STEPHEN PRINA
artist and musician
Professor of Visual and Enviromental Studies

VES 37: Lay of the Land
VES 80: Loitering
VES 96r: Directed Research

Blind No 1, Fifteen-foot Ceiling or Lower, 2007, acrylic on linen, window-blind mechanism, maximum dimensions: 180 x 80 in. (457.2 x 203 cm). Photo: Lothar Schnepf

Prina: MFA, California Institute of the Arts; BFA, Northern Illinois University. One-person surveys: It was the best he could do at the moment, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; To the People of Frankfurt am Main: At Least Three Types of Inaccessibility, Frankfurter Kunstverein; The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. One-person exhibitions: Museé d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, among others. Group exhibitions: Prospect 89; the Sydney Biennale; the Venice Biennale XLIV; 51st Carnegie International; Documenta IX; 74th Whitney Biennial; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. Film festival: Oberhausen. Fellowships: Guggenheim Fellowship, Engelhard Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Recordings of his music are available on Drag City, Chicago, and organ of corti, Los Angeles.