John Sanborn
BIOGRAPHY
John Sanborn is a key member of the second wave of American video artists that included Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Dara Birnbaum and Tony Oursler. Sanborn’s career spans the early days of experimental video art in the 1970s through the heyday of MTV music/videos and interactive art to digital media art of today.
Recent projects include live video/theater performances of “God in 3 Persons”, a collaboration with The Residents, at MoMA NY; commissions from the National Museum of Qatar and Jeu de Paume, Paris; solo exhibitions at Galerie Tokomona, Paris and Telematic, San Francisco; and releases of digital editions through (s)edition.
Sanborn’s works have been shown at almost every contemporary art museum in the world, including the Whitney Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Prado, Madrid; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Tate Gallery, London; and the Seibu Museum, Tokyo. His video works have been broadcast world- wide including programs for PBS featuring works with Bill T. Jones, Philip Glass, Nam June Paik, Twyla Tharp, The Residents, and David Gordon.
EXHIBITION
2020
“God in 3 Persons”
Live video/theater performance work, created in collaboration with the Residents; world premiere at The Museum of Modern Art, NY, three sold out shows - January 24,25 2020. Two San Francisco performances at the Presidio Theater, Halloween weekend, October 30,31.
“You and I”
Gallery exhibition with French media artist Agnès Guillaume, at 836m, San Francisco; opens October 2020.
2019
“Alchemy”
Permanent Installation | opened March 27, 2019 New work commissioned by the National Museum of Qatar; 30 channel video and sound work installed in Gallery 10
Videoformes Festival
“Sorry” | group show of digital art, Clermont-Ferrand, France
“NONSELF”
Online presentation of work commissioned by the Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris France; interactive project that can be played at www.nonself.tv.
“En Dehors de Nous”
Live performance presentation of NONSELF with live dance, music and drawing. With curator Stephen Sarrazin.
City Sonic Festival
Presentation of “Sorry” at this multi-city festival of sound based art; citeis include Brussels and Ghent.
2018
“The things they've seen and the places they've been”
“Entre Nous” in group show curated by Stephen Sarrazin, NNGN Kaii-Building, Tokyo, Japan
“An Idea will make this Sound”
“A Sweeter Music : Steppe Music”, in group show curated by Stephen Sarrazin, Tokyo University of the Arts, Ueno Campus, Tokyo Japan
“Un Tunnel à travers l'Olympe”
Solo exhibition of media works (“Mythic Status”, “Give me a Second”, “untranslatable”, “EAGE”, “Sorry”) at the Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris
“Sanborn’s Temptations”
Screening of music related works at the legendary Babylon Cinema, Berlin, Germany.
“Knock Once”
Workshop and screening, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Festival du Film Court d“Angoulême
Showing “Glucose High” from “The Rest !s Sh!t” in the LGBT strand, Angouleme, France.
“Entre Nous”
Solo exhibition of media works (“Mythic Status”, “Entre Nous”, “Serene Duet”) at The Ken Nakahashi Gallery in Shinjuku, central Tokyo, Japan.
CONTACTS
Email: sanborn707[@]aol.com