Self-taught as an artist, Maurizio Cattelan has exhibited internationally in museums and Biennials.
18 Facts About Maurizio Cattelan
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Maurizio Cattelan created his most important works of art at Viale Bligny 42 in Milan, where he lived for many years.
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Maurizio Cattelan was born on 21 September 1960 in Padua, Italy.
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Maurizio Cattelan was raised there by his mother, a cleaning lady, and his father, a truck driver.
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Maurizio Cattelan started his career in the early 1980s by designing and producing wooden furniture in Forli.
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Maurizio Cattelan has said that in addition to reading art catalogues, "making shows has been my school".
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Maurizio Cattelan has been described by Jonathan P Binstock, curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, "as one of the great post-Duchampian artists and a smartass, too".
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In 1992, Maurizio Cattelan started the Oblomov Foundation which raised ten thousand dollars to offer as a grant to an artist who would undertake not to make or show any work for one year.
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Since there were no successful applicants, Maurizio Cattelan used the money for a long holiday in New York.
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Maurizio Cattelan is commonly noted for his use of taxidermy during the mid-1990s.
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Articles by Maurizio Cattelan frequently appear in international publications such as Flash Art.
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From 1996 to 2007, Maurizio Cattelan collaborated with Dominique Gonzalez-Foster and Paola Manfrin on the publication Permanent Food, an occasional journal consisting of a pastiche of pages torn from other magazines and submissions by artists of similar material.
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In 2009, Maurizio Cattelan teamed up with Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari to create an editorial for Ws Art Issue.
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Maurizio Cattelan has participated in the Venice Biennale, Manifesta 2, Luxembourg, Melbourne International Biennial 1999, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York.
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Maurizio Cattelan was a finalist for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize in 2000, received an honorary degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy.
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In 2016 a documentary about his life and work, The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan, aired on BBC.
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In 2010, Sicilian artist Giuseppe Veneziano created a representation of Maurizio Cattelan hanged with a noose around his neck and displayed it in the Vatican.
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Morford further claimed that Maurizio Cattelan might have seen his work and been influenced by it.