MARINA ABRAMOVIC
Performance Art and its Future
SCAD Atlanta: Thursday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m.
Events Space, fourth floor, Building C
SCAD Savannah: Friday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m.
Trustees Theater
Biography
Marina Abramović attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during the early 1970s. She pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. Abramović presented her work at institutions including Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 2010; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2004; State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2004; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, 2004; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2002; and Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 1990. She received an Honorary Doctorate from The Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and earned the 2005-06 Best Exhibition of Time-Based Art award by the Association of Art Critics. Abramović won the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale.
