Tom Burr

Born in New Haven, CT Burr attended the Educational Center for the Arts high school, a multi-arts program taught in part by Yale University graduate students. It is here that Burr became aware of and developed an interest in Minimal and post-Minimalist artists, including Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse and Gordon Matta Clark. Burr's senior thesis work reflected these influences, by merging sculptural elements with brief poetic texts. Simultaneously, Burr’s collage based work began at this time. After graduating from high school, Burr attended figure drawing classes at the Art Students League in New York. In the following years, Burr attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program, where he studied with Craig Owens, Benjamin Buchloh, Yvonne Rainer, and Barbara Kruger, and Ull Hohn. During this time Burr immersed himself in the theoretical writings and c…