Born in 1967 in Albuquerque, NM, Villareal began experimenting with light, sound, and video while studying set design and sculpture at Yale University, where he received his BA. He earned his MPS in the design of new media, computational media, and embedded computing from New York University’s pioneering interactive telecommunications program at the Tisch School of the Arts. He also learned the programming skills that enable him to push LED technology far past familiar commercial applications.
Based in New York, Villareal has been included in solo and group exhibitions, and has made numerous site-specific commissions throughout the world, at major cultural institutions such as P.S.1 MoMA, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS.
Site-Specific Commissions at the National Gallery of Art: Recently, the Gallery commissioned another site-specific work—Roof (2004–2005)—a sculpture created by British artist Andy Goldsworthy consisting of nine stacked-slate hollow domes with centered oculi located along the north perimeter of the East Building.
The installation is located in the East Building Concourse.
-National Gallery, on the Villareal’s recent installation
Image courtesy of James Ewing
Website
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