Chris Burden - Wikipedia
WEBChristopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance art, sculpture, and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including Shoot (1971), where he arranged for a friend to shoot him in the arm with a small-caliber rifle.
Chris Burden Performances, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBMay 10, 2015 · Chris Burden's seemingly outrageous performances were in fact authentically intentioned. His art explores the nature of suffering by setting up extreme situations that he, himself, has to endure.
Chris Burden, a Conceptualist With Scars, Dies at 69
WEBMay 12, 2015 · Chris Burden, a conceptual artist who in the line of duty had himself shot, pierced, starved, crucified, electrocuted, cut by glass, kicked down stairs, locked up, dropped from heights and...
Chris Burden - Gagosian
WEBJun 17, 2024 · —Chris Burden. From his action-based works of the 1970s to the jaw-dropping technical feats of his later sculptures, Chris Burden (1946–2015) consistently challenged his mental and physical limitations, reflecting on the surreal and precarious realities of contemporary life.
Chris Burden | American Performance Artist, Sculptor
WEBChris Burden was an American performance and installation artist and sculptor based in Los Angeles who in the 1970s became recognized for shockingly masochistic works such as Shoot (1971) and Trans-fixed (1974), in which he played the central role.
Chris Burden, who pushed the limits of art, dies at 69
WEBLOS ANGELES (AP) — When Chris Burden stood in front of a camera in 1971 and had a friend open fire on him with a rifle he was making a bold statement to the world: a new artist had arrived, one who was willing to push the limits of art as far as his imagination would take it. Over the next 44 years, that imagination would prove all but limitless as Burden …
The Man Who Hurt Himself for Art - The New Yorker
WEBMar 31, 2023 · Chris Burden tackled American obsessions—guns, screens, suffering—through a series of shocking performances. Did his pain have a point?
Chris Burden - MoMA
WEBChristopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance art, sculpture, and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including Shoot (1971), where he arranged for a friend to shoot him in the arm with a small-caliber rifle.
Chris Burden, Cornerstone of Performance Art, Has Died at 69
WEBMay 10, 2015 · Chris Burden, the trailblazing artist who began his career with harrowing performances and ended it with monumental sculptures that obsessively channel childlike enthusiasms, died of melanoma...
Chris Burden, who pushed the limits of art, dies at 69
WEBMay 11, 2015 · LOS ANGELES — When Chris Burden stood in front of a camera in 1971 and had a friend open fire on him with a rifle he was making a bold statement to the world: a new artist had arrived, one...