From British Columbia, Brian Jungen is a 'found art' artist in the tradition of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. However, unlike Warhol and Duchamp, he disguises the objects, concealing their original... Read full biography
From British Columbia, Brian Jungen is a 'found art' artist in the tradition of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. However, unlike Warhol and Duchamp, he disguises the objects, concealing their original purpose. He also does small scale drawings and large format paintings. A reoccuring theme is... Read full biography
From British Columbia, Brian Jungen is a 'found art' artist in the tradition of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. However, unlike Warhol and Duchamp, he disguises the objects, concealing their original purpose. He also does small scale drawings and large format paintings. A reoccuring theme is challenging the influence of ethnography on cultural identity. Born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, he is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He has lived and worked in Vancouver,... Read full biography
From British Columbia, Brian Jungen is a 'found art' artist in the tradition of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. However, unlike Warhol and Duchamp, he disguises the objects, concealing their original purpose. He also does small scale drawings and large format paintings. A reoccuring theme is challenging the influence of ethnography on cultural identity. Born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, he is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He has lived and worked in Vancouver, Montreal and New York City. His series Prototypes of New Understanding is composed of aboriginal masks made from parts of hand-sewn together Nike Air Jordan shoes. Jungen wrote: "It was interesting to see how by simply manipulating the Air Jordan... Read full biography
From British Columbia, Brian Jungen is a 'found art' artist in the tradition of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. However, unlike Warhol and Duchamp, he disguises the objects, concealing their original purpose. He also does small scale drawings and large format paintings. A reoccuring theme is challenging the influence of ethnography on cultural identity. Born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, he is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He has lived and worked in Vancouver, Montreal and New York City. His series Prototypes of New Understanding is composed of aboriginal masks made from parts of hand-sewn together Nike Air Jordan shoes. Jungen wrote: "It was interesting to see how by simply manipulating the Air Jordan shoes you could evoke specific cultural traditions whilst simultaneously amplifying the process of... Read full biography
Brian Jungen - Artist Info
About Brian Jungen: Books
Books & Publications (10)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture
2012
Ritter, Kathleen and Tania Willard
95 pages (color)
Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
2012
Russell, Karen Kramer
244 pages (color)
Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection (Vancouver Art Gallery)
2012
Thom, Ian M.
160 pages (color)
Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years
2011
Hopkins, Candice, et al.
217 pages (color)
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Grenville, Bruce; Scott Steedman
268 pages (color)
Intertidal: Vancouver Art & Artists (Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Watson, Scott; Dieter Roelstraete
205 pages
Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art
2004
Duffek, Karen, Editor; Charlotte Townsend-Gault; Douglas and McIntyre
309 pages (color)
Prototype: Contemporary Art from Joe Friday's Collection