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Paik came to New York in 1964 after studing and working in Japan and Germany. The paintings offered here date from the 1970s while he was artist-in-residence at the Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen, New York. The rectangles on each painting may represent TV screens, one of his favorite subjects. In 1982, the Whitney Museum of American Art honored him with a retrospective. Since 1982 he has divided his time between New York, Dusseldorf and Wiesbaden. He represented Germany at the Biennale in Venice in 1993. A retrospective of Paik's sculpture, videotapes and installations, including a seven-story waterfall, was shown at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2000. Paik's Transmission, was on view at Rockefeller Center, New York, during the summer of 2002.