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Anthony McCall

(British, born 1946)

Anthony McCall

Leaving with 2-minute silence, 2009

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Anthony McCall

Slit-Scan, 1971

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Anthony McCall

Meeting You Halfway II, 2009

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Anthony McCall

Meeting You Halfway II, 2009

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Anthony McCall

Traveling Wave, 1972/2013

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Anthony McCall

On the Move (Coil), 2007

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Anthony McCall

Smoke Screen II, 2017

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Anthony McCall

Smoke Screen VI, 2017

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Biography

Timeline

1946: Born in St. Paul's Cray, England
1964 - 1968: Design studies at Ravenbourne-College of Art and Design, London
1975: Marie-Josi-Prize of the 5th International Experimental Film Competition in Knokke, Belgium for Line Describing a Cone
2006: Special Exhibition 2006 Award by the International Association of Art Critics (Germany)
2008: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
: Lives and works in New York
: Experimental films and performances

Exhibitions

2018: Anthony McCall Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works, Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn (solo exhibition)
Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
Anthony McCall, Sprüth Magers, London United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi: Works from the MACBA Art Collection in dialogue with the Emirates, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Site of Film, Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
2017: Anthony McCall Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Anthony McCall, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland (solo exhibition)
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo exhibition)
Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence), The Villa Arson, Nice, France (solo exhibition)
Pause, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
2006 Immersions 2016, Institute D’Art DContemporain, V – Alpes, France
A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image works from the Hall Collection, The Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Germany
2016: Anthony McCall Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Anthony McCall, Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain (solo exhibition)
Athony McCall [It’s a World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift], QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia (solo exhibition)
About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, SF MoMA, San Francisco, California
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, New York
Light Show, Corpartes, Santiago, Chile
Primary structures and speculative forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
What is Cinema?, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2015: Anthony McCall Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Anthony McCall: Notebooks & Duration Drawings, 1972-2013, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works, LAC Museo Cantonale D’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Anthony McCall: Face to Face, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo exhibition)
Anthony McCall: Light Works, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Dark MoFo Festival, Tasmania, Australia (solo exhibition)
Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Anthony McCall: Leaving (with Two-Minute Silence), Stanford University, Stanford, California (solo exhibition)
¡DARK!, Center for International Light Art, Unna, Germany
Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Light Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Neon Foundation, Athens, Greece
Sensory Systems, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, United Kingdom
2014: Anthony McCall Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Solid Light Films and Other Works (1971-2014), The Eye, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo exhibition)
Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain (solo exhibition)
Traveling Wave, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (solo exhibition)
Circulation Figues, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (solo exhibition)
Cinema & Painting, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
El Hotel Eléctrico – Rooms Available, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Beligum
En el Camino/On the Road, Palacio de Gelmírez, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Extracts and extractions, les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
In The Beginning / End-States, Sgorbati Projects, New York
Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Light Show, Auckland Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Simple Forms, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain, 1966 – 1979, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
: Anthony McCall: You and I, Horizontal, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, in context of the event „Gegenwarts-Bildung“, Braunschweig, Germany (solo)
: PROJECTED COLUMN, in the context of „London 2012 Cultural Olympiad“, Liverpool Docklands, Liverpool, GB (solo)
2012: Anthony McCall: Meeting You Halfway II, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Anthony McCall: Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2011 - 2012: Electric Nights , Laboral Centro de Arte, Asturias, Spain
: Time Out Of Mind: Sol Le Witt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Anthony McCall, Sprueth Magers Berlin, Germany
: Vertical Works, Ambika P3 Universityof Westminster, London (solo)
: Installations and Works on Paper, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brasil (solo)
: Between You and I, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France (solo)
: Off the Wall, Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
: The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
: MMK 1991 — 2011: Twenty Years, Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
: Behind the Light, Nathan A. Bernstein & Co. LTD, New York, NY
: Anthony McCall: Works on Paper, Sprüth Magers London, London, England (solo)
: Anthony McCall: Long Film for Ambient Light, Light Industry, New York, NY (solo)
: Throes, Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France (solo)
: On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2011: Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
: Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices, CIFO, Miami, FL
: I want to see how you see, Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
: Funktionen der Zeichnung, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2010: Anthony McCall: Drawing with Light, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (solo)
: Nu/Now: Anthony McCall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
: Anthony McCall, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NewYork, USA (solo)
2009 - 2010: Leaving (withTwo-Minute Silence), Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Anthony McCall & Finnbogi Pétursson, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
: The Roman Church of St-Pierre-aux-Nonnains. Metz, France (solo)
: Anthony McCall: Between You and I, Creative Time installation, Saint Cornelius Church on Governor’s Island, New York Harbor (solo)
: Anthony McCall: Between You and I, Estuaire, Nantes, France (solo)
: Anthony McCall: Line Describing a Cone, Pompidou Metz, France (solo)
: This World and Nearer Ones, Creative Time: Governors Island, New York
: Art Unlimited / Art 40 Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: Anthony McCall: Vertical Works, Estuaire 2009, St Nazaire, France (solo)
2009: Anthony McCall: Breath [The Vertical Works], Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel, Switzerland
2008 - 2009: Seeing Double (with Lothar Baumgarten, Victor Burgin, Larry Sultan / Mike Mandel, Mark Thompson), Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
: Cinema Indeed: Narratives & Projections, Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paulo, Brasil
: Anthony McCall: Elements for a Retrospective, Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark (Serpentine Gallery, London und Musée de Rochechouart) (solo)
: Spring Wound, Orchard, New York, New York
: Notation, Akademie de Kunste, Berlin, Germany
: Geometry As Image, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
: Moving Light, Pole Culturel Intercommunal. Pau Pyrenees, France
: To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics and Contemporary Art. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
: Synthetic Times, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
: Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York
: L'art dans tous ses états, Regional Contemporary Art Foundation of Ile-de-France, France
: Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s, Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
: The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2008: Anthony McCall: You and I, Horizontal III, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France (solo)
: Cancelled, Erased, and Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York.
: Lights, Camera, Action: Artists’ Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Project, Transform, Erase: Anthony McCall and Imi Knoebel, SFMoMA, San Francisco
: On the Collective for Living Cinema, Orchard, New York
: Art Cologne: Special Exhibition, Cologne, Germany
: Borderline Behaviour: Drawn Towards Animation, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
: Serpentine Gallery, London, Uk (solo)
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Rochechouart, France (solo)
: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Projecting Light: Anthony McCall and Imi Knoebel, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
: PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
: Das Kapital: Blue Chips and Masterpieces, Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
: A Sense of Place, OPEN e V+ a 2007, Limerick, Ireland
: Anthony McCall: Elements pour une Retrospective (1972-1979 / 2003-2007), Musee de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France (solo)
: Anthony McCall: Between You and I, Art Cologne Special Exhibition, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2007: Anthony McCall, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
: Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Westernbridge, Seattle, WA
: Number One: Destroy, She Said, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Art 38 Basel / Art/Film
2006 - 2007: Projections: Beyond Cinematic Space, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
: Held Together with Water, Sammlung Verbund at the MAK, Vienna, Austria
: Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, UK (solo)
: Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Four Projected Movements: A Film Project by Anthony McCall, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY (solo)
: Anthony McCall: You and I, Horizontal, Lieu d’Images et d’Art, Fort de la Bastille, Grenoble, France (solo)
: Peer / Round Chapel, London, UK (solo)
: Projections beyond Cinematic Space, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
: Experimenta 2006, Fourth Festival of Experimental Cinema in India, Bombay
: The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2006: Art 37 Basel / Art Unlimited
: Tunnel Vision, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
: Produced at Eyebeam, Eyebeam, New York
2005: Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris (solo)
: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (solo)
: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (solo)
: The Continuous Present. Peter Campus & Anthony McCall: Works from the Seventies, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
: Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
: The Trouble with Talkies, Double Agents / ADI Space, London
: Long Film for Four Projectors, Tate Britain, London (solo)
2004: Kill Your Timid Notion festival, Dundee
: Doubling Back/ Turning Under, Gagosian Gallery, London (solo)

Public Collections

: Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V. / Arsenal Experimental, Berlin, Germany
: Sammlung Falckenberg Collection of Art, Hamburg, Germany
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: The Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
: Collection Frac, Ile-de-France
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
: Tate, London, England
: Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria
: Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
: Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria

Literature

2011: Jenkins, Bruce. Gordon Matta-Clark: Conical Intersect. London: Afterall Books, 2011
: Schmidt, Gunnar. Weiche Displays: Projektionen auf Rauch, Wolken und Nebel. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2011
: Philippe-Alain Michaud: The Geometric Cinema of Anthony McCall, 2011
2010: Berry, Ian, and Tom Lewis. Lives of the Hudson (Ausst. Kat.). Saratoga Springs, New York: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 2010
: Devices of Wonder: Magic Lanterns and Painted Film: Four Centuries of Cinema (exh. Turin: Reggia di Venaria; and Paris: Cinémathèque Française, 2010
: Luckow, Dirk. I Want to See How You See: Julia Stoschek Collection (exh. cat.). Hamburg: Deichtorhallen, 2010, pp. 88–89
2009: Comer, Stuart, ed. Film and Video Art. London: Tate Publishing, 2009
: Foster, Hal. Anthony McCall: Breath [The Vertical Works]. Exhibition catalog published by Hangar Bicocca / Corraini, Milan, Italy, 2009.
2008: Brougher, Kerry, and Kelly Gordon. The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum; and London: D Giles Limited, 2008
2007: Michelon, Olivier. Anthony McCall: Elements for a Retrospective 1972-1979 / 2003 – Musée de Rochechouart and Monografik Editions, Paris, France, 2007
2006: McCall, Anthony, and Andrew Tyndall, eds. Argument. New York: Jay Street Film Project, 1979. New edition published by Lux, London
: Schuenmann, Dietrich, ed. Avant-Garde Critical Studies. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2005. The Paracinema of Anthony McCall and Tony Conrad by Jonathan Walley.
2005: Joseph, Branden W; Walley, Jonathan; Eamon, Christopher (ed). Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press & New Art Trust; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2005.
2004: Legg, Helen, ed. Anthony McCall: Film Installations (exh.-cat.). Mead Gallery, The University of Warwick, UK, 2004. Essays by George Baker, Lisa Le Feuvre, Anthony McCall, 2004.
: Iles, Chrissie; Momin, Shamim M.; Singer, Debra. Whitney Biennial 2004
: Legg, Helen, ed. Anthony McCall: Film Installations (exhibition catalog). Mead Gallery, The University of Warwick, UK. Essays by George Baker, Lisa Le Feuvre, Anthony McCall.
2003: Altstatt, Rosanne; Sausmikat, Ralf. Turbulent Screen: The Structural Movement in Film and Video (exhibition catalogue). Oldenburg: Edith-Russe-Haus für Medienkunst / Revolver
2001: Iles, Chrissie. Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964 – 1977 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art / Harry Abrams, 2001
1996: Bouhours, Jean-Michel, ed. “Anthony McCall.” In L’Art of Mouvement: Collection Cinématographique du Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1919 – 1996. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou. pp. 262 – 63.
1992: MacDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema II (interview). Berkeley: University of California Press pp. 157 – 74.
1976: Dusinberre, Deke. The Festival of Expanded Cinema (exhibition catalogue). London: Institute of Contemporary Arts
: Hanhardt, John. “The Medium Hanhardt, John. “The Medium Viewed.” In A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema (exhibition catalogue). New York: American Federation of Arts, 1976..” In A History of the American
: Joseph, Branden W; Walley, Jonathan; Eamon, Christopher (ed). Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works (monograph). Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press & New Art Trust; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl.

Performances

1974: Two-Minute Drawing, November 30, The Kitchen, New York, New York.
: Five-Minute Drawing, June 20, Art Meeting Place, London, England.
: Fire Cycles III, June 9, Open-air performance, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Engalnd.
1973: Fire Cycles II, September 3, Open-air performance, Fylkingen Society for Contemporary Music and Arts, Stockholm, Sweden.
: Fire Cycles I, April 13, Open-air performance, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey.
: Landscape for Fire IV, March 29, Open-air performance, Colchester School of Art, Colchester, England.
1972: Earthwork, December 19, Open-air performance, North Weald, England
: Landscape for White Squares II, December 18, Open-air performance, North Weald, England.
: Landscape for Fire III, November 30, Open-air performance, Oxford University, England.
: Landscape for Fire II, August 27, Open-air performance, North Weald, England.
: Smoke Without Fire, August 21, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
: Landscape for Fire I, June 10, Open-air performance, Pearman’s Grove Farm, Reading, England.
: Landscape for White Squares I, May 24, Open-air performance, London, England.
: Maud Heath’s Monument, April 2, Open-air performance, Wick Hill, Wiltshire, England.
1971: Fire Event I, II, III, IV, November 27, Studio performances, London, England.

Anthony McCall

(British, born 1946)

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

Performances

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