TONY OURSLER 

Tony Oursler (B. 1957, NY) is an American artist currently living and working in NY. 

Always rooted in the medium of painting and film, Tony Oursler conjures sculptural and immersive experiences using technologies that hark back to magic lanterns, Victorian light shows, camera obscura and auratic parlor tricks, but that also look forward to the fully networked, digitally assisted future of image and identity production. As a pioneer of video art in early 1970s New York, Oursler specialized in hallucinogenic dramaturgy and radical formal experimentation, employing animation, montage.

From performative and low-fi beginnings, Oursler has developed an ever-evolving multimedia and audio-visual practice utilizing projections, computers, video screens, sculptures and optical devices.

His enduring fascination for the conjunctions between the diametrically opposed worlds of science and spiritualism have allowed him to explore a variety of subcultural activity and belief systems.

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 Selected past exhibitions:​

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Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung City (2021)

Musée d’arts de Nantes, Nantes, France (2020)

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA (2017)

Magasin III, Stockholm (2015)

LUMA Westbau, Zurich (2015)

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2014)

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2012)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA (2005)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA (2000)

Documenta VIII and IX, Kassel, Germany (1987 and 1992)

 

Selected public collections:​

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington

Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, France

MoMA, New York, NY, US

National Museum of Osaka, Japan

Tate Collection, London, UK

ZMK/Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

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