Residency #139
JUNE 28 - JULY 18
(Application Deadline: March 20, 2010)

JONATHAN HOROWITZ, visual artist

Since the early 1990s, Jonathan Horowitz has made art that combines the imagery and ambivalence of pop art with the engaged criticality of conceptualism.  Often based in popular commercial sources, his satirical work in video, sculpture, photography, and assemblage examines the deep-seated links between consumerism and political consciousness, as well as the political silences of postwar art.  His work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in museums and galleries around the world.  Solo exhibitions have included "Silent Movie" at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conneticut (2003), "Time, Life, People" at Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2001), and "Apocalypto Now" at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009).  Solo Gallery exhibitions have included shows at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2002, 2006, 2009), Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York (2003,  2005, 2008), and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin (2004, 2007).  Recent Group exhibitions have included “The Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in the Visual Arts Since 1960,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2006), “Lines, Grids, Stains, Words,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007), and “Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2007). In 2009, a retrospective exhibition of his work entitiled "And/Or" was mounted at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA, New York.  Horowitz lives and works in New York City.

Residency Statement

I’ll be available to meet with participants to talk about their work on a regular basis - basically, though, you can do whatever you want.  There will be only one requited activity -- participation in the making of a collaborative art work/project with the group and myself.  We'll all decide together what sort of project it will be -- can be anything from a painting to a satanic ritual to a musical revue.  For those who are interested, I'll try to come up with some entertaining activities and field trips, too.

Application Requirements

Applicants should send whatever they want, but not too much of it - like if you submit two hours of video, I probably wont watch it, unless it's really, really good.