Bruce Barber
Artist and curator; Director of MFA program, NSCAD University Halifax.
Last Contribution:
The Legacy of David Levine
Contributor Biography
Dr. Barber is an internationally known artist, writer, curator, and professor in media art, historical, and critical studies. He received MFA degrees from the University of Auckland and NSCAD, and a Ph.D in media and communications from the European Graduate School. He is Director of the MFA program at NSCAD University Halifax, Nova Scotia. His interdisciplinary art work has been represented in major international biennales, with solo and group exhibitions in cities on four continents. His interdisciplinary and media work is documented in Bruce Barber Reading Rooms (Halifax, 1990), as well as several major books and catalogues.
He is the author of Trans/actions: Art, Film and Death (2005) and Performance [Performance] & Performers (2007); editor of Condé + Beveridge: Class Works (2008), Essays on [Performance] and Cultural Politicization (1983), and Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection 1967-1973 (1992); co-editor, with Serge Guilbaut and John O’Brian, of Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State (1996).
His critical essays and reviews, since 1972, have appeared in numerous book anthologies, journals, and magazines. His artwork is included in various private and public collections in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Poland, and the United States.
