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Artists›Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn

1957

WA-00012483

SculptureContemporary

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ115700

MoMA

Field Verification (4 fields)

2 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
BiographyAi Generated· 82%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Gladstonehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/thomas-hirschhorn
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/8276
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artist Index
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%

About

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Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Contemporary

Medium

Sculpture

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (37)

Drift Topography

2003 · Cardboard, tape, shoeboxes, alarm clocks, plastic, books, cotton wool and printed papers

object: 2200 x 4600 x 2800 mm

Tate

Early Call

2003 · Collage of inkjet prints, plastic, foil, adhesive, tape, marker, and ballpoint pen

50 × 60 cm (19 11/16 × 23 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

WattsOS

Provide Ruins I - VIII

2003 · Series of eight drawings, cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

sheet (each): 20 1/16 x 23 7/16" (51 x 59.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins I

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

20 x 23 1/2" (50.8 x 59.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins VIII

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

19 7/8 x 23 3/8" (50.5 x 59.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins III

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

20 1/2 x 23 1/2" (52.1 x 59.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins II

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

20 x 23 1/2" (50.8 x 59.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins VI

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

20 7/8 x 23 3/8" (53 x 59.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins IV

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

20 1/8 x 23 3/8" (51.1 x 59.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins V

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

19 5/8 x 23 5/8" (49.8 x 60 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Provide Ruins VII

2003 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

19 3/4 x 23 1/2" (50.2 x 59.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-27

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

13 5/8 x 18 1/4" (34.6 x 46.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-34

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

12 3/4 x 17 1/2" (32.4 x 44.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-44

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

13 7/8 x 17 3/4" (35.2 x 45.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-10

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

12 3/4 x 17 3/8" (32.4 x 44.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-9

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

12 7/8 x 17 5/8" (32.7 x 44.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-23

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

13 3/8 x 17 1/2" (34 x 44.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Serie KS-19, Serie KS-20, Serie KS-37, Serie KS-41

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on four pieces of paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheets

1: 13 x 18 1/4" (33 x 46.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-41

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

14 x 17 3/4" (35.6 x 45.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-37

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

13 7/8 x 17 3/4" (35.2 x 45.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-19

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

13 x 18 1/4" (33 x 46.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serie KS-20

2002 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

13 x 17 1/2" (33 x 44.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

ŒSerie: 1 Man = 1 Man (Perpetual Obsession)¹

2001 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen and ballpoint pen on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

12 3/4 x 17" (32.4 x 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

ŒSerie: 1 Man = 1 Man (I Love my Life)¹

2001 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with felt-tip pen and ballpoint pen on paper wrapped in synthetic polymer sheet

12 3/4 x 17" (32.4 x 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

37 published of 71 catalogued · 61 with image

MoMA
34 publishedof 68 catalogued58 img
Art Institute Chicago
2 published2 img
Tate
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Drift Topography
2003 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Wikipedia

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Movements1

Contemporary

Collections5

Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Artsy Phillips

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

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Background

Education

Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich

Visual Arts

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