For The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years

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 character see Josh Saviano

Josh Saviano

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Paul Pfeiffer (born Honolulu, Hawaii

Hawaii

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, 1966) is an American

United States

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 video art

Video art

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ist whose work incorporates the use of found footage

Found footage

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. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

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 (BFA Printmaking) and Hunter College

Hunter College

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, New York

New York

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 (MFA), and has lived and worked in New York since 1990. Pfeiffer is represented by carlier | gebauer, Berlin and Thomas Dane, London.

He has had solo shows at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2001), the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

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, New York (2002), the Barbican Arts Centre, London (2003), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

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 (2003), The Project, New York (2007), carlier | gebauer, Berlin (2008), MUSAC, Leon, Spain (2008) and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2009).

He participated in the Whitney Biennial

Whitney Biennial

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 in 2000 and was awarded the inaugural Bucksbaum Award

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. In 2001 he participated in the 49th Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

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. He won the visual arts Alpert Award

Alpert Awards in the Arts

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 in 2009.

Pfeiffer's work is time-consuming and meticulous. "Pfeiffer makes a show of removing his subjectivity while investing himself intensely in his work: It can take him four months to produce a scant two minutes of video."

He is the recipient of the Guna S. Mundheim Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2011.

Selected works

• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2000 - ): a series of photographic images of basketball games, from which all players except one have been edited out.
• The Long Count (The Rumble in the Jungle) (2001): a video of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fighting, from which the fighters have been digitally removed.
• Live From Neverland (2007) a video installation, divided into two separate videos, depicting Michael Jackson's 2003 press conference, in which the icon addresses child-molestation allegations, but with the sound removed and replaced on a separate screen by 80 children reciting the King of Pop's words in the manner of a Greek chorus. Pfeiffer's deft editing alternately speeds up and slows down Jackson's tape to sync perfectly with the children's recitation.

External links

• Thomas Dane Gallery: Paul Pfeiffer
• Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS
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   series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 2 (2003).
• New York Times Review of Pirate Jenny at the Gagosian Gallery (2004)