Biography
Pia Lindman’s performance-based work suggests new ways of combining reserach and art. As Fellow and artist-in-residence at M.I.T. (2004 – 2006) she studied humanoid robots and facial expressions (both robotic and human). Lindman’s most recent work, “Milk of Magnesia“, engages with environmental toxins. She was commissioned by the National Center for Contemporary Art in Russia, Ekaterinburg Branch to work with the non-ferruous metals plant in Ekaterinburg, also known as the poisonous “acid factory“. The commission was part of the International Ural Industrial Biennale, Ekaterinburg, 2010. In 2010 she also performed “Kännihurmos“ on drunkenness and extasy at Radialsystem V, Berlin. In 2008-09 Lindman was artist-in-residence at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany.
The Finnish-born Lindman, as a Fulbright Scholar in 1999, received her second Master degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. After ten years of residing in New York, and professorhips at both Yale University School of Art and M.I.T., she now lives and works in both Berlin, Germany, and her farm in the village of Fagervik in Finland.
Lindman has exhibited at, among other, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Sculpture Center, Artists Space; and internationally in Mexico City, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Vienna, and Helsinki, to name a few cities.
Lindman’s work is in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, NY, Pro Artibus, Finland, and the Queens Museum of Art, NY.
