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Gerald Laing

Born in 1936. Studied at St. Martin's School of Art in London from 1960-64. Had a retrospective at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 1993. He lived and worked in New York from 1964, collaborating with Peter Phillips on a project called "Hybrid".
This aimed to produce an art object which was determined by the demands of the consumer. The two artists constructed two kits containing samples of canvas, paint, wood and fabrics, through to modern materials such as plastic and metal and devised a questionnaire with which they interviewed 1137 critics, collectors and art administrators in cities such as New York and London. The results were fed into a computer and they made a sculpture as a result of this in 1966, incorporating aluminium, plexiglass and fluorescent tubing.

He has had individual exhibitions in London, New York, and all over the United States.