Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) is a prolific Icelandic-Danish artist who works in a wide range of media and forms--installation, painting, sculpture, photography, and film--to address topics related to architecture, ecology, food, education, sustainability, climate change, and perception. In 2008, he created a Public Art Fund project consisting of four man-made waterfalls placed around New York City along the East River. Eliasson has had solo shows in major institutions around the world, among them, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; SESC Belenzinho, SESC Pompéia, and the Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; and the Venice Biennale. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. Susan Grace Galassi is curator emerita, The Frick Collection, New York.
