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1932 Detroit, Michigan - 1997 Gizeh/Cairo, Egypt. Known for: Sculptor-conceptual, drawing, performance art.
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955,... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955, Byars displayed large, spherical stones in his family's house, from which he removed all furniture, windows and doors. In 1956, Byars rented a sod farm to exhibit his abstract figure sculptures at... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955, Byars displayed large, spherical stones in his family's house, from which he removed all furniture, windows and doors. In 1956, Byars rented a sod farm to exhibit his abstract figure sculptures at midnight under a full moon. The sculptures were viewed from sleds pulled over the snow. In 1957, Byars received a one-year travel stipend from neighbors who admired a garden he designed for his Detroit patron. Byars used the stipend to visit Japan,... Read full biography
Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a one-day thesis exhibition in 1955, Byars displayed large, spherical stones in his family's house, from which he removed all furniture, windows and doors. In 1956, Byars rented a sod farm to exhibit his abstract figure sculptures at midnight under a full moon. The sculptures were viewed from sleds pulled over the snow. In 1957, Byars received a one-year travel stipend from neighbors who admired a garden he designed for his Detroit patron. Byars used the stipend to visit Japan, living in Kyoto. He met artist Morris Graves there, himself strongly influenced by Oriental culture. Byars suppor... Read full biography
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- James Lee Byars, A Study of PosterityNovember 2008McEvilley, ThomasArt in America
- ReviewsSeptember 2006EditorsARTFORUM
- ReviewsSeptember 2006Editors, ArtnewsARTnews
- The Underside of InnocenceSeptember 2004Princenthal, NancyArt in America
- Preview Winter 2004January 2004Editors, ArtforumARTFORUM
- art newsSeptember 1997Editors, Art NewsARTnews
- Versions of RaptureSeptember 1996Rubenstein, RaphaelArt in America
- City Focus Santa FeJune 1996Editors, Art NewsARTnews