Bill Beirne currently lives and works in New York City. For more than three decades Beirne’s conceptual art has examined public space, communication, interactivity and sociological concerns through public performance. Beirne has exhibited extensively since the early 1970s at institutions including P.S.1/MoMA, New York; the National Center for Contemporary Art in Kaliningrad, Russia; TV Gallery, Moscow; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; the Sculpture Center, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Artists Space, New York. In addition to lecturing at museums and galleries around the world, he has been a Visiting Artist and Artist in Residence at Colgate University, New York University, MIT, Pratt Institute, University of New Mexico, Buffalo University and Indiana University at Purdue. In 2009 Beirne was commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy for its first performance based video installation, Madison Square Trapezoids with performances by the Vigilant Groundsman. He is the recipient of artist’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The New York State Council on the Arts.
