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Stephen Prina (born 1954) is an American artist. His work has been categorized as post-conceptualism. [1] Prina is a professor at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) at Harvard University. [2]
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Stephen Prina (born 1954) is an American artist. His work has been categorized as post-conceptualism. [1] Prina is a professor at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) at Harvard University. [2]
Born in 1954, in Galesburg, Illinois, Prina received a BFA from Northern Illinois University in 1977 and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1980. [3] At CalArts, his fellow students included Mike Kelley, Sue Williams, Tony Oursler and Jim Shaw. [4] In 1980, he attended Thomas E. Crow's class on Courbet and Manet at UCLA. [5]
Prina's work includes drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video and film. In Exquisite Corpse, a series begun in 1988, he set out to make a painting of the same size and shape as every painting recorded in a 1969 catalogue raisonné of Manet's works. [6]
Prina is also a composer and musician who has interpreted works by Beethoven, Schoenberg, Sonic Youth, Steely Dan and many others. [7] He taught at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, from 1980 until 2003. In 1994, he offered a much-discussed course about filmmaking in the 1980s and focused the class on Keanu Reeves as the actor had appeared in a diverse set of films that each exemplified a specific style; the course prompted stories in The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar . [8] Prina has been a professor at Harvard since 2004. [9]
Solo exhibitions of his work have been mounted in museums throughout Europe and the United States including Spruth Magers, Los Angeles, US (2018); Museo Madre, Naples, Italy (2017); Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2016); Vienna Secession (2011); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaeno, Seville (2008); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; the Art Institute of Chicago (2002); MAMCO, Geneva (1998); Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1992); and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (1989). [10]
He has participated in documenta IX, the Venice Biennale XLIV, and the 51st Carnegie International. [11]
Prina has also been a willing collaborator, having co-produced significant exhibitions and projects with artists Wade Guyton, Mike Kelley, the band Red Krayola and curator Susanne Ghez at The Renaissance Society. [12] [13] [14] [15]
Prina is represented by Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles, New York, London and Berlin, Petzel Gallery in New York, Maureen Paley in London, and Capitain Petzel in Berlin.
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