Chris Burden, renowned conceptual artist and a professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Art, died of cancer on May 10 at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69.
An obituary in the Los Angeles Times described Burden as “the protean Conceptual artist who rose from doing controversial performances in the 1970s to become one of the most compelling and widely admired sculptors of his generation.”
Noted NPR, “The art world has lost a pioneering figure. Chris Burden began as a performance artist and left a public work that’s now a symbol for Los Angeles” — the iconic “Urban Light” sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
