The Writing on the Wall: Almstadtstrasse (Formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide Projection of Former Hebrew Bookstore, Berlin (1930)

Los Angeles-born Shimon Attie is known for installations that incorporate projected photography and other contemporary media into architectural sites, and, more recently, for multiple-channel video installations. Among his best-known works are The Writing on the Wall (Berlin, 1991–1993), Between Dreams and History (New York, Lower East Side, 1998), and The History of Another (Rome, 2001–2002). Attie lived in Europe for seven years before moving to New York in 1997. He has received prizes and fellowships from the American Academy in Rome (The Rome Prize), the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.