Marc Horowitz (born 1976 in Westerville, Ohio) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography, painting, performance, video, sculpture and social practice. Horowitz holds a master's degree in art from the University of Southern California, and bachelor's degrees in art and marketing from San Francisco Art Institute, and Indiana University Kelley School of Business. In a practice that combines traditional drawing, commercial photography, and new media, Horowitz turns American culture on its head to explore the idiosyncrasies of entertainment, class, commerce, failure, success, and personal meaning. Using visual puns, large-scale participatory projects, and viral social pranks, Horowitz creates environments of high energy that lift the most mundane to the status of grand event in complex interplays between subject, viewer, and participant. Horowitz has exhibited both nationally and internationally; notable solo exhibitions include: “Moving”, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles (2013), “The Advice of Strangers”, funded by Creative Time, curated by Nato Thompson, web-based (2011), “The Me & You Show”, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2007), “The Center for Improved Living”, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, CH (2007), “More Better”, AMT Gallery, Lake Como IT (2007), “TCFIL”, Galerie Nuke, Paris FR (2007). His work has been featured extensively on local and national television including ABC News, NPR Weekend Edition, CBS Inside Edition CBS, CNN American Morning, and on NBC's The Today Show. He has taught at the University of Southern California and lectured at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, Stanford University, and Yale University. Horowitz teaches a course in new media art at Otis College with his partner,
Petra Cortright.
