Shimon Attie

Shimon Attie’s projects seek to re-imagine new relationships between place, time, and identity. He often engages local communities to find new ways of representing their history, memory, and potential futures. Attie is particularly concerned with issues of loss, communal trauma and the potential for regeneration, and how the histories of marginalized communities can be introduced into the landscape of the present. Attie has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, Radcliffe Institute, NEA, and The Lee Krasner Award, among others.

While at Bogliasco, Shimon Attie will engage in creative experimentation and risk taking necessary to grow and push his artistic practice. This will culminate in the creation of a new project. Given Bogliasco’s location on the Mediterranean where issues of migration and refugees come to the fore, and building on his earlier projects, he would like to create a work that engages migration and perhaps local refugee communities. He would begin with deep, multi-faceted research, in all its forms, from which a project would emerge.