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Biography - Chris Burden

Born

1946 Boston, MA. Lives and works in Topanga, CA.

Education

1969 B.F.A. Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1971 M.F.A., University of California at Irvine, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 “Center for Contemporary Art”, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
2005 “Locus +”, Newcastle, England
2004 “Chris Burden,” Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea).
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Zwirner and Wirth, New York
2003 “Bridges and Bullets,” Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
“Small Skyscraper,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
2002 “Chris Burden,” The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England.
“Tower of Power,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna.
2001 “Chris Burden,” The Arts Club of Chicago.
2000 “Chris Burden,” Gagosian Gallery, London.
“A Tale of Two Cities,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach,
CA.
“Chris Burden: Structures,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA.
1999 “Airplane Factory Drawings and the Speed of Light Machine,” London Projects.
“When Robots Rule: The Two Minute Airplane Factory,” Tate Gallery, London.
“Chris Burden,” Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall.
1996 “Chris Burden: Selected Works,” Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
“Chris Burden,” Galleri Ynglingagatan, Stockholm.
“Chris Burden: Selected Works,” Marc Jancou Gallery, London.
“Three Ghost Ships,” Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
“Chris Burden: Out of the Museum,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
“Chris Burden: Beyond the Limits,” MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
1995 “The Hidden Force,” Washington State Arts Commission, McNeil Island
Correction Center, WA.
“Chris Burden,” Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona.
“Five Moonettes and Mini Video Circus,” FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon,
Montpellier, France.
“Chris Burden: The Spirit of the Grape,” Champagne Laurain, Ay, France.
1994 “Mini Video Circus,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
“C.L.B., The Grape and Me and the Holy Trinity,” FRAC Champagne-
Ardenne, Reims, France.
“Chris Burden: 5 Moonettes,” Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris.
“L.A.P.D. Uniforms: America’s Darker Moments, Small Guns,” Gagosian Gallery (SoHo), New York.
1993 “Chris Burden: Medusa’s Head,” 65 Thompson Street, New York.
Miller Nordenhake, Cologne, Germany.
1992 “Chris Burden: 5 Ships,” Miller Nordenhake Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
“Chris Burden: The Other Vietnam Memorial and the Big Wheel,” Lannan
Foundation, Los Angeles.
“Chris Burden,” Josh Baer Gallery, New York.
1991 “The Sailing Destroyer,” Josh Baer Gallery, New York.
“Medusa’s Head,” The Brooklyn Museum, NY.
The Brooklyn Museum, New York.
1990 “Samson,” Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
“Chris Burden,” Galerie Juergen Becker, Hamburg, Germany.
1989 “Samson,” Josh Baer Gallery, New York.
“Chris Burden,” Kent Fine Arts, New York.
“Devil Drawings,” Christine Burgin Gallery, New York.
1988 “Chris Burden: A Twenty Year Survey,” Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Newport Beach, CA. Traveled to: Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery,
Pittsburgh, PA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (through 1989).
1987 “All the Submarines of the United States of America,” Christine Burgin Gallery, New York.
“A Monument to Megalopolises Past and Future” (collaborative work with Nancy Rubins), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
“All the Submarines of the United States of America,” Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“Model of Sex Tower and Drawings for Realized and Unrealized Projects,”
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1986 “Sprocket’s Moon” (collaborative work with Nancy Rubins), New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1985 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
“Chris Burden: The Artist and His Models,” Lowe Art Museum, Miami.
“Tower of Power,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.
1984 “Beam Drop,” Art Park, Lewiston, NY.
“Cost Effective Micro-Weaponry That Works,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1983 “Cost Effective Micro-Weaponry That Works,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts,
New York.
1982 “The Flying Kayak and Devil Drawings,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1980 “C.B.T.V. and B-Car,” Film and Video Dept., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
“The Big Wheel, Devil Drawings and Sculptures,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
1979 “The Big Wheel, Devil Drawings and Sculptures,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1978 “The Citadel” (installation/performance), Los Angeles.
1977 “C.B.T.V.,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
“Full Financial Disclosure,” Jan Baum/Iris Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles.
“B-Car,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
1976 Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Relics,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
1975 “Yankee Ingenuity,” Galerie Stadler, Paris.
“B-Car,” De Appel, Amsterdam.
Galleria Allesandra Castelli, Milan.
Galleria Schema, Florence.
“Commentary Drawings,” Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Selections, 1971-1974,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
1974 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
“A Photographic Review,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles.

Group Exhibitions

2007 “Mixed Signals”, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, New York, NY, USA
2006 “Los Angles 1955-1985”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2003 “TRESSPASSING: Houses x Artists,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles.
“Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight,” North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.
“Work Ethic,” Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. Traveled to: Des Moines Art Center, IA.
“Concrete Art,” European Cultural Capital, Graz, Austria
“American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,”
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.
“M_ARS Art and War,” Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.
2002 “Photography (as commentary),” Kent Gallery, New York.
“Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain: Selected Works from the MCA
Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“Les Années 70: L’art en Cause,” Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux,
France.
“Trespassing: Houses x Artists,” Bellevue Art Museum, WA. Traveled to:
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; University of
South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; Blaffer Gallery,
Houston, TX.
“Gestures and Disappearance,” Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany.
“Biennale of Sydney,” Australia.
“Material World from Lichtenstein to Viola,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
“Hommage to Rudolf Schwarzkogler,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
2001 “LA-NY Benefit,” Yamagata Studio, Malibu, CA.
“Tele[Visions],” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.
“Extra Art: A Survey of Artist’s Ephemera 1960-1999,” California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland.
“Audit,” Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, Switzerland.
7th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey.
“Un Art Populaire,” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.
“Mutilate?” Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium.
“New Settlements,” Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.
“Burn: Artists Play with Fire,” Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach,
FL. Traveled to: Columbia Museum of Art, SC.
“Azerty,” Centre Pompidou, Paris.
“A Room of Their Own,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
2000 “The Memory of Art,” Historisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
“Hypermental Rampant Reality 1950-2000 from Salvadaor Dali to Jeff
Koons,” Kunsthaus, Zurich.
“American Bricolage,” Sperone Westwater, New York.
“Open Ends,” Museum of Modern Art,” New York.
“Made in California 1900-2000,” Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art.
“Tempus Fugit: Time Flies,” Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Berlin Art Fair (Gagosian Gallery).
“L’Oeuvre Collective,” Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
Basel Art Fair (Gagosian Gallery), Switzerland.
“Orbis Terrarum,” Museum Plantin, Antwerp, Belgium.
“Art of Influence: Reflection in the Mirror of American Culture,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“Making Light: Wit and Humor in Photography,” Loeb Art Center, Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
“The Museum’s Permanaent Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA.
“The Standard Projection: 24/7,” The Standard Hotel, Hollywood, CA.
1999 “Southern California Car Culture,” Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA.
Chateau du Grand Jardin, Haute-Marne, France.
“The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000,” Culturgest, Lisbon,
Portugal. Travel to: Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
“Le Monde Réel,” Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris.
48th Venice Biennale, Italy.
“Through the Looking Glass,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island,
NY.
“The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000,” the Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York.
“Drawn for the Artist’s Collection,” The Drawing Center, New York. Traveled to: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
“Sliding Scale,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
1998 “The Stockholm Syndrome,” CD-Rom Exhibition in partnership with Cultural Capitol of Europe, 1998, Stockholm.
“L.A. on Paper RE-LAX,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
“Double Trouble,” The Patchett Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego, CA.
“Speed,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
“Performing Buildings,” Tate Gallery, London.
“California Scheming,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to: Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (through 1999).
1997 “A UCI Retrospective: Four Decades of Achievement in the Visual Arts,” Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine.
Kunstler Innen, 50 Positions of International Contemporary Art, Video
Portraits and Works,” Museum in Progress (Kunsthaus Bregenz), Vienna.
“A Lasting Legacy, Selections from the Lannan Foundation,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
“is there STILL LIFE?” Kent Gallery, New York.
“At the Threshold of the Visible: Miniscule and Small-Scale Art 1964- 1996,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Traveled to: The Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries, Baltimore, MD; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (through 1998).
“Scene of the Crime,” UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and
Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
“Dadaismo/Dadaismi, da Duchamp à Warhol,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, Milan.
“Biennale de Lyon,” Maison de Lyon, France.
“Changing Spaces: Artist’s Projects from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia,” Miami Art Museum. Traveled to: Arts Festival of Atlanta, City Gallery East, GA; Detroit Institute of Art, MI; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (through 1998).
“Sunshine & Noir. Art in LA. 1960-1997,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek,Denmark. Traveled to: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Italy; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles (through 1999).
“United Enemies,” Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague, Czech Republic.
“Un Toit Pour Tout le Monde – Ouevres de la Collection du FRAC
Languedoc-Roussillon.” Traveled to: Galerie der Kunstler, Munich;
Galerie Municipale de Manusinhos, Portugal; Kunstlerhaus Behtanien, Berlin.
“1997 Biennial Exhibition,” the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
“CAF Looks Forward and Back,” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA.
1996 “Nouvelles Acquisitions/95,” FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
(through 1997).
“a/drift,” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,” Annandale-on- Hudson, NY (through 1997).
“Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA’s Permanent Collection, 1975- 1996,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (through 1997).
“Blurring the Boundaries, Installation Art 1969-1996,” Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Traveled to: Memorial Art
Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; Ringling Art Museum Sarasota, FL through 1999).
“From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptor’s Drawings,” Frith Street
Gallery, London.
“L’Art au Corps,” Musées de Marseilles, France.
“At the End of the20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of
American Art,” National Gallery, Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece. Traveled to: Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (through 1997).
“Monument et Modernité à Paris: art, espace public et enjeux de memoire,
1891-1996,” Fondation electricité de France, Paris.
1996 “Love Gasoline,” Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto.
“The Influence of Duchamp & Picasso,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA.
“The Human Body in Contemporary American Sculpture,” Gagosian Gallery, New York.
“Master Printers and Master Pieces,” Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Japan.
“Systematic Aesthetics: Works from the Permanent Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
“Withdrawing,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
1995 “Paste UP, Past and Present,” Kent Gallery, New York.
“From Behind the Orange Curtain,” Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA.
“Artistes/Architects,” Le Nouveau Musée, Cedex, France.
“Collisions,” Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain.
“After Hiroshima,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.
Basel Art Fair (Marc Jancou Gallery), Switzerland.
“Mini Mundus,” White Columns Gallery, New York.
“Cosmos, Des Fragmants Futurs,” Centre National d’Art Contemporain,
Grenoble, France.
“Scratching the Belly of the Beast, Cutting Edge Media in Los Angeles,” Film Forum, Los Angeles.
“Endurance,” Exit Art, New York. Traveled to: Illinois State University; Beaver College, PA; Proton ICA, Amsterdam; National Museum of Art, Finland; GAK, Bremmer, Germany; Miami; Dade, FL; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada.
1994 “Virtual Reality,” Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
“Hors Limites,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
“Facts and Figures,” Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles.
“Contemporary and Beyond – Works by UCLA Professors and Selected
Students,” Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
“inSITE94,” Children’s Museum of Art, San Diego, CA.
“Where is Home?” Kent Gallery, New York.
“Works from the Permanent Collection,” Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Newport Beach, CA.
“Zuge Zuge – The Railway in Contemporary Art,” Stadtische Galerie
Goppingen, Germany.
“Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“The Sacred and the Profane,” Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles.
“(cut) – Los Angeles – 90 ‘ernes Kunstscene,” Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Traveled to Galerie F15, Moss, Norway.
“Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object,” Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art, OH.
“Chris Burden,” Les Passagers de l’art, Montpellier, France.
“Sculpture,” Gagosian Gallery (SoHo), New York.
“Playtime: Artists and Toys,” The Whitney Museum of American Art at
Champion, Stamford, CT.
“Toys/Art/Us,” Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY.
1993 “Co - Conspirators,” James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“The Readymade Remade: R.Mutt’s Legacy,” Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA.
“Legume,” Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway.
“Nouveaux Augueres – Acquisition 1992-1993,” FRAC Languedoc- Roussillon, Montpellier, France.
“Drawings” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
“In/Out of the Cold,” Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San
Francisco, CA.
“Co-Conspirators in the Third Room,” James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood, How to Recognize Contemporary Artist’s Prints,”
(curated by Kathan Brown). Traveled to: Columbia Museum of Art,
SC; Akron Art Museum, OH; Brown University, Providence, RI;
University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City.
“MONEY POLITICS/sex,” Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
“Action/Performance and the Photograph,” Turner Krull Gallery, Los Angeles. Traveled to: Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, OH; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada; Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax State University, Arcata, CA; Mississippi State University Starkville.
1993 “Mr. Sterling’s Neighborhood,” Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Artificial Paradise,” Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Really Big Show,” New Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA.
“1993 Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1992 “Lax,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
“Just Pathetic,” (curated by Ralph Rugoff) American Fine Arts, New York.
“Marking the Decades: Prints 1960-1990,” Baltimore Museum of Art, MD.
“Helter Skelter: L.A. Art of the 1990’s,” (curated by Paul Schimmel) Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1991 “Places With a Past: Site Specific Art In Charleston,” Spoleto Festival, U.S.A., Charleston, SC.
“Dislocations,” (curated by Robert Storr) Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“El Sueno Imperativo,” Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
“Mechanika,” Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.
“20th Century Collage,” Margo Levin Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Devices,” Josh Baer Gallery, New York.
“Power: It’s Myths, Icons and Structures in American Culture,” Indianapolis
Museum of Art, IN. Traveled to: Akron Art Museum, OH; Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmand.
“Sculptors’ Drawings,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
“Persona,” Kent Fine Arts, New York.
“Letters,” Christine Burgin Gallery, New York.
“In Public: Seattle 1991,” Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle WA.
“Illegal America,” Otis/Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Enclosure,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Connected Past,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA.
Josh Baer Gallery, New York.
1990 “Trains,” (curated by Douglas Blau) Michael Klein Gallery, New York.
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
“Video in Kolnischen Kunstverin,” Munich, Germany.
“Art Conceptual, Formes Conceptuelles,” Galerie 1900/2000, Paris.
“Edge 90: Art and life in the Ninties.” Traveled to: Newcastle, England;
Glasgow, Scotland; London; Rotterdam, Holland.
“Seven Obsessions,” Whitechapel Gallery, London.
“Just Pathetic,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Past and Present,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Illegal Art,” Exit Art, New York.
“Chris Burden, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman,” Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA.
“TSWA: Four Cities Project,” Newcastle, England.
“New Works for New Spaces,” Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH.
1989 “Image World: Art and Media Culture,” The Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York (through 1990).
“1989 Biennial Exhibition,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York.
“Prints: A Changing Exhibition,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Public Domain,” Kent Fine Arts, New York.
“Breaking Down Boundaries,” Henry Art Gallery, University of Seattle, WA.
“The 1980’s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Forty Years of California Assemblage,” Wight Art Gallery, University of
California, Los Angeles.
1988 Committed to Print,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“Identity: Representations of Self,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
“New Works on Paper,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Newport Harbor Museum,
Newport Beach, CA.
1988 “Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art,” Pence
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“Information as Ornament,” Feature Gallery and Reazac Gallery, Chicago, IL.
“Art at Pomona 1887-1987: A Centennial Celebration,” Pomona College, CA.
1987 “Art Against AIDS,” New York.
“Artist’s Statements,” Austria Center, Vienna.
“Fringe Patterns,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.
“L.A. Hot and Cool: Pioneers”” Bank of Boston Art Gallery (organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center), Boston, MA.
“Sculpture Arenas,” Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Franklin Furnace, New York.
1986 “Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
“A Southern California Collection,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Teaching Artists-The Faculty of Art and Design,” Wight Art Gallery,
University of California, Los Angeles.
“Television’s Impact on Contemporary Art,” The Queen’s Museum, Flushing, NY.
“Famous for Thirty Seconds,” Artists Space, New York.
“American Renaissance,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
“Poetic Resemblance,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY.
“Lumieres, perception-projection,” Centre internationale d’art contemporain,
Montreal, Québec, Canada.
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
“Television’s Impact on Contemporary Art,” The Queen’s Museum, Flushing, NY.
“Products and Promotion,” San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
1985 “Modern Machines: Recent Kinetic Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
“The Maximum Implications of the Minimal Line,” Edith C. Blum Art
Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
“Recent Kinetic Sculpture,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, Phillip
Morris Branch at 42nd Street, NY.
“Between Science and Fiction,” San Paolo Biennial, Brazil.
“No! Contemporary American DADA,” Henry Art Gallery, University of
Washington, Seattle.
“Inspired by Leonardo,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
“Brainwork as Artwork,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
1984 “In the Shadow of the Bomb,” Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South
Hadley, MA. Traveled to: Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
“A Recent Survey of International Painting and Sculpture,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984,” Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
“American Sculpture,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
“American and European,” L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA.
“Salvaged: Altered Everyday Object,” Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S. 1, New York.
“Art as Social Conscience,” Edith Blum Art Institute, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
“Art Park at Manhattan Art,” Manhattan Art, New York.
“International Festival of Video Art,” Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
“Money in Art,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Olympic Show,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Return of the Narrative,” Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
“Video: A Retrospective,” Long Beach Museum of Art, CA.
“National Video Festival Olympic Screenings,” The American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
1983 “1984 – A Preview,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
“Automobile and Culture,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (through 1984). Traveled to: Detroit Institute of Art, MI.
“Deeds and Feats,” Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA.
“International Performance Festival,” Rotterdam, Holland.
“California Current,” L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA.
“Site Strategies,” The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
“Publications of Cirrus Editions, Limited, Los Angeles,
“Survey of Prints: 1970-82,” Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago.
“Summer Show,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
“What Artists Have to Say About Nuclear War,” Nexus, Inc., Atlanta, GA.
“Preparing for War,” Brooklyn Army Terminal, NY.
1982 “Echange Entre Artistes 1931-1982 Pologne-USA,” Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville Paris, Pologne, France
“The Atomic Salon,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
“Prints by Contemporary Sculptors,” Yale University Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Revolutions Per Minute,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
“War Games,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
“A Tale of Two Cities,” San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX.
“Illegal America,” Franklin Furnace, New York.
“Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
“Premonitions of the Corporate Wars,” Nourse Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Anti-Apocalypse: Artists Respond to the Nuclear Peril,” Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ.
“New Work,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Forgotten Dimensions…A Survey of Small Sculptures in California Now,”
Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA. Traveled to eleven university galleries and other institutions under the auspices of the Art Museum Association, San Francisco, CA.
1981 “The Museum as Site: Sixteen Projects,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“California Performance Now and Then,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago.
“Usable Art,” Myers Fine Arts Gallery, Plattsburgh State University College of Arts and Sciences, Plattsburgh, NY. Traveled to: Brainerd Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY; Danforth Museum,
Framingham, MA; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA.
“TV in Place,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
“Forty Famous Californians - Recent Unique Works on Paper,” Judith
Christian Gallery, New York.
“California: A Sense of Individualism,” L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA.
“The Fix-It-Up Show,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
“Forty Famous Californians – Recent Unique Works on Paper,” Judith
Christian Gallery, New York.
“Sculpture in California, 1975-1980,” San Diego Museum of Art, CA.
1980 “Tableau,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Claremont Graduate
School, Claremont, CA.
“Contemporary Art in Southern California,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
“First Person Singular: Recent Self-Portraiture,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
“Southern California Drawings,” Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School,
University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT.
“Art Talks,” KPFA-FM94 and KALX-FM90.7, Berkeley, CA.
“Science Fiction: Imaginary Voyages,” Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY.
“Sculpture in California: 1975-1980,” San Diego Museum of Art, CA.
“The Gun Show,” Great Western Fair, Los Angeles County Fairground, Pomona, CA.
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1979 “Born in Boston,” De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
“The Reason for the Neutron Bomb,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
“Images of Self,” Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA.
“Video Artists, Books and Guest Performers,” Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.
1978 “From Pastel to Notation: Recent Drawings,” San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
“Sense of Self - From Self-Portrait to Autobiography,” organized by
Independent Curators, Inc. Traveled to Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase; New Gallery of Conceptual Art, Cleveland, OH; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Tangeman Fine Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH; Allen Memorial Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.
1977 “1977 Biennial Exhibition,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
“Documenta 6,” Kassel, Germany.
“A View of a Decade,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“The Artist’s Book,” Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
1976 “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era,” San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, CA. Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
“New Talent Award Winners ‘63-‘76,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
“Via Los Angeles,” Portland Center for Visual Artists, OR.
1975 “Verbal/Visual,” Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
“Projects Video,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“Bodyworks,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“Southland Video Anthology,” Long Beach Museum of Art, CA.
1974 “L’Art Corporel,” Galerie Stadler, Paris.
“Word Works,” Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA.
“Art as Living Ritual,” Poolerie Gallery, Graz, Austria.
“California Climate,” Hamilton College, Hamilton, NY.
1971 “Body Movements,” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA.

Major Works and Installations

Over 80 performances between 1971 and 1983, including:

1982 “Hercules,” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
1980 “Warning! Relax, or You Will Be Nuked Again,” Art House, Nishinomiya, Japan.
1979 “Honest Labor,” Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
“Send Me Your Money,” KPFK Radio, Los Angeles, CA.
1977 “Full Financial Disclosure,” Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles.
1976 “Death Valley Run,” Death Valley, CA.
“Shadow,” Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
1975 “White Light/White Heat,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
“Working Artist,” University of Maryland Baltimore, MD.
“Doomed,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Il.
1974 “The Confession,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
“Transfixed,” Venice, CA.
1973 “Icarus,” Venice, CA.
1972 “TV Hijack,” Channel 3 Cablevision, Irvine, CA.
1971 “You’ll Never See My Face In Kansas City,” Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Five Day Locker Piece,” University of California, Irvine, CA.
“Shoot,” F Space, Santa Ana, CA.

Four separate art works simultaneously broadcast on several commercial T.V. channels in Los Angeles and New York City using T.V. advertising from 1973-1977.

1993 “Fist of Light” (installation).
1991 “The Other Vietnam Memorial.”
1990 “Medusa’s Head” (installation).
1987 “All the Submarines of the United States of America.”
1986 “Exposing the Foundations of the Museum.”
1985 “Tower of Power.”
“Samson” (installation).
1984 “Beam Drop.”
1983 “Scale Model of the Solar System.”
1981 “The Tale of Two Cities.”
1979 “The Reason for the Neutron Bomb” (installation).
1979 “The Big Wheel.”
1977 (c.) “C.B.T.V.” a working reproduction of the first mechanical T.V.
“Full Financial Disclosure.”
1975 “B-Car” a fully operational 200 lb. automobile.

Video Screenings

2003 “Through the Night Softly & Shoot,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture @ The Schindler House, Los Angeles.

Lectures/panels/teaching Experience

1978-Present Full tenured Professor, Head of New Genre, University of California, Los Angeles.
2004 Lecture at UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Feb 19.
2003 Lecture on artist’s own work, “Small Skyscrapers,” as part of the L.A.
Forum for Architecture and Urban Design lecture series at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Apr 17.

Awards

1997-98 The Visual Arts Awards, Flintridge Foundation
1983 National Endowment of the Arts Grant
1980 National Endowment of the Arts Grant
1978 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1976 National Endowment of the Arts Grant
1974 National Endowment of the Arts Grant
1973 New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Selected Bibliography

2004 Ebony, David. “From Bullets to Bridges.” Art in America, Apr, pp. 120-121.
Freudenheim, Susan. “Burden’s Bridges: Toys That Fulfilled Their Potential.”
The New York Times, Feb 8, section 2, p. 31.
Colman, David. “Art and the Zen of Garden Trains.” The New York Times,
Jan 25, Style section p. 7.
2003 Concrete Art. Austria: Graz Sweitausenddrei.
1999 Morris, Frances. Chris Burden: When Robots Rule: The Two-Minute Airplane
Factory. London: Tate Gallery Publishing.
1995 Albertini, Rosanna. Chris Burden/Bill Viola. Bolzano, Italy: Museo d’Art
Moderna.
1986 Hunter, Sam, ed. An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since
1940. Fort Lauderdale: Museum of Art; New York, Abbeville Press.
1984 Battock, Gregory and Robert Nickas, eds. The Art of Performance: A Critical
Anthology. New York: E.P. Dutton.

Writings by the Artist

1984 “Dreamy Nights.” Rampike, vol. 3, no. 2.
1979 “Coals to Newcastle.” High Performance, Mar, no. 2, pp. 12-13.
“The Curse of Big Job.” High Performance, Mar, no. 2, pp. 2-3.
1978 Chris Burden: 74-77. Los Angeles: Chris Burden.
1977 Burden, Chris and Alexis Smith. B-Car, The Story of Chris Burden’s Bicycle Car. CHOKE Publications.
Full Financial Disclosure . Los Angeles: Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery.
“Chris Burden.” Flash Art (Italy), Jan/Feb, no. 70/71, pp. 40-44.
“Garcon.” Art Com (La Mamelle pub.), vol. 2, pp. 14-15.
1976 “100 M.P.H./100 M.P.G.” Criss Cross Double Cross, no. 1, pp. 37-38.
“B-Car.” Choke, Sep, pp. 23-26.
1975 Burden, Chris and Jan Butterfield. “Chris Burden: Through the Night Softly.”
Arts Magazine, Mar, no. 49, pp. 68-72.
“Chris Burden.” Flash Art (Italy), Jun/Jul, no. 56/57, pp. 39-41.
“Oracle.” Vision, Sep, no. 1, pp. 50-51.
“Sculptured in Three Parts.” Art Com (La Mamelle pub.), summer, vol. 1.
1974 Chris Burden, 71-73. Los Angeles: Chris Burden.

Film, Videotapes and Audiotape

1984 “Beam Drop.” Film, 6 minutes.
1983 “Cost-Effective Micro-Weaponry That Works.” Videotape, 2 minutes.
1982 “Fire by Friction.” Videotape, 2 minutes.
1980 “The Big Wheel.” Videotape, color, 29 minutes. Produced by Sharpcom Productions.
1979 “Send Me Your Money.” Audiotape.
“Wiretap.” Audiotape.
“Atomic Alphabet.” Audiotape.
1978 “The Citadel.” Audiotape.
1977 “Full Financial Disclosure.” Videotape commercial, color, 39 minutes.
1975 “Selections 1971-74.” Videotapes, B/W and Color, 36 minutes.
“Car Nut.” B/W Videotape, 25 minutes. Produced by Art Tapes, Florence.
“Guru for Detroit.” B/W Videotape, 25 minutes. Produced by Art Tapes, Florence.
“Art and Technology.” B/W Videotape, 25 minutes. Courtesy De Appel, Amsterdam.
“Chris Burden: Videoviewed by Willoughby Sharp.” B/W Videotape, 30 minutes.
1974 T.V. Interview. Videotape, color, 30 minutes.