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Amalia Pica (b. 1978, Argentina) is a London-based Argentine artist whose work explores communication, social participation, and the inherent gaps and failures in human interaction. Her conceptual practice, which uses a wide range of media, often transforms simple, everyday objects into witty and compelling installations, performances, sculptures, drawings, and photographs. Pica's work is informed by her experience growing up in Argentina during the "Dirty War" in the 1970s, a period when the military dictatorship suppressed free speech and expression. This history led her to focus on themes of state control and the ways individuals attempt to communicate and connect with one another. Her work often has a playful, celebratory feel, which she uses to draw viewers into complex, political ideas. Key elements of her practice include communication systems, shared and solitary experience, color and abstraction, the politics of joy and, more recently bureaucracy and language.

Selected major exhibitions include: Amalia Pica: Aula Expandida, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2024), ¡Que viva el papeleo!, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2023), rock comb, Brighton CCA, Brighton, UK (2022), Quasi, Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2022), Round table (and other forms) | Zurich Art Prize 2020, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2020), please open hurry, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2017), ears to speak of, The Power Plant, Toronto (2017), Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014). Her work is held in the permanent collections of major museums and foundations worldwide including Tate Collection, London, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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