Christian Marclay’s artworks & exhibitions
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Born in 1955 in San Rafael, California, Christian Marclay is an American leading music composer, sound, and visual artist. His artworks often explore the relationships between film, video, photography, noise, and sound, uniting these media through his multi-disciplinary approach. Marclay’s audio works include sculptures like Virtuoso (1999) and sound-based art installations based on music records grafted together.
His visual artworks include Guitar Drag (2000), a depiction of a guitar’s destruction that paid homage to the killing of James Byrd Jr., and the 2002 Video Quartet, a multi-screen projection that featured past clips of musicians and actors playing instruments or making sounds.
Marclay has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Centre Pompidou, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
