Education and teaching
1962-65
Studied painting and philosophy at The Royal College of Art, London
1965-67
Studied painting, sculpture and philosophy at Yale University, New Haven
1967-73
Lecturer, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
1973-88
Senior Lecturer, then Professor, Department of Film and Photography, Polytechinic of Central London
1988-95
Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz
1995-2001
Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
2001–
Millard Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Residencies and Awards
1976-77
US/UK Bicentennial Arts Exchange Fellow, New York
1978-79
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellow, Berlin
1978-79
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellow, Berlin
1980
Picker Professor, Colgate University
1986
Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1987
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, State University of New York, Binghamton
1988
Artist in Residence, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Australia
1989
International Artist in Residence, Film in the Cities, Saint Paul, Minnesota
1993
Artist in Residence, I.ME.RE.C (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherche et de Création), Marseille, France
1997
Soros Foundation Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest, Hungary
2000
Robert Gwathmey Chair in Art and Architecture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
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Current and past exhibition-dates and information
Sep 16th, 2006
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy
Mar 13th, 2010
victor burgin, dovedale
More dates:
Select solo exhibitions
2010
"Dovedale" Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln
2009
"US 77 et The Little House", Fondation Brownstone, Paris
"Hôtel D.", Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
"Victor Burgin — Travaux 1970-1984", Centre Régional de la Photographie, Nord Pas-de-Calais
2008
"Alle otto. Solito posto & Voyage to Italy", Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Alle otto. Solito posto & Voyage to Italy", Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
"Nietzsche's Paris and other Works", Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
2007
"Victor Burgin, La Cinquième Promenade et autres oeuvres", MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Schwitzerland
"Fogliazzi", Galerie Art & Essai, Université Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne, Rennes, France
2006
"Voyage to Italy", Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
"Voyage to Italy", Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
2003
Cordoaria Nacional, Torreão Nascente, LisboaPhoto, Lisbon
Cornerhouse, Manchester
2002
Arnolfini, Bristol
2001
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
2000
Architectural Association, London
1999
Weimar 99 Cultural Festival, Weimar, Germany
1998
"Rule Without Exception", New York Institute of Contemporary Art
1997
Mücsarnok Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1995
University at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture
1993
Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington
1991
Musée d’art moderne Villeneuve d’Ascq, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
1989
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota
1986
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1986
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
1986
Orchard Gallery, Derry
1986
Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1986
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois
1984
Impressions Gallery of Photography, York
1981
Zwiczek Polskich Artsow Fotografickow, Warsaw
1981
Musée de la Ville de Calais, Calais
1979
DAAD Gallery, Berlin
1978
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1977
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1976
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Select Group Exhibitions:
2007
›Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years‹, Barbican Art Gallery, London
›Erblätterte Identitäten‹, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
2006
›The Secret Public‹, Kunstverein Munich
›Erblätterte Identitäten‹, Stadthaus Ulm
›Piktogramme - Die Einsamkeit der Zeichen‹, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
2005
›D'une image qui ne serait pas du semblant - La photographie écrite. 1950-2005‹, Passage de Retz, F
›La Photographie à l'épreuve‹, MAM Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne
›Kontexte der Fotografie‹, Kunstverein und Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
›mysteriös‹, Fotogalerie Wien
›Projet Cône Sud‹, MAMBA Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
›The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982‹, Miami Art Central (MAC)
2004
'L'Art au Futur Anterieur', Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
'The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
'Eblouissement', Jeu de Paume, Paris
'Artists' Choice', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2002
'Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20.Jahrhundert', Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
'Sans commune mesure, Image et texte dans l'art actuel', Musée d'art moderne Lille
'I Promise It's Political', Museum Ludwig, Cologne
'Rapture: art's seduction by fashion since 1970', Barbican Gallery, London
1999
'Notorious: Art and Cinema', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (nachfolgend in Sydney, Tokio, Barcelona, und anderen Orten bis 2001)
'Media/Metaphor, 46th Corcoran Biennial', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1997
'The Impossible Document: Photography and British Conceptual Art 1967-76', Camerawork Gallery, London, England
1996-7
'Face à l'Histoire 1933-1966: L'artiste moderne face à l'événement historique', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1996
'Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945', The Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
'Photography after Photography: defining photography through digitality', Kunsthalle Munich (and other museums in Europa and the USA)
'Text & Image', Frankfurter Kunstverein/Museum of Modern Art Bolzano
'1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art', The Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
'3e Biennale de Lyon: installation, cinéma, vidéo, informatique in Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
1989
'The Art of Photography: 1839-1989,' Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Royal Academy of Art, London; Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Union, Moscow; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
'On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,' Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Art Museum
L'art conceptuel, une perspective', ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1988
The Future of the Metropolis,' Triennale di Milano, Milan
1987
'The Turner Prize,' Tate Gallery, London
'Photography and Art,' Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Queens Museum, NY; Des Moines Art Center
'Écran Politiques,' Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
'Berlinart 1961-1987,' Museum of Modern Art, New York
'The British Edge,' Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
'British Art in the Twentieth Century,' The Royal Academy, London
'Difference:on Sexuality and Representation,' New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1984
'Photographic Image in Contemporary Art,'National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1980
'Kunst im Sozialen Kontext,' Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
'The Third Biennale of Sydney,' The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
'Three Perspectives on Photography,' Hayward Gallery, London
1977
'Hayward Annual', Hayward Gallery, London
'Europe in the Seventies' Aspects of Recent Art,' Art Institute of Chicago
1976
'Arte Inglese Oggi 1960-1976,' Palazzo Reale, Mailand
1975
'Victor Burgin/Art and Language,' Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Etienne
1974
'Art and Politics,' Galerie, Bochum
1973
'Contemporanea,' Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome
1972
'36 Biennale de Venezia,' Venedig
'Documenta 5,' Museum Fredericianum and Neue Galerie, Kassel
'The New Art,' Hayward Gallery, London
1971
'Guggenheim International Exhibition,' Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
'The British Avant-Garde,' The New York Cultural Center, New York
1970
Information,The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
'When Attitudes Become Form,' Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Artworks in Public Collections that include:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The New York Public Library
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Tate Gallery, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Arts Council Collection, London
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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Pressreleases
Sep 22nd, 2006
Victor Burgin in "Secret Public. The last days of the British underground 1978 - 1988"
Sep 22nd, 2006
New publication by Victor Burgin
Oct 27th, 2006
ARCO '07 from 15th-19th Feb 2007
More publications
Select Books and Monographs
Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin. Alexander Streitberger (Hg.). Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2010
Components of a Practice. Milan: Skira, 2008
Voyage to Italy. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006
The Remembered Film. London: Reaktion Books, 2004
Relocating. London/Bristol: August/Arnolfini, 2002
Victor Burgin. Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2000
Shadowed. London: Architectural Association, 2000
Victor Burgin: Robert Gwathmey Lectures. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 2000
Venise. London: Black Dog Publishing, 1997
Szerelmes Levelek/Love Letter. Budapest: Mücsarnok Museum, 1997
In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996
Some Cities. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: Reaktion Books, 1996
History Painting. Buffalo: University at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture, 1995
Passages. Lille: Musée d'art moderne de la Communaté Urbaine de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 1991
Taideteorian Loppu. Helsinki: Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museon Säätiö, Literos, 1989
Victor Burgin, opere 1982-1986. Milan: Le Case d'Arte, 1988
Victor Burgin: Office at Night and Danaïdes/Dames. Charlotte, NC: Knight Gallery, City of Charlotte, 1988
The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity. London/Basingstoke: Macmillan Press; New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1986
Between. Oxford/New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986
Formations of Fantasy. (co-edited with J. Donald and C. Kaplan) London: Methuen, 1986
Thinking Photography. Victor Burgin (ed.) London/Basingstoke: Macmillan Press; New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1982
Hôtel Latône. Calais: Edition Musée de Calais, 1982
Family. New York: Lapp Princess Press, in association with Printer Matter, Inc., 1977
Victor Burgin. Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1977
Two Essays on Art, Photography and Semiotics. London: Robert Self Publications, 1976
Work and Commentary. London: Latimer, 1973
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