Paul Pfeiffer

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Paul Pfeiffer, which will be on view from February 6 to April 6, 2003. This is the most substantial exhibition ever devoted to Pfeiffer, whose computer-based video, photography, and sculpture have been recognized internationally. The artist will be present at the opening reception on Friday, February 7, at 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Paul Pfeiffer uses digital media to explore universal themes of human identity, and its aspirations and failures. His work addresses the many problematic aspects of present and future worlds dominated by astonishing revolutions in visual representation, while exploring universal themes of identity, race, and culture, often through imagery from sports, film, and popular culture. The exhibition premieres a number of new works including Corner Piece, Live Evil, and Poltergeist, as well as the remarkable Morning After the Deluge in which sunrise and sunset are impossibly yet scintillatingly fused into one image. Pfeiffer is a recipient of the first Bucksbaum Award for the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial (2000) to honor a living American artist whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination. Curators for the exhibition are Jane Farver and Dominic Molon.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated 64-page catalogue. Produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, it features a foreword by Jane Farver and Robert Fitzpatrick; essays by Lawrence Chua, Jane Farver, and Dominic Molon; and a conversation between ˇˇˇPaul Pfeiffer and John Baldessari.

Born in Honolulu in 1966, Paul Pfeiffer received a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1987 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1994. He also participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1997-98. Now based in New York City, Pfeiffer is represented by The Project in Los Angeles and New York.

His works have been included in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. Recent shows include UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Sex Machine, The Project, Los Angeles, CA; Tempo, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthause Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland; Kunste-Werke, Berlin; and The 49th Venice Biennale. Pfeiffer has received numerous awards, including a Public Art Fund commission in 1999-2000, and a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship and a project grant from Art Matters both in 1994-95.

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Paul Pfeiffer