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1990    Jaime Davidovich - Context Transcultural Video-Instalaciones, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina 
        Ideas and Images for Argentina, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
        Video Arte Internacional, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Asociacion Argentina de Criticos de Arte, Instituto de Cooperacion Ibero Americana, Buenos Aires, Argentina
        Image World: Metamedia, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
        The Decade Show - Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

1989-90 The Live! Show Retrospective, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
        The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

1989    Image World - Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
        Persuasive Symbiosis - Ten Argentine - New York Artists, La Agencia, New York

1988    Jaime Davidovich, Diane Brown Gallery, New York
        Crossing Over: Video, Criticism, Theory, The Corroboree + Multimedia Studios, School of Art and Art History; The University of Iowa, Iowa City.
        1988 National Latino Film and Video Festival, San Antonio, Texas

1986    Television's Impact on Contemporary Art, The Queens Museum, New York
        Artists Television Project, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
        Transcultural/Transmedia, Exit Art, New York
        Computer Culture Days Linz, ORF - Videonale/New Images for a New Age, ARS Electronica, Austria

1985    Artists Talk Back to the Media, Holland
        Utah Arts Festival 1985, Triad Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
        Famous for 30 Seconds - Artists in the Media, Artists Space, New York

1984    Cleveland Revisited, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
        TV on TV, Texas Tech University, Texas
        Global Village 10th Annual Documentary Festival, New York
        So There, Orwell - 1984 - A Video Review, The Louisiana World Exposition
        Video: A Retrospective, Long Beach Museum of Art, California
        World Wide Video Festival '84, Kijkhuis, Nederland
        From TV to Video, I'immagine elettronica, Bologna, Italy
        1 Bienal de la Habana, Pabellon Cuba Museo Nacional, La Habana, Cuba
        Salso Film & TV Festival, Assessorato alla Cultua del Comune di Parma, Parma, Italy

1983    Video/Jaime Davidovich, Hallways, Buffalo, New York
        Television!, Group Installation at the Windows at 62 White Street, New York
        Watching Television - A Video Event, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
        Wake Up, Artists in Residence Series of the Chicago Editing Center
        17 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
        TV USA 1983, Institute of American Studies, Barcelona, Spain
1982    The Artist and Television, The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, UCLA College of Fine Arts, Long Beach Museum of Art, NYU College of Arts, New York
        THE LIVE! SHOW, MCTV, New York
        Chicago Editing Center, Chicago
        Athens International Film/Video Festival, Athens Center for Film and Video, Ohio University College of Fine Arts
        Videodagen, Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland
        Video and Television Festival, Maastrich, Holland
        Festival de Video, Center for Media Art, American Center, Paris, France
        Kijkschrift een Uitgave Van Het Kijkhuis, Kijkhuis World Wide Video Festival, Nederland
        New Images/New Languages, Toulouse, France

1981    Video/Behavior/Art, Institut D'Estudis Nord-Americans, Barcelona, Spain
        Long Beach Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
        Video, University Art Museum, Berkley, California
        Alternatives in Retrospect, The New Museum, New York

Each canvas is an abstracted landscape in which the painted layer provides a counterpoint tot he electronic image—the brushstroke is handmade and textural. The videos run unedited and in actual time. They have been made as a direct experience of nature and are viewed as flickering images in the dark. These landscape paintings, a part of a larger series dealing with traditional subject matter, including still-life and the figure, are being shown for the first time in the Lehman exhibition.

Davidovich's installation is as distant from the wrap-around sound and screens of contemporary video installations as they are from the vast panoramic spectacles of some Hudson River painters. And, while unlike the transcendentalism of the Hudson River's earlier painters who saw deity in nature, Davidovich's video paintings do have a spiritual quality. These landscapes are imprinted with the presence of the things man-made, yet they are contemplative. They exist in a human scale. The installation is meant for close viewing, to be seen in an intimate space.

From 1978-1985 Davidovich was involved in "alternative television" in New York City and with the early explorations of electronic media for creating art—these media ranged from cable television to satellite transmission. In the 1980's, as founding member of Cable Soho, producer of "Soho Television," and president of the Artists Television Network, Davidovich explored video within the context of the new possibilities of public cable access. Playing off the conceits of commercial television, Davidovich's show, "The Live Show" on Manhattan Cable TV explored this territory with both insight and humor.

Davidovich's video work has been exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Museo del Barrio, the Kitchen, and the Whitney Museum in New York; the Everson Museum, Syracuse; Hallwalls, Buffalo; the Louisiana Museum, Denmark; the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil; the Bienal de la Habana, Cuba; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

—Susan Hoeltzel
Director

education

1963    School of Visual Arts, New York
1959-61 University of Uruguay
1954-58 National College, Buenos Aires, Argentina

selected exhibitions

1998    Zocalo1975-1998, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1997    Legacy/Legado, The Old State House, Hartford, Connecticut

1995    The Promised Land, Installation, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina
        El Museo del Barrio Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition - Part III - Reaffirming Spirituality, El Museo del Barrio, New York

1994    Lo Falso, Lo Virtual, Lo Real, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina
        Scars, Pleasure + Sacrifice, Argentina, Colombia Video Creation, Colombian Center and Consulate General of Argentina, New York
        Ver Y Estimar, Museo Nacional de Cellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
        Recordando el Futuro, Colombian Mission, New York
1993    Buenos Aires Video, ICI de Buenos Aires, Argentina

1992    Los Pueblos Quieren Saber de que se Trata, Video Installation, Fundacion Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
        Americas, Monasterio de Santa Clara, Moguer (Huelva)
        Uncommon Ground, College Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, New York
        Democracy in Communication," International Media Resource Exchange

1991    Forces/Farces, Exit Art, New York