Christian Marclay's remarkable body of work exploring the space between what we hear and what we see has earned him acclaim both as a visual artist and as a musician in the United States and Europe. His concern with how sound is experienced, visualized, and translated into other forms leads him to work in a broad range of media. These slip mats are a beautiful distillation of his interdisciplinary approach, as they are made for DJs turntables - and so evoke the sounds associated with scratching and sampling - but they are clearly an artist's edition featuring the 'hand' of the artist. The mats also reference Marclay's decades-long career as a DJ and experimental musician, and his use of the turntable - and other stereo components - as expressive tools.

Christian Marclay's remarkable body of work exploring the space between what we hear and what we see has earned him acclaim both as a visual artist and as a musician in the United States and Europe. His concern with how sound is experienced, visualized, and translated into other forms leads him to work in a broad range of media. These slip mats are a beautiful distillation of his interdisciplinary approach, as they are made for DJs turntables - and so evoke the sounds associated with scratching and sampling - but they are clearly an artist's edition featuring the 'hand' of the artist. The mats also reference Marclay's decades-long career as a DJ and experimental musician, and his use of the turntable - and other stereo components - as expressive tools.

Christian Marclay was born in San Rafael, California, and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at Geneva's Ecole Superieure d'Art Visuel before returning to the United States to complete his BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1980. He is now based in New York. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at prestigious museums around the world. Marclay has been performing and recording music since 1979. As a musician and DJ, he has released solo and collaborative records since the 1980's, and has performed at such venues as New York's Knitting Factory and The Kitchen. He has performed with a diverse group of musicians and DJs, including Sonic Youth, Kronos Quartet, Fred Firth, Butch Morris, John Zorn and Arto Lindsay. Marclay's solo releases include "Record Without a Cover" (1985), "More Encores" (1988), and "Records" (1997).

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2026
'Christian Marclay', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1/15 - 2/28)

2025
'Christian Marclay: Doors', Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA), New York, NY (6/13/2025 - 4/12/2026)
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
'Christian Marclay: Doors', Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Boston, MA
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2024
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
'Christian Marclay x ECAL: Photo Booth', Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

2023
'Christian Marclay: Doors', White Cube Mason's Yard, London, UK

2022 
'Christian Marclay', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2021 
'Christian Marclay: Translating', Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
'Christian Marclay', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2019
'Christian Marclay', White Cube Mason's Yard, London, UK

2018 
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Tate Modern, London, UK
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2017 
'Christian Marclay: Screams', White Cube, London, UK

2016 
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, Boston, MA
'Christian Marclay: Six New Animations', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015 
'Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
'Christian Marclay', White Cube, London, UK

2013
'Christian Marclay: New Paintings and Works on Paper ', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
'Christian Marclay: Things I've Heard', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
'Christian Marclay: Telephones', Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL

2011
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA
'Christian Marclay: Scrolls', Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
'Christian Marclay: Cyanotypes', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
'The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl' (group exhibition), Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Hayward Gallery, London, UK
'Looking at Music 3.0' (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
'Christian Marclay: The Clock', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY