The Bruce High Quality Foundation is an arts collective in Brooklyn, New York City, the United States, which was "created to foster an alternative to everything." The group is named after a fictional artist, Bruce High Quality, who supposedly perished in the 9/11 attack.

The collective is made up of five to eight rotating and anonymous members, most or all of whom are Cooper Union graduates. The group has attracted attention with the subversive, humorous and erudite style of their work and operates an unaccredited art school, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University.

Known for their humorous and irreverent projects and performances that often take a subversive and critical stance towards the current market's seemingly insatiable appetite for hyped new artists, the group addresses this question by insinuating the image cum icon of their namesake, Bruce High Quality, into thousands of images from popular culture and art history. Simultaneously a face and a mask, an insertion into history and a blotting out, the Foundation uses the problematic of its own existence to reveal the tenuous footholds of truth, history, and humanity.

Mission Statement:
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, the official arbiter of the estate of Bruce High Quality, is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy of the late social sculptor, Bruce High Quality. In the spirit of the life and work of Bruce High Quality, we aspire to invest the experience of public space with wonder, to resurrect art history from the bowels of despair, and to impregnate the institutions of art with the joy of man's desiring.

The BHQF was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, as well as other group exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in Queens, Acquavella Gallery in New York, and Centre Pompidou in Paris, Art Basel, The Brooklyn Museum, the Lever House, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, and others.

Sources include:
Museum and Gallery Listings, New York Times, May 16, 2008
wikipedia.org
thebrucehighqualityfoundation.com
vitoschnabel.com