Life

Burr was born in New Haven. His art encompasses installation

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

, photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

, sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

 and drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

 and references architecture

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

 and public space

Public space

A public space is a social space such as a town square that is open and accessible to all, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socio-economic level. One of the earliest examples of public spaces are commons. For example, no fees or paid tickets are required for entry, nor are the entrants...

 and the psychological and social issues that surround it. He is also influenced by Minimalism and Conceptual art

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

.

His studio is in New York City

New York City

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. Tom Burr is represented in New York by Bortolami Gallery.

Selected exhibitions

2011

• Head Ache, Modern Art, London
• gravity moves me, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims

2010

• murmur, MD72, Berli

2009

• Sentence, Bortolami, New York
• Head Ache, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London

2008

• Descending, Franco Noero, Turin
• Addict – Love, Sculpture Center, New York
• Black and Blue, Galerie Almine Reich, Paris

2007

• Secession, Vienna

2006

• Extrospective, Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
• Relapse, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London

2005

• Complete Breakdown, Galerie Neu, Berlin
• The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, romaromaroma, Rome

2004

• Our Lady of the Flowers, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

2003

• Die Stalle/The Stalls, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne

2002

• Piscine, Galerie Almine Reich, Paris
• Deep Purple, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2000

• Low Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig

1998

• The Medical Show, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
• Sentence, Bortolami New York

External links

• Frieze Magazine
• Public Art Vienna
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Tom Burr is represented in London by, Stuart Shave/Modern Art
• Images, texts and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
• Tom Burr on ArtFacts.net
• Interview with Tom Burr, Executive Director Mary Ceruti
• http://www.moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=19