Christian Marclay For nearly 40 years, Christian Marclay (b. 1955, San Rafael, California) has explored the connections between vision and sound, creating works in which these two sensibilities enrich and challenge each other. Marclay gained international recognition at the 54th Venice Biennale for his video masterpiece, "The Clock," for which he received the prestigious Golden Lion award. Marclay's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including solo presentations at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. (1990); the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva (1995); the Kunsthaus in Zurich (1997); the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2001); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002); the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain in Geneva (2008); the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2010); the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul (2010); the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow (2011); the Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona (2019); and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2022). His work is part of the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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