Museum of Nonvisible Art Interview: Victor Burgin

Brainard Carey, Yale University, March 15, 2023

Artist Victor Burgin discusses his seminal 1967 conceptual artwork Photopath with art historian and author Brainard Carey for Yale University's WYBCX - Yale Radio, Museum of Nonvisible Art show. Burgin first came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the originators of Conceptual Art. His work appeared in such key exhibitions as Harald Szeemann’s Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969) at the ICA London, and Kynaston McShine’s Information (1970) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

 

Burgin graduated from the School of Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1965, where his teachers included the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, and then went on to study Philosophy and Fine Art at Yale University School of Art and Architecture, where his teachers included Robert Morris and Donald Judd.