Alix Pearlstein

Pearlstein creates work that can oftentimes combine elements of performance, video art, sculpture and conceptual art.^[3] Having exhibited in New York since 1988, Beginning her career as a sculptor, Pearlstein has exhibited in New York since 1988, and started producing video in 1992.^[4] Her work often features elements of comedy and dead-pan humor.^[3] She has stated that she consciously evades genre.^[5] Pearlstein's art draws inspiration from Post-Minimal, structuralist film,^[2] postmodern dance,^[2] and Conceptual artists such as Dan Graham, particularly looking at the use of space in film and video.^[6] In many of her works, Pearlstein gives unscripted, mise-en-scène instructions to performers, resulting in long, suspenseful shots.^[6] She received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2011).^[2]

• The King, the Mice and the Cheese, List Visual Arts Center (2006)^[7]
• After the Fall, The Kitchen (2007–2008)^[8]
• One Side of Two Women 2, The Kitchen (2007–2008)^[6]
• Goldrush, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2009)^[9]
• The Park, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (2014)^[10]
• The Shining, Art Basel Miami Beach (2014)^[11]
• GRASS, University of Kentucky Art Museum (2018)^[11]

• Mediated Presence: 3 Decades of Video from EAI, Dia Art Foundation (1997)^[1]
• Regarding Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1999)^[1]
• Drama Queens: Women Behind the Camera, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2001)^[12]
• Artists' Film International, Whitechapel Gallery (2013)^[13]
• Histories of Sexuality, The New Museum (2015)^[11]
• Front International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018)^[11]
• Louder than Words, Zuckerman Museum of Art (2019)^[11]

Pearlstein's work can be found in a number of public institutions, including:

• Museum of Modern Art^[14]