Anne Imhof, born in 1978 in Giessen, Germany, and lives and works between Berlin and New York City. She earned her BA from the University of Art and Design, Offenbach in 2003, and her MFA from the State Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M. in 2012. Imhof uses performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, and music to examine the codes of cultural identities and social hierarchies. Through her practice, she explores themes of belonging, spectatorship, and alienation while heightening the everyday performance of self, subculture, and identity.