Julia Scher
Julia Scher (born March 9, 1954 in Hollywood , California ) is an American artist.
Life
Scher studied painting, sculpture and graphics at the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles and at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis . Since 2006 she has been professor for media art at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne .
Scher's main theme is the increasing surveillance in modern society by electronic media such as intercoms, video cameras and the Internet. In an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg , for example, she installed surveillance cameras in the men's room. Scher's approach to surveillance remains ambivalent: In addition to the threat posed by technical systems, she repeatedly focuses on the fascination with these objects and the paradoxical desire of people to be monitored.
Exhibitions
- 1989–1990: Occupational Placement: (OP) , Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus , Ohio
- 1994: Don't Worry , Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
- 1996: Fri Art - Center d'art contemporain , Friborg , Switzerland
- 1998: Predictive Engineering II , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco , California
- 1998: wonderland , Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York , New York
literature
- 1989: Exhibition Catalog , Biennial Exhibition , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 1997: Exhibition Catalogie , Fri Art - Center d'art contemporain , Friborg
- 1998: Predictive Engineering II , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Scholarships and Awards
- 1992 National Endowment fort he Arts with Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York.
- 1993, 1989 and 1988: Art Matters Inc.
- 1996: Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe / Harvard University, Cambridge
- 2005: Fellowship of the John F. Salomon Guggenheim Foundation
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shear, Julia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hollywood , California |