| Ana Prvacki | |
| Occupation: | Artist |
| Nationality: | American, Serbian, and Romanian |
| Birth Place: | Pančevo, Yugoslavia |
| Spouse: | Sam Durant |
| Known For: | Conceptual artist, installation, painting, performance |
| Children: | Divna (daughter) |
| Website: | http://anaprvacki.com/ |
Ana Prvački (born 1976) is a conceptual artist. Her interdisciplinary approach encompasses video, augmented reality, sculpture, painting and immersive performance employing materials as diverse as magnets and honey.
Prvački has been creating performance and conceptual art projects since 2002. She addresses topics like music, eroticism, etiquette, hospitality and protocols leading some to call her the "Martha Stewart meets Marina Abramović" of performance art.[1]
She has presented her work at numerous international venues including Gropius Bau, Berlin; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; and with a piece commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. Group exhibitions include the 13th Gwangju Biennial, Sydney Biennial, Bangkok Arts Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial, 14th Istanbul Biennial and dOCUMENTA 13.
Her book of watercolors was published in 2023 by Sternberg Press with an essay by Zadie Smith.[2]
Prvački was an artist inresidence at San Francisco's de Young museum starting in 2018 until 2019, followed by a solo exhibition.[3] Art in America review on her Detour exhibition writes "In its most sublime moments, Detour uses its short videos to impart lessons in careful observation, human biology, and mythology. Prvački’s delivery is earnest and upbeat; she plays the part of the (slightly off-kilter) museum tour guide to perfection."[4]
Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, n.b.k Artothek in Berlin as well as numerous private collections in Europe, the United States, Mexico and Asia.
Born in Yugoslavia, she is half Romanian and half Serbian, she moved to Singapore as a teenager. Besides her studies in visual art, sculpture and art history she studied classical flute, theatre and beekeeping. Prvacki is married to artist Sam Durant.[5]
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