Johan Grimonprez (Belgium, 1962) studied at the School of Visual Arts and participated in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in New York.

Grimonprez's work dances on the borders of practice and theory, art and cinema, documentary and fiction, demanding a double take from the viewer. Informed by an archaeology of present-day media, his work seeks out the tension between the intimate and the bigger picture of globalisation. It questions our contemporary sublime, framed by a fear industry that has infected political and social dialogue. By suggesting new narratives through which to tell a story, his work emphasises a multiplicity of histories and realities.