David altmejd

The artist tells us about how he stays sane during long stretches in the studio.

David Altmejd’s unsettling mixed-media sculptures subvert and mutate the figurative, while exploring our relationship to science and mythology. With works like "L,oeil" (above), he uses a robust set of materials: expanded polystyrene, epoxy dough, fiberglass, resin, synthetic hair, quartz, Sharpie and pens, gold leaf, glass paint, and much more. Throughout these forms, Altmejd creates surreal embellishments with natural and unnatural emulations.

In the lead-up to the 2013 Venice Biennale, which opens to the public on June 1, we have been digging through our archives to look at Canada’s past presentations there. In this instalment from our Summer 2007 issue originally titled “Giardini Birdland,” Christina Bagatavicius reflects on the development of David Altmejd’s work for that year’s […]

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Sculpture by Canadian artist David Altmejd @daltmejd.

David Altmejds The Vibrating Man Takes Over White Cube Hong Kong

David Altmejd’s work is hard to describe if you've never seen it, because there’s really nothing to compare it with. In Altmejd’s larger scaled works

Canadian sculptor David Altmejd welcomes visitors to his uncanny menagerie, filled with human-hare hybrids, creatures with multiple faces and disembodied mouths