Tony Oursler (born 1957) is an American multimedia and installation artist married to Jacqueline Humphries. He completed a

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at the

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, Valencia, California, in 1979. His art covers a range of mediums, working with video, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting. He lives and works in New York City.

Early life and education

Born in

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in 1957, Oursler was brought up in a connected and well-to-do family that settled in

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. He is the son of former ''

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'' editor-in-chief Fulton Oursler Jr. and Noel Nevill Oursler. His grandfather was the writer

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. At CalArts, his fellow students included Mike Kelley, Sue Williams, Stephen Prina, and Jim Shaw.

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— with whom he did an independent study — and

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were his teachers. Oursler moved back to New York in 1981 and was picked up by

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. In 1999, Oursler moved to a studio near

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Work

Single-channel tapes: 1977–1989

Tony Oursler is known for his fractured-narrative handmade videotapes, including ''The Loner'' (1980) and ''EVOL'' (1984). Billy Rubin describes ''EVOL'' as "(charting) the territory between our passion-charged personal narratives and the near impossibility of representing that desire visually or linguistically, the end result often being nothing more than banal cultural cliches." These works involve elaborate soundtracks, painted sets, stop-action animation, and optical special effects created by the artist. The early videotapes have been exhibited extensively in alternative spaces and museums. They are distributed by

Early installations

Oursler's early installation works are immersive dark-room environments with video, sound, and language mixed with colorful constructed sculptural elements. In these projects, Oursler experimented with methods of removing the moving image from the video monitor using reflections in water, mirrors, glass, and other devices. The early installation ''Son of Oil'', presented at

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in 1982, links the dystopian feelings brought about by conspiracy theories with the perturbing politics of the oil industry. The large-scale installation ''L7-L5'' deals with science fiction as entertainment in contradiction to the terror of first-hand accounts of alien encounters. It was presented at The Kitchen (New York) and the

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(Amsterdam) in 1984. ''Spillchamber'' (1987) and ''Spillchamber 2'' (1989) were displayed in New York and Japan.

Projection: 1991

Oursler began working with small LCD video projectors in 1991 in his installation ''The Watching'' presented at documenta 9, featuring his first video doll and dummy. This work utilizes handmade soft cloth figures combined with expressive faces animated by video projection. Oursler then produced a series of installations that combined found objects and video projections. ''Judy'' (1993) explored the relationship between multiple personality disorder and mass media. ''Get Away II'' features a passive/aggressive projected figure wedged under a mattress that confronts the viewer with blunt, direct address. These installations led to great popular and critical acclaim. Signature works have been his talking lights, such as ''Streetlight'' (1997), his series of video sculptures of eyes with television screens reflected in the pupils, and ominous talking heads such as ''Composite Still Life'' (1999). An installation called ''Optics'' (1999) examines the polarity between dark and light in the history of the

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. In his text "Time Stream", Oursler proposed that architecture and moving image installation have been forever linked by the camera obscura noting that cave dwellers observed the world as projections via peepholes. The essay both presents a timeline of mimetic technology and serves as an archive of some of Oursler's influences. Oursler's interest in the ephemeral history of the virtual image led to large-scale public projects and permanent installations by 2000.

Public projects: 2000–2009

The Public Art Fund and

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commissioned the ''Influence Machine'' in 2000. This installation marks the artist's first major outdoor project and thematically traced the development of successive communication devices from the telegraph to the personal computer as a means of speaking with the dead. Oursler used smoke, trees, and buildings as projection screens in

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, NYC and

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, London. He then completed several permanent public projects in Barcelona, New Zealand, and Arizona, including "Braincast" at the

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. ''Million Colors'' (2006) was commissioned by the state of Arizona for permanent display at the Phoenix Convention Center in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. While researching this project, Oursler discovered that locals boast that the canyons and desert are graded in more than a million different colors. Aurora sightings and surrounding mountains evoke the lawless and anarchic past of American culture: abandoned goldmines and violent desperadoes of the Wild West. Near Suspicion Mountain, where temperatures reach , mirages are everyday occurrences. These distinct visual elements generate vivid accounts of UFO sightings and industrial-military conspiracy theories. Oursler steeped himself in the allure of the place and tried to give voice to the arid desert landscape. Narratives unique to the mysterious desert are reflected in the spoken texts of the installation, and the resulting collage of scripts performed by Arizona locals and immigrants is an attempt to let the colorful sedimentary history speak for itself. In 2009, he created a series of commissioned video installations at the

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in Astoria, New York.

Public projects: 2010–2020

In 2013, the Ekebergparken Sculpture Park commissioned Oursler to create the permanent installation ''Klang''. The installation took the form of three parts: ''Klang'', a large-scale video cave, ''Spectral Power'', an iconic talking lamppost, and ''Cognitive / Dissonance'', two complementary tree projections. In 2014, Oursler simultaneously presented two large-scale installations in the Netherlands: ''X ergo Y'' at the

and ''I/O underflow'' at the Oude Kerk. ''I/O underflow'' was inspired in part by Alan Turing. ''Tear of the Cloud'', commissioned by Public Art Fund and curated by Daniel S. Palmer, was presented at Riverside Park along the banks of the Hudson River in the summer of 2018. Technological developments in the region provided significant source material for the artist. The structure of the Internet, which blurs the boundary between culture and technology, is evident in the production of millions of bricks in Haverstraw, New York, and the long-distance communication of the talking drum as a precursor to the invention of

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. The artist explores the composition of

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's last painting, ''The Muse'', depicting his daughter Susan Walker Morse, uncannily foreshadowing the prototype of his first telegraph. ' The Headless Horseman and his horse are important references in ''Tear of the Cloud'', as they gallop towards artificial intelligence, the chess-playing computer Deep Blue's famous knight sacrifice,

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technologies, and bots which have provoked significant questions about our future', according to Oursler. He suggests connections between the recent DNA CRISPR-Cas encoding of

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's Horse in Motion, the birth of the film industry at the Black Maria studio, the actress and proto-feminist

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’s early silent films created on the Palisades, and the first transistor invented a few miles away at

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. Mining progressive social movements, the work touches on the mid-19th century

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, their attempts at free love and highly successful manufacturing of silverware and animal traps; the

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; counterculture musical and psychedelic experimentation at Woodstock; and the remixing of nascent hip-hop culture in the South Bronx. The river is also characterized by darker connotations including pesticides, PCBs, Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, and Sybil’s Cave, where the infamous Mary Rogers murder occurred. Oursler will bring these images – and more – to life, through the meticulously produced digital projections that evoke the scenarios with kaleidoscopic wonder", according to

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. Oursler gave a talk on the piece at the New School, presented by the Public Art Fund. The piece was accompanied by a digitally published glossary of references." ''6th'', commissioned by the

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and Dark Mofo, was presented in the summer of 2019 at the now-defunct Beaumaris Zoo in

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. The piece revisited the structure which once held the last living Tasmanian tiger, and projected images into cages to "bear witness to a 'digital de-extinction' of the legendary Tasmanian tiger via sweeping projections, sound and light", as described by Dark Mofo. Concurrently, the nocturnal installation ''Beyond the Spectrum'' was presented at the

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, which houses rare botanical specimens. The installation of 30 talking lights installed throughout the park were culled from the artist’s archive of more than 20 years of experimentation with the synchronization of light and sound. For this project, the lights were paired with specific plant species throughout the park to be discovered by the wandering viewer. Also in 2019, Oursler presented ''Eclipse'' at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, for the exhibition ''Trees''. The piece incorporates ecological themes and the looming loss of the "enchanted forest". ''电流 (Current)'' (2019) is an installation piece spanning the Nanjing Eye Footbridge, a pedestrian walkway over the river.

Collaborations

While at

, Oursler founded the musical and performance group "Poetics" alongside fellow student Mike Kelley. The group included many collaborators over the years, such as John Miller, Jim Shaw, Mitchell Syrop, Bill Stobaugh, Don Kruger, Mark Madel, Art Byington, Dave Muller, Steven Vitiello, Bill Wintersole, Zoe Pettijohn, and Linda Post. In 1997–98, Kelley and Oursler presented the Poetics Project at ''Documenta X'', as well as at venues in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo; through video projections, sound, and artworks, this installation re-created their experience at CalArts as members of a short-lived band. The installation is now on semi-permanent display in the collection of the Pompidou Centre. Oursler was a longtime friend of

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and collaborated with him on several works. Oursler created the background videos that played at

's 50th birthday party concert in 1997. In 2000, Oursler and Bowie collaborated on the four-minute short film ''Empty'', in which Bowie's disembodied head provided narration. Oursler made the video to accompany Bowie's January 2013 single " Where Are We Now?", and a piece showing two Bowie heads in conversation with each other for the 2013 " David Bowie Is" exhibit organized by the

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. Oursler became friends with writer and artist Constance DeJong after he saw a performance of hers at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1983. In 1986, they collaborated on ''Joyride''. They then collaborated on the video and performance piece ''Relatives'', first staged at The Kitchen in New York City in 1989. In 1995, DeJong and Oursler collaborated alongside musician Stephen Vitiello for their piece, "Fantastic Prayers." A CD-ROM of the project was released by Dia in 2000. DeJong is featured in ''The Watching'', which was the first of Oursler's works to project videos onto dolls, and was presented at documenta 9. She performs as Madame X in Oursler's feature-length film ''Imponderable, presented at MoMa in 2016. The two have collaborated on numerous other occasions over the years. Oursler has long collaborated with former MIT professor, filmmaker, artist, and bank robber Joe Gibbons. The two met in 1984 and went on to share a house in Jamaica Plain, Mass. while Oursler taught at the Massachusetts College of Art. In the late 1980s through the early ‘90s, Oursler and Gibbons produced a series of videos titled ''On Our Own''. Oursler appears in Gibbons’ feature film ''The Genius'', alongside Karen Finley and Tony Conrad. Oursler's lifelong friendship and creative partnership with

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began in 1980. Oursler introduced Mike Kelley to Tony Conrad, and the two appeared in Conrad's film ''Beholden to Victory (Hail the Fallen)''. Oursler and Kelley also appear in Conrad's later film ''WiP (Women in Prison)''. Conrad appears in and did the costuming for Oursler's film ''EVOL''. One of Oursler and Conrad's major collaborations was ''The Influence Machine'', a public installation shown at Madison Square Garden in 2000, for which Conrad composed the score. Oursler and Conrad's soundtrack was also published as a CD accompanying the catalogue for ''The Influence Machine''. Conrad is featured in several of Oursler's projection works. The pair's final collaboration was ''TC: the most interesting man alive'', presented at Lisson Gallery. Conrad died on April 9, 2016. Oursler is the director of Tony Conrad's archives. Oursler met

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in the late 1970s and collaborated with her on ''Making the Nature Scene'', a short film examining New York club culture in the 1980s. In 1990, Oursler made the music video for

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's song "Tunic (Song for Karen)." In 2005, Oursler collaborated with Sonic Youth and filmmaker Phil Morrison on the piece ''Perfect Partner.'' Gordon is featured in several of Oursler's works and contributed to the soundtrack material for Oursler's 2018 ''Tear of the Cloud'', a site-specific multimedia installation along the banks of the Hudson River.

Film and video

See videos Electronic Arts Intermix * "Tony Oursler Video Projections" by Tony Oursler, Inner-Tube Videos. 2002, 27 minutes, Color. NY: Inner-Tube Videos.

Exhibitions

Oursler's work has been exhibited in public institutions including the

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; documenta VIII, IX, Kassel;

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; the

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, Paris; the D.O.P. Foundation, Caracas; the

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; Skulptur Projekte Münster; Museum Ludwig,

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; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Tate,

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. "Introjection", the artist's mid-career survey, was on view from 1999 to 2001 at the

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in Massachusetts, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the

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, and the

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, Iowa. In 2000, Ourlser's installation ''The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified'' was presented at the

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and the

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. Oursler's work was included in '' Glasstress'' at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

2010

From October–December 2010, the Lehmann Maupin Gallery hosted Oursler's exhibition entitled ''Peak''. The exhibition was timed with Oursler's Valley, the inaugural exhibition of the Adobe Museum of Digital Media.

Publications

In 2015, Oursler published ''Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler'' with the LUMA Foundation. Oursler was profiled by the magazine ''

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'' in 2007. Writer Dan Halpern went with him to New Zealand, where he was finishing a massive projection-based installation piece on the private sculpture park of billionaire Alan Gibbs. His monographs are as follows: 1985 * Oursler, Tony. ''Spheres d’Influence.'' Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1985. Cassette included. 1995 * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler: Recent Works 1995-96.'' Madrid, Spain: Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, 1995. * Oursler, Tony. ''Dummies, Clouds, Organs, Flowers, Watercolors, Videotapes, Alters, Performances and Dolls.'' Frankfurt, Germany: Portikus. 1995. 1997 * Oursler, Tony. ''My Drawings 1976-1996.'' Kassel, Germany: Kasseler Kunstverein, 1997. 1998 * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler.'' Madrid, Spain: Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, 1998. * Oursler, Tony. ''Videotapes, Dummies, Drawings, Photographs, Viruses, Light, Heads, Eyes, and CD-ROM.'' Hannover, Germany: Kunstverein Hannover, 1998. 1999 * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler.'' Warsaw, Poland: Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, 1999. * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler.'' Milan, Italy: Electa. 1999. 2000 * Oursler, Tony. ''The Influence Machine.'' London: Artangel; New York: Public Art Fund, 2000. * Rothschild, Deborah and Tony Oursler. ''Tony Oursler Introjection: Mid-career survey 1976-1999.'' Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art, 2000. 2001 * Janus, Elizabeth and Gloria Moore. ''Tony Oursler.'' Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Poligrafa, 2001. * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler.'' Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Polígrafia; Valencia, Spain: Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, 2001. 2002 * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler.'' Rome, Italy: Macro; Milan, Italy: Electa, 2002. * Oursler, Tony. ''Parallel Lines: Drawings, Photos, Videos.'' Torino, Italy: In Arco, 2002. * Oursler, Tony. ''Station.'' Stockholm, Sweden: Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 2002. 2003 * De Jong, Constance, Tony Oursler and Michael Zansky. ''De Jong Oursler Zansky, Installations.'' Rockland: Rockland Center for the Arts, 2003. 2004 * Courbet, Gustav and Tony Oursler. ''Correspondances Musée D’Orsay, Art Contemporain No. 2.'' Paris, France: Musée D’Orsay; Paris, France: Hazan Editions, 2004. * Oursler, Tony. ''Blob.'' Madrid, Spain: Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, 2004. 2005 * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler: Dispositifs.'' Paris, France: Flammarion; Jeu de paume, 2005. * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler: Dispositivos.'' Paris, France: Flammarion; Jeu de Paume, 2005. 2006 * Amy, Michaël and Tony Oursler. ''One to One: Conversation Avec Tony Oursler.'' Brussels, Belgium: Facteur Humain, 2006. * Oursler, Tony. ''Blue Invasion.'' Sydney, Australia: Sydney Festival, 2006. * Paparoni, Demetrio. ''The Living Eye of Tony Oursler and the Spirit of the Age.'' Torino, Italy: In Arco Books, 2006. 2007 * Oursler, Tony. ''Recent Works.'' Helsinki, Finland: Galerie Forsblom, 2007. 2008 * Oursler, Tony. ''Trunk Mask Bomb Frame Hatchet Crutch Queen.'' Madrid, Spain: Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, 2008. * Oursler, Tony. ''Mirada Pensante/ Thinking Machine.'' Madrid, Spain: Turner Books, 2008. * Oursler, Tony. ''High.'' London, England: Lisson Gallery, 2008. 2009 * Oursler, Tony. ''Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards.'' New York: Metro Pictures, 2009. * Oursler, Tony. ''Gaze Heuristic (With Drool).'' Torino, Italy: In Arco Books, 2009. 2010 * Oursler, Tony. ''Lock 2,4,6.'' Bregenz, Austria: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010. 2011 * Mercurio, Gianni, Demetrio Paparoni and Tony Oursler. ''Tony Oursler: Open Obscura.'' Milan, Italy: 24 ORE Cultura, 2011. * Oursler, Tony. ''Projetor.'' Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Automatica, 2011. 2012 * Oursler, Tony. ''Denouement''. Verona, Italy: Fama Gallery, 2012. * Oursler, Tony. ''Face to Face.'' Aarhus, Denmark: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012. 2013 * Gielen, Denis and Tony Oursler. ''Vox Vernacular: An Anthology.'' Brussels: Mercatorfonds; MAC's/Grand-Hornu, 2013. * Molmenti, Pompeo Marino and Tony Oursler. ''Where Should Othello Go?'' Paris, France: Louis Vuitton Malletier, 2013. 2015 * Oursler, Tony. ''I/O underflow.'' Amsterdam, Netherlands: Oude Kerk, 2015. * Oursler, Tony. ''Tony Oursler.'' Athens, Greece: Bernier/Eliades Gallery; Agra Publications, 2015. * Oursler, Tony. ''Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler.'' Zurich, Switzerland: Luma Foundation, 2015. 2016 * Oursler, Tony. ''M*r>Or.'' Stockholm, Sweden: Magasin III, 2016. 2017 * Oursler, Tony. ''Imponderable with L7-L5.'' Barcelona, Spain: Caixa Forum, 2017. * Oursler, Tony and Gustavo Rol. ''Paranormal''. Mantova, Italy: Corraini Edizioni, 2017. 2019 * Paparoni, Demetrio. ''Tony Oursler: Le Volcan, Poetics Tattoo & UFO.'' Milan, Italy: Dep Art Gallery, 2019.

Collections

The

(Pittsburgh), Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris), the

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

(Los Angeles), the

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. It has one of the largest single co ...

, the

Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum (also referred to as MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection of over 34,000 works of art and gallery spaces totaling 150,000 sq. ft. (13,900 m²) make it the largest art museum in the state of Wis ...

, the

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (widely referred to as The Modern) is an art museum of post-World War II art in Fort Worth, Texas with a collection of international modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1892, The Modern is located in the c ...

, the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

(New York City), the

, and the

(New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Oursler.

Art market

Oursler is represented by: * Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lehmann Maupin GalleryLisson Gallery

References

External links

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at Kadist Art Foundation * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oursler, Tony American video artists American installation artists Living people 1957 births Artists from New York City California Institute of the Arts alumni 20th-century American artists 21st-century American artists American male artists 20th-century American male artists The New Yorker people

Early life and education

Work

Single-channel tapes: 1977–1989

Early installations

Projection: 1991

Public projects: 2000–2009

Public projects: 2010–2020

Collaborations

Film and video

Exhibitions

2010

Publications

Collections

Art market

See also

References

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