Toby Kaufmann-Buhler

Toby Kaufmann-Buhler (based in Lafayette, Indiana) explores sensory perception, identity, history and memory through his work in image, sound and space. This involves the integration of a number of different media including video, film, found/composed sound, and text along with installation and performance work. He has produced collaborative work with a number of musicians, composers, poets and visual artists, and he continues to exhibit installation work utilizing custom-designed video projection in gallery venues and for performance and stage work.

Kaufmann-Buhler is a recipient of the 2016 Foundation Prize from Peripheral Vision Arts, and First Prize in the 32nd Tallahassee International exhibition (2017) at Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Arts. In 2018 he was awarded an Individual Advancement Program grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to produce new work for exhibition in 2019 at Listen Hear in Indianapolis, Indiana; his video work was also selected by the Indianapolis Arts Council to be exhibited at the Indianapolis International Airport during the second half of 2018.

In 2017 Kaufmann-Buhler was a resident artist at Signal Culture (New York) and at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska). Alongside many group exhibitions, he has had solo exhibitions at the James Watrous Gallery in 2013 (Madison, Wisconsin), Window – re/production re/presentation in 2013 (public art project space in Asheville, North Carolina), and Little Monroe Gallery in 2014 (Madison, Wisconsin). Kaufmann-Buhler’s video work has also been featured in national and international screening festivals in gallery and theatrical venues. He has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) and an MA from the Royal College of Art (London, England).