As you gaze over Marc Lafia's voluptuous body of work, computational films (one such piece hangs in New York's Whitney Museum), site specific installations, performances, social photography, paintings, music works, writings, theatre, paper and fabric sculptures, and drawing, his approach - his style - is clear. There is the playfulness and intelligence, sure, but we really find it in his very way of reckoning what art is and can be. Art, for Lafia, is always an event of its own making. As Lafia says, his interest is "the poetics of techne and how and through our making and doing comes our expressivity."
Marc has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Online, the ZKM, the Centre Pompidou, Anthology Film Archives, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Minsheng Museum of Art in Shanghai, and The Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale 2014, among other venues. He has taught at Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. His books include Image Photograph (2015) and Everyday Cinema (2017) and The Event of Art (2020) published by punctumbooks.