Victor Burgin

Victor Burgin (born 1941) is an artist.

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1941 - Artist

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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 University of California, Santa Cruz and the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

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Sheffield - England - Art - Royal College of Art - London - United States - Yale University - Goldsmiths College - University of California, Santa Cruz - European Graduate School - Saas-Fee - Switzerland

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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.

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Conceptual art - Photography - Film - Painting - Karl Marx - Sigmund Freud - Michel Foucault - Roland Barthes

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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).

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Turner Prize - Cambridge

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