grazerkunstverein

(Exhibition)

Paul

Tom Burr

20/09 - 23/11/2025, opening 19/09, 18:00

More info coming soon.

TOM BURR (b. 1963, New Haven) is an artist whose oeuvre includes sculpture, collage, photography, and writing. Drawing directly from the formal languages of Minimalism and Conceptual Art, and responding to the political commitments of feminist art and institutional critique, Burr interlaces autobiographical references—particularly around queerness and public space—into his installations. His work persistently interrogates how bodies navigate place, desire, and control, exposing the tension between visibility and invisibility as both a personal and political condition.

He has presented solo exhibitions at institutions such as FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), Kunstmuseum Basel – Gegenwart, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Lausanne), SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah), Secession (Vienna), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), among others. Burr’s work has also been featured in prominent international group exhibitions, including the Skulptur Projekte Münster (Germany), the Istanbul Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial (New York).

His work is held in major public collections worldwide, including mumok (Vienna), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), the Ludwig Museum (Cologne), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library.

His writing has been featured in several publications, including the monographs Tom Burr, Extrospective: Works 1994–2006 and Anthology: Writings, 1991–2015, both edited by Florence Derieux. A forthcoming publication on The Torrington Project—Burr’s re-purposing of a 19th-century factory in Torrington, Connecticut, into an installation-studio-exhibition space from 2021 to 2024—will be published by Primary Information (New York) in Fall 2025.

Burr lives and works in New York and Connecticut.

A cooperation with steirischer herbst ’25