Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 37 |
| Germany | 31 |
| United Kingdom | 12 |
| France | 10 |
| Canada | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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gb agency, France |
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Postmasters Gallery, USA |
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Arratia, Beer, Germany |
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Biography: 
1972 Born in Jerusalem (IL)
Scholarship 1999 Graff Travel Scholarship, Hunter College, NY
2000 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts Alumni Travel Grant
Awards 1995 Boit Award, Boston Museum School of Fine Art
1995 Peter J. Wade Award for Studio Work, Tufts University
2003 KulturKreis: Arts Viva, Film in der Kunst, Germany
2003 Louis Comfort, Tiffany Foundation Prize
2008 Bucksbaum Award, Whitney Museum, New York
2009 Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art
2010 Medal Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lives and works since 2001 in Berlin (DE)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 154 
until 1.7.
until 19.6.
until 9.6.
until 2.6.
Solo shows 34
2013
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| Omer Fast - Arratia, Beer, Berlin |
2012
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| Continuous Coverage - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| Omer Fast: 5000 Feet Is the Best - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Omer Fast: 2001/11 - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
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| Omer Fast - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden |
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| Satellites - Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya |
2011
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| Omer Fast - Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne |
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| Omer Fast - The Tunnel - The Model, Sligo |
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| Omer Fast - - NIMk - Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (closed, 2013) |
2010
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| Omer Fast - Talk Show - Arratia, Beer, Berlin |
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| Omer Fast - Postmasters Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Omer Fast: Nostalgia - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Omer Fast / MATRIX 230 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Omer Fast: Looking Pretty for God (After G. W.) - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
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| Omer Fast : Solo show - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
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| Omer Fast - Lunds konsthall, Lund |
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| Omer Fast: The Casting - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Omer Fast - Recent Works - Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel |
2008
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| Omer Fast - Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover |
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| Omer Fast: The Great Message' - Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb |
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| Omer Fast - Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO |
2007
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| The Casting - Arratia, Beer, Berlin |
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| Omer Fast - The Casting - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Omer Fast: Godville - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Omer Fast - VOX contemporary image, Montreal, QC |
2006
2005
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| Omer Fast - Postmasters Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Omer Fast - Institute of International Visual Arts - iniva, London (England) |
2003
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| Omer Fast - Postmasters Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| fresh and upcoming - Omer Fast - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
2002
2000
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| Omer Fast - Momenta Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 116
2012
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| True Stories: Scripted Realities - Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin |
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| Ourselves - ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Brighton Photo Biennial 2012 - Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton (England) |
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| Taipei Biennial 2012 - Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction - Taipei Biennial, Taipei |
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| True Stories/Scripted Realities - Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City |
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| More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Bild-Gegen-Bild - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Documenta (13) - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Lost Places - Orte der Photographie - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Cantastoria - Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| Made In Germany Zwei - kestnergesellschaft, Hannover |
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| Made In Germany Zwei - Internationale Kunst In Deutschland - Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover |
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| Making History - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| On Apology - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| True Stories: Scripted Realities - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth |
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| Weighted Words - Zabludowicz Collection London, London (England) |
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| Chroniques d´une disparition - DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC |
2011
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| Petite Chasse au Snark - FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier |
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| Blockbuster: Cinema for exhibitions - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo - MUAC, Mexico City |
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| Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the Ruins - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo |
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| We Will Live, We Will See - Zabludowicz Collection London, London (England) |
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| Blockbuster. Cine para exhibiciones - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| Biennale di Venezia - 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| History in Art - Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow |
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| Aschemünder - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Singapore Biennale 2011 - Singapore Biennale, Singapore |
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| H-Box - Artsonje Center, Seoul |
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| The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Speak, Memory - Stroom Den Haag, The Hague |
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| Culture(s) of Copy - Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg |
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| Videozone V: The 5th International Video Art Biennial in Israel - Videozone - International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv |
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| Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| 51th October Salon - The Night Pleases Us... - Oktobarski Salon / October Salon, Belgrade |
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| Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp - Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz |
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| 5x5Castelló10. Premi Internacional d'Art Contemporani Diputació de Castelló - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana |
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| Culture(s) of Copy/ 重復 重造 翻譯 - Goethe-Institut Hongkong, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| fast forward 2. The Power of Motion - Media Art Sammlung Goetz - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| The Storyteller - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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| Videodrome - Galerie Feinkost, Berlin |
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| Videodrome - Autocenter, Berlin |
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| Hinter der Vierten Wand - Fiktive Leben – Gelebte Fiktionen - Generali Foundation, Vienna |
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| Che cosa sono le nuvole? Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d’essayer de me comprendre ! - Villa Arson, Nice |
2009
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| Performa 09 - Performa, New York City, NY |
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| The Storyteller - Salina Art Center, Salina, KS |
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| Actors & Extras - Argos, Brussels |
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| Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2009 - Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
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| The Eye in the Door - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| De l’Interprétation - Zoo galerie, Nantes |
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| V.O.S.T. OV/OT - iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), Brussels |
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| Polyglottolalia - Tensta Konsthall, Spanga |
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| The Same River Twice: Part 2 - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
2008
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| Equivalence: Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Medium Religion - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Present Tense - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Liverpool Biennial 2008 - Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool (England) |
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| SIGNALS IN THE DARK: Art in the Shadow of War - Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC |
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| Manifesta 7 - Comitato Manifesta 7, Bolzano |
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| The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Visite - Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn - Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn |
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| Whitney Biennial 2008 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
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| Biennale Cuvée - OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz |
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| History Will Repeat Itself - Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
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| Les inquiets - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Decoder - Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius |
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| Collateral - SESC, São Paulo |
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| Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War - Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON |
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| Lügen.nirgends - Kunsthalle Münster, Münster |
2007
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| The Colonial Show - Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA |
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| Filmische Wahrheiten - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
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| History Will Repeat Itself - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| Brocken Memory - Ghana National Art Museum, Accra |
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| Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art - Contour - Biennial for Video Art, Mechelen |
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| Mystic truths - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| History will repeat itself - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund |
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| Closed Circuit: Video and New Media at the Metropolitan - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Re- - Site Gallery, Sheffield |
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| The V Effect - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| Collateral – When Art Looks At Cinema - Hangar Bicocca | spazio d’arte contemporanea, Milan |
2006
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| We All Laughed at Christopher Columbus - - Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (closed, 2010) |
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| Playback_Simulated Realities - Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg |
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| Art at the Service of the Left? - Kronika, Bytom |
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| Why Pictures Now - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| I, an exhibition in three acts - Futura, Prague |
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| Mercury in Retrograde - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
2005
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| Mixed Doubles - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Douglas Gordon - CUT/Film as Found Object - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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| IBCA Biennale 2005 - IBCA - International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague |
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| The Imaginary Number - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| Covering the Real - Kunst und Pressebild, von Warhol bis Tillmans - Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel |
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| Reprocessing Reality - Château de Nyon, Nyon |
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| Faces in the Crowd - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| Fair Use - Appropriation in Recent Film and Video - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2004
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| Rear View Mirror - historical memory and contemporary culture - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| a perfect day for bananafish - Postmasters Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Busan Biennale 2004 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| Incommunicado - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England) |
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| ars viva 03/04_FILM Omer Fast. Jeanne Faust - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Storytelling - Contemporary Approaches to New Media - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Incommunicado - City Art Centre, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Video X - Momenta Art, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Incommunicado - Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (England) |
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| printemps de septembre - Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse |
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| FICTION OU REALITE? - Fri Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg |
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| [based upon] TRUE STORIES - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
2002
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| Insideout - UNDABDIEPOST!, Berlin |
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| Monitor volume 2 - Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Here and Now - Büro Friedrich, Berlin |
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| Whitney Biennial 2002 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Video Jam - - The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL (closed) |
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| Weak Architecture - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Traveling Scholars 2000 - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
2000
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| Some New Minds - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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France
Germany
USA
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Collections 4

Austria
| | Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
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| | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
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France
| | Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
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| | Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
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