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Place of Birth: Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Orlan
- ORLAN (born Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte) is a French contemporary artist best known for her work with plastic surgery in the early to mid-1990s.
- She is known as a pioneer of carnal art, a form of self-portraiture that utilizes body modification to distort one's appearance.
- She adopted the pseudonym "ORLAN" in 1971. Currently, she lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris.
- She sits on the board of administrators for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and was previously a professor at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise.
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