PIA MYRVOLD – PAINTING – TEXTILE - NEW TECHNOLOGY - INSTALLATION - PERFORMANCE Pia Myrvold was born in Norway and has lived in Paris since 1992. An autodidact artist and designer, she has worked professionally since 1980, when she established herself first as a painter with important exhibitions in Norway, and later with interdisciplinary projects in the realms of textile sculptures, video, performance, theatre, urban planning, interior design, fashion, and architecture. Her international debut came with the commission of a 500-meter long outdoor textile installation in the futuristic Parc de la Villette, Paris, 1992 commissioned by architect Bernard Tschumi and supported by The French Ministry of Culture. Myrvold founded the concept “Clothes as Publishing” in 1996, exploring her ideas of merging art and ideas with fashion and using fashion as a medium for Expression. She created the domain name cybercouture(dot)com, an interactive design platform that merged art content with digital printing on made-to-measure fashion designs. Bergen Culture Capital 2000, invited Myrvold as the opening artist with a solo show Bergen Identity, in Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, now Bergen Art Museum. In 2004 she presented the smart textile project “Female Interfaces” in Centre George Pompidou, with interface design and interactive clothes; where the performers push buttons and panels in the garments to activate sound and image loops, thus presenting models for creative action and thought. In 2011 and 2013 MYrvoLD produced and curated the independent pavilion, FLOW - a work in motion and The Metamorphoses of the Virtual in Venice Biennale, the last nominated as best parallel by the Italian art press. Created to emphasize the importance of new media art, these exhibitions traveled to Los Angeles LACDA, Toronto OCAD, the K11 Art Foundation Shanghai, and PACE Beijing. Centre Pompidou invited MYrvoLD for the solo show ART AVATAR; new technology, video, and interactive interfaces for a 3-month exhibition in 2014. In 2015, Myrvold did groundbreaking work with Hybrid Love, kinetic textile sculptures using 3 Kuka robots arms, in the Paris group show. The same year she was invited by Snøhetta Architects, to create the large-format MONUMENTAL Carpets in Clarion Energy Hotel, Stavanger. New York Times, invited her as a key speaker for their conference Art for Tomorrow 2016, in Doha, Qatar. MYrvoLD’s entry in the first-day program was followed by Jeffrey Deitch, the famous New York Gallerist and recent director of the LACMA museum in Los Angeles. Among the star-packed program, we find Jeff Koons, Marina Abramovic, and the curator for the London Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist.