Bibi Calderaro

b. 1965, Midland, MI / Raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina / Lives in Brooklyn, NY

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Bibi Calderaro, Farewell, 2012, Gold acrylic, metal can lid on panel, 18.5 x 10 inches, #BC13

Bibi Calderaro, Farewell, 2012, Gold acrylic, metal can lid on panel, 18.5 x 10 inches, #BC13

Bibi Calderaro, Beautiful Asshole, 2013, Plant, paper, acrylic, cardboard, 12 x 10.5 x 6 inches, #BC08

Bibi Calderaro, Beautiful Asshole, 2013, Plant, paper, acrylic, cardboard, 12 x 10.5 x 6 inches, #BC08

Bibi Calderaro, Love-live, 2014, Collage and gold leaf on panel, 9 x 12 inches, #BC06

Bibi Calderaro, Love-live, 2014, Collage and gold leaf on panel, 9 x 12 inches, #BC06

Bibi Calderaro, Love As If Life, 2014, Acrylic, thread, yard on cardboard, 20 x 7.5 x 5.5 inches, #BC05

Bibi Calderaro, Love As If Life, 2014, Acrylic, thread, yard on cardboard, 20 x 7.5 x 5.5 inches, #BC05

Bibi Calderaro, Love As If Life Depended on It, 2014, Acrylic and ink on cardboard and black matboard, 11 x 11.5 x 14 inches, #BC09

Bibi Calderaro, Love As If Life Depended on It, 2014, Acrylic and ink on cardboard and black matboard, 11 x 11.5 x 14 inches, #BC09

Bibi Calderaro, Seeds, 2012, Mixed media, velvet cushion in metal box, 4 x 5.5 x 7 inches, #BC07

Bibi Calderaro, Seeds, 2012, Mixed media, velvet cushion in metal box, 4 x 5.5 x 7 inches, #BC07

Biography
Bibi Calderaro has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at museums such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio (all NYC), Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Fine Arts (both Argentina), and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain).

She is the recipient of awards from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Aaron Siskind Foundation, among others. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Art Museum at Princeton University (New Jersey), Museum of Modern Art, and National Museum of Fine Arts (both Argentina). Bibi holds an MFA from Queens College/CUNY, NY, and a BA from Wesleyan University, CT.

Statement
Curious about duality and what constitutes the subject~object relationship, I question boundaries and notions of stability to yield new layers of perception and ways of being.

I am a socially and environmentally engaged artist and researcher who employs a range of media to provoke an ethos of reciprocity with and respect for the more-than-human, while opening the subjective to the possibility of situated difference.

I craft and facilitate participatory performances that take the form of walks, presentations, sensorial workshops, drawings, artistic and academic writing, and other forms of engagement with texts, objects and storytelling. These propose ways to explore how difference may emerge, be sustained and represented in order to be communicated and shared.

Deeply indebted to practices whose matrix is therapeutic, performative, ritualistic and political, I am after something solid yet fragile, something solid yet fluid. And some tentative connections.