MUNGOTHOMSON (b. 1969, Davis, CA) recently did a Statements exhibition with John Connelly Presents at Art Basel in June, as well as a solo exhibition with Esther Schipper in Berlin…
New York City has a special role: for many people around the world it is America, while for most Americans it’s more a place on television or in the movies than an actual city. It’s this meta-urban identity of the city that Mungo Thomson engages with intelligence and wit in his four-channel video installation New York, New York, New York, New York (2004)…
His work in a variety of media utilizes mass cultural vernacular to explore the phenomenology of social space and the mechanics and poetics of reception…