Angela Bulloch

Biography

Born in 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada.

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

 

Angela Bulloch studied at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 1997, she was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2005, for the Berlin-based Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst. In 2011, Bulloch received the Vattenfall Contemporary Art Prize, Berlin, as well as the Art Prize of the city of Wolfsburg.

 

Angela Bulloch's work spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns and rules, as well as her preoccupation with the history of shapes and human interaction. The Pixel Boxes have become her most familiar work: Initially fabricated in beech wood with a glass front screen, their softly changing and pulsing colors distill and abstract complex visual patterns into simple shifting monochromes. Her series of Night Sky works, begun in 2008 on occasion of theanyspacewhatever at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, depicts existing constellations from a perspective other than Earth, simulated with a 3D stellar cartography program. Her recent series of sculptures combines her interest in the logic of geometry and seriality with a graphic quality. The appearance of the sculpture shifts according to one's point of view: from one side the irregular aspect dominates, while from another, the impression of a certain totemic regularity prevails.

 

Her work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Sammlung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; FRAC Occitanie, Montpellier; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême; FNAC, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Le Consortium, Dijon; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Estuaire, Nantes; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; The Schaufler Foundation, Sindelfingen; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Sammlung Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg; De Pont, Tilburg; Helga de Alvear, Madrid; Collection Ringier, Zurich; Collection Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; Tate, London; Arts Council Collection, London; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas, and Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Works