Omer Fast

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Omer Fast (born in Jerusalem 1972) is a contemporary artist.

Omer Fast
Born
video artist
AwardsBucksbaum Award

Early life and education

Born and raised in

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1995, majoring in English and painting,[2] and an MFA from Hunter College in 2000.[3] He subsequently got a job doing magazine layout before moving to Berlin in 2001.[4]

Exhibitions

Fast has had

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. His work was featured in dOCUMENTA (13), the 54th Venice Biennale, and the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials. He received a BFA from Tufts University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Fast lives and works in Berlin.[5]

Feature films

Fast wrote and directed his debut feature film Remainder in 2015, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Tom McCarthy. It stars Tom Sturrdige and Cush Jumbo.[6] Lorena Muñoz-Alonso of Artnet compared Fast's avant-garde style to that of Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Johnson, urging audiences to not "expect an easily consumable feature."[7] Fast had said that he was inspired to make the film after being introduced to the book by a journalist colleague.[8] The film was generally well received by critics.[9][10][11]

Awards and collections

Fast was the recipient of the 2009

Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Museum of Modern Art
, Vienna.

Bibliography

References

  1. New York Times
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  2. ^ Barbara Pollack (February 1, 2011), True Lies? ARTnews.
  3. ^ Hunter College Department of Art Archived 2008-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. New York Times
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  5. ^ "Omer Fast - Artists - James Cohan".
  6. ^ "Remainder". IMDb. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  7. ^ Muñoz-Alonso, Lorena. "Omer Fast Opens Up About His Feature Film Debut, 'Remainder'". Artnet. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  8. ^ Muñoz-Alonso, Lorena. "Omer Fast Opens Up About His Feature Film Debut, 'Remainder'". Artnet. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  9. ^ Duggins, Tom. "Fast Things First: Remainder Reviewed". The Quietus. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  10. ^ Hoad, Phil. "Remainder: Tom McCarthy and Omer Fast's avant-garde explosion". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  11. ^ Bray, Catherine. "London Film Review: 'Remainder'". Variety. Retrieved 20 November 2023.

External links

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