How can I buy a work by Van McElwee?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Van McElwee. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Van McElwee in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Van McElwee make?

Experimental video: more than one hundred single-channel videos, installations and web projects since 1976, including Time Fork, an augmented reality work commissioned by Laumeier Sculpture Park in 2020.

Where is Van McElwee based?

Van McElwee lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Has Van McElwee had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Tetrahedra (13 November 2026 to 16 January 2027) is one of his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Van McElwee

Van McElwee (born 1948) is a St. Louis-based video artist who has made experimental video since 1976. His body of media art includes more than one hundred single-channel videos, installations and web projects, shown widely in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Solo presentations of his work include Anthology Film Archives in New York, ARTpool in Budapest and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and his work has appeared at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Ars Electronica, ZKM, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. In 2020 Laumeier Sculpture Park commissioned Time Fork, an augmented reality work sited across the park.

McElwee received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2010. His other honors include an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award, National Endowment for the Arts Independent Production Fund grants and a St. Louis Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship. His work is distributed by The Kitchen Video Collection in New York, Heure Exquise! in France, LUX in London and the Inter Media Art Institute in Germany.

He received a B.F.A. in printmaking from the Memphis College of Art in 1973 and an M.F.A. in multimedia from Washington University School of Art in 1978. He taught at Webster University from 1983 and is now professor emeritus there. He is represented by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis and Galerie Trabant in Austria.

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