Amalia Pica explores systems of communication and civic participation in works that span from sculpture and drawing to performance, video, and installation. Pica was born in Neuquén in 1978, moved to Buenos Aires to complete her BA (2001) at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P.P. She was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2004-05 and now lives and works in London. Her work poses questions about contemporary systems of communication, human connection, social participation, and state control. Pica examines the things and circumstances that bring people together by injecting collective celebration into subjects rife with conflict or tediousness. Using simple materials and found objects, she investigates human modes of interaction and the political potential of joy. Pica received the Zürich Art Prize (2020); Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2011); and participated in the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation’s Grants and Commissions Program (2011).
