Dara Birnbaum

American | 1946 - 2025

Dara Birnbaum was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1946.

How much does a Dara Birnbaum cost?

Dara Birnbaum's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 36 USD to 157 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Dara Birnbaum's most expensive prints & graphic art?

Since 2018 the record price for this artist at auction is 157 USD for For Ghent, sold at Cornette de Saint Cyr Brussels in 2021.

Where can I see Dara Birnbaum's works?

Her work is currently being shown at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Upper Belvedere have featured Dara Birnbaum's work in the past.

Dara Birnbaum in the news

Dara Birnbaum has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Art Review in May 2025. The artist died in 2025.

At Auction

Notable Lots

(1) Eugenia Balcells, From the Center. New York, El Museo del Barrio (2) Dara Birnbaum. Valencia, IVAM, (3) Joan Jonas Works - Dara Birnbaum

(1) Eugenia Balcells, From the Center. New York, El Museo del Barrio (2) Dara Birnbaum. Valencia, IVAM, (3) Joan Jonas Works ,1968

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'If those I loved were lost'

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Recent Auction Results

If those I loved were lost

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(1) Eugenia Balcells, From the Center. New York, El Museo del Barrio (2) Dara Birnbaum. Valencia, IVAM, (3) Joan Jonas Works ,1968

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Every TV Needs a Revolution - Dara Birnbaum

Every TV Needs a Revolution ,1992

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Current Exhibitions

Extreme Tension: Art Between Politics And Society 1945鈥�1990

Neue Nationalgalerie

Mitte | Berlin | Germany

Nov 18,2023 - Sep 28,2025

Past Exhibitions

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960鈥�1991

Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier

Vienna | Austria

Feb 28,2025 - May 25,2025

Radical Software. Women, Art & Computing 1960鈥�1991

Mudam Luxembourg

Luxembourg | Luxembourg

Sep 20,2024 - Feb 02,2025

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Articles

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黑料不打烊 08/05/2025

Everything you need to know about the most important headlines from the world of art in the last seven days

Art Review 06/05/2025

Dara Birnbaum, a pioneer of video art, has died. Birnbaum came to prominence in the 1970s, recognising television not just as a revolutionary medium in communications, but as a new source of material in artmaking, too.

ARTFORUM 05/05/2025

Trailblazing video and installation artist Dara Birnbaum, who in the 1970s began dicing and splicing television footage to produce stuttering, explosive videos that explored the politics of image making and dissemination, died on May 2.

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Coverage

鈥� .. Birnbaum鈥檚 practice has long been concerned with the lexicon of broadcasting and communication and the way 鈥榯ruths鈥� are delivered to the viewer... 鈥�
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Marian Goodman Gallery, London

鈥� ..Birnbaum isolates and repeats the banal expressions of the men and woman being introduced to unveil TV鈥檚 stereotyped and gendered gestures of power and submission... 鈥�
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Saint Louis Art Museum

鈥� ..Birnbaum started making art that was politically and critically relevant in the mid-1970s... 鈥�
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Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

鈥� ..Since the late 1970s, Birnbaum has produced a critically-acclaimed body of work comprised of videos and three-dimensional installations... 鈥�
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Saint Louis Art Museum