Victor Burgin b. 1941 in Sheffield, England (UK). Lives and works in San Francisco (USA). Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA) Received his A.R.C.A (1st Class) from The Royal College of Art, London in 1965, and his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1967.
Selected solo exhibitions
1976		Lei Feng, Foksal Gallery, Poznan, Poland
		Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
1977		Victor Burgin, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1978		Victor Burgin, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1979		Zoo, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
1981		Victor Burgin, Musée de la Ville de Calais, Calais
1986		Victor Burgin, ICA, London
1991		Passages, Musée d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France;
1992		Passages, Espace Poulain, Ville de Blois, France
1994		The End, John Weber Gallery, New York
		Les Quatres Saisons, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1995		The End, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture
1996		Love Stories, John Weber Gallery, New York
1998		Love Letters, Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest
Selected group exhibitions
1967		British Painting, British Pavilion, World Expo '67, Montréal, Québec (Canada)
1969		557,087 (curated by Lucy Lippard), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (USA); traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia (Canada) as 995,000; and to Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires (Argentina) as 2,972,453
		When Attitudes Become Form / Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information, Kunsthalle, Bern (Switzerland), and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London
1970		Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971		Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
		XI. Bienal de São Paulo Road Show: New English Inquiry, São Paulo (Brazil)
		Guggenheim International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1972		The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London
		Documenta 5, Museum Fredericianum and Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
		XXXVI. International Biennale, Venice, Italy
1973		Modern British Art for the Tate Gallery, London
1974		Carl Andre/Marcel Broodthaers/Daniel Buren/Victor Burgin/Gilbert & George/On Kawara/Richard Long/Gerhard Richter, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1975		Victor Burgin/Art and Language, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1977		Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art, Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (all USA)
1980		3rd Sydney Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1981		British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1984		Photographic Image in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1987		Difference: on Sexuality and Representation, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
		The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
		Berlinart 1961-1987, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988		The Future of the Metropolis, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1989		New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
		Malaise, Galeria La Máquina Española, Madrid
		International Video Exhibition, The Tate Gallery, London
		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
		The Art of Photography: 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA); Royal Academy of Art, London; Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Union, Moscow; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1992		The Power of Words: An Aspect of Recent Documentary Photography, American Federation of the Arts, national two-year touring exhibition (USA)
		Artistes pour Amnesty International, Fondation Nationale des Arts, Paris; Amnesty International Benefit and Auction, Hôtel des arts, Paris
1995		Fotografie nach der fotografie (Photography after photography), Siemens Kulturprogramm, Munich, Germany
		1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art / The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
		L'Image Électronique, 3e Biennale d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
1996		Spellbound: Art and Film Since 1945, The Museum of Contemporary Art / The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
		Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
1996-97		Face à l'Histoire 1933-1966: L'artiste moderne face à l'événement historique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1997		La stanza degli specchi: Arte e film dal 1945, Palazzo della Esposizioni, Rome
		Biennale Internationale de l'Image: Instants de Ville, Palais de Congrès de Nancy, France
Selected video
1987		Fall, Video-wall (36 monitors), two minute videodisk programme, Mississauga Shopping Mall, and other locations, Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1989		Fall, Video-wall (36 monitors), two minute videodisk programme, edited version, Tate Gallery, London
1993		Venise (PAL U-matic SP, colour, 30 min.), for Ville de Marseille, France Permanent computer-video installation for the Médiatheque d'Orléans, Ville d'Orléans, France
1998		Ferenczi (30 min.), for C3, Budapest
Works in public collections The Museum of Modern Art, New York The New York Public Library Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA) The Tate Gallery, London The Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Arts Council Collection, London Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fellowships and awards
1976-77		US/UK Bicentennial Arts Exchange Fellow, New York
1978-79		Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship, Berlin
1991		Allocation de recherche et de séjour, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Délégation aux Arts Plastiques (vidéo et nouvelles technologies de l'image), Paris
1995		NEA Regional Initiative Artists' Regranting Program project grant (USA)
Artist residencies
1980		Espace Lyonais d'Art Contemporain, Ville de Lyon, France
1981		Musée de Grenoble, Ville de Grenoble, France
1986		Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA (USA)
1987		University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (USA)
1988		Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Australia
1989		Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
		Film in the Cities, International Artist Residency Program, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
1993		I.ME.RE.C (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherche et de Création), Marseille, France
1997		C3, Budapest
Writings
1973		Work and Commentary, Latimer, London
1976		Two Essays on Art, Photography and Semiotics, Robert Self Publications, London
1977		Victor Burgin, Stedelijk van abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
		Family, Lapp Princess Press, Ltd., in association with Printed Matter, Inc., New York
1982		Hôtel Latône, Edition Musée de Calais, Calais
		Thinking Photography, Victor Burgin (ed.), [Burgin: Introduction, three essays, bibliography], The Macmillan Press Ltd., London and Basingstoke, and Humanities Press International, New Jersey (l982, reprinted 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 (twice), 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994)
1986		Formations of Fantasy, (co-edited with Donald, J. and Kaplan, C.), [Burgin: Introduction, one essay, translation], Methuen, London
		Between, Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York
		The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity, Macmillan Press, London and Basingstoke, and Humanities Press International, New Jersey (l986, reprinted 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1996)
1988		Victor Burgin, Office at Night and Danaïdes/Dames, Knight Gallery, City of Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
		Victor Burgin, opere 1982-1986, Le Case d'Arte, Milan
1989		Taideteorian Loppu, Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museon Säätiö, Literos, collection of essays by Burgin in Finnish translation, Helsinki
1991		Passages, Musée d'art moderne de la Communauté Urbaine de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille
1995		History Painting, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture, Buffalo, New York
1996		Some Cities, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, and Reaktion Books, London
		In/Different Spaces: place and memory in visual culture, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
1997		Venise, Black Dog Publishing, London
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