installation art

[in-stuh-ley-shuhn ahrt]

noun

1. art that is created, constructed, or installed on the site where it is exhibited, often incorporating materials or physical features on the site.

Other Word Forms

• installation artist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of installation art¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Desert X, the biennial exhibition of site-related installation art commissioned for varied locations in and around Palm Springs, continues to shrink.

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This Wooster Group offering moves the company closer to conceptual installation art.

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In fewer than five years, Viola, then 38, had become the artist perhaps most instrumental for bringing video installation art into the mainstream of American cultural life, where today it is commonplace and occupies a central position.

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For 17 years Lauren Halsey has dreamed of creating a monumental work of installation art for — and about — her South Los Angeles neighborhood, and on Monday she released the first renderings for the project, which has grown into a public sculpture park scheduled to open next spring.

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While the rainbow Spectra tower is a permanent installation on the grounds at this point, most of the large installation art that created the landscape of Coachella is gone.

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