Fabian Marcaccio

Fabian Marcaccio (born 1963 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine-Italian artist living and working in the United States. His transgender works, including "Paintants"[1] and "Draftants"[2], have been exhibited worldwide. Marcaccio was born to an Argentine mother and an Italian father in Rosario, Santa Fe[3], where he later attended college for philosophy. In 1985, at age 22, he moved to New York City, where he continues to live and work. He has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and South America. In 2004, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein organized a retrospective of his work, the same year that a solo exhibition was mounted at the Miami Art Museum. He regularly exhibits in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Cologne, and Barcelona. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC in 1995, Summer Projects at PS1 Centre for Contemporary Art, New York in 2002, and Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany in 2002. His multidisciplinary collaborations include projects with architect Greg Lynn resulting in an exhibition at the Wexner Art Center, Columbus, Ohio in 2001 and projects with composer Claudio Baroni creating animated operas and a music-scored paintball performance at Weston Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2005. Marcaccio's work investigates whether the traditional medium of painting can survive in the digital age. He has used printmaking transfer techniques to make paintings and became known in the 1990s for his manipulations of the conventions of painting. More recently, he has relied on digital and industrial techniques to infuse his painting process with spatial and temporal concerns. The results are environmental paintings, animations, and "Paintants" that combine digitally manipulated images, sculptural form, and three-dimensional painted surfaces.