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Vanessa Beecroft was born on 25 April, 1969 in Genoa, Italy, is an Italian-born American performance artist. Discover Vanessa Beecroft's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Occupation Artist
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 25 April 1969
Birthday 25 April
Birthplace Genoa, Italy
Nationality Italy

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1969

Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969) is an Italian-born American contemporary performance artist; she also works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting.

Many of her works have made use of professional models, sometimes in large numbers and sometimes naked or nearly so, to stage tableaux vivants.

She works in the United States, and is based in Los Angeles.

Her early work was focused on gender and appeared to be autobiographical; her later work is focused on race.

Vanessa Beecroft was born April 25, 1969, in Genoa, Italy and raised in Santa Margherita Ligure and Malcesine near Lake Garda.

Both of her parents were teachers; she was born to an Italian mother, Maria Luisa and a British father, Andrew Beecroft.

After she was born, her family briefly moved to Holland Park, west London.

Her parents divorced when she was three years old and she did not see her father or her younger brother again until she was 15 years old.

Her mother raised Beecroft alone in a village in Italy in a strict vegan household with no cars, no television, and no phone.

In childhood, she was hospitalized for overeating specific foods she thought would cleanse her system, and she struggled with an eating disorder.

1988

From 1988 to 1993 she attended Brera Academy in Milan, Italy.

1993

Her first art exhibition VB01 (1993) was in a gallery in Milan and featured a performance with other female students from Brera Academy wearing Beecroft's clothing, and sharing Beecroft's "Book of Food", a diary documenting her food consumption from 1985 and 1993.

The "Book of Food" documented Beecroft's bulimic eating habits and was referenced again in her later work, but it was separate from the performances.

1996

She moved to the United States in 1996, at the invitation of art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, settling in New York City.

Some common themes in the work include self discipline (of the models), voyeurism, and power relationships.

Beecroft's artwork is often performance or installation-based with live human figures, but she also documents the performances with photography and video; this work is in many public museum and art collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Van Abbemuseum, amongst others.

2000

Many of the VB performances were documented in the Dave Hickey book VB 08-36: Vanessa Beecroft Performances (2000), and in Emily L. Newman's book Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness (2018).

The performances were titled sequentially.

Strict rules were imposed on the models' behavior during the performances; they were instructed not to engage with the audience.

Models were uniformed, nude, or barely clothed and were required to stand for hours, often in tall high heels without movement or eye contact.

Beecroft always used tall, thin, young models who she referred to as "girls", regardless of their age.

In later work, Beecroft would use designer accessories or shoes as props for the models.

2005

In October 2005, Beecroft staged a three-hour performance on the occasion of the opening of the Louis Vuitton store, "Espace Louis Vuitton" on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

For the same event, Beecroft placed models both black and white on the shelves next to Louis Vuitton bags in a "human alphabet".

2007

In 2007 the Louis Vuitton company apologized to Dutch graphic designer Anthon Beeke for mimicking his "Naked Ladies Alphabet" design without his consent.

2008

Starting in 2008 she began working with Kanye West on collaborations and commercial projects.

Since 2008, Beecroft has been collaborating on work with artist Kanye West.

They began working together with a listening party at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles for West's music albums 808s and Heartbreaks.

2010

In 2010, Beecroft was named creative lead for the Runaway music video.

2013

On the Kanye West music tour, the Yeezus Tour (October 2013 – September 2014), Beecroft designed the sets and choreography.

2014

Beecroft worked on West's Spike Jonze directed music video for the 2014 song “Only One”.

In 2014, Beecroft assembled and built the wedding ceremony of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.

2015

In February 2015, West embarked on a fashion design career with Yeezy Season 1, under the Adidas label and Beecroft directed the performance presentation.

Beecroft went on to work on Yeezy Season 2 (September 2015), Yeezy Season 3 (February 2016), and Yeezy Season 4 (September 2016).

2016

Beecroft alleged she was a full-time employee for West until 2016, when her role changed and she became a part-time contractor.

2018

In 2018, Beecroft and Kim Kardashian collaborated on a series of nude photos of Kardashian that were displayed on social media for the release of Kardashian's perfume, which had a "Kardashian body-shaped bottle".

2019

In 2019, she collaborated with West on two opera-based performances, Nebuchadnezzar and Mary.

Her performance work about gender was often critiqued for being a "post-feminist statement about fashion or pandering to a corrupted way of seeing".

Photographer Collier Schorr noted, "Beecroft is interested in the aesthetics of how women look when they are looked at, and her body-conscious projects encourage alienation between model, artist, and audience."

Beecroft's work with live female nude models in performances often uses a specific type of model, one with an Westernized "idealization" of the female body, all of the models appearing uniformly thin, tall, and young.