Christo & Jeanne-Claude have worked in collaboration since 1961, and lived in New York City since 1964. Their large-scale projects include Wrapped Coast, Australia, 1968 69, Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado, 1970 72, Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972 76, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Florida, 1980 83, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975 85, The Umbrellas, Japan USA, 1984 91, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971 95, Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997 98 and The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009.