The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, located on the first floor of the Staller Center, presents a solo exhibition by internationally renowned artist Shimon Attie. Shimon Attie: The View from Below features his ongoing exploration of migration, displacement and, more broadly, the search for home.
The exhibition presents Attie’s large-scale video and photography pieces in an immersive environment. Work from six major projects over the last 25 years include: The View from Below (2021), NightWatch (2018), The Crossing (2017), The History of Another (2002-2003), Between Dreams and History (1998) and Portraits of Exiles (1995).
The exhibition will be open every evening of the Stony Brook Film Festival (July 20-29) and will continue through October 14. Admission is free.
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About the Artist
Shimon Attie’s artistic practice includes creating site-specific installations in public places, accompanying fine art photographs, and immersive single- and multiple-channel video and mixed-media installations. Much of his work explores how a variety of contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place and identity.
Attie’s work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Center Pompidou in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, among many others. Six monographs and several films have been produced on his work. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Guggenheim, The Rome Prize, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lee Krasner Award for lifetime artistic achievement. Attie was the inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor in Studio Art at Stony Brook University (2020-2022).