George Gessert

Visual Artist

1944 –

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Who is George Gessert?

George Gessert is one of the best-known artists in the contemporary art movement known as bio-art a/k/a BioArt. Gessert began his career as a painter and printmaker, and began breeding plants as an art form in the late 1970s. Beginning in the 1980s, Gessert's work focused on the overlap between art and genetics, and he has exhibited a series of installations of hybrids and documentation of breeding projects.

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Born
1944
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of California, Berkeley

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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