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Lucy Orta was born on 1966 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England, is an English artist (born 1966). Discover Lucy Orta'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 58 years old?

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1966

Lucy Orta (born 1966 in Sutton Coldfield, Great Britain ) is an English contemporary visual artist living and working between London and Paris where she has resided since 1991.

1991

After graduating with an honours degree in fashion-knitwear design, Orta began practising as a visual artist in 1991.

Her sculptural work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors such as communication and identity.

1992

Orta's most emblematic works include: Refuge Wear and Body Architecture (1992–1998), portable architecture, lightweight and autonomous structures representing issues of survival.

1993

In 1993, Orta founded Les Moulins together with her partner Jorge Orta, member of the scientific council of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles -ENSAV- with whom she now collaborates.

Their major artworks include: Connector, OrtaWater, 70 x 7 The Meal, Antarctica, and Spirits.

1994

Nexus Architecture (1994–2002) are participative interventions in which a variable number of people wear suits connected to each other, shaping modular and collective structures, which visualise the concept of social link.

1996

Lucy and Jorge Orta are currently restoring a complex of artist studios and residencies on former industrial buildings sites situated along the Grand Morin river in Marne La Vallée as a living extension of their practice: “The staging of a social bond ”( Pierre Restany, Process of Transformation. Ed. JM Place Paris 1996 ).

Their collaborative work.

1999

Orta’s work has been the focus of major survey exhibitions at the Wiener Secession Vienna (1999); USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa (2001), for which she received the Andy Warhol Foundation grant; and Barbican Art Gallery, London (2005).

2002

Orta was the inaugural Rootstein Hopkins Chair at London College of Fashion from 2002 to 2007, and former Head of the Man & Humanity Master in Industrial Design for the Design Academy Eindhoven, a pioneering master program that stimulates socially driven and sustainable design solutions, alternative systems and products, which she co-founded in 2002.

2004

Urban Life Guards (2004–ongoing) are wearable objects that reflect on the body as a metaphorical supportive structure.

2005

which often deals with environmental sustainability and urgent humanitarian crises, has been the focus of major exhibitions at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa Venice, Italy (2005); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006); Galleria Continua, San Gimignano/ Beijing / Le Moulin (2007); Biennale del fin del Mundo, Antarctica (2007); Hangar Bicocca spazio d'arte, Milan (2008), Natural History Museum, London (2010); Shanghai Biennale (2012); MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome (2012); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2013); and Parc de la Villette, Paris (2014).

2007

In 2007 Lucy and Jorge Orta received the Green Leaf Award for Sculpture, for artistic excellence with an environmental message, presented by the United Nations Environment Programme in partnership with the Natural World Museum, at the Nobel Peace Centre Oslo, Norway.

Orta holds a BA (hons) and an honorary Master of Fine Arts both from the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University.

She is currently Chair of Art and the Environment at University of the Arts London.

2013

She has participated in international art biennales in Venice, Italy; Havana, Cuba; Johannesburg, South Africa; Athens, Greece; and the Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea and was an invited speaker at TED x WWF in 2013.

In 2013 they were awarded the inaugural Terrace Wires commission in London, with the monumental artwork Meteoros.