Amalia Ulman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1989 and was raised in Gijón, in the Spanish province of Asturias, after emigrating with her family.[1] In 2009, she left Spain to study at Central Saint Martins in London, where she graduated in 2011.[2] In 2013, she was in a serious Greyhound bus accident that left her with a permanent disability.[3][4]