Thomas Hirschhorn was born in 1957 in Bern, Switzerland. His work has recently been exhibited at venues, including the Bienal de São Paulo (2006), Carnegie International (2008), and the Swiss Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011). Hirschhorn has received awards and prizes, including the Preis für Junge Schweizer Kunst (1999), Marcel Duchamp Prize (2000), Rolandpreis für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (2003), Joseph Beuys Prize (2004), and the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2011).
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin of Professor of Art and Architecture at Princeton and coeditor of October. Recent books include Art Since 1900 (2005), a coauthored textbook on 20th-century art; Prosthetic Gods (2004), concerning the relation between modernism and psychoanalysis; and Design and Crime (2002), on problems in contemporary art, architecture, and design. In fall 2011, two new volumes were published: The Art-Architecture Complex (Verso) and The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha (Princeton University Press).
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