Biography: Omer Fast

Born 1972, Jerusalem. Lives and works in
Berlin


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2008

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover

Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb

GB Agency, Paris


2007

Museum of Modern Art, Vienna

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis

Vox Contemporary, Montreal


2006

GB agency, Paris


2005

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
(Mixed Doubles with Nam Jun Paik)

Postmasters Gallery, New York

Iniva, London

Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis


2004

National Centre of Photography, Paris

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich;


2003

Postmasters Gallery, New York


2002

GB agency, Paris


Selected Group Exhibitions


2008

The Casting, Whitney Biennial, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York

The Anxious, Centre Pompidou -
Espace 315, Paris

The Cinema Effects: Realisms,
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington DC


2007

History Will Repeat Itself, Hartware
Medienkunstverein, Dortmund (travelling
to Kunstwerke, Berlin)

Closed Circuit: New Media Acquisitions,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


2006

We All Laughed At Christopher
Columbus
, Platform Garanti, Istanbul

I, Direct Ontology, Futura Galleny,
Prague (travelling to Secession, Vienna)


2005

Cut / Film as Found Object,
Milwaukee Art Museum / Museum of
Contemporary Art, Miami

Prague Biennale, Prague

Fair Use: Appropriation in Recent
Film and Video
, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles


2004

Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel
Gallery, London (travelling to
Castello di Rivoli, Turin)

Rear View Mirror, Kettle's Yard,
Cambridge

A Perfect Day for Bananafish,
Postmasters Gallery, New York


2003

Incommunicado, Hayward Gallery
traCentre for Visual Arts, Norwich; City
Art Centre, Edinburgh; Cornerhouse,
Manchester


2002

Monitor: Video 2, Gagosian Gallery,
New York

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York


2001

Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of
Contemporary Art, Palm Beach

Some New Minds, PS1 Contemporary
Art Center, New York


2000

Two-person Exhibition (with
Akiko Ichikawa), Momenta Art, New York


Further Reading


Gopnik, Blake, 'Indelible Impressions: At
the Whitney Biennial, Several Artists
Works Linger in Memory', Washington
Post
, 7 March 2008

'CLOSED CIRCUIT: Video and New
Media at the Metropolitan', Art in Review,
The New York Times
, 6 April 2007

Why Pictures Now, Mumok, Vienna and
Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg,
2007

Choi, Binna (ed.), Report (Not
Announcement), Basis voor Aktuele
Kunst, 2006

Godville, Midway Contemporary Art and
Revolver Verlag, 2005

Second Sight, Prague Biennale, National
Galerie, Prague, 2005

Blazwick, Iwona and Carolyn Christov-
Bakargiev, Faces in the
Crowd: Picturing Modern Life
, Skira
Editore, 2004

Calderon, Omar, Christine Calderon, and
Peter Dorsey, (eds), Beyond Form:
Architecture and Art in the Space of
Media
, Lusitania Press, 2004

Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, Cream 3:
Contemporary Art in Culture
, Phaidon
Press, 2003

Incommunicado, Hayward Gallery,
London 2003

Omer Fast: I wanna tell you something,
gb agency, 2002

Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of
American Art, 2002

Working in the Wasteland, (exhibition
catalogue for 'Fido: Television'), Hunter
College Art Gallery, 2000



Gender: male
Type: person
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