Ron Mueck grew up in Melbourne and began a career in puppetry and special-effects based in the US and then London. In the mid-1990s Charles Saatchi commissioned four major works including Dead dad, which were exhibited in Saatchi’s exhibition ‘Sensation’ at the Royal Academy, London and which travelled to Berlin and Brooklyn. Mueck’s Boy was shown at the 2001 Venice Biennale and he was appointed Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London (2000–01) where he made work for a solo exhibition ‘Ron Mueck’ which toured to Sydney, London, Berlin and Haarlem. Mueck’s work is widely exhibited and collected internationally. His recent solo exhibitions have appeared at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris in 2013, and the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2014. Mueck lives and works in London.
