Gina Czarnecki

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).

References
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  2. "International Symposium on Electronic Art". isea-web.org. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. "Ars Electronica". 90.146.8.18/en. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. "Exhibitions at the Bluecoat". Exhibitions at the Bluecoat. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. "The Banff Centre". banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. "Adelaide Film Festival". Adelaide Film Festival/. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  7. "Sundance announces 13 artists for New Frontier programme".
  8. https://www.sundance.org/pdf/press-releases/2009-11-18-2010-Sundance-Film-Festival-Announces-New-Fronti.pdf
  9. "The Double Negative » Gina Czarnecki Retrospective – Reviewed".
  10. "Art-agenda".
  11. "No Such Thing as Gravity".
  12. "This Bioartist is Exhibiting Living Portraits of her own Daughters". 14 January 2017.
  13. "The future of pop culture: Robot performers, an avatar Drake and a Kanye West superstore". TheGuardian.com. 17 October 2016.
  14. "The thought-provoking 'tooth fairy palace'". BBC News. 8 December 2011.
  15. "Gallery: Lumiere festival of light dazzles Durham". Independent.co.uk. 16 October 2014.
  16. "Art in the 2010s: The most striking – and shocking – images".
  17. "Cell Mass N2".
  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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