Maurizio Cattelan was born in 1960 in Padua, Italy. He currently lives and works in New York and Milan.
Maurizio Cattelan has exhibited at The Menil Collection, Houston (2010), the Whitechapel gallery, London (2012), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2008), the Tate Modern, London (2007), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2003) and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2003). A major retrospective of his work was shown at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2011. He has participated in the Venice Biennale (1993, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2009). He was a finalist for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss prize in 2000, received an honorary degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2004, and was also awarded the Arnold-Bode prize from the Kunstverein Kassel, Germany, that same year.
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery


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