Piotr uklanski biography of rory

Polish-American artist

Piotr Uklański
Born	1968 (age 56–57) Warsaw, Poland
Education	Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Occupation(s)	Artist, director, photographer
Notable work	The Nazis (1998) Untitled (John Paul II) (2004)
Partner	Alison Gingeras

Piotr Uklański (born 1968) is a Polish-American contemporary artist, director and photographer who has produced art since the mid 1990s which have explored themes of spectacle, cliché, and tropes of modern art.

Many of his pieces and projects take well-known, overused, sometimes sentimental subjects and tropes and both embraces and subverts them. Untitled (Dance Floor) (1996) is one of his best known works which took a minimalist grid floor in the gallery and developed it into a disco dance floor activated with sound and lit with bright colors.

His works have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, Museum of Mo