Shimon Attie

Shimon Attie works across photography, video, and installation to reanimate the histories erased from public space. His early site-specific projects brought archival images back to the streets where they were made — ghosts projected onto present-day walls. The later work turns toward migration, asylum, and the geography of belonging.

In *Night Watch* (2018), he floated a barge around New York's waterways screening silent portraits of twelve newly granted asylees, the boat passing Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, the bridges — a literal safe passage. *Lost in Space (After Huck)* (2017) placed a raft in a darkened gallery with a corn-cob pipe and a police light, Twain and Ferguson held in the same frame.

He was born in Los Angeles, studied in California and Chicago, and has worked in New York for decades. The practice remains rooted in a single question: what do we owe the past, and who gets to remember it.