Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
2023
2017
2015
2013
2012
- Chris Burden: Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper) ,Armory Center for the Arts ,Pasadena, California, USA
- CHRIS BURDEN ,Magasin III Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
- Chris Burden: Small Skyscraper ,Armory Center for the Arts ,Pasadena, California, USA
- Metropolis II ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
2009
2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
- The Atomic age. Artists put to the test of history ,Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris ,16e, Paris, France
- No Bodies: Clothing As Disruptor ,Hudson River Museum ,Yonkers, New York, USA
- Masterful Attention Seekers ,Museum of Contemporary Art Busan ,Busan, South Korea
- Color Is the First Revelation of the World ,OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art ,Costa Mesa, California, USA
- Américanologies ,Galerie Hervé Bize ,Nancy, France
- For What It鈥檚 Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 ,The Warehouse ,Dallas, Texas, USA
2023
- Winter Group Show ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- A Moment in Time ,OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art ,Costa Mesa, California, USA
- Killing TV ,Tai Kwun ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Intentions 鈥� Actions 鈥� Outcomes ,UK Art Museum ,Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Photography As A Tool. Artists Of The Gallery ,Krinzinger Projekte ,Vienna, Austria
- Barbara T. Smith: Treasures ,The Box, Los Angeles ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
2022
- 13 WOMEN ,OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art ,Costa Mesa, California, USA
- Faking the Real ,Kunsthaus Graz ,Graz, Austria
- 1962-2022: A Celebration: 60 Prints for 60 Years ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Enter the Mirror ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Una Galleria Fra Le Neo-avanguardie (1972鈥�1994) ,Centro Pecci ,Prato, Italy
- Schema 50: Una galleria fra le neo-avanguardie (1972鈥�1994) ,Centro Pecci ,Prato, Italy
- The Reason for the Neutron Bomb ,MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown ,San Diego, California, USA
- Amalgamation: Celebrating 10 Years of Shin Gallery ,Shin Gallery ,New York, USA
- Foreign Affairs ,Galerie Krinzinger ,Vienna, Austria
- To Begin, Again: A Prehistory of the Wex, 1968鈥�89 ,Wexner Center for the Arts ,Columbus, Ohio, USA
2021
- On The Level Or The Man Who Fell Out Of Bed ,Krinzinger Projekte ,Vienna, Austria
- RE: Bicycling ,Susan Inglett ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Welcome to Motor City ,Iris Project ,Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Gold and Magic ,Arken Museum of Modern Art ,Ishøj, Denmark
- Figuration ,Cirrus Gallery ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment ,Wexner Center for the Arts ,Columbus, Ohio, USA
2020
- In Our Care: Institutional History in Material Form ,Montgomery Art Center, Pomona College Museum of Art ,Claremont, California, USA
- InterStates of Mind: Rewriting the Map of the United States in the Age of the Automobile ,Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University ,East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- Espressioni: The Proposition ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art ,Turin, Italy
- All of the Above, 2011 鈥� 2020 ,KANAL 鈥� Centre Pompidou ,Brussels, Belgium
- States of Mind: Art and American Democracy ,Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University ,Houston, Texas, USA
- 3D to 2D ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- ONLINE: Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video: Chapter One ,Gagosian, London (Britannia Street) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- American Pastoral ,Gagosian, London (Britannia Street) ,London, UK
- Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System ,Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford ,Medford, Massachusetts, USA
2019
- L.A. On Fire ,Wilding Cran Gallery ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman ,Worcester Art Museum ,Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Cursed Images ,Galerie Kandlhofer ,Vienna, Austria
- Disappearing - California, c. 1970: Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein ,Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ,Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
- Unexplained Parade ,Catriona Jeffries ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Gold Standard: Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition ,Ever Gold Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2018
- Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System ,Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ,Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- Summer Choices ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- About Photography ,Gagosian, San Francisco ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Good Morning GCC ,Project Native Informant ,London, UK
- A Legacy Made Visible with Matilda McQuaid, Nancy Princenthal and Patterson Sims ,The Fabric Workshop and Museum ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Figures of Sleep ,Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery ,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Figures of Sleep ,Art Museum at the University of Toronto, University of Toronto Art Centre ,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Close at Hand: A Sculpture Survey ,Gagosian, San Francisco ,San Francisco, California, USA
2017
- Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation ,The Fabric Workshop and Museum ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- LA Invitational ,Gagosian, New York (555 W 24th) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Homeward Bound ,Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- The Hobbyist - Hobbies, Photography and the Hobby of Photography ,Fotomuseum Winterthur ,Winterthur, Switzerland
- Stig Brøgger & Chris Burden: Shooting - Shoot ,Galleri Tom Christoffersen ,Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Generation Loss: 10 years of the Julia Stoschek Collection ,Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Summer Choices ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Art on the Front Lines ,Ronald Feldman Fine Arts ,Soho, New York, USA
- White Trash ,Luhring Augustine, Bushwick ,Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Contemporary Masters ,LSU Museum of Art ,Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin ,The Jewish Museum New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2016
- A Duck and a Crutch ,Galerie Krinzinger ,Vienna, Austria
- The Making of a Fugitive ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Tough & Tender ,National Portrait Gallery, Canberra ,Canberra, Australia
- Basquiat, Dubuffet, Soulages... A Private Collection ,Foundation de l'Hermitage ,Lausanne, Switzerland
- Radical Seafaring ,Parrish Art Museum ,Water Mill, New York, USA
- Scratches, Spit And Vinegar ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- California 101: Art from the Collection ,AD&A Museum ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- California 101: Art from the Collection ,AD&A Museum ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation ,Gagosian, Rome ,Rome, Italy
2015
- Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, 1995鈥�2015 ,Gagosian, Beverly Hills ,Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Risk ,Turner Contemporary ,Margate, UK
- A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine ,UCI Art Gallery ,Irvine, California, USA
- Maurizio Nannucci: Top Hundred ,Museion, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ,Bolzano, Italy
- Eric Minh Swenson: EMS International - Based in LA ,Bruno David Gallery ,St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- GOLD ,Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College ,Purchase, New York, USA
- Eppur si muove - Art et technique, un espace partagé ,Mudam Luxembourg ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- In Search of the Miraculous ,Newlyn Art Gallery ,Newlyn, UK
- Various Small Fires (Working Documents) ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- America Is Hard to See ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- The Mechanic ,Neon Parc, City ,Melbourne, Australia
- My Body is the Event ,MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig ,Vienna, Austria
2014
- Le Jardin Décomposé / Decomposed Garden ,Gagosian, Le Bourget ,Le Bourget, France
- A Machine Aesthetic ,East Gallery at NUA ,Norwich, UK
- GOLD ,The Bass, Miami ,Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
- Bringing the World into the World ,Queens Museum of Art ,Queens, New York, USA
- Retro·active: Performance Art from 1964鈥�1987 ,Delaware Art Museum ,Wilmington, Delaware, USA
- Summer Choices: A Group Show ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books ,Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design ,Westchester, Los Angeles, California, USA
2013
2012
- Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument ,Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London ,St. James's, London, UK
- Letters From Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art ,Jack Rutberg Fine Arts ,Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Spieltrieb ,Ibid Gallery, London ,London, UK
- State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 ,Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery ,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Not Californian, Curated by Josh Baer ,Sotheby's New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Invisible ,Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery ,London, UK
- State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 ,BAMPFA , Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive ,Berkeley, California, USA
- Group Exhibition : Have We Met Before? ,Ronald Feldman Fine Arts ,Soho, New York, USA
- L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy ,PMCA, Pasadena Museum of California Art ,Pasadena, California, USA
2011
- A Darkness More Than Night ,The Quad ,Derby, UK
- Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971 ,Laguna Art Museum ,Laguna Beach, California, USA
- State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 ,OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art ,Costa Mesa, California, USA
- Invented Worlds, Inhabited Worlds ,Mudam Luxembourg ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950鈥�1980 ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981 ,The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- The Talent Show ,USF Contemporary Art Museum ,Tampa, Florida, USA
- Art at the Edge of Los Angeles, 1969-1973, Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona ,Montgomery Art Center, Pomona College Museum of Art ,Claremont, California, USA
- Ricci Albenda and Chris Burden ,Andrew Kreps Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am. ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
- The Talent Show ,Henry Art Gallery ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- God Only Knows Who the Audience Is ,The Wattis Institute ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge ,Fitzroy Gallery ,Soho, New York, USA
2010
- The Talent Show ,MoMA PS1 ,Long Island City, New York, USA
- Without You I'm Nothing: Art and Its Audience ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Are you Ready for TV? ,MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona ,Barcelona, Spain
- Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp ,Kölnischer Kunstverein ,Cologne, Germany
- Broadcast ,USF Contemporary Art Museum ,Tampa, Florida, USA
- Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010 ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Julia Stoschek Collection: I Want to See How You See ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- The Talent Show ,Walker Art Center ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Wall & Floor ,Almine Rech, Paris (rue de Turenne) ,3e, Paris, France
2009
- Votive ,CCA Glasgow ,Glasgow, UK
- Sphères 2009 ,Galleria Continua, Les Moulins ,Boissy-le-Châtel, France
- Black and White Works ,Ronald Feldman Fine Arts ,Soho, New York, USA
- The Beat Goes on ,Barry Whistler Gallery ,Dallas, Texas, USA
- The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection ,OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art ,Newport Beach, California, USA
2008
Chris Burden was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1946.
Artist's alternative names: Christopher Burden鈥�, Christopher Lee Burden
How much does a Chris Burden cost?
Chris Burden's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 26 USD to 502,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.What is Chris Burden's most expensive sculpture?
Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 502,000 USD for WARSHIP, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2016.Where can I see Chris Burden's works?
Numerous key galleries and museums such as MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago have featured Chris Burden's work in the past.Chris Burden in the news
Chris Burden has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ARTnews in May 2025. The artist died in 2015.Artist's alternative names: Christopher Burden鈥�, Christopher Lee Burden