AK Burns is a 2023 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Art.
15 Facts About AK Burns
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AK Burns has works in several public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The couple married in 1975 in a wedding ceremony officiated by a Sikh priest in a redwood forest and divorced when AK Burns was three years old, both remarrying subsequently.
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AK Burns has five half-siblings from her mother's second and third marriages.
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AK Burns received an alternative upbringing in the South Bay Area, moving between her father's home in Palo Alto and her mother's home in Mountain View.
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AK Burns moved to New York City in 2003, where she was introduced to the collective Lesbians to the Rescue through former partner Lanka Tattersall.
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AK Burns worked closely with LTTR both as a graphic designer for the publication and as a contributing artist.
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The expansive community of queer artists AK Burns met through LTTR were formative for AK Burns' later collaborations.
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In 2007 AK Burns began her MFA in Sculpture at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
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In 2009, AK Burns co-founded Randy Magazine with Swedish photographer, gallerist and publisher Sophie Morner.
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Since 2017 AK Burns' has been producing sculptures for her Depleted Figures series, where she bends steel remesh and rebar into figure-like shapes that appear almost like line drawings in space.
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AK Burns often installs video and audio components into her exhibitions as well as creating stand alone video installations.
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AK Burns considers audio-video works to be time-based sculptures, installing works to interact with the exhibition environment in specific ways.
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The second episode, Living Room, debuted in 2017 at the New Museum, NY, when AK Burns was an Artist-in-Residence, New Museum Spring 2017 Research and Development Season.
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The final episode, What is Perverse is Liquid, debuted at The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH in 2019, produced with the support of the Guggenheim Foundation when AK Burns was Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts in 2021.