Paul Pfeiffer is a New York-based artist, celebrated for his groundbreaking use of digital media and moving image. Through precise manipulation of footage from pop culture, sports, concerts, and Hollywood films, he explores how spectacle shapes our collective memory and identity. His retrospective solo exhibition Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom recently traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Previous solo exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2003, 2017, 2019); the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2005); MUSAC León, Spain (2008); the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2009); Sammlung Goetz, Munich (2011); Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu (2016); and the Athenaeum, University of Georgia, Athens (2023). Pfeiffer’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Inhotim Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Brazil; the Pinault Collection, Venice; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; K21, Dusseldorf; Julia Stoscheck Foundation, Dusseldorf and Berlin; and Pinothek der Moderne and, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, among others. In 2004, Pfeiffer co-founded the Denniston Hill residency with artist Julie Mehretu and architecture historian Lawrence Chua.
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