Awards
- 1984 Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement, USA
- 1987 Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute, USA
- 1989 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award, USA
- 1993 Skowhegan Medal (Video Installation), USA
- 1993 Medienkunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, and Siemens Kulturprogramm, Germany
- 2003 Cultural Leadership Award, American Federal of Arts, USA
- 2006 NORD/LB Art Prize, Bremen, Germany
- 2009 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA He was awarded $75,000 and was able to go to MIT and help enhance the creative groups there.
- 2009 Catalonia International Prize, Barcelona, Spain
- 2010 Honorary doctorate from the University of Liège, Belgium
- 2011 Praemium Imperiale, Japan
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