Bruce Charlesworth

Bruce Charlesworth is an interdisciplinary artist who works in film, video, installation, photography, performance and interactivity. His work has been published and exhibited internationally at venues such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the American Film Institute, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London and the Whitney Biennial. Recent exhibitions have taken place at CO Berlin, the MIT Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Musée McCord in Montreal and the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Charlesworth’s multimedia environments and installations have been commissioned by many institutions including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Photographers’ Gallery in London, the Zero1 Biennial in San Jose and San Francisco’s Capp Street Project, where he was the first artist-in-residence. His work is in the permanent collections of both the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Fundação de Serraives in Oporto, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Charlesworth has received fellowships for his artwork from the Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.