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Christian Marclay

(American, born 1955)

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Christian Marclay

VOX and TIME, 1988–1989

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Biography

Timeline

1955
Born in San Rafael, CA
1975 - 1977
Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel, Geneva, Switzerland
1977 - 1980
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
1978
Cooper Union exchange student program, New York, NY
2003
Award: Foundation for the Graphic Arts in Switzerland
2008
Award: The Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit, Honoring Christian Marclay, New York, NY
2009
The Larry Aldrich Award, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2010
Aurora Award, Houston, TX
Lives and works in New York City

Exhibitions

2013
The Clock, SFMoMA, San Francisco
Things I’ve Heard, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The Clock, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
2012
The Clock, MoMA, New York
Every Day, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The Clock, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris
Everyday, Ruhrtriennale, Bochum
The Clock, Power Plant, Toronto
The Clock, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
Baggage, Prom 47: Cage Centenary Celebration, Royal Albert Hall, London
The Clock, Lincoln Center, New York
Seven Windows, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Clock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Perspectives 178: Cineplex, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
A Library As Memory, Gabrielle Maubrie, Prague, Czech Republic
Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Hunter College, New York, NY
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
Sophie Calle, Christian Marclay, Paul Pfeiffer, Walid Raad, Michael Sailstorfer, Carey Young, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2011 - 2012
Christian Marclay, The Clock, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (1/21- 2/19/11); Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia (2/24- 4/25/11); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (5/20 - 7/31/11); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (9/16 - 12/31/11); Centre Pompidou (9/3 – 9/5/11); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (2/10 – 3/25/12); Kunsthaus Zürich (4/25 – 5/6/12)
Horizon Switzerland: Dissolutions of Boundaries and Passages as Art, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
2011
Ephemera, mfc-michèle Didier, Paris (solo)
Christian Marclay, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo (solo)
Christian Marclay, Frankael Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Accumulations: Bruce Conner, Yayoi Kusama, and Christian Marclay, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Globalissimo, curated by David Howe and Erin Sickler, 601 Artspace
The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen's Soho Years, 1971-85, curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, NY
Christian Marclay, The Clock, Yokohama Triennale 2011, Yokohama, Japan
Christian Marclay, The Clock, 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Under Destruction, curated by Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp, The Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
WORD: Poetry Related Work, MOCA Miami
New Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2/16- 4/17/11)
Looking at Music 3.0, curated by Barbara London, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Dialogue, curated by Dan Mills, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Alice in Wonderland, Turku, Finland
2010
Christian Marclay with Okkyung Lee, Café Oto, London, England
Christian Marclay: Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Fourth of July,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
I Am A Cliché: Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic, Rencontres d'Arles 2010: The International Photography Festival, Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
Behind the Green Door, curated by Jason Kraus, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
Sound & Vision, curated by Matthew Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pictures & Statues, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Acting Out, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Furthermore: Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ten years Carolina Nitsch Editions 2000-2010, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY
Sonic Youth, CA2M, Centro de Arte de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
2009
Christian Marclay, Zoom Zoom with Shelley Hirsch, Louvre, Paris, France
Christian Marclay with Irène Schweizer at Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland
Christian Marclay with Okkyung Lee, Café Oto, London, England
Christian Marclay with Otomo Yoshihide, Café Oto, London, England
Ephemera, by Christian Marclay with Steve Beresford, piano, Louvre Museum, Paris, France (solo)
Christian Marclay, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, part of Performa Biennial (solo)
Video Quartet, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (solo)
In Stitches, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Leila Taghinia-Milano Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Artissima 16, organized by Yann Chateigné Tytelman and Roselee Goldberg, Torino, Italy
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Talking Pictures, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall and BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
Corps Sonore, Archizoom EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Darkside II – Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Pronto! Art and Telephony, [plug.in], Basel Switzerland
Platform 2009, Samuso Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
See this Sound, Art Museum Lentos, Linz, Austria
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Grau Zero, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Metrosonics, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa, Ontario
Broken English, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Flicks – The Cinematic in Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland
The Record, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NY
Inappropriate Coves, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
Invasion of Sound: Music and the Visual Arts, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Feedbackstage, Georg Kargle Fine Art, Vienna, Austria; traveling to Galerie Thomas Shulte, Berlin, Germany; traveling to Kunsthaus Muerz, Murzzuschlag, Austria
Photography in the Abstract, curated by Maureen Mahony, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2008
Christian Marclay: Cyanotypes, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Cycloptically. Rolywholyover, Fifth Episode, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Christian Marclay: Solo, Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Dusseldorf, Germany
Christian Marclay – SNAP!, Galerie Art and Essai, Rennes, France
Christian Marclay: Stereo, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Christian Marclay: Replay, DHC Art Foundation, Montreal, Canada
Sonic Youth etc..: Sensational Fix, curated by Roland Groenenboom, LIFE, St. Nazaire, France
You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube, Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London, England
Art Vidéo Suisse des Années 70 et 80: Une Reconstruction, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
KRAZY!, The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Voice & Void, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Christian Marclay: Replay, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada (solo)
Dans la Nuit, Des Images, Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing Lille Metropole, Grand Palais, Paris, France
record, record, Shift: Festival of Electronic Arts, Basel, Switzerland
La féte est permanente, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Panoramica, Museuo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
You Said He Said She Said, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
ArtFocus 5: Can Art Do More?, Banit Center, Jerusalem, Israel
MashUp, Curated by Jade Dellinger, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Order. Desire. Light. Contemporary Drawing, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Sound of Art: Musik in Der Bildenden Kunst, Les Grandes Spectacles IIII, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL
Vinyl: Vinyl Records and Covers by Artists, Museum Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Art Vidéo Suisse des Années 70 et 80: Une Reconstruction, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
2007
Christian Marclay, The Sounds of Christmas, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Screenplay, The Wire 25, London, England
Up and Out, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Up and Out, ARTPROJX and White Cube, Prince Charles Cinema, London, England
Christian Marclay, Woodruff Art Center and The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Christian Marclay, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
Replay, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Crossfire, White Cube, Hoxton Square, London, England
Video Quartet, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Death Becomes Her, Yvon Lambert Temporary Space, Miami, FL
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, NY
Stop, Look. Listen., Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, NY
Intensities: Noncomformity, Impropriety and Rebellion Between Art and the Music Scene, Torre Muntades Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
J’embrasse Pas, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Contemporary+Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Reflection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Listening Awry – Kimsooja, Christian Marclay, Santiago Sierra, Su-Mei Tse, McMaster University Museum of Art, Ontario, Canada
The Freak Show, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
RISS/LUCKE/SCHARNIER A – RIFT/GAP/HINGE A, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Music Is a Better Noise, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
All About Laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
2006
Christian Marclay, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Bell and the Glass, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Hypervision, curated by Denise Markonish, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT (solo)
Mixed Reviews, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA (solo)
Art, Life & Confusion, organized by René Block, October Art Salon, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Without a Camera: The Photogram, curated by Toni Stooss, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
New York, New York, curated by Lisa Dennison, Germano Celant and Melissa Harris, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Thank You for the Music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany; Sprüth Magers, Lee, London, England
Case Studies: Art in a Valise, curated by Suzanne Ramljak, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Upsetting the Balance, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
From the Audible to the Visible, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Une Vision du Monde, the video collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître at La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
AUDIO, curated by Francis Baudevin, Geneva, Switzerland Hypervision, curated by Denise Markonish, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
Do You Think I’m Disco, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY
Deaf, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts Music Festival, Scotland
CUT/ Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Literature

2008
Marclay, Christian (Ed.). Christian Marclay: Stereo. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2008
Miller, Harland. You dig the tunnel, I’ll hide the soil. London: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2008
2007
Morton, Tom. Christian Marclay: Crossfire. London: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2007
2005
Gonzalez, Jennifer, Kim Gordon and Matthew Higgs. Christian Marclay. London: Phaidon Press, 2005
English (US)

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