Tony Oursler

Toni Oursler ( b. 1957 in New York / USA) is an American photographer, video and installation artist.

Life

Tony Oursler studied at Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York, and put 1979 Bachelor of Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia from. In 1977 he founded with Mike Kelley, the punk band Poetic, which existed until 1983 and whose history he documented on the Documenta X in Kassel. In 1996 he was awarded the Arnold Bode Prize at documenta - city Kassel. He is married to the painter Jacqueline Humphries and lives and works in a house on Henry Street in Manhattan, New York.

Work

Oursler is known above all for his dummies. On " dolls " - stuffed amorphous objects - he projected with video projectors faces or bodies and connects them with theatrical monologues.

He created the video for David Bowie's single Where Are We Now? (published on January 8, 2013).

Quotes

"I also collect books about fortune tellers, media, witchcraft, demonology and places that do not exist, like other planets, the interior of the earth and so on. My collection of ghost photographs is one of the best in the world. " Tony Oursler

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009 Kunsthaus Bregenz, LOCK 2, 4, 6
  • 2007 Art Museum Bonn, Walking Stay
  • 2006 Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005
  • 2005 Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • 2003 Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, fast forward; Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, M_ARS - Art and War
  • 2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, Fantastic Prayer
  • 1999 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, introjection: Tony Oursler mid-career survey; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Heaven
  • 1998 Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, Directions, Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracey Liepold; Kunstverein Hannover, Videotapes, Dummies, Drawings, Photographs, Viruses, Heads, Eyes, & CD -Rom; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, emotion
  • 1997 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA, Judy; Skulptur.Projekte, Münster; Documenta X, Kassel
  • 1992 Documenta IX, Kassel
  • 1987 Documenta 8, Kassel
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