Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin (born 1941) is an artist.
Burgin was born in Sheffield in England. He studied art at the Royal College of Art, in London from 1962 to 1965 (A.R.C.A., 1st Class, 1965) before going to the United States to study at Yale University (M.F.A. 1967). He lives and works in San Francisco. Victor Burgin has taught at Goldsmiths College, the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist. He has worked with photography and film, calling painting "the anachronistic daubing of woven fabrics with coloured mud". His work is influenced by theorists and philosophers such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. His work is focused on the juxtaposition of image and text and on the depiction and representation of women and fetish.
In 1986, Burgin was nominated for the Turner Prize for several of his exhibtions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge and for a collection of his theoretical writings and essays (The End of Theory and Between).
Exhibitions
1998 Love Letters, Möcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest
1996 Love Stories, John Weber Gallery, New York
1995 The End, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture
1994 The End, John Weber Gallery, New York; Les Quatres Saisons, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1992 Passages, Espace Poulain, Ville de Blois, France
1991 Passages, Musee d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
1986 Victor Burgin, ICA, London
1981 Victor Burgin, Musee de la Ville de Calais, Calais
1979 Zoo, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
1978 Victor Burgin, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1977 Victor Burgin, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1976 Lei Feng, Foksal Gallery, Poznan, Poland; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London