Untitled (Red Hand)

1967 · Sculpture

Can I see it?

Not on view at present

Where is “Untitled (Red Hand)” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

1965
Buys his first Sony video equipment
He buys Sony video equipment and for the first time can shoot and record his own video: the first was a recording of the traffic jam caused by Pope Paul VI’s motorcade, which he showed to friends that evening at the Cafe a Go-Go. Other accounts say he bought the combined TCV-2010 unit with the first consumer videotape recorder, the CV-2000, and that the portable Portapak appeared only in 1967.
1965
First solo exhibition in the United States
The show “Electronic Art” at the Bonino Gallery in New York is Paik’s first solo exhibition in America.
1965
Married: Shigeko Kubota
1967
Charlotte Moorman is arrested over “Opera Sextronique”
Moorman is arrested for performing topless in Paik’s “Opera Sextronique”; throughout this period Paik aims to bring music up to speed with art and literature and to make sex an acceptable theme.
1969–1970
Builds a video synthesizer with the engineer Shuya Abe
At WGBH in Boston, Paik and Shuya Abe build the first model of a video synthesizer that produces abstract images; Paik uses it to accompany rock and roll in “Video Commune” and to illustrate Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Other accounts date the synthesizer to 1973.