Stefan Eins is an

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artist whose artwork has been exhibited since 1970. His belief that art and scientific experimentation are one and the same significantly impacted art and society. He is most known for founding the art gallery Fashion Moda that is located in South Bronx, New York.

Early life and career

Stefan Eins was born in

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during the

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in 1940. Eins grew up in

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and Gresten,

. He graduated from the

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with a degree in

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in 1965. From 1964 to 1967 he attended the

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in Vienna where he focused most of his studying on

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. In 1967, he moved to

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. After Stefan Eins settled in New York City, he began working with all types of media including painting, collage, sculpture, and photography. He ran art spaces, Mercer Street and Fashion Moda. Eins' most well known contribution to the art world was his creation of the gallery Fashion Moda in 1978. Before Fashion Moda, Eins ran the downtown art space Mercer Street from 1971 to 1978. During his time spent curating Fashion Moda, Eins' work was mostly in the form of graphic design of posters and signage. However, he did produce a number of personal pieces in exhibitions. While running art spaces and creating artwork, Eins was also a member of the artist collaborative group

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. Eins' work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, as well as New York City streets, night clubs, and parks.

3 Mercer Store

In 1973, Stefan Eins founded 3 Mercer Store art space where he sold and exhibited his artwork.

Honors

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, 1980, 1987 *

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2002 *

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2004

Exhibitions

Startin in 1977, Stefan Eins' work has been exhibited internationally. Eins art was exhibited in shows in the National Gallery in Vienna (1991),

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in New York (2007), Now Gallery and other museums and galleries in US and Europe. Eins's exhibit in MoMA PS1 was a collection of digital pictures of splotches. *2014 'OTHER DIMENSION', Installation, ew Museum New York City *2013 'NO WAR', in collaboration with Leonardo da Vinci and Peter Paul Rubens, ARTFORUM Magazine *2009 'Looking at Music',

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, New York City *2009 'The Picture Generation',

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, New York City *2009 X-TREME Exterior, New York City,

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, Gresten *2008 Centre National d'art Contemporain de Grenoble,

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*2007

, PS.1, New York City *2007 National Kyrgyz Fine Arts Museum, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Central Asia *2006 'The Downtown Show', Grey Art Gallery, New York City *2006 Modernist, Büyükada Island, Istanbul *2002 Galerie Ariadne

, Austria *2002 O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst,

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, Austria *2001 MUSA – Museum auf Abruf,

, Austria *1991

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, Vienna, Austria *1985 Now Gallery, New York City, US *1980

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, London, UK

References

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