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Gary Hill
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Gary Hill was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1951 and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Originally a sculptor, Hill began working with sound and video in the early 1970’s and has produced a large body of both single-channel video works and mixed-media installations. His video, installation and performance work has been presented at museums and institutions throughout the world, including solo exhibitions at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, among others. Hill has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genuis" Grant in 1998.
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Marie Jager
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Marie Jager was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1975. She is now based in Los Angeles where she received her MFA from the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts in 2004. Her first short video works related to the history of cinema and its relationship to fiction, following which she directed her first 16mm film RUR, a short science fiction movie adapted from the eponymous play written by Karel Kapek in 1921. Her most recent film work The Purple Cloud is based on a Victorian science fiction novel by MP Shiel and was exhibited this past year at the Orange County Museum of Art and further explored the notion of an ‘expanded cinema’ within an exhibition space, including a slide projection made with collage and texts, an accompanying soundtrack, a site specific installation on the museum’s facade, lobby cards in the entrance of the museum and a script available at the museum’s bookstore. Her work has been presented in such venues as Artists Space (NY), Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NY), China Art Objects (LA), the MAK Center (LA), Croy Nielsen (Berlin), and Jeffrey Charles Gallery (London) among others. She was included in the 2006 California Biennial and recently organized a series of film screenings (The A to Z of cinema with Gilles Deleuze) at the Mandrake in Los Angeles. Her work was recently included in a DVD compilation “compiler 2” curated by Daniel Bauman and screened at the Swiss Institute in New York and her work has been written about recently in Flash Art and Artforum among other publications.
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