Bruce Barber
Bruce Barber
Bruce Barber: BFA (1973), MFA (Sculpture) Auckland University, N.Z. (1975); MFA (Intermedia), NSCAD (1978), PhD Media and Communications (2005), European Graduate School, Switzerland. At NSCAD he teaches courses in media arts, film history and criticism. His artwork has been exhibited internationally at the Paris Biennale, Sydney Biennale, 49th Parallel Gallery NYC, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, Walter Phillips Gallery, London Regional Gallery, Auckland City Art Gallery, Artspace, Sydney, Auckland, London, Paris and Venice (2015, 2017), and is represented in various public and private collections. Barber is the editor of Essays on Performance and Cultural Politicization and of Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection 1967-1973. He is co-editor, with Serge Guilbaut & John O'Brian of Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power and the State. Editor of Condé +Beveridge: Class Works(2008); also author of Performance [Performance] and Performers: Essays and Conversations (2 volumes) (2008); and Trans/Actions: Art, Film and Death (2008); Littoral Art & Communicative Actionedited by Marc James Léger (2013). His critical essays have appeared internationally in numerous anthologies, art journals and magazines. Barber’s interdisciplinary art practice is also documented in the publications Reading Rooms (1990) and Bruce Barber Work 1970-2008 (2009). www.brucebarber.ca