PINK de Thierry

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PINK de Thierry
PINK working on Portrait of Ernst Gombrich – Où est l'Original, d'après MB -, 2011
Born	Helena Scheerder (1943-12-17)17 December 1943 Haarlem, Netherlands
Died	(2023-02-25)25 February 2023 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Education	Autodidact
Known for	Visual arts
Notable work	At Home, Et in Arcadia Ego Sum, Checkpoint to Dutch Arcadia, Letters from Arcadia, Blanchir l'Histoire
Movement	Performance and conceptual art

PINK de Thierry (born Helena Scheerder, Haarlem, December 17, 1943 - Amsterdam, February 25, 2023) was a Dutch visual artist known for her meta-performance art projects,^[1] which included 100 days of living in a painting (At Home, 1984), 30 days of traveling in the US as a performance-art project in 1988, daily entering Arcadia for 60 days in Germany with Et in Arcadia Ego Sum in 1990–91 and leading the Royal Netherlands Army in constructing Checkpoint to Dutch Arcadia in 1994. Since 1995, she has created a series of works entitled Letters from Arcadia.