Omer Fast

Installation view of A Tank Translated, 2002.
Four-channel digital video, running time variable, loop, four monitors on plinths, speakers.

Still from Spielberg’s List, 2003. Two-channel digital video, running time 65 minutes.

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Jerusalem, 1972
Resides: Berlin
Education: Hunter College (M.F.A., 2000)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004
National Center of Photography, Paris.

2003
Fribourg Center for Contemporary Art, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Postmasters, New York.
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.

2002
&: gb Agency, Paris. Catalogue.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004
“Moving Picture Desire,” Busan Biennale, Korea.
“Facing Footage,” Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Catalogue.
“Moving Picture Desire,” Busan Biennale, Korea.

2003
“Printemps de Septembre: Festival of Contemporary Images,” Toulouse, France. Catalogue.
“Works from the Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel.
“Incommunicado,” Hayward Gallery, London. Traveling. Catalogue.
“Hidden in Daylight,” Foksal Gallery Foundation, Cieszyn, Poland. Catalogue.
“Arcadia,” Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Catalogue.
“In Media Res: Information, Contre-Information,” Galerie Art et Essai, Université de Rennes, France. Catalogue.
“Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions,” The Jewish Museum, New York.
“[Based Upon] True Stories,” Witte de With, Rotterdam.

2002
“Monitor: Video 2,” Gagosian Gallery, New York.
“Here and Now,” Büro Friedrich, Berlin.
“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue.
“Second Site,” Alumni Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York.

2001
“Video Jam,” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida.
“Affinités Narratives,” &: gb Agency, Paris.
“Traveling Scholars,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
“Some New Minds,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.

2000
“Omer Fast and Akiko Ichikawa,” Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York.

Selected Bibliography

2003
Allen, Jennifer. “Openings: Omer Fast,” Artforum (September).
Boucher, Brian. “History, Memory, Fiction: Omer Fast at Postmasters,” bbs.thing.net (May).
Chang, Chris. “Vision: Omer Fast,” Film Comment (July-August).
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. Cream 3: Contemporary Art in Culture. London: Phaidon Press.
Deitcher, David. “Get Real: Two Contemporary Israeli Artists Subvert the Documentary Tradition,” Time Out New York (April 10-17).
Hohmann, Silke. “Wenn ich Soldat bin,” Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany,
February 19).
Lynn, Felicity. “Fiction or Reality,” Artforum (December).
Ostrower, Jennifer. “Omer Fast at Postmasters,” Art in America (October).
Schütte, Christoph. “Blick aus dem Panzer,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany, February 18).
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Omer Fast,” The New York Times (April 18).
Stevens, Rachel. “Omer Fast at Postmasters,” Flash Art (May-June).

2002
Cotter, Holland. “Never Mind the Art Police, These Six Matter,” The New York Times (May 5).
Lequeux, Emmanuelle. “Omer Fast, Citoyen d’un Monde qui Cloche,” Le Monde (June 19).