Gary Setzer
Associate Professor, Art
Art Bldg, Room 119 A
520-621-8277
MFA Ohio University; BFA University of Akron
Gary Setzer’s transdisciplinary practice incorporates performance art, video art, sound, and installation. Enlisting familiar landmarks like the body, the landscape, minimalism, and humor as entry points, Setzer lures his audience into his conceptual framework—a theoretical space centered on our compulsory entanglements with language.
Setzer's artwork has been included in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. He has performed, exhibited, and screened work in venues such as the Arsenale in Venice, The Today Art Museum in Beijing, Tribeca Film Center, The National Art Center Tokyo, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Ars Electronica, Mobile Museum of Art, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Boston Center for the Arts, Tucson Museum of Art, and The Cincinnati Art Museum. In 2012, Setzer released the soundtrack for his performance, Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, on the independent label Pretend Records. In recognition of his outstanding performance in research and teaching, Setzer was awarded the Louise Foucar Marshall endowed professorship from 2010 until 2015. He currently lives and works in Tucson where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Arizona. He designed and leads the School of Art’s forward-thinking First Year Experience Division.
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Recent Work
Mesopotamia Megalomania
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Mesopotamia Megalomania
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Ineffable (I Did Not Know the Green)
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Generator
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Respiration (Underwater)
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Battery (WORDS/SWORD)
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Wait / Weight
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Confusion of Tongues (Rebuilding the Tower of Babel Horizontally Out of Water)
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
Panphonemic Mover II
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art
The Ghost Eater and the Stilt Rattler
Artist: Gary Setzer
Performance Art