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Was born in the Bronx, New York in 1941 and grew up in New York City. He has been active as a plumber, art dealer, publisher and independent art exhibition organizer, political researcher and publisher, and textile bibliographer and collector, and most recently, a researcher studying the theories of time and causality in physics.

After working at the Sculpture Center (New York) in the early 1960s, he opened his own gallery, Seth Siegelaub Contemporary Art, in the Fall 1964 which briefly existed through Spring 1966. Later in 1966, he evolved into a private dealer working closely on projects with the artists Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner, in which he tried to expand and open up the exhibition environment to the new possibilities, issues and problems posed by the new forms of art, especially what is now known as "Conceptual Art". This gradually lead to his becoming the first what is today known as an "independent curator", independently organizing 21 art exhibitions, books, catalogues and projects throughout the USA, Canada and Europe between February 1968 and July 1971 in a wide range of new and original formats, before withdrawing from the art world in 1972. One of these exhibitions and projects is the so-called Xeroxbook, in December 1968, in which 7 artists each did a 25-page work, including work by Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris.

In the 1960’s, he became active in anti-war activities in the art community. He originated and drafted the “Artist's Contract”, The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement. Engaged with research on the production of popular culture, he founded the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles [CSROT]. 

Currently he is doing research towards developing a project on the physics of time and causality, and working on the preparation of this website.

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