ACERCA ABOUT SPENCER TUNICK

Spencer Tunick stages scenes in which the battle of nature against culture is played out against various backdrops, from civic center to desert sandstorm, man and woman are returned to a preindustrial, pre-everything state of existence. Tunick has traveled the globe to create these still and video images of multiple nude figures in public settings. Organizing groups from a handful of participants to tens of thousands, all volunteers, is often logistically daunting; the subsequent images transcend ordinary categories and meld sculpture and performance in a new genre.

Spencer Tunick’s body of work explores and expands the social, political and legal issues surrounding art in the public sphere. Since 1992, Tunick has been arrested five times while attempting to work outdoors in New York City. Soon after his fifth arrest in Times Square in 1999, determined to create his work on the streets of New York, the artist filed a Federal Civil Rights Law Suit against the city to protect himself and his participants from future arrests. In May 2000, the Second U.S. District Court sided with Tunick, recognizing that his work was protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. On June 3 of the same year, in response to the city’s final appeal made to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the court at large, the U.S. Supreme Court also ruled in favor of Tunick by remanding the case, allowing the lower court decision to stand and the artist to freely organize his work on New York City streets. Four months later, Tunick applied for his first New York City permit after winning the case, and was denied.

In order to make his work without the threat of arrest the artist took his work abroad. He has not undertaken a group installation on the streets of New York in over ten years.

Tunick’s most notable works have been commissioned by Art Basel, Switzerland (1999), Institut Cultura, Barcelona (2003), XXV Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2002), The Saatchi Gallery(2003), MOCA Cleveland (2004), Vienna Kunsthalle (2008), among others. Born in Middletown, New York, 1967. International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, BA from Emerson College, Boston, MA. Lives and works in New York

Instalaciones Selectas

Selected Installations

2010 The Lowry, Salford and Manchester, UK.
2010 Sydney Opera House & Sydney Gay and Lesbian MardiGras, Australia.
2009 Greenpeace, Burgundy, France.
2009 Montauk, New York.
2009 Maui, Hawaii.
2008 Vienna Kunsthalle, Austria, Ernst-Happel-Stadium.
2008 Cork and Dublin, Ireland.
2007 University Museum of Arts and Sciences (MUCA), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 The Sagamore, Miami Beach, FL.
2007 Greenpeace, Switzerland.
2007 Dream Amsterdam Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2006 Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, Germany.
2006 Fundación COFF, San Sebastian, Spain.
2006 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber (MACCSI), Caracas, Venezuela.
2005 Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, France.
2005 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, in collaboration with BBC Three, UK.
2005 Corpus 05, Brugge, Belgium.
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH. USA.
2004 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
2004 Florent Restaurant, New York (HIV Positive). 10th anniversary commission by POZ.
2003 Grand Central Station, New York, USA.
2003 The Saatchi Gallery, London, England.
2003 Selfridges with the General Assembly, Ltd., London, UK.
2003 Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Exposiciones Individuales

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Everyday People, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
2010 Citadinos (City Dwellers), Museo de Arte Contemporneo de Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico.
2009 City Dwellers, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Spencer Tunick: The Beautiful Game, Kunsthalle Wien, Public Space Karlsplatz, Austria.
2008 Spencer Tunick: Explorations in Architecture, Hales Gallery. London, United Kingdom.
2007 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2007 University Museum of Arts and Sciences (MUCA), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 Mexico City Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 Spencer Tunick. Serie Ciudades Desnudas: Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela.
2007 Spencer Tunick: DREAM AMSTERDAM 2007, organized and curated by Jamain Brigitha.
2007 Dream Amsterdam Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2007 i8 galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2006 Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, Germany.
2006 Hales Gallery, London, UK.
2006 Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.
2006 Brugge Plus, Concetgebouw, Brugge, Belgium.
2006 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK.
2005 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
2005 Corpus Ibericim, Kültur Büro Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2005 RuArts Foundation, Moscow, Russia.
2004 Public Works 2001 – 2004, I-20 Gallery, New York.
2004 Spencer Tunick, Hales Gallery, London.
2004 Manmade and Natural, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH.
2003 Nude Adrift, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.