Michal Rovner

Born Israel, 1957

Rovner's work – in video and film, installation, works on canvas and paper, and various objects – has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions, including Fields Started, Jeu de Paume, Paris, In Stone, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 2004, Against Order? Against Disorder?, Israeli Pavilion,Venice Biennale, 2003, and Michal Rovner: The Space Between, a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2002. Some of Rovner's most notable site-specific installations include Weave, ten floors (the entire face) of the Chanel building in Tokyo, and two other variations in Hong Kong and Osaka; Untitled Paris 2003 at the LVMH headquarters, Paris and Overhang at the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York. Her films include Border, 1997, shot along the border of Israel and Lebanon, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Gallery, London; and Notes, 2001, a collaboration with composer Philip Glass, premiered at Lincoln Center, New York. Since 1988 Rovner has had a studio in New York City.