David Allen Burns
| David Allen Burns | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 21, 1970 Santa Monica, CA |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | BFA Cal Arts, MFA UC Irvine |
| 💼 Occupation | Visual Artist |
| 📆 Years active | 2008-present |
| Known for | Video Art, Installation Art, Social Practice, Fallen Fruit |
| Notable work | Endless Orchard, Monument to Sharing, Theater of the Sun |
| 🌐 Website | www.fallenfruit.org |
David Allen Burns (born May 21, 1970) is a visual artist, educator, and curator best known as a co-founder of Fallen Fruit, a contemporary art collective founded in 2004, that uses fruit as a common denominator for public engagement and collaboration.[1][2][3]
Early life[edit]
Born in Los Angeles, California in 1970, Burns attended Lycée de Frances Los Angeles and later graduated from Culver City High School in 1987. Burns grew up in a diverse middle-class community in West Los Angeles and helped out at family owned businesses across Southern California where he often explored the diverse communities in surrounding neighborhoods on the weekends. From a young age he was regularly meeting new people of all ages and backgrounds and learning about their stories and livelihoods, participating in community events, and attending cultural programs and services.
Education and career[edit]
Burns' work activates the nuances of social spaces, public archives and cultural indexes as an authentic negotiation by creating works of art that are expressions of people and place and reframe the real-world and the real-time.[4][5] He received a BFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Studio art from UC Irvine before moving into the realms of social practice and installation art. His solo video work has shown in festivals and exhibitions around the world including; The Getty Center, Los Angeles, Tate Modern/Tank.tv, London, The Armenian Museum of Experimental Art, Seoul Museum of Art, InsideOUT, OutFest, MIX, NEWFEST, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and others, while his collaborative work has appeared at National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Triennial[6], Manifesta 12[7], Victoria and Albert Museum[8], Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Netherlands Architecture Institute at Maastricht, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Armory Center for the Arts, Machine Project and others.[9]
In addition to his video art practice, Burns is also Co-founder of ARTISTS+INSTITUTIONS, a series of progressive and immersive think-tank experiences connecting Institutional, and Independent Leaders in contemporary fine art as well as a co-founder of Fallen Fruit, a contemporary art collective that uses fruit as a material for creating art projects that investigate the boundaries of public spaces, including urban geographies, historical archives and time-based media.[10][11][12] He maintains an active independent curatorial practice that investigates narrative structures in contemporary art with notable exhibitions for the journal Leonardo at MIT; the Armory Center for the Arts and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Recent curatorial projects include: Artists + Institutions with Sarah Beadle, Let Them Eat LACMA with Jose Luis Blondet, The Drama of the Gifted Child for The Armory Center for the Arts, BUMP for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions with Margie Schnibbe and Embodied Technologies for Art Interactive & Leonardo with Legier Beiderman.[13]
Prior to his work with Fallen Fruit, Burns was core faculty in two programs at CalArts from 1994 to 2008 and later served as faculty in the Social Practice graduate program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Awards and accomplishments[edit]
Awards include: Creative Capital; Project Award Manifesta 12 Biennial; National Endowment for the Humanities, Project Award; The Curry Stone Prize – Social Design; Metlife Grant; Art Matters, Project Award; Muriel Pollia Foundation, Project Award; Goodworks Foundation, Project Award; The Awesome Foundation, Project Award; Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network, Project Award; Puffin Foundation West, Project Award; The Columbus Foundation, Project Award; Atlas Award, Outstanding Achievement Award, Climate Heroes; YouTube Featured Video; LA Weekly’s Best of L.A.[14]; Rhizome.org new media award; Yahoo! Best of the Web; Berkeley Film Festival, Best Experimental; and Sydney Underground Film Festival.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Fallen Fruit – Share your fruit. Change the world. Join the movement". Retrieved 2021-09-30.
- ↑ Brown, Patricia Leigh (2013-05-11). "Tasty, and Subversive, Too". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
- ↑ Wei, Clarissa (2017-06-13). "This Art Group Installs Pick-Your-Own-Fruit Parks Around Los Angeles". NPR. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ "What Artists Are Doing Now. Contemporary art collective Fallen Fruit in Los Angeles". Arterritory.com. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ "Fallen Fruit". Dilettante Army. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ "Virtual Tour NGV Triennial 2021". National Gallery Victoria. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Theatre of the Sun, 2018". Manifesta 12 Palermo. 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ "V&A · Fallen Fruit at the V&A". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ Greenberger, Maximilíano Durón,Alex; Durón, Maximilíano; Greenberger, Alex (2019-01-09). "15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ Fallen Fruit presents at the 2013 Creative Capital Artist Retreat, retrieved 2021-10-02
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2012-03-12). "Eat A Free Peach: Mapping "Public Fruit"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ Mishan, Ligaya (2018-11-29). "These Artists Are Creating Work That's About, and Made From, Food". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ "Speakers | Artist Communities Alliance". artistcommunities.org. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
- ↑ Dambrot, Shayna Nys (2019-08-20). "Best of L.A. Arts: Fall Preview Pick: Fallen Fruit at the PDC Gallery". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2021-09-30. Unknown parameter
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