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

Barbara Kasten
Scene III, 2012
Born	1936 Chicago, IL
Nationality	American
Education	California College of Arts and Crafts
Known for	Conceptual Art
Movement	Contemporary Art
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship; National Endowment of the Arts Grant; Fulbright Hays Fellowship; Distinguished College Artist, Columbia College Chicago

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.[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

• Barbara Kasten: The Diazotypes, edited by Ellen Alderman and Lisa Leshowitz, text by Alex Klein. Chicago: Graham Foundation; New York: DAP, 2015.
• Barbara Kasten: Stages, JRP|Ringier, Zurich, essays by Alex Kitnick, Alex Klein, Jenni Sorkin (2015) (ISBN 9783037644102)
• Barbara Kasten: Works 1986-1990, RAM, Tokyo, Japan, essays by Deborah Irmas, Meg Perlman, Michele Druon (1991) (ISBN 096307850X)
• Constructs: Barbara Kasten, New York Graphic Society and The Polaroid Corporation, essay by Estelle Jussim (1985) (ISBN 0821215833)
• How We See: Photobooks by Women, 10x10 Photobooks, (2018)[11]

Public collections

• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois[12]
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California[13]
• TATE Modern, London, UK[14]
• New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico[15]
• Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
• Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia[8]
• Saddle Mountain Elementary School, Mattawa[8]

Selected solo exhibitions

• "Barbara Kasten: Works", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2020)[16]
• "Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber", Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, U.A.E. (2019)[17]
• "Intervention, 2018" at Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon, AON Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (2018)

References

External links

• Official website

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