Wolfgang Stoerchle

Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944, Neustadt, Germany - 1976 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) was a conceptual artist known for influential performance and video works made in Southern California in the 1970s.

Stoerchle was born in Germany but moved with his family to Toronto, Canada as a teenager in 1959. In 1962, he spent ten months riding through the United States on horseback with his brother, Peter, arriving in Los Angeles and living there in 1963-64. He went to college at the University of Oklahoma from 1964-68 and began graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning an M.F.A. in 1968. During this time he performed in California with fellow artists Miles Varner and Daniel Lentz in a group called California Time Machine.

In 1970, he began teaching in the Post-Studio Art program at California Institute of the Arts, where his fellow instructors included Allan Kaprow and Nam June Paik. His teaching assistant was Jack Goldstein.