Walead Beshty Born in UK, 1979
Walead Beshty’s practice often addresses the distribution of consumer goods. In previous projects, he used the means of transportation as a way of affecting and altering the work, as in his photographs developed from film that has passed through airport X-ray machines or in his uncrated glass sculptures that become shattered in transit. Throughout his works in sculpture, photography and performance, he explores the ways in which objects accrue and produce meaning through their placement and circulation in the world. Based in Los Angeles, Beshty has exhibited widely in numerous museums and galleries around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Britain, London; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. He is represented by Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Exhibition works The Phenomenology of Shopping 2003, C-print photographs Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles
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