b. 1965 Vienna, Austria.

Poledna was born in 1965 in Vienna, Austria, where he studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst and the Universität Wien. He has had solo exhibitions in Vienna at the Galerie Meyer Kainer and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig; in Graz at the Grazer Kunstverein; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. Poledna’s work was included in group exhibitions at such institutions as the Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Tate Liverpool. His work was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2006, the Berlin Biennial in 2004, and Manifesta 1 in 1996.