Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Canada
Nationality: Canada
Lives and works: Janet CARDIFF and George BURES MILLER (b. 1960) live and work in Berlin, Germany and British Colombia, Canada
Biography
Over the past 15 years Cardiff and Miller have produced complex multimedia installations and audio walks that extend the boundary of visual art, becoming hybrids of theatre, film and performance. They have had major solo exhibitions at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, MACBA, Barcelona, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, MAC@MAM, Miami , PS 1 Contemporary Art Centre, NY, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary, Vienna, The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto and have produced major site works for The Hirschorn Museum, Washington, Public Art Fund, NYC, The Eastern State Penitentiary Museum, Philadelphia, The Hebbel Theatre, Berlin and including a public art web project, www.eyesoflaura.org, for the Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada
They have been included in major Group Exhibitions such as “The Invisible Showâ€, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, “The Kaleidoscopic Eyeâ€, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, “Voice & Voidâ€, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, “Held Together with Waterâ€, Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, “Ecstasy: In and About Altered Statesâ€, MOCA, LA, “Take Two: Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collectionâ€, MOMA, NYC, The Ten Commandments â€, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, “On Stageâ€, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, “Videodreamsâ€, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, “Istanbul Biennale Eindhovenâ€, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven“Uneasy Space – Interactions with Twelve Artistsâ€, Site Santa Fe, “010101: Art in Technological Timesâ€, SFMOMA, SF and representing the Canadian Pavilion at Venice Biennial, Venice.
In 2008 they presented a new audio-installation at the 16th Biennale of Sydney - The Murder of Crows- which in 2009 was shown the first time in Europe, in Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
Cardiff and Miller live and work in Berlin, Germany and Grindrod, BC Canada