Annette Messager (b. 1943 Berk-sur-Mer, France) lives and works in Malakoff, France. In 2016 she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture. She won the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2022); Institut Giacometti, Paris (2018); Institut Valencià Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia (2018); Villa Medici, Rome (2017); Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Calais and the Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode, Calais (2015-2016); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; and K21, Düsseldorf (both 2014). A major retrospective of her work was organised by the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2007. Her works can be found in museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, both New York, NY; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; K21, Düsseldorf; The National Gallery, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.