Born in the USA in 1941

Bruce Nauman is recognised as one of the most important and influential figures in contemporary art. An artist of conceptual works in the form of sculptures, photographs or drawings, in the 1960s and 1970s Nauman was the author of a seminal corpus of films and videos that are among the most innovative contributions to media art. In these conceptual pieces, Nauman uses his body as an artistic object, often resorting to the execution of repetitive real-time performance actions in his studio.
Taking full advantage of the phenomenology of the early video medium in which immediacy, intermediality and intimacy are emphasised in his gestures, Nauman investigates the very process of artistic creation.

Bruce Nauman was born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 2009 he exhibited his work in the United States Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, where he won the Golden Lion. He has won numerous distinctions and awards throughout his career. Nauman’s work has been shown in a number of major retrospectives and solo exhibitions, most notably at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Tate Liverpool, UK; MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; and Sperone Westwater, New York.