TERESA HUBBARD (Irish/ American/ Swiss, born in Dublin, Ireland
1965) and ALEXANDER BIRCHLER (Swiss, born in Baden, Switzerland
1962) have been working collaboratively in video, photography and
sculpture since 1990. Their work invites suggestive, open-ended
reflections on memory, place and cinema. Hubbard / Birchler's work
is held in numerous public collections including the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
at the Smithsonian, Washington D. C.; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland;
Modern Art Museum Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Yokohama
Museum of Art, Japan and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.
Their exhibition history includes venues such as the Venice Biennial;
the Tate Museum Liverpool; Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Reina Sofia Museum Madrid;
Kunsthaus Graz and the Mori Museum Tokyo. Their exhibitions are
regularly reviewed in the New York Times, ArtForum International,
Art in America, Frieze, Parkett and has been prominently featured on the PBS
series, Art 21 - Art in the 21st Century, an educational archive,
resource and history of contemporary art that is broadcast in over
50 countries.
Hubbard / Birchler are represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery,
New York; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich; Galerie Barbara Thumm,
Berlin; Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg and Lora Reynolds Gallery,
Austin.
Hubbard grew up in Australia and later attended the Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture, as well as the graduate sculpture program
at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Birchler
grew up in Switzerland and attended the Basel School of Fine Arts
and the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. They began
collaborating as artists-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the
Arts and later completed graduate degrees at the Nova Scotia College
of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. Hubbard and Birchler are
Graduate Faculty members at the Milton Avery Graduate School of
the Arts, Bard College, New York. Hubbard is a Professor in the
Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at
Austin.


photo credit: Adam Schreiber