2018
PHILL NIBLOCK
Born in Anderson, IN (1933). Lives and works in New York.
Phill Niblock is an artist is an intermedia artist working in photography, music and film. His focus on light gradients and grids, and minimalist drone compositions, are inspired by the artistic activities of New York in the 1960s. Niblock’s intermedia performances have been presented at numerous venues around the world, including the Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), and World Music Institute at Merkin Hall. In 2013, his work was the subject of career retrospectives at the Circuit Contemporary Art Centre and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 1985, Niblock has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York, hosting over 1,000 performances to date. He is the recipient of the 2014 John Cage award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Press
By Phil Freeman
Wire
February, 2020
Artforum Interviews: Phill Niblock
By Canada Choate
Artforum
December 24, 2019
Art This Week: Avant-Garde Retrospective and Mall Memories
By Cassidy Dawn Graves
Bedford + Bowery
November 25, 2019