Mr.
Bruce Lee Nauman
Independent
Artist (sculptor)
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
1995
Artist. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide. Solo exhibitions include “Bruce Nauman: Inside Out,” “Bruce Nauman: Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage),” “Mapping the Studio,” “Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience,” “Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials,” “A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s,” “Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni,” “Bruce Nauman: Dream Passage,” and “Bruce Nauman's Words on Paper.” His work has been included in the Whitney Biennial (1977, 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1997); and the Venice Biennale (1978, 1980, 1999, 2005, and 2007). Nauman lives and works in Northern New Mexico. Known for contributing to the notion of art as an action and not just an object: “If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product.”
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