Gareth Long was born in Toronto in 1979. In 2007 he completed his Master’s of Fine Art in the Sculpture department at Yale University. In 2003 he received his Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.

Long's work tends toward conceptual gestures that play with formal ideas of translation, narrative and medium specificity. Long has made projects that turn video into material objects in an effort to explore video’s value as infinitely reproducible, transformed an audio book back into it's original source using speech recognition software, made sculptural objects from items that have only ever existed in fictions. Such translations result in pieces far-removed from their source, often barely resembling the original in their new, compromised, object-form.

Long is the recipient of the Vtape Emerging Artist Award, 2003. In 2004 he exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the work is now a part of the permanent collection. He has exhibited extensively in Canada as well as in the US and France. His bookwork, Don Quixote, was recently purchased by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library in New York. He is a founding member of the 640 480 Video Collective. The collective has created and curated projects for galleries, art fairs, rock bands and online. The group recently won an OAAG award for exhibition design and was singled out by Artnet as one of the highlights of Photo New York 2005.

Gareth Long is represented by Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto, his videos are distributed by Vtape and his books are carried at Printed Matter, Inc. in New York.


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