Lot 170: Paul Pfeiffer (b.1966)

Paul Pfeiffer (b.1966)
Live Evil (Gothenburg)
Biography
Pa Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, Hawaii) lives and works in New
York City. He earned his BFA in Printmaking from San Francisco Art
Institute in 1987, and pursued an MFA in Hunter College, New York
in 1994. From 1997 - 1998, he attended the Whitney Museum of
American Art Independent Study Program. He has received several
grants and residencies, most recently the Dodd Chair Residency from
The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in 2016.
Solo exhibitions have been held at Perrotin, Paris, France (2018);
Bellas Artes Outpost, Manila, Philippines (2018); Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2017); Thomas
Dane Gallery, London, England (2017); U.S. Embassy, Vienna,
Austria (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila,
Philippines; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (2011); BAIBAKOV
art projects, Moscow, Russia (2009); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
de Castilla y León, Léon Spain (2008); the UCLA Hammer Museum
in Los Angeles (2001), Whitney Museum of American Art in New
York (2002), Museum of Contemporary Art in Honolulu (2003),
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2003), Museum of Art
at Middlebury College, Vermont (2005), and Thyssen Bornemisza
Art Contemporary at Kunstzone Karlsplatz Technische Universitat in
Vienna (2008). His work has also been included in major exhibitions
such as Whitney Biennial (2000), Venice Biennale (2001), SITE Santa
Fe (2003), The Shapes of Space at the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum (2007), and the Sydney Biennial (2008).
He has participated in numerous group shows; in 2018 alone he was
included in: Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical
Image, LUMA, Arles, France; The Journey That Wasn’t, The Broad,
Los Angeles, USAl Ready ? OK!, Naughton Gallery at Queen’s
University, Belfast, Ireland; Art in the Age of the Internet,
1989 to Today, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, USA;
The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Perez Art
Museum, Miami, USA; Para Site, Hong Kong;
Museum of Modern Art , Warsaw, Poland; Michael Jackson: On the
Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, England; The World’s Game:
Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Perez Art Museum Miami, USA;
Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, ICA Boston, Boston,
MA, USA; A Beast, a God and a Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka,
Bangladesh, Para Site; Hong Kong, TS1 Yangon, Myanmar; Inhotim
Institute, Inhotim Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Brumadinho,
Brazil.
His works are in the public collections of Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany, The Artangel Collection,
UK, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, The Whitney Museum of
American Art,New York, USA, The Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Illinois, USA, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY,
USA, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
DC, USA, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM,
Luxembourg, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y
León (MUSAC), León, Spain, K21,Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, Museo d´arte
contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, Ellipse Foundation
Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal, Inhotim Museu
de Arte Contemporanea, Brumadinho, Brazil, Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary (T-BA21), Vienna, Austria, The Pinakothek der
Moderne, Munich, Germany, The Broad Art Foundation, Los
Angeles, CA, USA, The D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece,
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, The Zabludowicz Collection,
London, England, UK, The Vanhaerants Art Collection, Brussels,
Belgium, The François Pinault Foundation, Paris, France, The
Rubell Family Colection, Miami, Florida, USA, The Julia Stoschek
Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany, and The Bucksbaum Collection,
Sharon, Connecticut, USA.
References



2003
Digital video loop, LCD monitor, DVD player, cast armature
3” x 4” x 4” (8 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm)

Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila