1. Tony Oursler was born on 1957 and is an American multimedia and installation artist married to Jacqueline Humphries.
24 Facts About Tony Oursler
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Tony Oursler completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, in 1979.
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Tony Oursler's art covers a range of mediums, working with video, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting.
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Tony Oursler is the son of former Reader's Digest editor-in-chief Fulton Oursler Jr.
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Tony Oursler moved back to New York in 1981 and was picked up by Electronic Arts Intermix.
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In 1999, Tony Oursler moved to a studio near New York City Hall.
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Tony Oursler is known for his fractured-narrative handmade videotapes, including The Loner and EVOL.
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Tony Oursler began working with small LCD video projectors in 1991 in his installation The Watching presented at documenta 9, featuring his first video doll and dummy.
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Tony Oursler then produced a series of installations that combined found objects and video projections.
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Tony Oursler used smoke, trees, and buildings as projection screens in Madison Square Park, NYC and Soho Square, London.
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Tony Oursler then completed several permanent public projects in Barcelona, New Zealand, and Arizona, including "Braincast" at the Seattle Public Library.
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Tony Oursler steeped himself in the allure of the place and tried to give voice to the arid desert landscape.
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In 2013, the Ekebergparken Sculpture Park commissioned Tony Oursler to create the permanent installation Klang.
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Tony Oursler suggests connections between the recent DNA CRISPR-Cas encoding of Muybridge's Horse in Motion, the birth of the film industry at the Black Maria studio, the actress and proto-feminist Pearl White's early silent films created on the Palisades, and the first transistor invented a few miles away at Bell Labs.
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Tony Oursler gave a talk on the piece at the New School, presented by the Public Art Fund.
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Also in 2019, Tony Oursler presented Eclipse at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, for the exhibition Trees.
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Tony Oursler was a longtime friend of David Bowie and collaborated with him on several works.
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Tony Oursler created the background videos that played at David Bowie's 50th birthday party concert in 1997.
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Tony Oursler became friends with writer and artist Constance DeJong after he saw a performance of hers at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1983.
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Tony Oursler has long collaborated with former MIT professor, filmmaker, artist, and bank robber Joe Gibbons.
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Oursler's lifelong friendship and creative partnership with Tony Conrad began in 1980.
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Tony Oursler met Kim Gordon in the late 1970s and collaborated with her on Making the Nature Scene, a short film examining New York club culture in the 1980s.
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Tony Oursler's work was included in Glasstress at the 54th Venice Biennale.
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Tony Oursler was profiled by the magazine Men's Vogue in 2007.