Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft was born in Genoa, Italy in 1969 and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her performance works that feature the installation of groups of young women and, more recently, military men have been hosted by museums and galleries throughout the world. In spring 2000, Beecroft's performance "VB 42 intrepid: the silent service" was included in the Whitney Biennial. Other notable exhibitions include: The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (in cooperation with the United States Navy Seals); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Galerie Deux, Tokyo; Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy; Galerie Analix, Geneva; Spiral TV; Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo; and "Show" at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (twenty models costumed by Tom Ford for Gucci).