Tony Oursler
Poetics Project, Oficina Release of Last CD of The Poetics (Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler)
TRANS> 5, Documenta X, 1998,

Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty, Entertainment by Dan Graham with Tony Oursler and other colloborators, 2005, World Premiere Art Basel Miami Beach, 2005

Tony Oursler was born in New York City in 1957. He graduated from the California Institute for the Arts with a BFA in 1979 and returned to New York, where he has continued to live and work. Oursler has specialized in installation, painting, sculpture, and video since the late1970s. His recent mixed media installations- in which theatrical objects such as puppets and dolls are layered with video projections, music and spoken text- are prefigured in the wildly inventive body of videotapes that he has produced over the past twenty years. His recent solo exhibitions include, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2005), Musee D'Orsay, Paris (2004), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (2003), Lisson Gallery, London, England (2003), Parallel Lines Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy (2002), Magasin 3, Stolkholm Kunsthall, Sweden (2002), Tony Oursler Drawings, Lehmann Maupin, New York (2001), Metro Pictures, New York (2001), and Institute Valencia D'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2001).