Barbara Zucker | |
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Born | 1940 (age 84–85) |
Nationality | American |
Education | Hunter College |
Known for | Sculpture |
Awards | Giverny Fellowship, Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture, The UCross Foundation, Yaddo, National Academy Museum Proctor Award. |
Barbara M. Zucker (born 1940) is an American artist known for her sculpture. As of 2018 [update] she was Professor Emerita, University of Vermont, [1] and based in Burlington, Vermont.
Born in Philadelphia, Zucker received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Michigan before receiving a Master of Arts from Hunter College. [2] She has taught at La Guardia Community College; Fordham University; Philadelphia College of Art; the University of Vermont as a professor on the studio art faculty from 1979, being chair of the Department of Art from 1979 to 1985; and Yale University. She has served as an artist-in-residence at Florida State University and Princeton University. Zucker began a series of works based on the shape of chairs in the 1960s; the following decade saw her move into installation art. She has since come to explore fan shapes, and more recently began to create works with motors. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 1975, and was awarded a fellowship from Reader's Digest in 1990 to work in Giverny. She has had numerous solo shows, and co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, the first women's co-operative gallery in the U.S., in New York City in 1972. From 1974 to 1981 she was an editorial assistant at Art News , and she has written for that publication, The Village Voice , Art Journal , and Women's Studies . Her work may be found in numerous private and corporate collections, [3] [4] as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art. [5]
Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. [6]