1. Vanessa Beecroft was born on April 25,1969 and is an Italian-born American contemporary performance artist; she works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting.
16 Facts About Vanessa Beecroft
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Vanessa Beecroft was born April 25,1969, in Genoa, Italy and raised in Santa Margherita Ligure and Malcesine near Lake Garda.
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Vanessa Beecroft's parents divorced when she was three years old and she did not see her father or her younger brother again until she was 15 years old.
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Vanessa Beecroft's mother raised Beecroft alone in a village in Italy in a strict vegan household with no cars, no television, and no phone.
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The "Book of Food" documented Vanessa Beecroft's bulimic eating habits and was referenced again in her later work, but it was separate from the performances.
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Vanessa Beecroft moved to the United States in 1996, at the invitation of art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, settling in New York City.
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Vanessa Beecroft's artwork is often performance or installation-based with live human figures, but she documents the performances with photography and video; this work is in many public museum and art collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Van Abbemuseum, amongst others.
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Vanessa Beecroft always used tall, thin, young models, whom she referred to as "girls" regardless of their age.
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In October 2005, Vanessa Beecroft staged a three-hour performance on the occasion of the opening of the Louis Vuitton store, "Espace Louis Vuitton" on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
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Since 2008, Vanessa Beecroft has been collaborating on work with artist Kanye West.
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In 2010, Vanessa Beecroft was named creative lead for the Runaway music video.
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In 2014, Vanessa Beecroft assembled and built the wedding ceremony of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
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In February 2015, West embarked on a fashion design career with Yeezy Season 1, under the Adidas label and Vanessa Beecroft directed the performance presentation.
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Vanessa Beecroft went on to work on Yeezy Season 2, Yeezy Season 3, and Yeezy Season 4.
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Vanessa Beecroft alleged she was a full-time employee for West until 2016, when her role changed and she became a part-time contractor.
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Vanessa Beecroft's failed attempt to adopt Sudanese twins was the topic of the documentary The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins by Pietra Brettkelly, which was included in the Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Documentary Competition.