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Christian Marclay    (American, 1955)

 Christian Marclay - Echo (Prints)
Christian Marclay
Echo 1993
 
 Christian Marclay - New York (Photographs)
Christian Marclay
New York 1999
 
 Christian Marclay - Smoking (from the series 'Imaginary Records') (Paintings)
Christian Marclay
Smoking (from the series "Imaginary Records") 1989
 

Biography
1955 Born: San Rafael, California
1975 - 1977 Geneva, Switzerland, Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel.
1978 Cooper Union in New York exchange student program.
1977 - 1980 Boston Massachusetts College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts.
2003 Award: Foundation for the Graphic Arts in Switzerland
2008 Award: The Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit, Honoring Christian Marclay, New York, NY (5/21/08)
Lives and works in New York City

Exhibitions
2008 “Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition,” curated by Thomas Trummer, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (9/16/07-2/24/08); Traveling to Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (4/19-6/8/08)
2008 “Sonic Youth etc..: Sensational Fix,” curated by Roland Groenenboom, LIFE, St. Nazaire, France (6/15-9/7/08); traveling to MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy (10/10/08-1/4/09); and to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (1/31/09-4/26/09)
2008 “Attention to Detail,” curated by Chuck Close, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2008 “Attention to Detail,” curated by Chuck Close, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2008 “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967,” Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, Florida (5/29-9/7/08)
2008 “You Complete Me,” Western Bridge, Seattle, WA (4/24-8/2/08)
2008 “Vinyl: Vinyl Records and Covers by Artists,” Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (5/9-7/13/08)
2008 YOU SAID HE SAID SHE SAID, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, (08/29 – 04/10/2008)
2008 “Sonic Youth etc..: Sensational Fix,” curated by Roland Groenenboom, LIFE, St. Nazaire, France
2008 “You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil”, White Cube, Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town
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 “Rolywholyover Cycle, The Fifth Episode”, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2008 “Christian Marclay”, Galerie Art and Essai, Rennes, France (solo)
2008 “Christain Marclay: Stereo”, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
2007 “Screenplay”,The Wire 25, London (solo)
2007 “Christian Marclay”, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2007 “Christian Marclay, The Sounds of Christmas”, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2007 “Up and Out”, ARTPROJX and White Cube, Prince Charles Cinema, London (solo)
2007 “Up and Out”, Anthology Film Archives, New York (solo)
2007 “Christian Marclay”, Woodruff Art Center and The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)
2007 “Video Quartet”, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA (solo)
2007 “Replay’’, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France (solo)
2007 “’Crossfire’’, White Cube, Hoxton Square, London (solo)
2007 “Death Becomes Her”, Yvon Lambert Temporary Space, Miami, United States
2007 “Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection”, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, United States
2007 “Stop, Look. Listen.”, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, United States
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, United States
2007 “Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition”, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, United States
2007 “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
2007 “Reflection”, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 “Listening Awry – Kimsooja, Christian Marclay, Santiago Sierra, Su-Mei Tse”, McMaster University Museum of Art, Ontario, United States
2007 “The Freak Show,” Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
2007 “RISS/LUCKE/SCHARNIER A – RIFT/GAP/HINGE A," Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
2007 "Music Is a Better Noise," PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States
2007 “All About Laughter,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007 "Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge", Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
2006 “The Bell and the Glass,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2006 “Christian Marclay”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (solo)
2006 “Hypervision,” curated by Denise Markonish, Westport Art Center, Westport (solo)
2006 “Mixed Reviews,” MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA (solo)
2006 “Art, Life & Confusion,” organized by René Block, October Art Salon, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
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),” 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
2006 “Upsetting the Balance,” Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2006 “From the Audible to the Visible,” 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
2006 “Do You Think I’m Disco,” Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY
2006 “Deaf,” Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
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
2006 “The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984,” Grey Art Gallery, New York
2006 “Do You Think I’m Disco?” Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2005 “Shake, Rattle and Roll (Fluxmix),” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005 “Christian Marclay,” Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (solo)
2005 “Video Score,” Eyebeam, New York, NY (solo)
2005 “Works on Paper – 2005,” Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO (solo)
2005 “Thank You for the Music,” curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Spruth Magers Projekte
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
2005 “New Acquisition,” FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
2005 “AudioFiles,” Contemporary Art Museum: Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2005 “Collection Lambert en Avignon,” Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
2005 “Girls on Film,” curated by Kristine Bell, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
2005 “Vídeo música,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2005 “CUT/Film as Found Object,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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
2005 “Material Matters,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2004 “Shake, Rattle and Roll: Christian Marclay,” Franklin Art Works in collaboration with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
2004 “The Listening Eyes with Christian Marclay,” Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice, Italy (solo)
2004 “Christian Marclay,” Seattle Art Museum; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Collection Lambert, Avignon (solo)
2004 “The Sounds of Christmas” Tate Modern, London, England (solo)
2004 “None of the above,” curated by Cesar Marzetti, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
2004 “Realm of the Senses,” James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “None of the above,” curated by John Armleder, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2004 “Cut: Film as Found Object,” Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL. Travelled to Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
2004 Thinking Out Loud,” presented as a part of Melbourne International Arts Festival, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, Australia
2004 “Audioframes 3,” Centre d’arts Limelight, Kortrijk, Belgium
2004 “In Extremis; Printemps de septembre in Toulouse Festival of contemporary images,” Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2004 “Festival d’Automne à Paris 2004,” Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris, France
2004 “Sons & Lumiéres,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2004 “Reactivity -unpredictable past,” ICC/InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “The Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque,” curated by Robert Storr, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 “Transmit+Transform,” Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico
2004 “Genesis Sculpture, Experience Pommery #1” Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
2004 “Collage,” Bloomberg Space, London, England
2004 “ipeg_bild.on.maschine,” Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2004 “I, Assassin,” curated by Slater Bradely, Wallspace, New York
2004 “Playlist,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004 “Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres” CCA Glasgow, Scotland
2004 “Sample This: The Art of Collage,” University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
2003 “Christian Marclay: Telephones,” Sprengel Museum Hannover (solo)
2003 “Christian Marclay,” UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Travelling to The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; The Seattle Art Museum, WA; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Collection Lambert, Avignon; Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2003 “Christian Marclay: The Bell and the Glass,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (solo)
2003 “Christian Marclay: Video Quartet,” Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (solo)
2003 “Christian Marclay: Video Quartet,” White Cube, London, England (solo)
2003 “Pop Rock!,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
2003 “fast forward. Media Art Sammlung Goetz,” Zentrym für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 Night Moves,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2003 “PLUNDER: culture as material,” Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
2003 “Go Johnny Go!,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2003 “The Sound of Video – Voice and Rhythm in Audiovisual Art,” LAB, Copenhagen
2003 “Incommunicado” (organized by Hayward Gallery, London for Arts Council England), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. Travelled to City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Cornerhouse, Manchester
2003 “Living with Duchamp,” The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2003 “Now Playing,” Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2003 “Not Exactly Photographs,” Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2003 “Formed to Function,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
2003 “Extended Play,” Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
2003 “Pantalla suiza,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (organized by ARCO 2003)
2003 “Harlem Postcards II,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2003 “Air Guitar,” Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2002 “Christian Marclay: Video Quartet”, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY (solo)
2002 “Christian Marclay: Three Compositions”, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (solo)
2002 “Look at the Music/SeeSound: Christian Marclay,” Ystad Art Museum, Sweden (solo)
2002 “Graffiti Composition,” Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2002 “Sampling/Christian Marclay,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002 “Christian Marclay,” November Music 2002, S-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (solo)
2002 “The Sounds of Christmas,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (solo)
2002 “Telephones,” Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
2002 “Stutter, Stutter” Shaheen Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2002 “…Message sent…,” City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland
2002 “Mirror Image,” UCLA Hammer Museum, CA
2002 “Shoot the Singer: Music on Video,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2002 “Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2002 “Rock My World,” California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
2002 “Media Field: Old New Technologies,” Wiilliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2002 “40 Years of Fluxus events,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2002 “do it (home version),” online project at www.e-flux.com opening 5/2/02, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
2002 “The Second Phase: Interpretations of the Photographic Portrait,” Deutsches Museum, München, Germany
2002 “Expo 2002,” Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2002 “Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music,” Milton Keynes Gallery; travelling to Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (9/21 – 11/9/02); Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Tullie House, Carlisle
2002 “Art Downtown;New Photography,” Wall Street Risini, NY
2002 “Jack, Cinch & XLR: Amplified Images,” Le Crestet Centre d’Art, Crestet, France
2002 “The LP Show,” Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (travelling exhibition, see 2001)
2002 “Something/Anything,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (7/2 – 8/15/02). Curated by Nayland Blake
2002 “Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music,” Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, England (travelling exhibition)
2002 “Fluxus und die Folgen,” Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Germany
2002 “Guitar Drag,” Post-Fluxus Exhibition, Wiesbaden
2002 “The Passing,” Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2002 “Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Art from 1985 to the present,” The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
2002 “Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2002 “The Body in Music,” Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
2002 “Mirror Mirror,” Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
2002 “Electric Body: le corps en scéne,” Cité de la musique – Musée de la musique, France
2002 “Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography,” The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
2002 "Remapping the City, New Ears Festival,” Kortrijk/Begium, Lille/France
2002 “Re:Direct,” Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart/Germany
2002 “Zero Visibility,” Vilnius, Ljublijana and Genazzano/Rome
2001 “New Works,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001 “Guitar Drag,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2001 “Currents: Christian Marclay,” Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
2001 “Telephones,” Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE (solo)
2001 “Audible Imagery,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (solo)
2001 “Video Café: E/Motion Studies,” Queens Museum of Art, Long Island City, NY (solo)
2001 “Feature, Art, Life and Cinema,” Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (solo)
2001 "Now Playing: Audio in Art," Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2001 “art>music”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2001 “In Sync, Cinema and Sound in the Work of Julie Becker and Christian Marclay,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2001 “The LP Show,” Exit Art, New York
2001 “Body & Sin,” Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain
2001 “Looking at You,” Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2001 “Video Streets” Downtown Arts Festival, New York. Screening of “Mixed Reviews”
2001 “Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel,” Main Art Gallery, California State University “Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel,” Main Art Gallery, California State University “Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel,” Main Art Gallery, California State University Fullerton, CA
2001 “Best of the Season,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2001 “Wiederaufnahme (Retake),” NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 “Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia 1990-2001,” Queens Museum of Art, New York
2001 “Record All-Over,” 9th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Geneva
2001 “Feature: Art, Life & Cinema,” Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2000 “Christian Marclay: Video & Photography,” Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark (solo)
2000 “Christian Marclay: Cinema,” Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada (solo)
2000 “Christian Marclay: The Sounds of Christmas,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art / Media Z Lounge (solo)
2000 “Le temps, vite!” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2000 Group exhibition at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund organized by Viart
2000 “Group Video Exhibition,” Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany; traveled to The Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; Gallery for Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland; House of Contemporary Arts Trafo, Budapest, Hungary
2000 “Human Gender and Being,” Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
2000 “Sonic Boom: The Art of Sound,” Hayward Gallery, London, England
2000 “Making Sense: Ellen Gallagher, Christian Marclay and Liliana Porter,” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
2000 “Umedalen Skulptur 2000,” Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden
2000 Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver
2000 “Internationales Videoprogramm,” Badischer KunstVerein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 “La Biennale de Montreal,” Centre International D’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2000 “Off the Record: Music in Art,” Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2000 “Berlin Open,” Trafo Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
2000 “Print Publishers’ Spotlight,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 “S.O.S.: Scenes of Sound,” Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2000 “To Infinity and Beyond: Editions for the Year 2000,” Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
2000 “Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process,” AXA Gallery, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York NY
2000 “Wanted! International Video Program,” Bunkier Sztuki
2000 “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
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