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Christian Marclay

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Born in 1955, San Rafael, California, USA. Lives and works in New York and London

Education
1975 - 1977 Geneva, Switzerland, Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel 1977 - 1980 Boston Massachusetts College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts 1978 Cooper Union in New York exchange student program
Awards 2010 Aurora Award, Houston, TX 2009 The Larry Aldrich Award, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA 2008 The Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit, Honoring Christian Marclay, New York, USA 2003 Foundation for Graphic Art in Switzerland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Solo exhibitions 2010 Christian Marclay, The clock, White Cube Mason's Yard, London, UK 2010 Christian Marclay: Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA 2010 Fourth of July, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York, USA 2009 Ephemera, by Christian Marclay with Steve Beresford, piano, Louvre Museum, Paris, France 2009 Christian Marclay, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA, 2009 ? part of Performa Biennial Video Quartet, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (5/7-7/26/09) 2008 Christian Marclay: Replay DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada 2008 Christian Marclay, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA 2008 Honk if you love silence, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2008 Christian Marclay, Galerie Art & Essai, Université de Rennes 2 Haute-Bretagne, Rennes, France 2008 Christian Marclay: SNAP! Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France 2008 Christian Marclay: Stereo, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2007 Intensities: Nonconformity, Impropriety and Rebellion Between Art and the Music Scene, curated by David G. Torres, Torre Muntadas Art Center, El Prat de Llobregat, Pain; 2007 Intensities: Nonconformity, Impropriety..., traveling to Can Palauet Art Center, Mataró, Spain 2007 Screenplay, The Wire 25, London, England 2007 Christian Marclay, Michael Benevento, Lost Angeles, CA, USA 2007 Christian Marclay, The Sounds of Christmas, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2007 Up and Out, ArtProjx and White Cube, Prince Charles Cinema, London, England 2007 Up and Out, Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York, USA 2007 Christian Marclay, Woodruff Arts Center and The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA 2007 Video Quartet, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, USA 2007 Replay, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France; travelling to DA2/Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain; ACMI/Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia, cat. 2007 Crossfire, White Cube, London, UK 2006 Christian Marclay: The Electric Chair, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA 2006 The Bell and the Glass, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 Mixed Reviews- American Sign Language, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA, USA 2005 Shake, Rattle and Roll, Fluxmix, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA 2005 Christian Marclay, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France 2005 Video Score, Eyebeam, New York, USA 2005 Works on Paper, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, USA 2004 Shake, Rattle and Roll: Christian Marclay, Franklin Art Works in collaboration with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA 2004 The Listening Eyes with Christian Marclay, Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice, Italy 2004 Christian Marclay, Seattle Art Museum, USA; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France 2004 The Sounds of Christmas Tate Modern, London, England 2003 Christian Marclay: Telephones, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany 2003 Christian Marclay, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2003 Travelling to The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA; The Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland, 2004; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, 2004; Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, 2005 2003 Christian Marclay: The Bell and the Glass, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA 2003 Christian Marclay: Video Quartet, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany 2003 Christian Marclay: Video Quartet, White Cube, London, England 2002 Christian Marclay: Video Quartet, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA 2002 The Sounds of Christmas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA 2002 Christian Marclay, November Music 2002, s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands 2002 Look at the Music / SeeSound: Christian Marclay, Ystad Art Museum, Sweden 2002 Christian Marclay: Three Compositions, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA 2002 Sampling / Christian Marclay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA 2002 Graffiti Composition, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany 2001 Feature, Art, Life and Cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2001 Christian Marclay: The Sounds of Christmas, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2001 Video Café: E/Motion Studies, Queens Museum of Art, Long Island City, New York, USA 2001 Audible Imagery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA 2001 Telephones, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, USA 2001 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA 2001 Currents 84: Christian Marclay, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA 2001 Guitar Drag, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan 2001 New Works, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA 2000 Christian Marclay: The Sounds of Christmas, The New Museum of Contemporary Art / Media 2000 Z Lounge, New York, USA 2000 Christian Marclay: Cinema, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada 2000 Telephones, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada 2000 Christian Marclay: Video & Fotografi, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark 1999 Telephones, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, December 11, 1999 1999 The Sounds of Christmas, ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA 1997 Pictures at an Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, USA 1997 Arranged and Conducted, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland 1995 Accompagnement Musical, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland 1995 Amplification, Venice Biennial, Chiesa San Staë, traveled to Temple de la Fusterie, Geneva, Switzerland 1994 Fawbush Gallery, New York, USA 1994 Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland 1994 Daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany 1993 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1992 The Wind Section, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France 1992 Christian Marclay: Sewn Record Jackets, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C., USA 1992 Masks, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy 1991 Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA 1991 Abstract Music, Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, USA 1991 Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, England 1991 Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne, Germany 1990 The White Album, Solo Press Gallery, New York, USA 1990 Directions: Christian Marclay, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA 1990 Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA 1989 Footsteps, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland 1989 Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA 1989 Christian Marclay: Pochettes de Disques, Galerie Rivolta, Lausanne, Switzerland 1988 One Thousand Records, Gelbe Musik, Berlin, Germany 1988 Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA 1987 850 Records, The Clocktower, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA 1981 Apartment, Geneva, Switzerland

Group exhibitions
2017 The multiple versus series versus a unique work, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2011-2020 under construction 2010 S,M,L, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, USA 2010 Looking for Love, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia 2010 Fusion: Christian Marclay, Pia Fries, Wilheim Mundt, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD, USA 2010 The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 2010 I Am A Cliché: Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic, Rencontres d'Arles 2010: The International Photography Festival, Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France 2010 Behind the Green Door, curated by Jason Kraus, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA 2010 Sound & Vision, curated by Matthew Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 2010 Pictures & Statues, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH, USA 2010 Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK 2010 Acting Out, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA 2010 Furthermore: Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA 2010 Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2010 Ten years Carolina Nitsch Editions 2000-2010, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, USA 2010 Sonic Youth, CA2M, Centro de Arte de Mayo, Madrid, Spain 2009 In Stitches,curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Leila Taghinia-Milano Heller Gallery, New York, USA 2009 Artissima 16, organized by Yann Chateigné Tytelman and Roselee Goldberg, Torino, Italy 2009 Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 2009 Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 2009 Talking Pictures, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2009 International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall and BankArt Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan 2009 Corps Sonore, Archizoom EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 2009 Darkside II - Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland 2009 Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France 2009 Pronto! Art and Telephony, [plug.in], Basel Switzerland 2009 Platform 2009, Samuso Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea 2009 See this Sound, Art Museum Lentos, Linz, Austria 2009 Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2009 Grau Zero, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2009 Metrosonics, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2009 Broken English, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland 2009 The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA 2009 Flicks, The Cinematic in Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland 2009 The Record Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NY, USA 2009 Inappropriate Coves David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA 2009 Invasion of Sound: Music and the Visual Arts Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland 2009 Feedbackstage, Georg Kargle Fine Art, Vienna, Austria; traveling to Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthaus Muerz, Murzzuschlag, Austria 2009 Photography in the Abstract, curated by Maureen Mahony, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, USA 2008 Dans la Nuit, Des Images Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France 2008 Lille Metropole, Grand Palais, Paris, France 2008 Record, record Shift: Festival of Electronic Arts, Basel, Switzerland 2008 La fète est permanente, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France 2008 Panoramica Museuo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico 2008 Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, USA 2008 You Said He Said She Said Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland 2008 AtFocus 5: Can Art Do More? Banit Center, Jerusalem, Israel 2008 MashUp, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, curated by Jade Dellinger 2008 Order. Desire. Light. Contemporary Drawing Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 2008 Sound of Art: Musik in Der Bildenden Kunst, Les Grandes Spectacles IIII, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria 2008 Sonic Youth etc..: Sensational Fix, curated by Roland Groenenboom, LIFE, St. Nazaire, France; traveling to Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany 2008 Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition, curated by Thomas Trummer, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA; traveling to Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria 2008 Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA 2008 Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, Florida, USA 2008 Vinyl: Vinyl Records and Covers by Artists, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal 2008 You Dig the Tunnel, I'll Hide the Soil, White Cube, London, England 2008 Art Vidéo Suisse des Années 70 et 80: Une Reconstruction, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland 2008 Krazy! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2008 You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, USA 2008 The Freak Show, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris, France 2007 Death Becomes Her, Yvon Lambert Temporary Space, Miami, FL, USA 2007 Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, curated by Matthew Higgs, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson 2007 Stop, Look. Listen., Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 2007 Intensities: Noncomformity, Impropriety and Rebellion Between Art and the Music Scene, Torre Muntades Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain 2007 J'embrasse Pas, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France 2007 Contemporary+Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USA 2007 Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition, curated by Thomas Trummer, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA; traveling to Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria 2007 Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA; traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, Florida, USA 2007 Reflection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Listening Awry Kimsooja, Christian Marclay, Santiago Sierra, Su-Mei Tse, curated by Jim Drobnick, McMaster University Museum of Art, Ontario, CA, USA 2007 The Freak Show, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France 2006 Riss/Locke/Scharnier a Rift/Gap/Hinge a, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria 2006 Music Is a Better Noise, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY, USA 2007 All About Laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2007 Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA 2006 The Constant Possibility of Erasure, cuated by Donna Harkavy and Gracie Mansion, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA 2006 Art, Life & Confusion, organized by René Block, October Art Salon, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, cat. 2006 Without a Camera: The Photogram, curated by Toni Stooss, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria 2006 New York, New York, curated by Lisa Dennison, Germano Celant and Melissa Harris, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco 2006 Thank You for the Music (London Beat), curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany; Sprüth Magers Lee, London, England 2006 Case Studies: Art in a Valise, curated by Suzanne Ramljak, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA 2006 Upsetting the Balance, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland 2006 Lovely Shanghai Music, organized by Shen Qibin, Team 404 and Klaus Birgit Hein, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, P.R. of China 2006 From the Audible to the Visible, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France 2006 Deaf, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France 2006 Une Vision du Monde, the video collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître at La Maison Rouge, Paris, France 2006 Audio, curated by Francis Baudevin, Geneva, Switzerland 2006 Hypervision, curated by Denise Markonish, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CN, USA 2006 Webs, Loops and Skeins in Modern Contemporary Art, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA 2006 Do You Think I'm Disco, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, New York, USA 2006 Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts Music Festival, Scotland, UK 2006 Cut/ Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, USA 2006 The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA 2005 Radio Kills The Video Stars/Side A, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France 2005 Empreinte Moi: Une Exposition de Philippe Segalot, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France 2005 Suspended Narratives, curated by Maureen Mahoney, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, USA 2005 New Acquisition, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France 2005 AudioFiles, Contemporary Art Museum: Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA 2005 Collection Lambert en Avignon, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon, France 2005 Girls on Film, curated by Kristine Bell, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA 2005 Vídeo música, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain 2005 Cut/Film as Found Object, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA 2005 Le génie du lieu [The Genius of the Place], F.R.A.C. Bourgogne, France 2005 Variations on a Silence: Project for a Recycling Plant, Re-Tem Tokyo Plant, Tokyo, Japan 2005 Aural Cultures, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, USA 2005 Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA