bruce nauman

Bruce Nauman (b.1941) has since the 1960s exercised his radical, interdisciplinary approach while producing new methodologies for creating art and meaning. His rigorous, ascetic engagement with the existential dichotomies of life/death, love/hate, pleasure/pain has embraced performance, video, holography, installation and sculpture formed from his post-minimalist attitude.

habitat extends an invitation to Nauman because of the artist, constant and continuous creation of novel, undaunted methodologies.

Nauman has had numerous major retrospectives and solo exhibitions over the past fifty years, and he has received the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for both Lifetime Achievement (1999) and Best National Participation (2009). Nauman is widely regarded as among the most important  living American artists. His work laid the foundations for new uses of language and the body in conceptual and performance art around the world. He has pushed the boundaries of audio-visual media throughout his career, from his early film, video, and holograms in the 1960s to his latest innovative work with 3D video and 3D scanning and modeling technologies.