Paul Pfeiffer

Hawai‘i-born artist Paul Pfeiffer, whose work is internationally renowned, extracts visual elements from recent popular culture to present psychologically and aesthetically evocative images, objects, and experiences. Recipient of the first Bucksbaum Award for the Whitney Biennial (2000), his work has been recognized for its ingenious use of computer and video technology.

This exhibition is co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, and features a selection of video and sculptural works that challenge the role of media images in defining community and identity. The Contemporary Museum is supplementing the exhibition in Honolulu with additional works to present a survey of Pfeiffer’s work, including Vitruvian Figure (After Palladio) from TCM’s collection.

Pfeiffer uses photography, sculpture, video, computer photocollage, and digital technology in navigating the intersection of the body, the camera and American culture. His works address the evolving effects of new digital technologies, which easily manipulate pre-existing images of the human being. Rather than masking the use of technology in his work, Pfeiffer calls full attention to its presence.

Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawai’i in 1966. He received a BFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA degree from Hunter College in New York. His work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Pfeiffer will represent the United States in the Cairo Biennial, also opening in December. He lives and works in New York City.

Support for this exhibition has been provided by Andrea and James Gordon, Kenneth C. Griffin, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, Jennifer McSweeney, and The Orbit Fund. Additional support has been provided by GUCCI and ArtPace/A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio. The Honolulu presentation of Paul Pfeiffer is made possible in part by GUCCI and American Airlines, with additional support from the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Pressetext

Paul Pfeiffer
Ort: Makiki Heights Honolulu