Omer Fast

Omer Fast studied at Tufts University and Hunter College. The field of work recorded is video art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Work by Omer Fast is recorded in the collections of Tate, National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Hessel Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Award of National Gallery.

• Name — Omer Fast עומר פסט • Birthplace — Jerusalem, Israel • Born — 1972 • Field — video artist • Awards — Bucksbaum Award

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Fast spent much of his teenage years in New York. He received his BFA from a dual-degree program at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1995, majoring in English and painting, and received an MFA from Hunter College in 2000. He subsequently got a job doing magazine layout before moving to Berlin in 2001.

Fast has had solo exhibitions at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2020), Guangdong Times Art Museum (2018), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2016), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2012), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), Berkeley Art Museum (2009), Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (2007), Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (2005), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2005), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2004), and the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2003). His work has also been featured in dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), Performa (2009), and the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2016 the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin presented the exhibition "Omer Fast. Talking is not always the solution". His work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally. In October 2015, a monographic exhibition of Fast’s work titled Present Continuous opened at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and subsequently traveled to the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, and the KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; La Caixa, Madrid, Spain; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland; STUK Leuven, Belgium; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. His work was featured in dOCUMENTA (13), the 54th Venice Biennale, and the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials.

In 2017, Fast's solo exhibition at James Cohan Gallery in New York City generated controversy when a coalition of Asian-American groups entered and protested the installation, making claims that the work was orientalist, gentrifying, and colonizing as it traded in stereotypes of Chinatown aesthetics. In a statement, Fast wrote that in re-creating the appearance of the building before the gallery moved in, he sought to heighten "the tension between appearance and essence" of the immigrant experience, which he related to his own as an Israel-born naturalized American. Fast is no longer represented by the James Cohan Gallery.

Omer Fast is recorded with the occupation television producer. Recorded with the occupation multimedia artist. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as artist, printmaker, television producer, film director and filmmaker. Recognition and collections. Fast received Award of National Gallery.

Fast was the recipient of the 2009 Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst and the 2008 Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Fast's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna.