Anthony McCall

(British, born 1946)

between you and i by anthony mccall

Anthony McCall

Between you and I, 2006

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meeting you halfway by anthony mccall

Anthony McCall

Meeting You Halfway, 2009

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Anthony McCall

Coupling, 2009

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breath iii by anthony mccall

Anthony McCall

Breath III, 2005

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crossing the hudson (august 23rd, the 63rd night) by anthony mccall

Anthony McCall

Crossing the Hudson (August 23rd, the 63rd night), 2009

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crossing the hudson (october 22, the 122nd night) by anthony mccall

Anthony McCall

Crossing the Hudson (October 22, the 122nd night), 2009

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Anthony McCall

Circulation Figures, 2011

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you and i, horizontal (iii) by anthony mccall

Anthony McCall

You and I, Horizontal (III), 2007

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Anthony McCall

Landscape for Fire, 2006

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Anthony McCall

Face to Face, 2013

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earthwork by anthony mccall

Anthony McCall

Earthwork, 1972

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Anthony McCall

Four Figures, 1975

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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

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

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

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.