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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

April 28 - April 28, 2010

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(415) 771-7020

800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133

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Altering images of ambiguous places and then exhibiting them as documentation, Walead Beshty explores the way in which photography shapes our understanding of history. The tenuous link between what is authentic and what is reproduced encapsulates the medium of photography and the sense of uncertainty inherent within it. He received his BA from Bard College and his MFA from the Yale School of Art, and he is a faculty member in the Department of Art at California Institute of the Arts. Solo-exhibition venues include P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (MoMA) in Long Island City (New York) and, in Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum and LAXART. Group-exhibition venues include the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln (Massachusetts, USA); and, in New York City, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and White Columns. Beshty lives in Los Angeles.