Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay is well known for his work in a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, photography, collage, performance, and music. Born in San Rafael, California, and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, Marclay studied at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva, the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Cooper Union in New York. For more than 30 years, he has been exploring the connections between the visual and the audible, creating works in which these two distinct sensibilities enrich and challenge each other.

Marclay's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally including solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2010), Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2011), Barbican Art Gallery, London (2005), MAMCO, Geneva (2008), SFMOMA, San Francisco (2002), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001), Kunsthaus, Zurich (1997), Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (1995), among others.