Articles
Tony Oursler’s Restless Brand of Multimedia Art Goes Further and Farther Out By A.D. Amorosi Published in FLOOD Magazine November 30, 2023
Una invasión de “pequeños frikis”: las vídeo esculturas de Tony Oursler llegan a Madrid
By Esperanza Balaguer
Published in El País
March 4, 2022
Tony Oursler On His New Exhibition In Taiwan—And Why Smartphones Are Like Drugs
By Oliver Giles
Published in Hong Kong Tatler
January 20, 2021
Bits of Terror
by Ann-Katrin Günzel
Published in Kunstforum International
May, 2020
LEAH HENNESSEY TAKES ARTIST TONY OURSLER TO GO SEE DERREN BROWN ON BROADWAY
By Leah Hennessey
Published in Cultured
March 18, 2020
Tony Oursler: Exploring Technology's Dark Arts
By Jennifer Landes
Published in The East Hampton Star
May 30, 2019
“I see the Internet as a huge brain” By Anna Bodin Published in Dagens Nyheter August 10, 2017
Best of 2016
By Hal Foster
Published in Vox Vernacular
December, 2016
The Beauty of Belief
By Francine Prose
Published in New York Review of Books
August 29, 2016
Inside Tony Oursler’s House of ESP Cards (Among Other Ephemera)
By Hilary Moss
Published in New York Times Style Magazine
June 9, 2015
Black Magic: Tony Oursler on His Upcoming Luma Exhibition
By Hannah Ghorashi
Published in Art News
June 16, 2015
Tony Oursler’s Ghost Stories
By Sarah Trigg
Published in Vox Vernacular
May 20, 2015
A Clown For The Machine: Tony Oursler Takes On Surveillable
By Stephanie Berzon
Published in ArtSlant
May 3, 2015
Massive Talking Heads Invade an Amsterdam Cathedral
By Leander Roet
Published in The Creators Project
December 2, 2014
Deciphering The Poetic Jabber of Tony Oursler's Talking Heads
By Alexandra Pechman
Published in Art News
May 7, 2014
At Edward Hopper’s Home, Legally This Time
By Susan Hodara
Published in The New York Times
November 27, 2013
Tony Oursler, Agentic Iced Ecetera Published by Pinchuk Art Centre 2013
Tony Oursler: David Bowie's latest work is astounding.
By Paul Gallagher
Published in Independent
2013
Until you get to know me: Tony Oursler's domestic disturbances
By Kenneth White
May 1, 2012
Making Faces
By Michael Amy
Published in ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum: Face to Face exhibition catalogue, Mar. 2, 2012
Face to Face
By Lise Pennington
Published in ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum: Face to Face exhibition catalogue, Mar. 2, 2012
Press Kit JGM Galerie
By JGM Galerie
Published in Galerie Mitterrand
2011
Absolute Bodies: The Video Puppets of Tony Oursler
By Gregg Horowitz
Published in Parallax
2010
Memories of His First Pyschedelic Lamp
By Elaine Louie
Published in The New York Times
July 15, 2009
Eye Machine
By Raymond Bellour
2005
Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler
By Mark Harris
Published in Art Monthly
July-August, 2003
Who Will Give Answer to the Call of My Voice? Sound in the Work of Tony Oursler
By Tony Conrad
Published in Ediciones Poligrafa
August 1, 2001
Photo-entropy
By Gloria Moure
Published in Ediciones Poligrafa
January 1, 2001
TimeStream Press Release
Published by Museum of Modern Art
January 1, 2001
In The Studio With Tony Oursler; A Sculptor Of the Air With Video
By Michael Kimmelman
Published in The New York Times
April 27, 2001
The Pathology of Projections & Cynical Spiritualism
By Carlo McCormick
Published in Artangel
November 1, 2000
Introjection: In Oursler’s World, No One Escapes Its Unbidden Influences
By Deborah Rothschild
Published in Introjection: Mid-Career Survey 1976-1999
1999
Studies of a Troubled World: The Drawings of Tony Oursler
By Ian Berry
Published in Introjection: Mid-Career Survey 1976-1999
1999
Trash (Empirical)
By Martina Goldner
Published in Kunstverein Hannover
May 1, 1998
Dissolving the Self Through the Other
By Eckhard Schneider
Published in Kunstverein Hannover
May 1, 1998
The New Generation of Shadows: Mediums, Automatons, and Liminal Insight in the Work of Tony Oursler
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeye
Published in Kunstverein Hannover
May 1, 1998
Tony Oursler: L7-L5, 1984
By Constance DeJong
Published in Reprinted from The Luminous Image, ed. Dorine Mignot (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984),
May 1, 1984
Reviews
The art of fake news, lies & hoaxes in the new ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ exhibit by Phillip Valys November 17, 2023
Boca Raton Museum of Art to Out Fakes and Frauds By Sam Gaskin September 28, 2023
Instances of Crypto-Transgression #5: Tony Oursler
By Adam Lehrer
March 29, 2023
In Nantes, a bewitching hypnosis session at the Art Museum
By Phillipe Dagen
Published in Le Monde
May 17, 2021
Where confusion is the goal: Tony Oursler's first solo L.A. show in 10 years
By David Pagel
Published in LA Times
March 29, 2017
Tony Oursler at Redling Fine Art
By Aaron Horst
Published in Contemporary Art Review
February 15, 2017
Fault Line
By John Yau
Published in The New York Times
July 17, 2016
Tony Oursler Review
By Dan Fox
Published in Frieze
December 8, 2016
Jim Shaw: The End Is Here & Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive
By Hal Foster
Published in Artforum
December, 2016
Tony Oursler: Capturing Modern Magic
By Allison Merchant
Published in Whitewall Magazine
July 15, 2016
Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door
By Ken Johnson
Published in The New York Times
June 30, 2016
Priv%te: Tony Oursler's Multimedia Masks at Lehmann Maupin
By Michael Slenske
Published in Wallpaper
January. 26, 2016
Tony Oursler - Template/ Variant/Friend/Stranger
By Dr. Alice O'Toole
Published in Lisson Gallery
January 30-March 7, 2015
Tony Oursler Hacks A Church With Reverse Iconoclasm
By Edo Dijksterhuis
Published in Art Slant
December 2, 2014
Video Artist Tony Oursler Turns David Bowie into a Doll
By Kyle Chayka
Published in Hyperallergic
January 8, 2013
Cahiers du Cinema: Tony Oursler
By Angela Maria Piga
Published in Cahiers du Cinema
May 17, 2010
LOCK 2, 4, 6 - Press Release
By Kunsthaus Bregenz
Published in KUB
Oct 24, 2009 - Jan. 17, 2010
An Interview With Tony Oursler About Horizon Scander Jeu
By Tony Conrad
September 28, 2008
'Sympathy for the Devil' explores how rock 'n' roll has inspired generations of visual artists since 1967
By Kevin Nance
Published in Chigago Sun Times
September 7, 2007
Art In Review, Thoughts Form + Sound Digressions in Seven Colors
By Roberta Smith
Published in The New York Times
March 24, 2006
The Imponderable Archive
By Natalya Hughes
Published in Samuel Hodge
July 1, 2004
Art In Review, The Influence Machine
By Roberta Smith
Published in The New York Times
October 27, 2000
Jutta Koether on the Poetics
Published in Artforum
February, 1998
The Videotapes of Tony Oursler
By John Minkowsky
Published in Spheres d'Influence, Paris
1985
Interviews
Tony Oursler with Michaël Amy
Published on theartsection
January 14, 2023
Tony Oursler on Elves, UFOs and the Corporate Psychic Monopoly
Published in Frieze Magazine
December 28, 2021
TONY OURSLER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Published in The Brooklyn Rail
September, 2020
Tony Oursler on art, technology, deep history and the Hudson River
By Paul Lester
Published in Time Out
October 24, 2018
Tony Oursler Is (Still) Not Afraid To Reference or Not Reference
By Paige Katherine Bradley
Published in Garage
October 8, 2018
“Caricature” for President!
By Sergej Timofejev
Published in Arterritory
December, 10, 2016
Bowie Collaborator Tony Oursler on the Icon’s Art-World Ties, Generosity, and Final Yearsrt
By Boris Kachka
Published in Vulture Magazine
Feb. 1, 2016
Multimedia Artist Tony Oursler Documents Personal Archive in ‘Imponderable’ Exhibit and Book
by Adam Lehrer
Published in Forbes
November 20, 2015
THE MACHINE'S POINT OF VIEW
by Julia Scher
Published in Interview Magazine
May 11, 2015
An Exclusive Interview with Tony Oursler After The Opening of his Show at Lisson Gallery, London
by Xerxes Cook
Published in Purple Art
February 9, 2015
About the book: VOX VERNACULAR
by Lars Byrresen Petersen
Published in Visionaire
2014
Putting Video to David Bowie’s Music: A Conversation With Artist Tony Oursler
by Juan Jose Santos
Published in Hyperallergic
February 7, 2013
Talking Back: A Conversation with Tony Oursler
By Elizabeth Janus and Tony Oursler
Published in Williams College Museum of Art
April 4, 2010
Urge Overkill: Tony Oursler Talks to David Rimanelli About Phone Sex, Cigarettes and Money
By David Rimanelli
Published in Modern Painters
September, 2008
Interview: Lynne Cooke and Tony Oursler
By Lynne Cooke
Published in Tony Oursler: Works 1997-2007
2008
Close Encounters: Tony Oursler’s Alien Invasion
By Karen Wright
Published in Modern Painters
March, 2006
Jacqueline Humphries Interviews Tony Oursler
By Jacqueline Humphries and Tony Oursler
Published in In Conjunction with "Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some)"
April. 27, 2005
SLEEPWALK: Erik Neil interviews Tony Oursler and Jacqueline Humphries
By Erik Neil, Tony Oursler and Jacqueline Humphries
March, 19, 2003
Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews
By Bruce Nauman
2003
Tony Oursler Interviews: Jim Shaw
By Tony Oursler and Jim Shaw
April, 2, 2002
Smoke and Mirrors: Tony Oursler’s Influence Machine A conversation between Tony Oursler and Louise Neri 2000
Tony Oursler Interviews: Gary Simmons
By Tony Oursler and Gary Simmons
October, 1, 1998
Interview with Tony Oursler, Stephen Vitiello, and Constance DeJong
By Lynne Cooke
Published in Kunstverein Hannover
March, 22, 1998
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Psychomimetiscape, 1988
By Philip K. Dick and Tony Oursler
July, 20, 1998
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Optical Timeline
By Tony Oursler
July, 2020
Face Wreck Mind Control
By Tony Oursler
June, 2020
Notes On Mysticism & Visual Transects
By Tony Oursler
Published in Séance by Shannon Taggart
2019
On Water & Magical Thinking
By Tony Oursler
Originally published as part of the exhibition Water Memory
June, 2019
Portfolio
By Tony Oursler
Published in Artforum Magazine
Summer, 2015
Mike Kelley
By Tony Oursler
Published in Artforum Magazine
May 1, 2012
On Chance and Face
By Tony Oursler
Published in ARoS Asrhus Kunstmuseum: Face to Face exhibition Catalogue
March 2, 2012
David Askevold
By Tony Oursler
Published in Artforum Magazine
July 1, 2008
Optical Timeline
By Tony Oursler
April 1, 2008
Lecture: The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image Part I: Dreams
By Tony Oursler
Published in Hirschhorn Museum/D Giles Limited
February 14, 2008
Spaced Out
By Tony Oursler
Published in Exhibition CatalogueL Galerie
Forsblom, 2007
September 5, 2007
Thought Forms
By Tony Oursler
Published in Hirschhorn Museum/D Giles Limited
February 25, 2006
Sixth Wall
By Tony Oursler
May 18, 2005
Blob
By Tony Oursler
April 12, 2005
Blue Invasion: Artist Statement
By Tony Oursler
January 1, 2005
Constance De Jong
By Tony Oursler
July, 2003
Pop Dead Pictures
By Tony Oursler
April 1, 2002
The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified: notes for an installation
By Tony Oursler
January 1, 2000
i hate the dark, i love the light By Tony Oursler 1999
SKETCHES AT TWILIGHT
By Tony Oursler
January 1, 1996
Why I Like Flowers
By Tony Oursler
January 1, 1995
Proposal for Judy
By Tony Oursler
Published in Written in Conjunction with "Judy" an installation at Salzberd Kunstverein
April 5, 1994
Phototropic
By Tony Oursler
The Red, White, and Blue By Tony Oursler 1982
BOOKS
Pareidolia (and other problems)
Published by Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz
March, 2022
Specular
Published by Kunstraum Dornbirn
January, 2022
Black Box
Published by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
January, 2021
State_Nonstate (Hypnose)
Published by Nantes Museum of Fine Arts
2020
The Volcano, Poetics Tattoo & UFO
Published by Dep Art Gallery
April, 2019
Paranormal: Tony Oursler VS Gustavo Rol
Published by Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
2017
Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler
Published by LUMA Foundation
2016
Vox Vernacular
Published by Mercatorfonds
2014
Tony Oursler Open Obscura
By Gianni Mercurio | Demetrio Paparoni
Published in 24 ORE Cultura
March 18, 2011
LOCK 2,4,6 Exhibition Catalogue
By Tony Oursler
Published in Kunsthaus Bregenz
March 31, 2010
Tony Oursler: Thinking Gaze
By F. Javier Panera, Omar-Pascual Castillo, Suset Sanchez, Tony Oursler
Published in Turner
September 30, 2009
Tony Oursler: HIGH
By Tony Oursler, for "HIGH" an exhibition at Lisson Gallery
Published in Walter Konig
August 31, 2009
Tony Oursler: 1997-2007
By Lynne Cooke, Tony Oursler
Published in JRP Ringier
April 1, 2008
Face, Media, and Social Flatness: On “the veiled clarity of the substances called for by the closed switch”
By John C. Welchman
Published in Tony Oursler: Works 1997-2007
2008
The Influence Machine
By Carlo McCormick and Marina Warner. Introduction by James Lingwood and Tom Eccles. Interview by Louis
Published in ArtAngel
March 15, 2002
Tony Oursler
By Raymond Bellour, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong and Tony Oursler. With interviews by Dan Graham and M
Published in Poligrafa
August 2, 2001
Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey
By Deborah Rothschild, Tony Oursler, Mike Kelley, Constance DeJong, Ian Berry, and Laura Heon. Interview by Elizabeth Janus. Foreword by Linda Shearer
Published in Williams College Museum of Art
April 15, 2000