Artist Biography

Marni Kotak is a performance artist who makes multimedia works in which she presents an everyday life being lived.

In October 2011, she gave birth to her son as a live performance in her durational exhibition, The Birth of Baby X, at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Kotak’s other “Found Performances”, or works based on daily activities, experiences, or accomplishments, include staged re-enactments of her own birth, attending her grandfather’s funeral, losing her virginity in a blue Plymouth, her wedding, and raising her child. Her work has been featured in national and international media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Good Morning America, TIME, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Village Voice, Hyperallergic, Times of London, Sydney Morning Herald, and Times of India, and she was named one of Artinfo’s “Women Who Shook Up The Art World in 2011.” She is the winner of a 2012-2013 Franklin Furnace Fund award and a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. She received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College.

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