Gina Czarnecki (born 1965, in Immingham) is a British artist. Her art spans a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, installation art, and video and is frequently informed by biomedical science. She is the daughter of a Polish father and an English mother. Czarnecki currently resides in Liverpool, England.[1]
Since the start of her career in the early 1980s, she has participated in several group exhibitions including the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) (1998),[2] Ars Electronica (1999),[3] and the Brisbane Festival for international arts (2009). She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Creative Scotland Award (2002),[4] Fleck Fellowship Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Award (2004),[5] Australian/New Zealand Best Dance Film Award (2005),[6] and Australian Dance Award for Dance on Film (2005).[1] [6]
Czarnecki's works 'Nascent', 'Cell Mass N2' and 'Infected' were included in the 2010 edition of 'New Frontier' at the Sundance Film Festival.[7] [8] She had a retrospective exhibition[9] at Bluecoat (formerly Bluecoat Chambers) from 9 December 2011 to 19 February 2012, which included the work 'Palaces' commissioned for the exhibition.[10] As a bioartist, Czarnecki's project ‘Heirloom’, created in collaboration with John Hunt from the University of Liverpool, was included in the exhibition ‘No Such Thing as Gravity’[11] at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in 2017 as well as the Medical Museion (Copenhagen) in 2018.[12] [13] Her sculpture ‘Tooth Fairy Palace' was exhibited at the Science Museum, London followed by the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry in 2013.[14] Czarnecki’s work ‘I’, employing iris scanning technology, was exhibited as part of the Lumiere festival, Durham, also 2013.[15] [16]
Czarnecki's works 'Cell Mass 2[17] and 'Quarantine'[18] were commissioned by Forma UK.[19] Her work Spintex (2008)[20] is held in the Animate Projects[21] archive. Czarnecki's works Tattoo 2 (1991),[22] Parade (1987),[23] Facade (1987)[24] and Moral Judge (1987)[25] are held as part of LUX[26] (formerly London Video Arts).