Tom Burr (b. 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut) lives and works in New York. He has shown extensively throughout Europe and the United States. He most recently was the subject of a solo exhibition entitled Hinged Figures at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.
Burr’s work has been collected by major museums internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; MuMOK, Vienna, Austria; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Sammlung Grasslin, Germany; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria; Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; FRAC, Champagne Ardenne, France; FRAC, Nord-Pas de Calais, France; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Burr attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
The Torrington Project
The Torrington Project
Exhibitions
It would storm
13 Sep – 2 Nov 2024
Galerie Neu, Berlin
Games People Play
10 Jan – 24 Feb 2024
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
Tom Burr
10 Mar – 4 May 2023
39 Walker
Hélio-centricities (New York)
15 Jan – 6 Mar 2021
39 Walker
Hélio-Centricidades: Coda
3 Nov – 8 Dec 2019
Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
MATRIX 182 / Hinged Figures
6 Jun – 8 Sep 2019
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Queer Abstraction
1 Jun – 8 Sep 2019
Des Moines Art Center
Hélio-Centricities
23 Mar – 25 May 2019
Auroras
Sedimental
15 Feb – 26 Aug 2018
SCAD Museum of Art
No Access
14 Dec 2017 – 17 Sep 2018
SCAD Museum of Art
concrete realities
29 Jun – 11 Jul 2017
Bortolami
Sur / Face: Mirrors
24 Jun – 1 Oct 2017
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Cosima von Bonin + Tom Burr
10 Jun – 1 Oct 2017
Westfälischer Kunstverein
Surplus of Myself
10 Jun – 1 Oct 2017
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Tom Burr / New Haven
14 May – 5 November 2017
University of Disasters
30 Mar – 22 Apr 2017
Bortolami
Question the Wall Itself
20 Nov 2016 – 21 May 2017
Walker Art Center
I Beam U Channel
30 Jun – 12 Aug 2016
Bortolami
Put Down
8 Apr – 31 May 2016
Piece*Unique
Circa
29 Oct – 23 Dec 2015
Bortolami
Screen
13 Apr – 25 May 2014
CCS Bard Galleries
Take it or Leave it
9 Feb – 18 Jun 2014
Hammer Museum
A Chromatic Loss, Curated by Jeffrey Uslip
9 Jan – 15 Feb 2014
Bortolami
Dressage
26 Oct – 2 Nov 2013
Bortolami
Vertical Club, Curated by Will Benedict
4 Apr – 27 Apr 2013
Bortolami
Out of the Blue
21 Sep – 21 Nov 2012
Bortolami
Now I Am Quietly Waiting For The Catastrophe Of My Personality To Seem Beautiful Again, And Interesting, and Modern: Curated by Tom Burr
14 Sep – 27 Oct 2012
Bortolami
Room Four
14 Jun – 12 Jun 2012
Art Basel
Migros Meets Museion
10 Jun – 6 Sep 2012
Museion, Bolzano
Deep Wood Drive
7 Mar – 26 Apr 2012
Bortolami
Black Lab
1 Mar – 5 Apr 2011
Bortolami
Gravity Moves Me
4 Feb – 17 Apr 2011
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Four Sides to Myself
23 Jul – 23 Aug 2010
Bortolami
sentence
10 Sep – 24 Oct 2009
Bortolami
Tom Burr and Monica Bonvicini
5 Sep 2009 – 3 Jan 2010
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Consider the Lobster
27 Jun – 20 Dec 2009
CCS Bard Galleries
Political/Minimal
20 Nov 2008 – 25 Jan 2009
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
La Fete Est Permanente/The Eternal Network
1 Oct 2008 – 9 Jan 2009
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Addict-Love
13 Jan – 30 Apr 2008
SculptureCenter
Extrospective: Works 1994 – 2006
8 Apr – 18 Jun 2006
Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Tom Burr and Walter Pfeiffer
14 Nov 2001 – 19 Jan 2008
Swiss Institute
Black Box Black Bulletin Board
1 Apr 1998
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Stainless
1 Apr 1997
American Fine Arts, Co.
42nd Street Structures
1 Apr 1995
American Fine Arts, Co.
Circa ’77
1 Apr 1995
Kunsthalle Zürich
Three Proposals
1 Apr 1994
American Fine Arts, Co.
Construction of an American Garden
1 Apr 1993
American Fine Arts, Co.
An American Garden
1 Apr 1993
Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem
The Storage Project
1 Apr 1993
Unite D'Habitation Le Corbusier, Firminy
A Ramble in Central Park
1 Jan 1992
White Columns
Press
— What Happened to the Institutional Critique?: A Roundtable November May 2023Robert Sandler In the Studio: Tom Burr revisits, reflects, and thinks anew. Art21 Aug 2023James Crump The Homecoming: For Tom Burr, all roads lead to Torrington, CT The Upstate Diary May 2024Tom Burr In the Studio: Tom Burr revisits, reflects, and thinks anew. art21 Aug 2023David Joselit Tom Burr: Do Say Gay Artforum Summer 2023Blake Oetting Blake Oetting on Tom Burr Mar 2023Pierre-Alexandre Mateo and Charles Teyssou Priapic architectural tissues: TOM BURR in conversation with PIERRE-ALEXANDRE MATEOS and CHARLES TEYSSOU 032c Oct 2022Blake Oetting Tom Burr in conversation with Blake Oetting November Feb 2022Charlie Mills Tom Burr, Born 1963 Emergent Magazine, Issue 7 A/W 2021Artspace Editors James Crump – The Art for Home Interview Artspace Sept 2021Wadsworth Atheneum Sculptor Tom Burr Redefines Portraiture in Wadsworth Antheneum Exhibit West Hartford News May 2019Zöe Lescaze What Happens When Site-Specific Art Outlasts Its Surroundings? The New York Times Style Magazine May 2019Patrick Guilford Tom Burr creates installations harkening back to age old landscape tradition District Mar 2018Sam Korman Under Construction: The never-ending renovation of Tom Burr Art Review Mar 2018Brienne Walsh If You Love Contemporary Art, Go To Savannah To Visit The Museum of Art At SCAD Forbes Feb 2018Interview by Stefan Kalmar Appropriation-as-Survival L'Officiel Art, no. 24 Dec 2017Mark Byrnes A Complicated Second Life for a Brutalist Icon CityLab Oct 2017Evan Moffitt Tom Burr Frieze Oct 2017David Markus Tom Burr at Armstrong Rubber Company/Pirelli Tire Building Art in America Oct 2017Sabrine Tarasoff Tom Burr “Surplus of Myself” at Westfälischer Kustverein, Münster Mousse Magazine Aug 2017Sarah Fritchey Placing Pieces of Local History in an Empty Marcel Breuer Building Hyperallergic Aug 2017Allen Appel Pirelli Building Reopens… To Art New Haven Independent Jul 2017Courtney Maum Tom Burr’s Latest Project is Inspired by Iconic Building in New Haven Norfolk Now Apr 2017Sheri Pasquarella Panorama: Interview with Artist Tom Burr Pin-Up S/S 2017Tom Burr Body/Building Yes and No Magazine Apr 2017Tom Burr 500 Words: Tom Burr Artforum Feb 2017Courtney Maum Tom Burr Interview Dec 2016Francesco Vezzoli Tom Burr and Francesco Vezzoli in Conversation Mousse Magazine Dec 2016Alan Feuer Art Dealers Move Out of the Gallery and Into a Taco Bell The New York Times Oct 2016Alex Kitnick Unité as White Cube Harvard Design Magazine Jan 2016Alan Ruiz Tom Burr BOMB Magazine Dec 2015William Meyers Tom Burr: Circa The Wall Street Journal Nov 2015Scott Indrisek Cruising and the City: Tom Burr at Bortolami Gallery Blouin Artinfo Nov 2015Nicholas Chittenden Morgan Critics’ Picks: Tom Burr Artforum Nov 2015— The Lookout: Tom Burr at Bortolami Art in America Nov 2015Brian Boucher Cruising Grounds in Tom Burr’s Bortolami Show Artnet Oct 2015George Baker Notes on Painting in Disguise in Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Apr 2014Jeffrey Uslip A Chromatic Loss The Kinsky Feb 2014— ‘A Chromatic Loss’ at Bortolami Gallery, New York Mousse Magazine Jan 2014Whitney Kimball White: 'A Chromatic Loss' Art F City Jan 2014Rosita Giammarino Tom Burr Dust Magazine Online Nov 2013Tom Burr and Fionn Meade Restless Painting Mousse Magazine Jun 2013Zoë Lescaze, Andrew Russeth, Dan Duray and Michael H. Miller Reviewing Artforum’s Advertisements Gallerist NY Apr 2013— Now I Am Quietly Waiting For The Catastrophe Of My Personality To Seem Beautiful Again, And Interesting and Modern Time Out Sept 2012David Everett Howe Tom Burr: Deep Wood Drive Art Review May 2012— Goings On About Town The New Yorker Apr 2012— GALLERIES CHELSEA TOM BURR The New Yorker Apr 2012Michael Wilson Tom Burr: ‘deep wood drive' Time Out New York Apr 2012Juliana Balestin Tom Burr at Bortolami, New York Purple Diary Apr 2012 Lisa Eppich Don't Wait Till The Weekend To Scope Out This Unique Art Exhibition Refinery 29 Mar 2012Dan Duray Tom Burr Offers Nostalgia and Blankets at Bortolami Gallerist NY Mar 2012Alissa Bennett Tom Burr Interview Crush Fanzine Mar 2012Stephanie Tran Tom Burr Dossier Magazine Mar 2012Jeffery Kastner Tom Burr Artforum Mar 2012Courtney Fiske Critic's Pick Artforum Mar 2012— Goings on about town: Tom Burr The New Yorker Mar 2012Johnny Misheff Visiting Artists: Tom Burr The New York Times Style Magazine Mar 2011Brian Boucher Tom Burr Bortolami Art in America Nov 2009Michael Wilson Tom Burr at Bortolami Artforum Nov 2009Writers at the New Yorker Galleries - Chelsea: Tom Burr The New Yorker Oct 2009Tom Burr Sleazy City: 42nd Street Structures and Some Qualities of Life October 85 Summer 1998Tom Burr Just Outside the Museum… Kunst + Museum Journaal, Vol. 4 #6, Sept 1993Writings
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“I Ask Myself ”
Modern Matter
2021 -
“A Questionnaire on Monuments”
October 165
Summer 2018 -
“Gravity Moves Me”
Mousse Issue #46
December 2013 -
“Gravity Moves Me”
Picpus
2011 -
“Why I’m An Artist”
Corduroy
2010 -
“Questions of Style”
ArtForum
2010 -
“Sleazy City: 42nd Street Structures and Some Qualities of Life”
October 85
Summer 1998 -
“Trash”
Platzwechsel (Exhibition Catalog)
June 1995 -
“Unearthing the Public Toilet: a series of ruminations on the habitual treatment, and mistreatment, of an American type building…(short version)”
Documents
Spring/Summer 1994 -
“Just outside the Museum…”
Kunst & Museum Journaal
1993 -
“Tom Burr in ”
Project Unite
1993
Publications
Tom Burr Anthology: Writings 1991 – 2015
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne with Sternberg Press
2015
Tom Burr
Köhn: DuMont Buchverlag
2009
Tom Burr: Moods
Walther Konig
2008
