Mika Rottenberg was born in Buenos Aires Argentina

Mika Rottenberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976. In 1998, she graduated from Hamidrasha, Bait Berl College of Arts, Israel. In 2000, Rottenberg moved to New York to continue her education, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2000 and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 2004. She is currently represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York and Laurent

Rottenberg's video works feature women with various physical eccentricities, such as being very tall, large-bodied, or muscular. Her videos are inspired by stories where women have an unusual characteristic about their bodies that makes them a commodity, and specifically the women who advertise their unusual characteristic online to be utilized for hire. Some of the concepts her art deals with involve labor, body/environment relationships, and fictional logic.

Mary’s Cherries -which shows a woman's red fingernails being grown, clipped, and transformed into maraschino cherries, was influenced by a story about a woman with a rare blood type who quit her job to sell her blood. The women featured in Mary's Cherries are all wrestlers for hire

No. Nose. Knows Hyper capitalism where everything commodifiedeverything is something to be sold Interested in the story of objects and the people that have touched them. Became interested in immense pearl-making facilities of Zhuji, south of Shanghai, when she travelled there 6 -foot-4 fetish performer in the film comes off as a Western overseer even more enslaved by the system than the workers she outranks, like a queen bee locked into the heart of a hive. Crowd members behaved badly some even tried taking a reject pearl for a Biennale souvenir. “I love that they’re all sitting in there and sweating, ” she said, beaming. “That they’re having to suffer for their pleasure. ” https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Hwanm. F 0 ut-0