GEORGE BAYER

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Employing unique techniques like multiple printings and transparent acetate overlays, Bayer creates a vibrant, three-dimensional effect. His “La Chat” series, embracing primary colors and diverse forms, features unconventional expressions of affection, sparking contemplation with juxtapositions and text that forces the observer to look twice and again.

 

George Bayer is an international artist originally from the USA, but also encompasses a unique story of international experiences, Russian, European influence, and Asian magic. Living in Asia, George learned to create paper collage cut outs of cats while practicing and studying at a temple in Japan. His inspiration and personal lived experience cover five decades of political pain, sacrifice and struggle. Now separated by the war in Ukraine from his Russian wife, his artistic output is accelerating fast. Colorful, striking, passionate, dancing with images of horror, but never quite finding them, even his darkest works offer color, humor, and a smile

Apprenticeships:

  • Robert Rauschenberg
  • Laurie Anderson
  • Judy Chicago
  • Pioneer Japan Interactive Project
  • Art Park Lewiston, New York
  • San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts
  • Video Internship at The Interspace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • Richard Mock
  • JVC Japan
  • Collette
  • Agnes Denes
  • Interactive kiosk Musée d’Orsay in Paris

 

Exhibitions and Awards:

  • William Burroughs (“Spaceman”) with Allen Ginsburg and Dr. Timothy Leary
  • Documentary on China, Robert Rauschenberg’s “Rocky Tour”
  • Solo Ceramic Exhibition, Vaikuntha , Taipei, Taiwan
  • 1st place, Japan JVC Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1st place, Ithaca Film and Video Festival, New York
  • Sony Video Award for Art and Creative Works, Los Angeles
  • Group Shows, David Byrne Kitchen Gallery, White Towers
  • One-Man Video Show, The Wave Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • Group Video Show, The Interspace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • Sculpture Group Show, Area Club Exhibition, New York
  • Video in the library/exhibited in The Lux, London
  • Technicolor Full Grant and Scholarship, Los Angeles
  • Temple University Tuition Grant and Scholarship, Tyler, PA
  • National PBS Development Broadcast Award, Public TV, USA
  • Events & concerts in Tokyo & Paris, Issey Miyake, EPO, Southern Allstars, Yukihiro Takahashi, Junko Shimada, Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Interactive kiosk video at Musée d’Orsay in Paris
  • the_gallery_Harajuku solo Exhibition Tokyo Japan
  • Vaikuntha solo exhibition Taipei Taiwan
  • One Taipei 2024 Exhibition Taipei Taiwan
  • Artworks for toilets (small spaces, Hankyu men’s Store) Tokyo Japan

ARTWORKS

I Love You
(HK Edition)

Hong Kong Streets Were Not As Busy As This Painting, said Le Chat
(HK Edition)

Le Chat a Adoré Hong Kong #1
(HK Edition)

Le Chat a Adoré Hong Kong #2
(HK Edition)

Le Chat Had A Castle

Le Chat Never Could Swim

It Got so that Le Chat was Le Afraid to go out at Le Night