Cory Arcangel
Bio
Cory Arcangel is a composer, artist, and entrepreneur. After having lived in New York for 15 years, Arcangel moved to Stavanger, Norway where he works by telecommuting to his studio in Brooklyn, which he still maintains. Since moving, he has worked on a dizzying array of projects; In collaboration with Olia Lialina, he recently toured the two-person show, “Asymmetrical Response” which traveled to the Western Front in Vancouver, the Kitchen in New York, and Art Projects Ibiza in Ibiza; Under the auspices of Arcangel Surfware—a software and merchandise publishing company he founded—he published Tony Conrad’s 200-plus-hour-long piano piece, Music and the Mind of the World in 2017, released a line of fidget spinners, as well as opened a flagship store and gallery in Stavanger in 2018, where he can be found working on Saturdays. His work is included in many public collections, including the MoMA in New York, the Tate in London, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.