Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck

Born 1958 in Melbourne, Australia and based in the UK since 1986.
After working in the film and advertising industries for more than twenty years, Mueck began making sculpture in the mid-1990s. In 1996, he made his debut in the contemporary art world when his sculpture Pinocchio (1996) was exhibited alongside paintings by Portuguese painter Paula Rego at an exhibition held at London’s Hayward Gallery. The following year, Dead Dad (1996-1997), a small-scale portrayal of his deceased father, was featured in Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and attracted significant attention. Since then, Mueck has presented his works at prestigious museums around the world, with recent solo exhibitions held in Seoul and The Hague in the Netherlands, and a solo exhibition in Sydney scheduled later this year. Creating a single work can take months, sometimes even years, and Mueck has produced less than fifty works over the past thirty years.