BRUCE CONNER
Rojen 1933 v Kansasu; 1956 diplomiral iz likovne umetnosti na Nebraska University; od 1957 neodvisni filmski delavec; 1957 ustanovil oddelek Experimental Cinema na University of Colorado; 1958 ustanovil združenje Camera Obscura Film Society; 1965 ustanovni član filmskega združenja Canyon Cinema Film - Makers Cooperative; pionir v razvijanju multimedijskega light-showa v San Franciscu; ukvarja se s slikarstvom, kiparstvom, filmom, fotografijo, fotogramom, z risbo, jedkanico, litografijo, monotipijo, assemblagom etc.; svetovalec za montažo pri Dennisu Hopperju, Petru Fondi etc.; od 1958 poučuje in predava na ameriških in evropskih univerzah in muzejih.
Born in Kansas in 1933; 1956 B.A. of Fine Arts, Nebraska University; since 1957 independent film maker; 1957 founded Experimental Cinema at the University of Colorado; 1958 founded Camera Obscura Film Society; 1965 a founding member of Canyon Cinema Film-Makers Cooperative in San Francisco; pioneer in the development of multi-media light shows in San Francisco; works in several media: painting, sculpture, drawing, etching, lithography, monotypy, photography, motion picture film, photogram, assemblage, etc. editing adviser to Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda etc. since 1958 has taught and given lectures at American and European universities and museums.
Njegova dela so v mnogih javnih zbirkah / His works are a part of many public collections: Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Museum Moderner Kunst, Dunaj / Vienna; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Chicago Art Institute; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Oakland Art Museum; University Art Museum; U.C. Berkeley; Los Angeles County Art Museum; Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C..
Samostojne razstave / Solo Exhibitions
1966 Western Association of Art Museums; 1977 Denver Art Museum, Denver; University of Colorado, Boulder; 1983 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; 1985 “Bruce Conner Photograms”, The Art Museum Association of America;1986 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; 1987 University of California Art Museum, Berkley; Pink and Pearl Gallery, San Diego; 1988 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York; 1989 Smith/Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; 1990 Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica; 1991 Smith/Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica; 1992 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Feigen Gallery, Chicago; Curt Marcus Gallery, New York; Smith/Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; 1993 Zabriskie Gallery, New York; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Kohn/Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles; 1995 Kohn/Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; Curt Marcus Gallery, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York; 1996 Smith/Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Pavle Anglim Gallery, San Francisco.
Izbor skupinskih razstav / Selected Group Exhibitions
1961 “The Art of Assemblage”, Museum of Modern Art, New York; 1963 “IV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea”, Republica di San Marino, 1964 “Contemporary American Sculpture”, Whitney Museum of American Art; 1967 “American Sculpture of the Sixties”, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; 1969 “Human Concern / Human Torment”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1972 “Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965”, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; 1976 “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; 1979 “The 1979 Whitney Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 1987 “Made in USA”, University of California Art Museum, Berkeley; 1988 “Different Drummers”, Hirschorn Museum, Washington D.C.; 1995 “Beat Culture and the New America”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996 “Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film: 1945-1965”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Filmi / Films
1958 “A Movie”; 1961 “Cosmic Ray”; 1964 “Leader”; “Vivian”; 1965 “Ten Second Film”; 1966 “Breakaway”; 1967 “Report”; “Looking for Mushrooms”; “The White Rose”; “Liberty Crown”; 1969 “Permian Strata”; 1969-1973 “Marilyn Times Five”; 1975 “Crossroads”; 1976 “Take the 5:10 to Dreamland”; 1977 “Valse Triste”; 1978 “Mongoloid”; 1982 “America is Waiting”; 1995 “Television Assassination”; 1996 “Looking for Mushrooms”.
Naslov / Address:
45 Sussex Street, SF, CA 94131, ZDA / USA.