Keith Sonnier, a minimalist, performance, video and light artist, was born in Mamou, Louisiana, in 1941. He lived in Paris, France for several years, before coming to New York City in 1966, where he now resides. He became known in the late-1960s for his neon sculptures. He has taught at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
In 1975, he performed a 2-way open-channel event connecting New York and Los Angeles via NASA CTS satellite. Sonnier has created the one-kilometer long "Lichtwe (showing 500 of 2176 characters). |
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