Tony Oursler

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (Digital Metal© silver on Digital Gloss paper, high-gloss silkscreen, hand colouring), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in), signed on label verso. Unique. 

This edition by Tony Oursler is part of Recognition, a series in-progress consisting of unique collage works that explore the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (high-gloss silkscreen, hand-coloring, polystyrene mirror), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in), signed on label verso. Unique.

This unique collage edition by Tony Oursler incorporates a polystyrene mirror element that simultaneously obscures and transforms the figure’s right eye – creating an eerie, dehumanized effect while also inviting reflection, both literal and metaphorical. As the viewer catches their own image or the surrounding space within the surface, the work becomes interactive, animated by presence and shaped by context. The work is part of Oursler’s Recognition series, which explores the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (high-gloss silkscreen, two-phase flip lenticular), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in), signed on label verso. Unique.

This edition from Tony Oursler’s Recognition series of unique collage works incorporates a two-phase lenticular flip element that opens and closes the left eye, bringing the portrait to life. With Recognition, Tony Oursler explores the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (high-gloss silkscreen, two-phase flip lenticular), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in), signed on label verso. Unique.

This edition from Tony Oursler’s Recognition series of unique collage works incorporates a two-phase lenticular flip element that opens and closes the right eye, bringing the portrait to life. With Recognition, Tony Oursler explores the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (digital pigment print on Photo Rag, Digital Metal© silver on Digital Gloss paper, high-gloss silkscreen), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in), signed on label verso. Unique.

This edition by Tony Oursler is part of Recognition, a series in-progress consisting of unique collage works that explore the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (digital pigment print on Photo Rag, Photo Silk Baryta paper, high-gloss silkscreen, hand colouring, mirror foil), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in), signed on label verso. Unique.

This unique collage edition by Tony Oursler incorporates a mirrored foil element that simultaneously obscures and transforms the figure’s left eye – creating an eerie, dehumanized effect while also inviting reflection, both literal and metaphorical. As the viewer catches their own image or the surrounding space within the surface, the work becomes interactive, animated by presence and shaped by context. The work is part of Oursler’s Recognition series, which explores the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (digital pigment print on Photo Silk Baryta paper, hand colouring, two-phase flip lenticular), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in.), signed on label verso. Unique.

This edition from Tony Oursler’s Recognition series of unique collage works incorporates a two-phase lenticular flip element that opens and closes the right eye, bringing the portrait to life. With Recognition, Tony Oursler explores the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From a series of unique mixed media collages in progress
Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 500 gsm with handmade collage elements and printing techniques (Digital Metal© silver on Druckfein white, high-gloss silkscreen, hand colouring), 80.5 × 60.5 cm (31.75 x 23.75 in), signed on label verso. Unique.

Tony Oursler’s Recognition series of unique collage editions explores the uneasy intersection of technology and identity through the lens of facial recognition. In these works, he overlays photographic portraits with colorful data points, geometric forms, and computer-generated markers – referencing the algorithms used to map, categorize, and surveil human faces. These so-called "data portraits" visualize how machines interpret us, raising urgent questions about privacy, surveillance, and the shifting boundaries between human and machine perception. Oursler’s work ultimately reflects a world in which identity is increasingly defined – and distorted – by digital systems.

EUR 6,000

From Door Cycle
Metal door with window and hardware, DVD player and screen, DVD "Fool".
Size: 198 x 98 x 12 cm (78 x 38½ x 5 in), window dia. 30 cm (12 in). Edition: 15, signed and numbered on separate label.

For his contribution to the Door Cycle edition project, Tony Oursler designed a metal door featuring a circular, porthole-style window, behind which his video piece Fool plays –offering a glimpse into a surreal, self-contained world.
“Video is like water,” Tony Oursler once remarked, “an entirely ethereal form that was trapped inside the television for 50 years.” In Fool, this fluidity is given physical form: a functional door becomes the unlikely host for a pulsating video installation embedded in a porthole-like window. Typical of Oursler’s practice, Fool combines image, sound, and language into an uncanny visual experience that is both humorous and unsettling. Drawing from the visual codes of popular and punk culture, Oursler taps into the unconscious with grotesque, fragmented icons that reflect the psychological turbulence of contemporary life. His use of the human face – often stretched, distorted, or disembodied – becomes a vessel for fractured narratives touching on issues of identity, violence, sex, control, and power. The resulting imagery is as if plucked from the fevered hallucinations of a delinquent adolescent on a bad trip – distorted, disjointed, and eerily resonant.

EUR 15,000

Published for Documenta X 
Silkscreen on baked enamel road sign with bullet holes, 91 x 91 x 3 cm (36 x 36 x 1 in), edition of 60, signed and numbered.

This joint edition by Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler takes the form of a standard American crosswalk sign, overlaid with graffiti-like imagery drawn from the artists’ personal notebooks. The work references the graphic clarity of international signage – a visual language that strongly influenced the 'new wave' design aesthetics of the late 1970s. The addition of bullet holes anchors the piece in the local context of the Antelope Valley, where the artists' shared rehearsal space was located.

EUR 3,000