Paul Pfeiffer received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his M.F.A. at Hunter College in 1994. Pfeiffer's videos dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness, the often intimate looping images he creates become meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity. Pfeiffer's work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S. 1, Art in General, and Gaggosian Gallery in New York, as well as at the Kunst-Werke in Berlin. Pfeiffer is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, most notably becoming the inaugural recipient of The Bucksbaum Award given by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000). In 2002, Pfeiffer was an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas. In 2003, a traveling retrospective of his work was organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Paul Pfeiffer lives and works in New York.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (6), 2001
Digital duraflex print,
60 x 48 inches
Edition of 6, AP of 1
Courtesy the Artist and The Project, New York and Los Angeles
