Anthony McCall was born in England in1946, and since 1973 has lived and worked in New York.

The first of the ‘solid-light’ installations, Line Describing a Cone, was made in 1973. You and I, Horizontal III (2007), the piece in the exhibition, is the most recent in the series. Related works include Breath I (2004), Breath II (2004), Breath III (2005), Exchange (2005), You and I (2005), You and I, Horizontal (2005), You and I, Horizontal II (2006), and Between You and I (2006).

Recent solo exhibitions include the Serpentine Gallery, London, 2007-8; Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Rochechouart, France, 2007; Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2007; Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, 2006; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005; Tate Britain, London, 2004.

Recent group exhibitions include: The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image”, 2008; SFMoMA, San Francisco, “Project, Transform, Erase: Anthony McCall and Imi Knoebel,” 2007; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, “Projections: Beyond Cinematic Space”, 2006-7; Kunsthaus Zürich, “The Expanded Eye,” 2006; ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany. “Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht,” 2005-6; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, “What’s New Pussycat”, 2005; Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany, “Expanded Cinema: Film as Spectacle, Event and Performance,” 2004; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (MUMOK), “X-Screen: The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies,” 2003 – 4; Tate Modern, London, “Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers’ Cooperative & British Avant-Garde Film 1966 – 76,” 2002; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, “Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964 – 1977,” 2001 – 2.

See also: www.anthonymccall.com