Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman (1941, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.) is one of the most important American contemporary artists, a major figure of conceptual art. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at the University of California, Davis. His oeuvre is wide-ranging in content, form, materials and mediums. Nauman makes use of a wide range of materials and mediums. Besides photography, neon tubing (with words) and performance art, he created drawings, films, prints, large wall installations, and sculptures. He was also interested in casts of taxidermy forms to create assemblages of wild deer, foxes, and other animals. He produced several movies, e.g. Walking in an exaggerated manner (1967); Around the perimeter of a square (1967). Nauman was awarded a Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennial and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters in 2000. In 2004, he received a Premium Imperiale Award, from the Japan Art Association because of his significant contribution to the development of international arts and culture. Bruce Nauman’s ‘Topological Gardens’, a survey of his artistic career, was awarded a Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennial. Works of Nauman are in the collections of many museums of contemporary art in the whole word, in the Netherlands for instance in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.