David Altmejd Biography

David Altmejd (born 1974) is a Canadian sculptor who lives and works in New York City. Altmejd creates highly detailed sculptures that often blur the distinction between interior and exterior, surface and structure, figurative representation and abstraction. His work has appeared in major exhibitions at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (2016), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (2015), Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’art moderne Grand- Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2015 - 2016), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2015), MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (2012), the Brant Foundation Art Study Center (2011), the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2010), the New Museum (2010) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2010).