Dara Birnbaum is considered a pioneer of video art. Born in New York in 1946, the American artist studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1976, she completed her training at the Video Study Centre of Global Village at the New School of Social Research in New York.
Since the 1970s, she has used television as material and its images as fragments. The power relations of the mass medium become apparent in the visual deconstructions, which she calls “readymades” in analogy to Marcel Duchamp.
Dara Birnbaum lives and works in New York.
