Chloe Piene Was Born in 1972 in Stamford Connecticut of German and Jewish Parentage.

Chloe Piene was born in 1972 in Stamford Connecticut of German and Jewish parentage.

In 1993 Chloe received her BA in Art History at Columbia University.

In 1997 she received her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, the University of London. She is a New York based contemporary artist, with works in Drawing,Movies, and Sculptures. Piene is a fine artist known for Skeleton and morbid imagery. Her charcoal drawings are cast from a wide arena of ritual, commemoration, death, and epid privacy. Her subjects divide and combine elements of bones, skin,space, and surface, evoking luxury, suspense, tension and a certain pleasure in forensic accuracy,fantasy and detail. Chloe work is both alluring and strange, where morbidity and affection always meets on a shared plane. She has strong contour lines in her two-dimensional work and often uses charcoal on vellum to obtain her certain way of drawing. Contorting the figure, her contour lines feels at times nervous yet still have a graphical, luscious quality to them. Piene was shown internationally throughout Europe and the United States.

In 2004 Chloe was featured in the Whitney Biennial. She presented her protagonists in transitional states of corporeality, where the physical border between the body and its surroundings blurs, or where they visceral collapses into decay. Her work is owned by institutions and private collections worldwide such as the Centre National D'Art et de culture George Pompidou, Paris, the Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

In 1999, Chloe did a project called Lovelylady. She corresponded with a Texas penitentiary inmate who was sentenced to life without parole for a double murder. The work slowly reveals the troubled and troublesome views of her anonymous correspondent, whose restrained aggression is presented as both symbolic and direct.