Tony Oursler Read Bio Collapse
Tony Oursler is best known for his innovative integration of video, sculpture, and performance. A pioneering figure in new media since the 1970s, Oursler has explored diverse methods of incorporating video into his practice, breaking video art out of the two-dimensional screen to create moving three-dimensional environments with the use of projections. At the center of Oursler’s practice is a persisting preoccupation with technology and its effect on humanity. His videos often take as their subject the human face, fragmenting and distorting its physiognomy, and thus the legibility of expression, by projecting it onto inanimate objects or embedding it into his sculptures. With these video-sculptures Oursler explores the role that the rapid growth of technology plays in altering, and often inhibiting, human social behavior. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (2021); Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2021); Musée d’Arts de Nantes, France (2020); Nanjing Eye Pedestrian Bridge, China (2019); Public Art Fund, New York (2018); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); LUMA Foundation, Arles (2015); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014); Tate Modern, London(2013); Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2013); Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2013); and Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2012) among numerous others.