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Shalom Gorewitz (born 1949) is an American visual artist. Gorewitz was among the first generation of artists who used early video technology as an expressive medium. Since the late 1960s, he has created videos that "transform recorded reality through an expressionistic manipulation of images and sound". His artworks often "confront the political conflicts, personal losses, and spiritual rituals of contemporary life". Gorewitz has also made documentary videos.

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  • Shalom Gorewitz (born 1949) is an American visual artist. Gorewitz was among the first generation of artists who used early video technology as an expressive medium. Since the late 1960s, he has created videos that "transform recorded reality through an expressionistic manipulation of images and sound". His artworks often "confront the political conflicts, personal losses, and spiritual rituals of contemporary life". Gorewitz has also made documentary videos. Gorewitz’s videos have been exhibited and screened at festivals, galleries and museums worldwide. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany; Itau Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil; Kowasaki Museum, Tokyo; the Library of the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; The New York Public Library; and the Getty Museum Video Art Archive, Los Angeles. Gorewitz was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Video and Audio in 1989 and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Asian Cultural Foundation, and Arts America. He has received two Fulbright Senior Specialist fellowships to conduct research and teach at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana where he is also an adjunct professor in Visual Arts and Animation. Gorewitz has been a professor of Video and New Media at Ramapo College of New Jersey since 1981. (en)
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