Alumnus and artist Omer Fast received the Museum School's Medal Award at the 15th Annual Medal Award Gala on Saturday, May 1, 2010. ABOUT OMER FAST Omer Fast's work explores how fact, fiction, memory and history are increasingly obscured and manipulated in today's world. He blurs the lines of reality, creating stories with snippets of films, video and dialect from personal interviews. These powerful narratives often end without a resolution, leaving viewers to continue to question what they have witnessed long after the final denouement. Holland Cotter of the New York Times says Fast is "amazingly good, and getting better." Fast was born in 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel and currently lives and works in Berlin. A recipient of the prestigious 2008 Bucksbaum Award—presented to a Whitney Biennial participating artist "whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination"—Fast is currently exhibiting Nostalgia at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He also recently received the 2009 Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art, honoring a Germany-based artist under 40. These awards are among the most highly regarded and valuable awards in the United States and Europe.