Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean (born November 6, 1944 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a British sculptor , painter and performance artist .
Life
McLean was born in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963 . From 1963 to 1966 he studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London with Phillip King and Anthony Caro . Mclean lives and works in London. As a professor he taught at the Croydon School of Art and from 1985 at the Slade School of Fine Art . In 1999 he taught as a visiting professor at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam .
From the mid-1970s, while he continued to work as a performance artist, McLean turned increasingly to the means of expression painting, sculpture and video.
Pose Work for Plinths I (1971), Academic Board (1975), Sorry! A Minimal Musical in Parts (1977) and Fishknife (1979) are well-known performances by Bruce McLean.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2014: Bruce McLean Grazer Kunstverein , Graz with Hreinn Friðfinnsson
- 1986: Kasseler Kunstverein , Kassel
- 1984: Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
- 1982: Van Abbemuseum , Eindhoven
- 1981: Kunsthalle Basel , Basel
Exhibitions
- 2014: Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart , Stuttgart
- 2011: National Gallery of Scotland
- 2009: Münchner Stadtmuseum , Munich
- 2007: Dancing, Seeing Museum for Contemporary Art (Siegen) , Siegen
- 2007: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo , Seville
- 2002: Exhibition Bruce McLean & Will Alsop , Two Chairs Milton Keynes Gallery Manchester
- 2002: Blast to Freeze Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , Wolfsburg
- 2000: The fifth element - money or art Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 1987: documenta 8 , Kassel
- 1984: An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 1983: New Art Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London
- 1982: Zeitgeist , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
- 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel
- 1980: Art in the Seventies Biennale di Venezia
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
Awards (selection)
- 1995: Lords Provost Prize, Glasgow
- 1994: Royal Television Society Design Award for Production Design (non-drama)
- 1985: Mercedes Benz Prize
- 1985: John Moore's Painting Prize
- 1981: Scholarship for the German Academic Exchange Service
- 1978: Arts Council Bursary
- 1975: Major Arts Council of Great Britain Award
- 1966: Sainsbury Award for Sculpture
- 1965: Pratt Bequest for Sculpture
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1, page 304: Painting, Plastic / Environment, Performance, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- ↑ Galerie Tanya Leighton Bruce McLean accessed on January 10, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Tate Bruce McLean born 1944, artist biography accessed on January 10, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Galerie Tanya Leighton Bruce McLean CV accessed on January 10, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Bernard Jacobson Gallery Bruce McLean accessed on January 10, 2015 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McLean, Bruce |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sculptor, painter and performance artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |