Omer Fast was born on in Jerusalem, 1972 and is an Israeli contemporary artist.
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Omer Fast received his BFA from a dual-degree program at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1995, majoring in English and painting, and an MFA from Hunter College in 2000.
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Omer Fast subsequently got a job doing magazine layout before moving to Berlin in 2001.
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Omer Fast's work has been featured in dOCUMENTA, Performa, and the 54th Venice Biennale.
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Omer Fast's work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally.
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In October 2015, a monographic exhibition of Omer Fast's work titled Present Continuous opened at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and subsequently travelled to the Baltic Center of Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, and the KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark.
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Omer Fast has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Le Caixa, Madrid, Spain; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland; STUK Leuven, Belgium; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
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Omer Fast's work was featured in dOCUMENTA, the 54th Venice Biennale, and the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials.
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Omer Fast received a BFA from Tufts University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City.
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Omer Fast wrote and directed his debut feature film Remainder in 2015, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Tom McCarthy.
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Omer Fast was the recipient of the 2009 Preis der Nationalgalerie fur Junge Kunst and the 2008 Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art.