Marc Horowitz (b. 1976) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in painting, performance, video, photography, and social practice. He approaches painting from a cinematographic standpoint, similar to the process of video making - from creative writing and mood boards, to casting, location scouting, propping, dialogue adaptation, establishing mise-en-scène, improvisation and editing. Using visual puns, large-scale participatory projects, and viral social pranks, Horowitz creates environments of high energy that lift the most mundane to the status of grand event in complex interplays between subject, viewer, and participant.
Horowitz received a project grant from Creative Time for their first online-based project. His work has been featured extensively on local and national television including ABCNews, NPR Weekend Edition, CBS Inside Edition CBS, CNN American Morning, and on NBC's The Today Show. He has lectured at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, Stanford University, and Yale University. He has taught at the University of Southern California and developed a course in Post-Internet Art at Otis College with his partner, Petra Cortright.