Angela Bulloch facts for kids
Angela Bulloch (born in 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian artist. She is known for her art that often uses sound and special installations. She is also recognized as one of the Young British Artists, a group of artists who became famous in the late 1980s. Angela Bulloch lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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Life and Career
Angela Bulloch studied art at Goldsmiths' College in London from 1985 to 1988. In 1988, she was part of the important Freeze art exhibition. This helped her become known as one of the Young British Artists. Angela said that being called a "Young British Artist" was helpful when she was 22. It made it easier for the media to talk about her work. In 1989, she won the Whitechapel Artists' Award.
In 1994, Angela spent two months working on art in Japan. She was nominated for the famous Turner Prize in 1997. This year, all the artists nominated were women, including Cornelia Parker, Christine Borland, and Gillian Wearing, who won the prize. For the Turner Prize show, Angela displayed her fun artwork called Rules Series. In 2005, she was nominated for another art award, the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst.
Angela received a special grant from the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in 2002. From 2001 to 2003, she was a guest professor teaching sculpture in Vienna, Austria. Since 2018, she has been a professor at HFBK Hamburg, teaching about art that changes over time.
Her Art Style
Angela Bulloch's art often explores the connection between math and beauty. She is very interested in how instructions and rules work, especially with technology. She creates art using many different types of media, like video, installations, sculptures, and paintings. She uses video, animation, sound, and light to explore systems that are already set up.
Angela is well-known for her 'Pixel Boxes'. These boxes were first made from wood with a plastic screen. Later, she used materials like copper or aluminum. The boxes use different lights and colors to create abstract patterns. Many of her artworks use biofeedback systems. This means the art reacts to something happening, like a person's body signals. For example, in her 1994 work Betaville, a 'Drawing Machine' would paint stripes on a wall whenever someone sat on a bench in front of it.
She has also made art using Belisha beacons. These are the flashing orange lights you usually see at pedestrian crossings. More recently, Angela's Stacks are unique sculptures made of stacked diamond shapes. They play with light and color to create cool optical effects. Angela Bulloch's art often depends on how the viewer interprets it. Its meaning can change based on what each person sees and feels. She even creates some of the technology for her light and music artworks herself.
Angela is a big fan of music and performs live. She also owns her own record label called LBCDLP. Music often appears in her art, for example, in light installations that react to a musical score.
Exhibitions
Angela Bulloch's art has been shown in many important museums around the world. In 1997, she had an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Other museums that have shown her work include Kunsthaus Glarus (2001), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2003), and Modern Art Oxford (2005). Her art was also part of big group shows like The New Decor at Hayward Gallery in London. She also created an installation for the ceiling of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- Angela Bulloch: "...then nothing turned itself inside-out and became something", Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA (2019)
- Heavy Metal Stack of Six, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2019)
- Angela Bulloch, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York (2017)
- Angela Bulloch: New Wave Digits, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2015)
- Short Big Drama, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2012)
- Angela Bulloch: Discrete Manifold Whatsoever, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2010)
- The Space that Time Forgot, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (2008)
- Angela Bulloch, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2006)
- Angela Bulloch/ Matrix 206. Macromatrix: For Your Pleasure, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA (2003)
- Angela Bulloch, Z-Point, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2002)
- Vehicles, Le Consortium- Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France (1997)
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Bulloch, Pryde: Sky, Rocks & Digits, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2020–21)
- Double Lives. Visual Artists Making Music, mumok Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (2018)
- RULES, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (2017)
- Fractured: Kathryn Andrews, Angela Bulloch, Bernard Frize, Louise Lawler, Daido Moriyama, John Stezaker, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2016)
- 1984–1999 The Decade, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2015)
- theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2008)
Awards
- Canada Council, Visual Artist's Grant, Canada (2011)
- Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg – Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst, Germany (2011)
- Vattenfall Contemporary Art Prize, Germany (2011)
- Preis der Freunde der Nationalgalerie Nomination, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Germany (2005)
- Cultural Grant of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore (2002)
- Turner Prize Nomination, Tate Britain, United Kingdom (1997)
- Artist Residency (two months), ARCUS Project, Japan (1994)
- Whitechapel Artist's Award, United Kingdom (1989)
