Ed Osborn is
a sound artist, composer, educator, and sound designer who has
performed, exhibited, lectured, and held residencies in the United
States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and South America. His sounding
artworks take many forms including installation, sculpture, radio,
video, performance, and public projects. They demonstrate a visceral
sense of space, aurality, and motion combined with a precise economy
of materials. Ranging from rumbling fans and sounding train sets
to squirming music boxes and delicate feedback networks, Osborn's
kinetic and audible pieces function as resonating systems that
are by turns playful and oblique, engaging and enigmatic.
He has performed and
exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco),
Sonambiente Festival (Berlin), Logos Foundation (Gent, Belguim),
the Museum of Applied Arts, (Helsinki, Finland), Lincoln Center
(New York), Galerie DARE-DARE (Montréal, Quebec), LACE
(Los Angeles), the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North
Adams, MA), the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia),
the Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, NZ), the Sherry Frumkin Gallery
(Santa Monica, CA),SKOP (Frankfurt, Germany), the Sound Symposium
(St. John's, Newfoundland), Artspace (Sydney, Australia), and
New Langton Arts (San Francisco, CA).
Osborn has received
grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Haas Family Funds, Arts
International, Meet the Composer, and Harvestworks/Studio PASS
and been awarded residencies from the Banff Centre for the Arts
(Banff, Canada), Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), STEIM
(Amsterdam), Polar Circuit (Tornio, Finland), the Tryon Center
for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC), the Headlands Center for the Arts
(Sausalito, California), the Djerassi Resident Artist Program
(Woodside, CA), and the Center for Research and Computing in the
Arts at UC San Diego.
He has taught sound
studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the
California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland, CA), and San Francisco
State University, and has lectured at Georgia State University
(Atlanta, GA), the San Francisco Art Institute, the Columbus College
of Art & Design (Columbus, OH), Otago Polytechnic School of
Art (Dunedin, NZ), the Queensland College of Art (Brisbane, Australia),
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), the University of
California at Davis, and the Academie voor Beeliende Kunst St.
Joost (Breda, Netherlands).
He has produced soundscores
for film, dance, and installation projects by Mel Chin, Fred Wilson,
Ilya Kabakov, and Shu Lea Cheang (among others), and composed
the soundscores for the Swatch Pavilions at the 1996 Olympic Games
in Atlanta and at Expo 98 in Lisbon. He served as the Director
of SoundCulture 96, a Bay Area-wide festival of the sonic arts
of the Pacific region and continues to serve on the SoundCulture
International Steering Committee. He is represented by the Catharine
Clark Gallery in San Francisco and in 2000-01 he in residence
in Berlin at the invitation of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
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