (2018); the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2014); and the New Museum, New York (2014).
SELECTED ARTWORKS
Metamirrorism
2018
The whole installation is sold with one MacMini, one AppleTV, two projectors, one camera, one iPhone, four mirrors, four lights, tree fans and holographic paper
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3, 1 AP
(SPie037.18)
American Reflexxx
2013
Video, 14 min 03 sec
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3 + 2AP
(SPie035.13)
Rainbow Palm
2015
C-type print, and frame
76 x 61 cm (image size)
(30 x 24 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie034.15)
Optical Delusions
2017
C-type print, and frame
51 x 40.5 cm (image size)
(20 x 16 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie033.17)
Laundrette
2016
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie032.16)
Station to Station to Station (Vienna)
2017
C-type print, and frame
40.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(16 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie031.17)
Vienna Railing
2017
C-type print, and frame
40.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(16 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie030.17)
Technocamo
2017
C-type print, and frame
30.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(12 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie029.17)
Paradoxxx of Paradise (Miami) 2017
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie028.17)
Panopticon Gaze
2017
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie027.17)
Slain (Hollywood, CA)
2017
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie025.17)
Simulated Beauty (Las Vegas)
2017
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie024.17)
Rose Puddle (SoHo, NYC)
2017
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie023.17)
Rose Bowl Motel (Los Angeles)
2017
C-type print, and frame
30.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(12 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie022.17)
Perhaps We Seek Out Aesthetic Beauty As A Means of Coping With the Tragedies of Every Day Existence
2017
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie021.17)
Vienna Morning
2017
C-type print, and frame
30.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(12 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie020.17)
Self-Parallaxxx
2017
C-type print, and frame
40.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(16 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie019.17)
Nite Drive (Chinatown, NYC)
2016
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie018.16)
Heightened Realism
2016
C-type print, and frame
61 x 61 cm (image size)
(24 x 24 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie010.16)
Cornucopia
2015
C-type print, and frame
45.5 x 61 cm (image size)
(18 x 24 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie009.15)
Column Rail (SoHo, NYC)
2016
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie008.16)
Chinese Takeout II (Elmsford, NY)
2016
C-type print, and frame
45.5 x 61 cm (image size)
(18 x 24 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie007.16)
Chinatown Neon (NYC)
2016
C-type print, and frame
40.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(16 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie006.16)
3 AM: Donut Shop on the Edge of the Hollywood Hills (Night of the Muslim Ban), January 28, 2017
2017
C-type print, and frame
40.5 x 30.5 cm (image size)
(16 x 12 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie005.17)
Mirrorgaze
2017
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie004.17)
Exocolour – (Compton)
2017
C-type print, and frame
45.5 x 61 cm (image size)
(18 x 24 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie003.17)
Cheap Thrills
2015
C-type print, and frame
61 x 45.5 cm (image size)
(24 x 18 in) (image size)
Ed. of 5 + 1AP
(SPie002.15)
For more information about the available works, please contact Annka sales@annkakultys.com
PAST EXHIBITIONS AT ANNKA KULTYS
SIGNE PIERCE | METAMIRRISM
28 MARCH – 28 APRIL 2018
SIGNE PIERCE | FAUX REALITES
8 JUNE – 1 JULY 2017
