Beryl Korot

Provenance:  Courtesy of the Artist

“This work is one of a series of Under Over ink drawings. They began in 2012 and explore the interlocking of vertical and horizontal structures influenced by the artist’s work on the hand loom”

Beryl Korot is a pioneer of video art since the early 1970’s. She was co-editor of Radical Software (1970), the first publication to discuss the possibilities of the new video medium, as well as Video Art (1976, HBJ) with Ira Schneider. Her multiple channel works (Dachau 1974 and Text and Commentary have been exhibited along with other video works at The Kitchen, New York, NY (1975); Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (1977); Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany (1977); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1980, (2002); The Koln Kunstverein (1989), the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (1990); Historisches Museum, Frankfort (2001); DMZ-2005, South Korea (2005); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (mini-retrospective), Ridgefield, CT (2010); bitforms gallery, New York, NY (2012/2017), the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, England (2013); Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladach, Germany (2013); Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2013); Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2014); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2014); Tate Modern, London, England (2014); Hood Museum, Dartmouth College (2014); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2014); the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2015), the new San Francisco MOMA (2016), Santa Fe Thoma Art House (2017), LOOP festival, Barcelona (2017), ZKM 2008/2017-18, and MoMA NYC (2017-18), amongst others. Two collaborations with composer Steve Reich — The Cave (1993) and Three Tales (2002) — brought video installation art into a theatrical context and toured worldwide. They were installed as video installations at The Whitney Museum (1993); the Carnegie Museum; the Reina Sofia in Madrid; the Kunstverein in Dusseldorf, Germany; and ZKM, Medium Religion, in Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008.

Korot’s work is in collections including the MOMA, NY, the Kramlich Collection’s New Art Trust (shared by SFMOMA/MOMA NY/Tate Modern) the Thoma Art Foundation, the Sol LeWitt collection, amongst others.