Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa, born 1977) is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist and printmaker. He was born and studied in the states, is a permanent resident of South Africa, and currently pursues an art and research PhD at Trinity College, Dublin. He’s produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, networked art and multimedia physical theatre performances, to digital printing and collage, stone lithography and slam poetry. He’s won many awards, fellowships, commissions and residencies between South Africa, America, and all over Europe.
Nathaniel has held solo exhibitions at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Johnson Museum of Art, the University of the Witwatersrand, and several commercial and experimental galleries throughout South Africa and Ireland. His work has been shown at festivals, galleries and museums internationally, including the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, International Print Center New York, and the Grahamstown National Arts Festival (South Africa). Public collections include the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media (Cornell University), turbulence.org, Contemporary Irish Art Society, and the Universities of South Africa (UNISA) and the Witwatersrand. Recent features on Nathaniel’s work can be seen in the Leonardo Journal of Art, Science and Technology, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, NY Arts and Art South Africa magazines, ArtThrob.co.za and ArtFagCity.com.
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