Kartz Ucci
(1961–)
(–2013)
Kartz Ucci
1961–2013
Kartz Ucci (1961–2013) was an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work was informed by language, theory, and philosophy. Working across sculpture, installation, text, and expanded media, Ucci’s practice was interested in themes of reproducibility. She often appropriated existing texts, songs, and other digital materials into layered and multi-sensory works using various conceptual strategies. Ucci embraced sentimentality as a conceptual framework in her artwork. As such, her work and its subjects were often inspired and redefined according to her emotional response in different spaces.
Ucci earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Master of Fine Arts, and a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University. She taught in Canada at York University, McMaster University, and Ryerson University before moving to the United States to teach art and digital arts at the University of Oregon in 2004. Ucci was a visiting artist at Portland Community College, Portland College of Art and Craft, Clark College, the University of Delaware, and Shangdong University, Japan. Her work has been exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions internationally, including the 2010 Portland Biennale. Ucci passed away in 2013 after losing her battle with cancer.