Signe Pierce is an American artist who has worked in performance, photography, video and digital art. Her works, which "span photography, performance, and installation", have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in

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, at the

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and the

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in New York, and at the

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in Paris. Pierce has a BFA in photography from the

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. In 2013, she performed in a short film, ''American Reflexxx'', shot by her girlfriend Alli Coates. It shows Pierce, in a short dress and a mirror-finish mask, moving through the streets of

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, where she is derided and then attacked. It was shown at "Bushwick Gone Basel", an event in a bar in

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during Art Basel Miami in 2013, and at the BHFQU Brucennial in 2014. It has been watched more than 1.7 million times on YouTube. ''Rhizome'' called it "a brave work that construes many related topics within current cyberfeminist discourses", while '' Art F City'' said it was "terrifying, surreal—and true." Pierce's work draws upon exaggerated hyperfeminine aesthetics, such as

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accessories and pink and purple neon lights. She has said she identifies as a feminist but has "been thinking about the binary aspects of the term 'feminist' and how we can move past gendered terms in general." Pierce records music under the name Big Sister and collaborated on several tracks with

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before the producer's death in 2021. One of these, "Do U Wanna Be Alive," was later released on Sophie's posthumous album. Pierce's work has also been shown at the Castor Gallery's SATELLITE Art Show (2016), the Nathalie Halgand Galerie in Vienna (2017), and the Annka Kultys Gallery in London (2018 & 2019). In 2020, Pierce's work was one of 35 artists included in "Time for Outrage!" at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf.

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1988 births Living people American women artists Artists from Tucson, Arizona 21st-century American women {{US-artist-stub