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Christian
Marclay

               


BIOGRAPHY

1955Born in San Rafael, California

1975-77Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Visuels, Geneva

1977-80Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

1978Exchange student program, Cooper Union, New York
Lives and works in London

Selected Solo Exhibitions, Performances

2025The Clock, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Doors, ICA Boston, MA
The Clock, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany

2024The Clock, MoMA, New York
Subtitled, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

2023Graphic Scores, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Doors, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London

2022Christian Marclay, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2021Found in Odawara, Enoura Observatory, Odawara Art Foundation, Kanagawa, Japan
Voices, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Christian Marclay Translating, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
The Clock, LUMA Foundation, Arles; Plaza Foundation and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva
Christian Marclay, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2020To Be Continued, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva
Look, Pavement Gallery, Manchester

2019The Clock, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Christian Marclay, White Cube, London
Compositions, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
The Clock, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sound Stories, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Christian Marclay, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Chewing Gum, Midnight Moment, Times Square, New York

2018The Clock, Tate Modern, London / Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Sound Stories (in collaboration with Snap), La Malmaison, Cannes, France

2017The Clock, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo; Copenhagen Contemporary
Screams, White Cube, Hong Kong
Phones, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Sapporo International Art Festival 2017 NEW LIFE: Exhibition without Replay, Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan

2016The Clock, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Graphic Scores, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Six New Animations, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; White Cube, London
Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, La Grande Halle, France
Telephones and Sound Holes, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

2015Shake Rattle and Roll, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Action, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Surround Sounds, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Guitar Drag, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
The Clock, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Museum Berarado, Lisbon; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Christian Marclay, White Cube, London

2014The Clock, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul; Centre Pompidou-Metz, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2013Christian Marclay, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Things I’ve Heard, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The Clock, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba

2012Seven Windows, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Clock, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Lincoln Center, New York; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Power Plant, Toronto; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nuit Blanche, Paris

2011Scrolls, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Ephemera, Michèle Didier Gallery, Paris
Cyanotypes, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The Clock, LEEUM Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2010What You See is What You Hear, LEEUM Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Looking for Love, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
The Clock, White Cube, London
Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Fourth of July, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

20092822 Records (PS1), MoMA PS1, New York
Video Quartet, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

2008Christian Marclay: Replay, DHC Art Foundation, Montreal
Cyanotypes, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Christian Marclay: Honk if You Love Silence, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Solo, Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf
SNAP! Galerie Art & Essai, Université de Rennes, France
Stereo, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2007Christian Marclay, The Sounds of Christmas, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Replay, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France; DA2, Salamanca, Spain; Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Crossfire, White Cube, London
Video Quartet, Western Bridge, Seattle

2006The Electric Chair, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Bell and the Glass, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mixed Reviews (American Sign Language), MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2005Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Shake, Rattle and Roll (Fluxmix), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

2004Shake, Rattle and Roll: Christian Marclay, Franklin Art Works in collaboration with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Seattle Art Museum; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
The Sounds of Christmas, Tate Modern, London

2003Telephones, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Christian Marclay, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; The Seattle Art Museum, WA; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Collection Lambert, Avignon, Avignon; Barbican Art Gallery, London
The Bell and the Glass, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Video Quartet, White Cube, London and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

2002Video Quartet, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Sounds of Christmas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Three Compositions, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Look at the Music/SeeSound: Christian Marclay, Ystad Art Museum, Sweden
Sampling, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2001The Sounds of Christmas, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Telephones, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Currents 84: Christian Marclay, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Guitar Drag, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
New Works, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

2000The Sounds of Christmas, Media Z Lounge, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Cinema, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Telephones, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver
Video & Fotografi, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark

1999Telephones, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Sounds of Christmas, ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio

1997Pictures at an Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
Arranged and Conducted, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

1995Accompagnement Musical, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva
Amplification, Venice Biennial, Chiesa San Staë, Venice

1994Fawbush Gallery, New York
Christian Marclay, Fawbush daadgalerie, Berlin and Fri-Art Centre d’art contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg

1993Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1992The Wind Section, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Christian Marclay: Sewn Record Jackets, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
Masks, Galleria Valentina Moncada, Rome

1991Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
Abstract Music, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne

1990The White Album, Solo Press Gallery, New York
Directions: Christian Marclay, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York

1989Footsteps, Shedhalle, Zurich
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
Christian Marclay: Pochettes de Disques, Galerie Rivolta, Lausanne, Switzerland

1988One Thousand Records, Gelbe Musik, Berlin
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York

1987850 Records, The Clocktower, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY

1981Apartment, Geneva, Switzerland

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