Christian Marclay

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


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


Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2010
Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Fourth of July, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Christian Marclay with Okkyung Lee, Café Oto, London

2009
Christian Marclay, Zoom Zoom with Shelley Hirsch, Louvre, Paris
Christian Marclay with Irène Schweizer at Gare du Nord, Basel
Christian Marclay with Okkyung Lee, Café Oto, London
Christian Marclay with Otomo Yoshihide, Café Oto, London

2008
Christian Marclay: Replay, DHC Art Foundation, Montreal
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
Christian Marclay – SNAP!, Galerie Art and Essai, Rennes, France
Christian Marclay: Stereo, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007
Christian Marclay, The Sounds of Christmas, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Screenplay, The Wire 25, London
Up and Out, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Up and Out, ARTPROJX and White Cube, Prince Charles Cinema, London
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
Video Quartet, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA

2006
Christian Marclay, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
The Bell and the Glass, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Hypervision, curated by Denise Markonish, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
Mixed Reviews, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA

2005
Video Score, Eyebeam, New York, NY
Christian Marclay, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Works on Paper – 2005, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Shake, Rattle and Roll (Fluxmix), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2004
The Sounds of Christmas, Tate Modern, London
Shake, Rattle and Roll: Christian Marclay, Franklin Art Works in collaboration with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Listening Eyes with Christian Marclay, Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice, Italy
Christian Marclay, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Collection Lambert, Avignon, 5


2003
Christian Marclay: Telephones, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
Christian Marclay, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; 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, Avignon; Barbican Art Gallery, London
Christian Marclay: Video Quartet, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Christian Marclay: The Bell and the Glass, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Christian Marclay: Video Quartet, White Cube, London

2002
Christian Marclay: Video Quartet, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
Christian Marclay: Three Compositions, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Look at the Music/SeeSound: Christian Marclay, Ystad Art Museum, Sweden
Graffiti Composition, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Sampling/Christian Marclay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Christian Marclay, November Music 2002, S-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
The Sounds of Christmas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

2001
Feature, Art, Life and Cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Video Café: E/Motion Studies, Queens Museum of Art, Long Island City, NY
Audible Imagery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Telephones, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Currents: Christian Marclay, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Guitar Drag, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2000
Christian Marclay: The Sounds of Christmas, The New Museum of Contemporary Art / Media Z
Lounge
Christian Marclay: Cinema, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Christian Marclay: Video & Photography, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark

1999
Telephones, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art/San Antonio, San Antonio

1997
Pictures at an Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY
Arranged and Conducted, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich

1995
Accompagnement Musical, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
Amplification, Venice Biennial, Chiesa San Staë, Venice

1994
Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
Fri-Art Centre d'art contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg
daadgalerie, Berlin

1993
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1992
The Wind Section, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Masks, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome

1991
Interim Art, London
Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne

1990
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington

1989
Footsteps, Shedhalle, Zurich
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY

1988
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY

1987
The Clocktower, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles
Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Furthermore, Fraenkel Gallery, New York
Double Bind, Villa Arson, Nice

2009
Yokohama International Arts & Media Festival, Yokohama
Platform 2009, Seoul
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Feedbackstage, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

2008
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
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
BENEFIT AUCTION, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

2007
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
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
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
The Freak Show, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
RISS/LUCKE/SCHARNIER A – RIFT/GAP/HINGE A, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
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
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
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
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
AUDIO, curated by Francis Baudevin, Geneva, Switzerland
Hypervision, curated by Denise Markonish, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CN
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
Do You Think I’m Disco?, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2005
Thank You for the Music, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Spruth Magers Projekte
Radio Kills The Video Stars/ Side A, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Empreinte Moi: Une Exposition de Philippe Segalot, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Suspended Narratives, Curated by Maureen Mahoney, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
New Acquisition, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
AudioFiles, Contemporary Art Museum: Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Collection Lambert en Avignon, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
Girls on Film, curated by Kristine Bell, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
Vídeo música, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
CUT/Film as Found Object, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Le génie du lieu [The Genius of the Place, F.R.A.C. Bourgogne, France
Variations on a Silence: Project for a Recycling Plant, Re-Tem Tokyo Plant, Tokyo, Japan
Aural Cultures, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2004
None of the above, curated by Cesar Marzetti, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
None of the above, curated by John Armleder, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Cut: Film as Found Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL. Travelled to
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
Thinking Out Loud, presented as a part of Melbourne International Arts Festival, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, Australia
Audioframes 3, Centre d’arts Limelight, Kortrijk, Belgium
In Extremis; Printemps de septembre in Toulouse Festival of contemporary images, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Festival d’Automne à Paris 2004, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris
Sons & Lumiéres, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Reactivity -unpredictable past, ICC/InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
The Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, curated by Robert Storr, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
Transmit+Transform, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico
Genesis Sculpture, Experience Pommery #1, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Collage, Bloomberg Space, London
ipeg_bild.on.maschine, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
I, Assassin, curated by Slater Bradely, Wallspace, New York, NY
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres, CCA Glasgow, Scotland
Sample This: The Art of Collage, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA

2003
Pop Rock!, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
fast forward. Media Art Sammlung Goetz, Zentrym für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Night Moves, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
PLUNDER: culture as material, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Go Johnny Go!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Sound of Video – Voice and Rhythm in Audiovisual Art, LAB, Copenhagen
Incommunicado (organized by Hayward Gallery, London for Arts Council England), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. Travelled to City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Cornerhouse, Manchester
Living with Duchamp, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Now Playing, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Formed to Function, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
Extended Play, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
Pantalla suiza, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (organized by ARCO 2003)
Harlem Postcards II, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Air Guitar, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK

2002
Telephones, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Stutter, Stutter, Shaheen Gallery, Cleveland, OH
“…Message sent…,” City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mirror Image, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA
Shoot the Singer: Music on Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Rock My World, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Media Field: Old New Technologies, Wiilliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
40 Years of Fluxus events, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
do it (home version), online project at www.e-flux.com, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
The Second Phase: Interpretations of the Photographic Portrait, Deutsches Museum, München, Germany
Expo 2002, Yverdon-les-Bans, Switzerland
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; Travelling to Turnpike Gallery, Leigh; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Tullie House, Carlisle
Art Downtown; New Photography, Wall Street Risini, NY
Jack, Cinch & XLR: Amplified Images, Le Crestet Centre d’Art, Crestet, France
The LP Show, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Something/Anything, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by Nayland Blake)
Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Germany
Guitar Drag, Post-Fluxus Exhibition, Wiesbaden
The Passing, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Art from 1985 to the present, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Body in Music, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Mirror Mirror, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
Electric Body: le corps en scéne, Cité de la musique – Musée de la musique, France
Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Remapping the City, New Ears Festival, Kortrijk/Begium, Lille/France
Re:Direct, Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart/Germany
Zero Visibility, Vilnius, Ljublijana and Genazzano/Rome

2001
Now Playing: Audio in Art, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
art>music, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
In Sync, Cinema and Sound in the Work of Julie Becker and Christian Marclay, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The LP Show, Exit Art, New York, NY
Body & Sin, Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain
Looking at You, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Video Streets, Downtown Arts Festival, New York, NY (Screening of “Mixed Reviews”)
Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Main Art Gallery, California State University
Fullerton, CA
Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Wiederaufnahme (Retake), NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia 1990-2001, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
Record All-Over, 9th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Geneva
Feature: Art, Life & Cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2000
Le temps, vite!, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Group exhibition at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund organized by Viart
Group Video Exhibition, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany; travelled to The Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; Gallery for Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland ; House of Contemporary Arts Trafo, Budapest, Hungary; Lux Centre, London
Human Gender and Being, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
Sonic Boom: The Art of Sound, Hayward Gallery, London
Making Sense: Ellen Gallagher, Christian Marclay and Liliana Porter, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD Umedalen Skulptur 2000, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Volume: Bed of Sound, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver
Internationales Videoprogramm, Badischer KunstVerein, Karlsruhe, Germany,
La Biennale de Montreal, Centre International D’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
Off the Record: Music in Art, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Berlin Open, Trafo Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
Print Publishers’ Spotlight, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
S.O.S.: Scenes of Sound, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
To Infinity and Beyond: Editions for the Year 2000, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process, AXA Gallery, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
Wanted! International Video Program, Bunkier Sztuki
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1999
dAPERtuto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Releasing Senses, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Talk Show, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; Haus der Kunst Munich
Musique en Scène, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon
Videodrome, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
The International Artist-in-Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Group video exhibiton, Gallerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany; Travelled to Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlshruhe, Germany; Gallery for Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland

1998
I love New York, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Dust Breeding, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In vitro e altro, Cabinet des estampes, Geneva
Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zurich
Crossings, Kunsthalle Vienna; Rudolfinum, Prague
White Noise, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Technoculture (Computer World), Fri-Art, Fribourg
Archiv X, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
Composed, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1997
Nonchalance, Centre PasquART, Biel, Switzerland & Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1996
Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Transformers: A Moving Experience, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Model Home, The Clocktower, New York, NY
It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati

1995
Commercial Art, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Back Beat: Art Influenced by Rock & Roll, Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland
Klangskulpturen-Augenmusik, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1994
Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio. Travelling.
Playoff, Art & Public, Geneva
Synesthesia: Sound and Vision in Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, TX
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bar College, NY
New Delhi Triennial, New Delhi, India

1993
At the Edge of Chaos, Louisiana Museum, Denmark

1991
The Savage Garden, Fundacion Caja De Pensiones, Madrid
FluxAttitudes, Hallwalls, Buffalo. Travelled to The New Museum, New York, NY
1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art, Hayward Gallery, London
Hidden Refelctions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Post Human, FAE Musée d’art contemporain, Pully/Lausanne. Travelled to Castello di Rivoli, Torino; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1990
Status of Sculpture, Espace Lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon. Travelled to ICA, London;
Provincial Museum, Hasselt; Lion's Palais, Stiftung Starke, Berlin
New Works for New Spaces: Into the 1990's, Wexner Art Center, Columbus, Ohio

1989
Broken Music: Artist's Recordworks, Daad Galerie, Berlin. Travelled to Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag; Le Magasin, Grenoble; Musée d'Art Moderne, Montreal
Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1988
Group Material: Politics and Election, DIA Art Foundation, New York, NY

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