Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler has been a pioneer of new media art since the mid-1970s. His numerous solo exhibitions include The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000; Introjection (1999-2001), his mid-career survey, at the Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Des Moines Art Center; Studio and Climaxed (2005) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Dispositifs (2005-2006) at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, the Domus Artium (DA2) Modern Art Museum, Salamanca, Spain, the Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland, and at the GL Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 18 ­ May 7, 2006. His work is represented in many museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Tate Gallery in London. Oursler was born in 1957 in New York, where he now lives and works. He received a BFA from California Institute for the Arts in 1979.