Marilène Oliver

Marilène Oliver is a Canadian artist known for her unique work that blends new digital technology, traditional printmaking, and sculpture. Her art explores the human body and how it is changing in the digital age. Marilène uses medical scanning technologies like MRI, CT, and PET to create her art. She takes these digital images of the inside of the human body and transforms them into physical artworks. By doing this, she makes the “unfleshed,” or digitized, body visible and tangible for us to think about. Her work often looks at the space between the real world and the virtual world, asking what it means to be human when so much of our existence is becoming digital. Her art has been shown in many major museums and galleries around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the MassMoCA in Massachusetts. She is currently a professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, where she teaches printmaking and sculpture, and continues to create art that pushes the boundaries of these traditional forms.