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[BHQFU]

Established in 2009, New York (New York), United States.

Art collective.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation is an anonymous artist collective that creates installations, videos, paintings, sculptures, performances, and exhibitions. The founding members keep their identities anonymous but are known to be a group of male artists who met while obtaining their undergraduate degrees at the Cooper Union in the late 1990s. The foundation is known for its tongue-in-cheek works, which use canonical art works as the basis for humorous, prank-style images and performances: in The Gate, Not the Idea of the Thing But the Thing Itself on New York’s Waterways (2005), the collective, in a tiny boat adorned by a replica of one of Christo and Jean-Claude’s Gates, chases after Robert Smithson’s Floating Island to Travel around Manhattan Island (1970).

In 2009, the collective established the Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU), an experimental art school that offers free art classes, lectures, and workshops. The artist-taught classes offered have ranged ‘from Painting Critique’ and ‘Sex-Ed’ to ‘Humor and the Abject’ and ‘Poetic Image for the People’. The BHQFU also offers a summer residency program. The school is frequently involved in actions to protest the high cost of art education in the United States....

(E.A.T.)

Not-for-profit organization, founded 1966.

In late 1965, the artist Robert Rauschenberg and the engineer Billy Klüver organized a project for 10 artists – John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman – to collaborate with a group of 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop performances that incorporated the new technology.

9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering took place at the 69th Regiment Armory at 25th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City from 13 to 23 October 1966, with more than 10,000 people attending the performances. The energy and excitement generated by the collaborations and the performances led Rauschenberg and Klüver, the artist Robert Whitman, and the engineer Fred Waldhauer, in September 1966, to found Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a not-for-profit organization to promote collaborations between artists and engineers like the ones that had developed during their work on ...

Native American (Cheyenne and Arapaho), 20th–21st century, male.

Born 22 November, 1954, in Wichita (Kansas).

Painter, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, conceptual artist, educator.

Edgar Heap of Birds is one of the most distinguished North American indigenous artists of his generation. His works reveal a distinctly critical and historical awareness of the ways that American Indian peoples, their histories and their viewpoints have been ignored and written over under colonialism. He has received numerous honours, presenting his work in competition for the United States Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (...

Native American (Crow), 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1981, in Billings (Montana).

3D, collage and installation artist, photographer, printmaker.

Wendy Red Star, member of the Crow Nation and niece of noted Crow painter Kevin Red Star, works in a variety of media to produce multi-layered artworks which point to complexities in indigenous North American experience today. Drawing particularly on her years growing up near to the Crow Indian Reservation in Northern Montana, in collages such as ...

Canadian First Nations (Mohawk), 21st century, female.

Born 17 August, 1969 at Kahnawake (Quebec)

New media artist, installation artist. Digital and online manifestations.

Skawennati is one of a small but growing group of indigenous North American artists who are engaging with new media and the boundaries of virtual/visual expression. An artist, independent curator, writer, and online innovator, she gained her BFA degree at Concordia University in Montreal. From ...

Native American (Muscogee Creek and Seminole), 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1951, in Wewoka (Oklahoma).

Sculptor, installation artist.

C. Maxx Stevens was born in Oklahoma but raised in Wichita, Kansas. Her training began in the 1970s when she gained an Associate of Arts degree from Haskell Indian Junior College in ...

United States, 20th–21st century, male.

Born 1975, in Brooklyn (New York).

Painter, architect, educator, sculptor.

Collage, assemblage.

Anthony Titus studied Architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Architecture in 1998, and Fine Arts at the University of Chicago, obtaining a MFA in 2001. He is the founder of Anthony Titus Studio, an interdisciplinary practice that merges art and architecture.

Titus’s work is concerned with interdisciplinary practice that merges architecture, painting, collage, screen printing, and more, to create mixed media structures that explore abstract geometry, nature, and time. Hybridity and fabrication play central roles in his practice, as his mediums range from architectural assemblage objects of wood, metal, and lacquer to linen canvases covered with thick layers of acrylic. His work has been included in several prominent group exhibitions such as Vienna for Art’s Sake! (2015) at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, in which each artist, architect, or designer received a 10 by 12 cm canvas. Titus’s canvas combined surface, material, and format to create a sense of optical buoyancy and sensual fluctuation, and was motivated by the desire to create a singular moment of visual intimacy. In ...

Native American (Muscogee Creek/Seminole and Diné/Navajo), 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1954, in Phoenix.

Photographer, filmmaker. Video, collage.

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is a member of the Bear and Raccoon Clans of the Seminole and Muscogee Nations, as passed down from her mother. Her Diné/Navajo father, Andrew Van Tsinajinnie (b. ...