Tony Conrad
Experimental Filmmaker; Musician/Composer
TONY CONRAD is well known as a leading exponent of improvisational and experimental music since the '60s. He has performed and recorded with, among many others, John Cale, Angus Maclise, Jack Smith, La Monte Young and Marion Zazeela, Faust, Alex Gelencser, Jim O’Rourke, David Grubbs, Charlemagne Palestine, M.V. Carbon, C. Spencer Yeh, Tony Oursler, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and Jennifer Walshe. In addition to his work as a composer, Conrad is also highly regarded as an artist and filmmaker. In 2009 his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale, MoMA, the Tate Modern, and elsewhere. He is represented by Galerie Daniel Buchholz and in New York by Greene Naftali Gallery.