VITA

Born 1941 in Sheffield (England) 

2007- Visiting Professor, Sorbonne, Paris
2003- Visiting Professor, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee
2001-2006 Millard Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London 
1995-2001 Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz 
1988-95 Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz 
1973-88 Senior Lecturer, then Professor, Department of Film and Photography, Polytechnic of Central London 
1965-67 Studied painting, sculpture and philosophy at Yale University, New Haven
1962-65 Studied painting and philosophy at The Royal College of Art, London


RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2000 Robert Gwathmey Chair in Art and Architecture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
1997 Soros Foundation, Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest 
1993 Artist in Residence, Institut Méditerranéen de Recherche et de Création, Marseille
1989 International Artist in Residence, Film in the Cities, Saint Paul, Minnesota
1988 Artist in Residence, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Australia
1987 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, State University of New York, Binghamton
1986 Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1980 Picker Professor, Colgate University 
1978-79 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellow, Berlin
1976-77 US/UK Bicentennial Arts Exchange Fellow, New York 


ARTWORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York 
The New York Public Library 
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wahington
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 
The Tate Gallery, London 
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
The Arts Council Collection, London 
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Istanbul 2010 – Cultural Capital of Europe

2009
Hôtel Berlin. Campagne Première, Berlin
US 77 et The Little House. Fondation Brownstone, Paris
Hôtel D.; Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse

2008
Alle otto. Solito posto & Tales from Freud, Museo di Fotografia contemporanea, Milan
Alle otto. Solito posto & Voyage to Italy, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

2007-08
Victor Burgin, La Cinquième Promenade et autres oeuvres, MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Nietzsche's Paris and other works, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven

2007
The Little House, MAK Foundation, Los Angeles

2006
Voyage to Italy, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy. Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln

2003
LisboaPhoto 2003, Cordoaria Nacional, Torreão Nascente, Lisbon
Cornerhouse, Manchester

2002
Arnolfini, Bristol

2001
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

2000
Architectural Association, London

1999
Weimar 99 Cultural Festival, Weimar

1998
Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
Rule Without Exception, New York Institute of Contemporary Art

1997
Mücsarnok Museum, Budapest

1995
University at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture

1993
Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington

1991
Musée d’art moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq

1988
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

1986
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois

1984
Impressions Gallery of Photography, York, England

1981
Zwiczek Polskich Artsow Fotografickow, Warsaw
Musée de la Ville de Calais

1979
DAAD Gallery, Berlin

1978
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1977
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

1976
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
BRAVE NEW WORLD - From the perspective of Mudam Collection. Mudam, Fondation Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
AÑOS 70, FOTOGRAFÍA Y VIDA COTIDIANA. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla 

2009
LEARN TO READ ART: A History of Printed Matter (1976-2009). P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island
MOCA's First Thirty Years, 30 Works for 30 Years. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2008
Jedermann Collection, Fotomuseum Winterthur
SEEING DOUBLE. Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln

2007
Einführung in die Kunstgeschichte, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal 
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Erblätterte Identitäten, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig

2006-07
The Secret Public, Kunstverein München und ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

2006
How to Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006, Hayward Gallery, London
Piktogramme - Die Einsamkeit der Zeichen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Kontexte der Fotografie, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen

2005
Mysteriös, Fotogalerie Wien
La Photographie à l’épreuve, MAM de Saint-Etienne
Grazer Kunstverein
Photography’s Expanded Field, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
Quand l'absence fait sens, Galerie d'art contemporain, Besançon
Projet Cone Sud, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Miami Art Central

2004-5
Des images qui ne seraient pas du semblant: La photographie écrite, Passage de Retz, Paris

2004
Acquisitions récentes, Oeuvres contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
Short Stories, Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp
L’Art au Futur Anterieur, Musée de Grenoble
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Artists’ Choice, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
20 Years of the Turner Prize, Tate Modern, London

2002-3
Rapture: art’s seduction by fashion since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London

2002
Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Sans commune mesure, Image et texte dans l’art actuel, Musée d’art moderne Lille
I Promise It’s Political, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2001
Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

2000-01
Media/Metaphor, 46th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1999
Notorious: Art and Cinema, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (and touring: Sydney, Tokyo, Barcelona, and other venues to 2001)

1998
Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

1997
Foto Text/Text Foto: dialog von fotografie und text in der gegenwartskunst, Fotomuseum Winterthur
The Impossible Document: Photography and British Conceptual Art 1967-76, Camerawork Gallery, London

1996-7
Face à l’Histoire 1933-1966: L’artiste moderne face à l’événement historique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1996
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945, The Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
Photography after Photography: defining photography through digitality, Kunsthalle München (and subsequently in other venues in other European and US cities)
Text & Bild, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano

1995-96
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
3e Biennale de Lyon: installation, cinéma, vidéo, informatique in Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon

1995
Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

1994
New Acquisitions? New Work/New Directions 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1993
Iterations: The New Digital Imaging, International Center of Photography, New York

1992
L’Epreuve Numérique, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

1990
Inquiries: Language in Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
L’art conceptuel, une perspective, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1989
The Art of Photography: 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Royal Academy of Art, London; Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Union, Moscow; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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
International video exhibition, The Tate Gallery, London
Through the Looking Glass–Photographic Art in Britain 1945-1989, Barbican Art Gallery, London

1988
The Future of the Metropolis, Triennale di Milano, Milan
Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1987
The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
British Art in the Twentieth Century, The Royal Academy, London
Englische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Queens Museum, NY; Des Moines Art Center
Écran Politiques, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal
Berlinart 1961-1987, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
Difference: on Sexuality and Representation, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1984
Photographic Image in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1981
British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Ils se disent..., Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1980
Das Bild einer Geschichte 1956-76: Die Sammlung Panza di Biumo, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
Kunst im Sozialen Kontext, Badische Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Foto Text, Museum Folkwang, Essen
The Third Biennale of Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Three Perspectives on Photography, Hayward Gallery, London

1979
Un Certain Art Anglais, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1977
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Europe in the Seventies, Aspects of Recent Art, Art Institute of Chicago; travelled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1976
Arte Inglese Oggi 1960-1976, Palazzo Reale, Milan

1975
Victor Burgin / Art and Language, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne
Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London

1974
Carl Andre / Marcel Broodthaers / Daniel Buren / Victor Burgin / Gilbert & George / On Kawara / Richard Long / Gerhard Richter, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Kunst-Über-Kunst, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Projekt ‘74: Kunst bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

1973
Modern British Art for the Tate Gallery, London

1972
Konzept-Kunst, Kunstmuseum Basel
36. Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Documenta 5, Museum Fridericianum and Neue Galerie, Kassel
The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London

1971
Guggenheim International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The British Avant-Garde, The New York Cultural Center, New York
Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1970
Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969
When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London