Shimon Attie Spring Quarter Teaching Artist in Residence The California Studio
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.
Organized by The California Studio in the Department of Art and
Art History. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
UC Davis is hosting two internationally acclaimed artists who
will give public talks, screen films and work directly with
students in May. Lynn Hershman Leeson and Shimon Attie are
presented by The Manetti Shrem California Studio in the
Department of Art and Art History, housed in the College of
Letters and Science. The California Studio is part of UC Davis
art studio and underwritten by a gift from Jan Shrem and Maria
Manetti Shrem.
