One of Charles Long’s main motivations for creating art is to “make an occasion for experience” where viewers can encounter ideas and objects physically. Well-known for his collaboration with the London rock band Stereolab (1995) and for his interactive works, such as Pet Sounds, a sensorial sculpture installation in Madison Square Park in New York (2012), Long has also had numerous solo exhibitions at such institutions as the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California. 

Long has received numerous honors and awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  Long’s new interactive work, Fountainhead, will be on view at NorthPark Center as part of Nasher XChange this fall.

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