Manon (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Manon (artist)

Swiss photographer

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1946

Place of Birth: Bern, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Profession: photographer, artist, performance artist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

The artist Manon (born 1946 in Berne) produces installations, performances and photography.
She first came to prominence in the 1970s with the installation The Salmon coloured boudoir (1974).
Her environments and photographic scenes are distillations of social change in the 1970s, sexual liberation, and the search for new roles.
In photographic series such as Woman with shaved head and Ball of lonelinesses she addresses among other things the social construction of identity. She has been awarded several prizes, including the 2008 Prix Meret Oppenheim.