Chris Burden

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Chris Burden

Born 1946-04-11 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 9 films

Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including Shoot (1971), where he arranged for a friend to shoot him in the arm with a small-caliber rifle. A prolific artist, Burden created many well-known installations, public artworks and sculptures before his death in 2015.

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Filmography

9 films
Burden poster

A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked…

Burden

★ 5.8 2016

The Big Wheel poster

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman…

The Big Wheel

★ 0.0 1980

Velvet Water poster

May 7th, 1974, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chris Burden relentlessly dunks his head in…

Velvet Water

★ 0.0 1974

Shoot poster

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a fr…

Shoot

★ 0.0 1971