BIOGRAPHY
Shimon Attie is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific installations in public spaces using video, photography and collaborative processes with local communities. Attie’s art reflects on the relationship between place, memory and identity and explores how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place and identity. His work has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has received fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
COURSES TAUGHT
During spring quarter 2023, Attie taught the undergraduate course Art 113 “Performing Place, Activating Sites, Engaging Communities” and the graduate seminar, ART223 “Concepts and Critique”. Attie's Art 113 focused on realizing artworks that activate place and engage local communities. As part of the course, students installed video projections in downtown Davis during the 2nd Friday ArtAbout on May 12 and on the electronic billboards near Golden 1 Arena in late May. Attie gave a public lecture on Thursday, May 18 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Photo Credit: Shimon Attie, Night Watch (Mikaela with Liberty), 2018, 20’ wide LED screen on barge in the Hudson River. Courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City.