Luca Buvoli is an Italian-born artist working with animated film and video, installation, sculpture, painting and drawing. Solo shows include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the M.I.T. List Center, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC (2003). Group shows include the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa, and Greater New York at P.S. 1. His animated films and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Lincoln Center in New York, the ICA in Boston, and the British Library in London. A Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, Buvoli has received grants and awards from NYSCA, NYFA, Creative Capital and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Guggenheim Museum and other institutions around the world.
Tomaselli, Field Guides, 2003Bradford, Los Moscos, 2004
This week, we’re taking VALS out of Prentis with two very special events that are not to be missed! On Tuesday, October 23rd, Fred Tomaselli has graciously invited us into his studio to view works in progress. On Thursday, October 25th, we will get a preview/ walkthrough with Mark Bradford of his upcoming show at Sikkema Jenkins. Details for both will be sent via email. Due to capacity limitations at both venues, these sessions will be limited to Columbia MFA Visual Arts students.
Penetrators, 2012
Fred Tomaselli was born in Santa Monica, California in 1956. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the Berlin Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, the Site Santa Fe Biennial, Prospect.1 New Orleans and the Sydney Biennale. Solo exhibition venues include the Whitney, the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art in Buffalo, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Brooklyn Museum. His work can be found in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, LACMA, MoCA LA, the MoMA and the Whitney. Tomaselli is represented by James Cohan Gallery in the United States and by White Cube Gallery in the UK. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 where he continues to live and work. He has received many awards, including the Bucksbaum Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and, in 2009, the MacArthur Fellowship. He has been included in major exhibitions at LACMA, the Whitney, REDCAT Los Angeles, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem and has participated in the twenty-seventh Bienal de São Paulo, the Istanbul Biennial and “inSite: Art Practices in the Public Domain,” San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico (2005).
Shirin Neshat is a visual artist known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. She was born in Qazvin, Iran and now lives and works in New York City.
Neshat has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Walker in Minneapolis, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjevik. She was included in Prospect 1, the 2008 New Orleans Biennial and documenta XI and has also participated in several film festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, Sundance, and the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals.
Neshat is the recipient of the Lillian Gish Prize, the First International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale, the Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, and the 2000 Alpert Award in the Arts. A major retrospective of her work, organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, will open in 2013.
Marilyn Minter is a multimedia artist who lives and works in New York City. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including SFMoMA, the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival in France and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany. Minter has also been featured in solo gallery shows at Regen Projects in Los Angeles and Salon 94 and Team Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in “Riotous Baroque,” a group exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich which will travel to the Guggenheim Bilboa in June 2013.
