SETH PRICE

Price began exhibiting his work in the mid-2000s and quickly became known for his radically experimental approach to an array of media and forms, beginning with his influential essay/artwork Dispersion, and continuing through a series of sculptures that explored modern cultural codes through industrial materials, including the vacuum- formed plastic reliefs, wooden Silhouettes, crumpled mylar works, and fabric envelopes assembled in haute-couture workshops. His innovative paintings of the last five years employ traditional brushwork and gesture as well as unconventional approaches like 3D graphics, flatbed printing, and AI imagery.

These works continue, within the space of painting, Price’s deep and long-time artistic investigation into the increasingly intertwined relationship between materiality and immateriality. He has said: “We live in a world of objects and material, and also in a world that you can’t touch and often can’t see. That could mean the space of waves and particles and forces, or the alien worlds in our phones, or the world of gods and demons, but all of religion and spirituality and art has always dealt with this basic split: there’s the world of the body and material life, and then there’s everything that must be imagined.”

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Born 1973 in Sheikh Jarrah, Palestine.

Lives and works in New York, USA.

Through painting, sculpture, video, Seth Price is interested in modes of production, communication and evaluation of art. Strategies of appropriation—he prefers to call “redistribution”—are to confuse cultural practices, recycling, duplicating, recreating iconic images or existing projects. Seth Price is a founding member of the collective Continuous Project.

Seth Price has had major solo exhibitions at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2019); MoMAPS1, New York (2018); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2017); Stedelijk Museum,Amsterdam (2017); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2017); 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles(2016); dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (2012); MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna,Bologna (2009); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2009); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne(2009); and Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2007).

Group exhibitions include those at Kode, Bergen (2024); National Gallery of Ancient Art,Rome (2024); Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2024); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024);Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2022); Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens (2021); de la CruzCollection, Miami (2020); Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (2020); Castello di RivoliMuseum of Contemporary Art, Turin (2019); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019 and2020); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York(2019); Shanghai Biennale (2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018).

Seth Price’s works have joined the collections of the following institutions: MCA Chicago,Chicago; Aïshti Foundation, Jal el Dib; Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo;Deste Foundation, Hydra; De la cruz Collection, Miami; Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio diCuneo, Cuneo; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona; HesselMuseum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NewYork; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City; Kunsthaus Zürich,Zürich; MACAM, Lisboa; MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna; ModernMuseum of Art Warsaw, Warsaw; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO)Geneva; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Museum of Modern Art, New York; SammlungGoetz Collection, Geneva; Serralves Museum, Porto; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; TheSyz Collection, Geneva; UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley;Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.