Piotr Uklański was born in 1968 in Warsaw, Poland. He lives and works between Warsaw and New York.

Uklański has created a body of work that uses many types of media, including sculpture, photography, collage, film, and performance, and promiscuously assimilates various cultural references in attempts to challenge societal views on politics, death, sex and media. 

The artist’s work is represented in several private and public collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York; Tate Modern in London; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; the Francois Pinault Foundation in Paris; among others.

Uklański represented Poland at the 26th São Paulo Biennial in 2004, and he has participated in the 16th Istanbul Biennial in 2019, the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, the 63rd Venice International Film Festival in 2006, the 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2008, the 75th Whitney Biennial in 2010 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and documenta 14 in 2017 in Kassel and Athens.