'''Victor Burgin''' (né en1941) est un artiste et un écrivain.
Victor Burgin est le Millard Professor of Fine Art au Goldsmiths College de l’Université de Londres, et professeur émérite d’histoire de la conscience à l’Université de Californie à Santa Cruz. Il est l’un des artistes enseignants les plus reconnus sur la scène internationale et son travail transdisciplinaire relie les médias, la culture et l’art. Il a été titulaire de la chaire en art et architecture de la Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, à New York, ainsi que professeur invité et artiste en résidence dans plusieurs pays (professeur de philosophie des médias et d’histoire de la conscience à la European Graduate School à Saas-Fee en Suisse). Son travail en arts médiatiques et art conceptuel a été exposé dans des musées et galeries partout dans le monde. Parmi ses ouvrages, mentionnons: ''Thinking Photography'', ''Between'', ''The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity'', ''In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture'', ''Shadowed'', ''Some Cities'' et ''The Remembered Film''.

== Liens externes ==
* [http://www.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/B/burgin.html Fiche artiste du MAMCO, Genève]

* [http://www.conceptual-art.net/ Ghislain Mollet-Viéville-Art Minimal et Conceptuel Website]
* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/victorburgin.html ''Victor Burgin Faculty Website European Graduate School'']
* [http://www.christineburgin.com/burgin_victor/index.html Christine Burgin Gallery Website] 

'''Victor Burgin''' (born 1941) is an artist and a writer.

Burgin was born in Sheffield in England. He studied art at the Royal College of Art, in London,from 1962 to 1965 (A.R.C.A., 1st Class, 1965) before going to the United States to study at Yale University (M.F.A. 1967). He taught at Trent Polytechnic from 1967 to 1973 and at the School of Communication, Polytechnic of Central London from 1973 to 1988. From 1988 to 2001 Burgin lived and worked in San Francisco . He taught in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he became Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness]. In 2000 he was Robert Gwathmey Chair in Art and Architecture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York. In 2001, he was appointed Millard Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin has also taught at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In 2005 he received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sheffield Hallam University (Hon. DUniv).

Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s. He has worked with photography and film, calling painting "the anachronistic daubing of woven fabrics with coloured mud". His work is influenced by theorists and philosophers such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. 

In 1986, Burgin was nominated for the Turner Prize for his exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge and for a collection of his theoretical writings (The End of Art Theory) and a monograph of his visual work (Between).

==Solo exhibitions==

2008 Victor Burgin, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany [http://www.kunsthalle-bremerhaven.de]

2007-8 The Little House, Mak Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles [http://www.makcenter.org/]

2007-8  La Cinquième Promenade et autres œuvres, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genève

2007 Fogliazzi, Galerie Art & Essai, Université Rennes 2 Haute-Bretagne, Rennes

2006 Voyage to Italy, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal

2006 Voyage to Italy, Thomas Zander Gallery, Köln

2005 The Little House, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York 

2004 Assemblée dans un Parc, Lilles 2004, Galerie l'Aquarium, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes

2003	 Victor Burgin, LisboaPhoto 2003, Cordoaria Nacional, Torreão Nascente, Lisbon

2003 Room,1970, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York

2003	 Listen to Britain, Norwich Gallery, Norwich

2003	 Listen to Britain, Cornerhouse, Manchester

2002	 Watergate, Matt’s Gallery, London

2002	 Listen to Britain, Arnolfini, Bristol

2001 Victor Burgin,(Retrospective) Tapies Foundation, Barcelona

2001 Nietzsche's Paris and Studies for Video, Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris

2001 Nietzsche's Paris, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York

2000 Nietzsche's Paris, Architectural Association, London 

1999	 Lichtung, Weimar 99 Cultural Festival, Weimar, Germany

1999	 The Glue Man and other studies for video, John Weber Gallery, New York

1998-9 Case History, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

1999 The Embrace and Studies for Video’ Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria

1998 Love Letters, Möcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest

1996 Love Stories, John Weber Gallery, New York

1995 The End, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture

1994 Venise (video), Museum of Modern Art, New York

1994 The End, John Weber Gallery, New York; 

1994 Les Quatres Saisons, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris

1993	 Family Romance, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington

1992	 Fiction Film, John Weber Gallery, New York

1992 Passages, (Retrospective), Espace Poulain, Ville de Blois, France

1991 Passages, (Retrospective), Musee d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

1990	 Family Romance and Other Works, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles

1990	 Family Romance, John Weber Gallery, New York

1989	 Object Relations, John Weber Gallery, New York

1989	 Minnesota Abstract, Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota

1989	 Victor Burgin, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris

1988	 Park Edge, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

1988	 Victor Burgin, Le Casa D’Arte, Milan

1986 Victor Burgin, (Retrospective) ICA, London

1986	 Victor Burgin, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

1986	 Victor Burgin, Orchard Gallery, Derry

1986	 Office at Night, John Weber Gallery, New York

1986	 Office at Night, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1986	 Office at Night, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois

1984	 The Bridge, John Weber Gallery, New York

1984	 The Bridge Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris

1984	 Impressions Gallery of Photography, York

1982	 Tales from Freud, John Weber Gallery, New York

1982	 Tales from Freud, Yarlow-Salzman Gallery, Toronto

1981	 Zwiczek Polskich Artsow Fotografickow, Warsaw

1981 Victor Burgin, Musee de la Ville de Calais, Calais

1980 In Lyon, Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, Lyon