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  George Legrady
b.1950



works | press | artist
Born: Budapest, Hungary
Lives: Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA

EDUCATION
1970
Loyola College, Montreal, Canada
1973
Goddard College, Vermont, VT
1976
M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS
2012
Refraction, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany
2011
Refraction, Edward Cella Art+ Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Cell Tango, in RAM, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario. CA
Sprengle Museum, Hanover, Germany
Science, Memory, Art, Panel at Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Grow: From Nature to Beyond, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Blink, ArtWithoutWalls, Louisville, KY
Cell Tango, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
Cell Tango, featured artwork at the Lawrence Hall of Science
We Are Stardust, at CODE Live, Vancouver Olympics, Vancouver BC
2009
Blink and Stardust, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Cell Tango, Wellesley College, Mass
Blink, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Blink, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover, Germany
2008
Cell Tango, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
George Legrady: Stardust, Edward Cella Art +Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
Pockets Full of Memories in "V2_UNstable Media", Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Cell Tango, TAP Theatre, Poitiers, France
China in Transition, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover, Germany
Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War, in Drifting Slowly, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto,
2007
Algorithmic Visualizations, Edward Cella Art +Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
Blink, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2006
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Sensing Speaking Space at ARCO Art Fair, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Algorithmic Visualizations, Telic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War, Centre Gantner, Belfort, France
Pockets Full of Memories, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
2004
Algorithmic Visualizations, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Pockets Full of Memories, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2002
Chance Encounters, 7th/Metro Subway Station, Los Angeles Metro Rail Arts Commission, Los Angeles, CA (interactive installation)
Sensing Speaking Space, Activating the Medium Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2001
Pockets Full of Memories in Interactivités, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
George Legrady New Media, Galerie Klaus-Peter Goebel, Stuttgart, Germany
1999/2000
Transitional Spaces, Rotunde, Siemens Headquarters, Munich, Germany (Commissioned work for the opening of the newly designed Richard Meier Siemens Headquarters)
1998
Tracing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1997/1998
Tracing, Kunst und Austellunghalle der Bundes Republic, Bonn, Germany
George Legrady: from Analogue to Digital, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada (a two museum retrospective exhibition) (Anecdoted Archive; Slippery Traces)
1996
Equivalents II, Open Space Gallery, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1995
George Legrady Interactive Media Art, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland, (Anecdoted Archive, [the clearing], Equivalents II)
1994
([the clearing]) New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA (premiere interactive Installation, two person with Gilles Peress)
1992
Nothing Essential Happens in the Absence of Noise, Watertoren, Hedendaagse Kunst, Vlissingen, the Netherlands
1991
Between East & West (1956 >>>>1989) YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1987
From Noise to Signal, University of Southern California Atelier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986
Posing & Studies for Monuments, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1985
George Legrady, Yajima Galerie, Montreal, Canada
1984
Stock Footage, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1981
George Legrady, Yajima Galerie, Montreal, Canada
Staged Photography, George Legrady, PSI, New York, NY
Floating Objects, London Regional Art Gallery/Museum London), London, Ontario, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS
2012
Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2011
Spread, Off-Space, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2010
Grow:  From Nature to Beyond, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Shanghai eArts Beyond, Shanghai China
The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures, Center for Architecture, NY
Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War in Histoire à l'ère numérique, Plug-In Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Transforming Photography, Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Scalable Relations, Beall Center for Art+Technology, U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA
2008
Pockets Full of Memories in “V2 Unstable Media”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2007
Made in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Impression:Contemporary/Modern Prints 1960—today, Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
Cell Tango, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Im(press)ions, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2006
Global Collaborative Visual Archive, International Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA), San Jose, CA
Code Blue, 3rd Beijing International New Media Festival Exhibition and Conference, Beijing, China; curated by Tim Druckrey and Zhang Ga
Frankfurt Museum of Communication, Frankfurt, Germany (Pockets Full of Memories)
Blackbox 06 Invitational, ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; curated by Christiane Paul (Sensing Speaking Space)
2005
Library, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (with Candida Höfer, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Buzz Spector, Rachel Whiteread, and others)
Making Visible the Invisible, Whitney Museum Artport online exhibition
2004/2005
Slippery Traces, in Database Imaginary, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; curated by Steve Dietz, Sarah Cooke and Anthony Kiendl (Slippery Traces)
2004
Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom, New World Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY (Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War)
2003
Aura: After the Age of Technical Reproduction, C3 Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest, Hungary (Pockets Full of Memories)
Ars Electronica Media Festival (Honorable mention), OK Centrum Museum Gallery, Linz, Austria (Pockets Full of Memories)
Dutch Electronic Arts Festival DEAF 03, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Pockets Full of Memories)
2002
Sans commune mesure, image et texte dans l’art actuel, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France (Slippery Traces) (CD- ROM exhibition)
International Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA) Annual Conference exhibition, Nagoya, Japan (Sensing Speaking Space) (interactive installation)
Future Cinema, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe (Slippery Traces) (interactive installation)
2000
Beyond the Screen/Au dela de l’écran Des souvenirs plein les poches/Pockets Full of Memories, Ecole Nationale de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (ISEA International Conference Exhibition) 
1999
Interactive Frictions, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (interactive installation)
Contact Zones, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Anecdoted Archive) (CD-ROM exhibition)
1998/2000
Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany;  Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany; PS 1, New York, NY; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (Slippery Traces)  (interactive installation)
1998
Anticipation – Version 4.0, Center for Contemporary Art, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland (Sense of Place) (premiere interactive installation)
1998 VERBINDINGEN/JONCTIONS, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (Anecdoted Archive in conjunction with Chris Marker) (interactive installation)
1997
Selected Memories, Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Slippery Traces)   (interactive installation)
Dawn of the Magicians, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (Slippery Traces) (interactive installation)
1996/1998
Burning the Interface, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia (Anecdoted Archive)  (a traveling exhibition of CD-ROM artworks)
1996
The Butterfly Effect, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Mucsarnok Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary (Slippery Traces)   (interactive installation)
Osnabruck European Media Festival, Osnabruck, Germany (Slippery Traces) (interactive installation)
Everybody’s Talking, Gemeente Museum Helmond, Helmond, the Netherlands (Anecdoted Archive) (interactive installation)
Word Up Festival, Vienna, Austria ([the clearing]) (CD-ROM installation)
Can it Digit?  Postmasters Gallery, New York City ([the clearing]) (CD-ROM installation)
1995/1997
Photography After Photography Siemens Kultur Programm, Munich Germany (Equivalents II) (Interactive Installation)*
1995/1996
3rd Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (Slippery Traces) (interactive installation)
1995
V2 DEAF Festival, Rotterdam, theNetherlands (Anecdoted Archive) 
The 6th Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui, Japan ([the clearing] (CD- ROM Exhibition)
Obsessions from Wunderkammer to Cyberspace, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, the Netherlands (Anecdoted Archive) (interactive installation)
[the clearing] in International VideoFest, Berlin Video Festival, Berlin, Germany
International Society of Electronic Arts, Montreal, Canada (Slippery Traces) (online documentation http  //www.isea-web.org/eng/inl/inl42.html)  (premiere interactive installation)
ARC Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles, CA (Anecdoted Archive) (interactive installation)
1994
Les Hypermedias Revue Virtuelle 12, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (Anecdoted Archive) (CD-ROM kiosk installation)
ISEA’94, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Finland (Anecdoted Archive)
Fifteen Years of Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica ’94, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (Anecdoted Archive) (interactive installation)
Artifices 3, Salle de la Legion d’Honneur, Marie de Saint-Denis, Paris, France (Anecdoted Archive) (interactive installation)
1993/1994
Iterations: The Digital Image, International Center for Photography, New York, NY; Memorial Arts Gallery, Rochester, New York NY
In/Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA (Premiere of Anecdoted Archive) (interactive installation)
1990
Official Language, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1989
The Technological Imagination, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980’s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Fotografie, Wissenshaft und Neue Medien, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
1988
The Posing Series, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Montreal, Canada
Digital Photography: Captured Images, Volatile Memory, New Montage, Cameraworks Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas, Arlington, TX; Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; Museet fur Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
1987
Cultural Identities, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Images Fabriquées, Yajima Galerie, Montreal, Canada
1984
Situational Photography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
New Works, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
Allocations, 49th Parallel Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Images Fabriquées, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1982
Beyond Photography: the Fabricated Image, Delahunty Gallery, New York, NY
1978
San Francisco Associates, Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1976
West Coast Conceptual Photographers, La Mamelle Art Center, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
2012
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Grant
2011
Halifax Central Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia (finalist)
2011
Robert W.Deutsch Foundation Fellowship
2008
Data Flow, Corporate Executive Board, Washington, DC
2005/2006
Kinetic Flow, Vermont/Santa Monica Station, MetroRail RedLine, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Computer Integrated Media Awards from the Canada Council
2003/2005
Making Visible the Invisible, Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA (Commission for the Rem Koolhaas library)
2002
Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technology
2002
Chance Encounters, 7th/Metro Subway Station, Los Angeles Metro Rail, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Creative Capital Foundation (Emerging Media grant)
2001
Pockets Full of Memories, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2000
Eternal Summer, Ebner, Stolz Associates, Stuttgart, Germany
1999
Transitional Spaces, Siemens Rotunde Headquarters Building, Siemens Kultur Programm, Munich, Germany
1997
Tracing, Kunst und AustellungHalle, Bonn, Germany
1997
Computer Integrated media Awards from the Canada Council
1996
Artslink, NEA grant
1995
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowship
1994
Canada Council Arts Award

 
     
 
   
 
 
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