Barbara Kasten

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Barbara Kasten
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Born1936
Nationality American
Education California College of Arts and Crafts
Known for Conceptual Art
Movement Contemporary Art
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Endowment of the Arts Grant; Fulbright Hays Fellowship; Distinguished College Artist, Columbia College Chicago

Barbara Kasten (born 1936) is an American artist from Chicago Illinois. Her work involves the use of abstract video and photograph projections. [1]

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Schooling and career

Kasten trained as a painter and textile artist at the University of Arizona (BFA), the California College of Arts & Crafts (MFA) with Trude Guermonprez, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań with Magdalena Abakanowicz. [2] She was influenced by the Bauhaus movement and László Moholy-Nagy. [3] After school, she turned to photography to encompass her interdisciplinary work, beginning in 1973 with the commercial process of diazotype and subjects reminiscent of performance art. [2] Working for over 40 years, she is often inspired by the act of depicting a three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional plane. [4] [5] She often uses mirrors, lights, and props for conceptually-based pieces. [6] As she continues her practice, her work has continued to pure abstraction. [7]

Kasten completed her Master in Fine Arts Degree in sculpture textile design from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1970. [8]

She has won many awards, notably the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. [9]

In 2015, Kasten was given the first career survey of her work, entitled "Barbara Kasten: Stages" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. [10] It traveled to the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts where it was presented in conjunction with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Monographs

Public collections

Selected solo exhibitions

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