Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is a contemporary British sculptor and installation artist. Working in a wide variety of media, Parker’s work frequently features destructive amalgamations of household objects that have been layered, broken, or repurposed into new structures. Some of her best-known works are Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), a garden shed frozen at the moment of explosion surrounding a single lightbulb, and Thirty Pieces of Silver (2011), a large-scale installation of suspended and flattened silver objects including teapots, candlesticks, and dinnerware. Parker describes her work as both darkly humorous and ironic, and cites Marcel Duchamp as a source of inspiration. Born in 1956 in Chesire, England, she studied at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, later receiving her MFA from Reading University in 1982. Her work has been the focus of numerous solo exhibitions around the world, including at Serpentine Gallery in London, the ICA Boston, and the Galeria Civica de Arte Moderna in Turin, among others. In 2016, her site-specific installation Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) was featured on the Metropolitan Museum’s rooftop garden in New York, featuring a full-scale façade replica of the mansion in Alfred Hitchcock’s film 1960 Psycho.

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