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Tony Weathers

MFA, Cornish College of Arts. Technical Assistant to video artist Gary Hill.

Exhibitions at Commencement Art Gallery (WA), Schnitt Ausstellungstraum (Germany), Bank of America (WA), and SF DRS Television (Germany) and ARTE Television (Germany, France and Switzerland). Awards include an Artist Trust Fellowship, and Internationaler Medien Kunst Pries nominee at ZKM, Germany.

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Tony Weathers holds an MFA from Cornish College of Arts and served as Technical Assistant to video artist Gary Hill; his exhibitions include Commencement Art Gallery (WA), Schnitt Ausstellungstraum (Germany), Bank of America (WA), SF DRS Television (Germany) and ARTE Television (Germany, France and Switzerland). His awards include an Artist Trust Fellowship and a nomination for Internationaler Medien Kunst Pries at ZKM, Germany.

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