Tony Labat

Born:
1951
Residence:
San Francisco, California, USA
Nationality:
Cuban
Trust:
APT Los Angeles
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BIOGRAPHY

Tony Labat was born in Cuba and came to the United Stated at the age of 15 in 1966. He received his BFA (1978) and his MFA (1980) from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has taught since 1985.  He is currently Chair of the New Genres Department.  He has exhibited internationally over the last 25 years, developing a body of work in Performance, Video, Sculpture and Installation.  His work has dealt with investigations of the body, popular culture, identity, urban relations, politics, and the media. In 2005 Labat had a survey exhibition of his work in conjunction with the publication of "Trust Me."

Tony Labat’s other selected exhibitions include “I Want You,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; "Tony Labat and Ignacio Lang," at Harris/Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY;  "I Like To Watch," The Canal Chapter, New York, NY;  "Xtreme Sparring," El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY;  Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA;  "Time and Transition in Contemporary Cuban Art," Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; "Mata Crush," Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba; "Trading Places," Gallery Hit, Bratislava, Slovakia, Check Republic; "Mapping the Outside: (Fat Chance Bruce Nauman)," Seville Bienal, Seville, Spain; "Mayami: Between Cut and Action," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; "Moving Target," Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki; "Random Topography," NoD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic and "Performance Anxiety," UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.

Tony Labat is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, and lives and works in San Francisco.


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