About Paul Pfeiffer

Photograph by Sarah Davies

Paul Pfeiffer is one of the most inventive artists currently working within the field of sound, video and new digital media. Brought up in the Philippines, Pfeiffer now lives and works in New York City.

Pfeiffer uses sophisticated editing techniques to reconfigure footage from famous moments in pop music and sport. He creates works which look at the role iconic figures have within a global world of images to ask why we need these figures and how we are made to identify with them.

Meticulously crafting moving sequences from the global archives of images, Pfeiffer has created a body of work that resonates prophetically with our present. His work examines the power of mediated imagery in a consumer-driven society where heroes and their worshipping communities are multiplied throughout the world.

Over the past seven years Pfeiffer has exhibited in group shows in many museums around the world including the MoMA and Whitney museums in New York, Venice Biennale, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and the Castello di Rivoli, Turin. He has recently had one-person exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and K21, Düsseldorf, Germany.