Paul Pfeiffer (artist)

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Paul Pfeiffer (born 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American sculptor, photographer and video artist. Described by peer artist Gregory Volk as a clever manipulator of popular media, images and video technology, Pfeiffer is stated (by Volk) as one 'who excels at recasting well-known athletic and entertainment events with surprising open-ended nuances.' [1] [2] [3]

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Life

Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966. At the age of ten, he moved to Philippines with his parents who were classically trained musicians. He later moved out of the country at the age of fifteen. Pfeiffer earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute in 1987 and later earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College, New York in 1994. [4] Pfeiffer has lived and worked in New York City since 1990. Between the year of 1997 and 1998, Pfeiffer had also participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. He is currently represented by Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City; carlier | gebauer in Berlin, Germany, Galerie Perrotin in Paris [5] and Thomas Dane Gallery in London, UK.

Exhibition history

Pfeiffer has had museum solo shows and projects at Duke University Museum of Art, Raleigh-Durham, NC (2000), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2001), UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2001), the Barbican Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom (2001), Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2001), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2003), The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (2003), K 21 Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2004), Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT (2005), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2005), University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (2007), Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2009), Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (2011), Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Malate Manila, Philippines (2015), and Performa 19, New York (2019).

Awards and scholarships

In 1993, Pfeiffer was awarded as a Travel Grant Pilot by the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International. In 1994, he was given the Project Grant by the Art Matters foundation. In 1994, Pfeiffer won a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to the Philippines where he spent one year. In 1999, Pfeiffer participated in the World Trade Center Residency and was awarded the Public Art Fund. Pfeiffer was awarded the inaugural $100,000 Bucksbaum Award at the Whitney Biennial in 2000. In 2001, he was included in the 49th Venice Biennale; that same year, Pfeiffer participated in the MIT List Visual Arts Center Residency, which was jointly organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. [6] Pfeiffer then participated in the Artpace Residency in San Antonio, TX in 2003. He was awarded The Alpert Award in the Arts, Visual Arts in 2009. In Fall 2011, Pfeiffer was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. [7] Pfeiffer was honored at the LMCC 2020 virtual celebration. [8]

Selected works

Pfeiffer's work is time-consuming and meticulous. "Pfeiffer makes a show of removing his subjectivity while investing himself intensely in his work: It can take him four months to produce a scant two minutes of video." [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Volk, Gregory. "Paul Pfeiffer," Art in America, January 2010, pg. 129; illus.
  2. ↑ Cotter, Holland. “Paul Pfeiffer at the Whitney Museum of American Art,” The New York Times, January 18, 2002; illus.
  3. ↑ Miller, Michael H. "Back on Home Court: Paul Pfeiffer Rebounds in New York with a Show Inspired By Basketball's Most Prodigious Lothario, Welcome to the 'Playroom'," The New York Observer, September 17, 2012, pp. B1 and B7; illus.
  4. ↑ Biography, Paula Cooper Gallery, retrieved 3 May 2017
  5. ↑ "Paul PFEIFFER | PERROTIN". www.perrotin.com. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  6. ↑ "MIT List Paul Pfeiffer". MIT List Visual Arts Center. Feb 2003. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ flashartonline.com Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved June 3, 2009.
  8. ↑ Cascone, Sarah (2020-12-08). "Editors' Picks: 15 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Conversation on John Baldessari to a Relief Benefit for Artists". Artnet News. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  9. ↑ Katy Siegel, Artforum, Summer, 2000.
  10. ↑ The Project: Past and future exhibitions

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