Hank Bull was raised in Ontario and Nova Scotia with three brothers.
12 Facts About Hank Bull
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Hank Bull spent the better part of 1968 in Europe, visiting art museums, experiencing the student movement and exploring the music scene.
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Hank Bull played in bands and held a variety of jobs, working for the railroad, picking tobacco, tending bar.
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In 1980 Craig and Hank Bull embarked on an extended trip around the world, meeting artists, learning and performing in Japan, Indonesia, India, Cameroon, France, Austria and Croatia.
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Hank Bull played an active role in developing ANNPAC and was a co-founder of PAARC.
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Hank Bull continued his collaborations with artists and has worked with Mona Hatoum, Emmett Williams, Gabor and Verushka Body, Antoni Muntadas, Tari Ito, Santiago Bose, Heri Dono, Tetsuo Kogawa and William S Burroughs.
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In 1998, with Zheng Shengtian, Hank Bull organized the Jiangnan Project, a dozen exhibitions in Vancouver devoted to telling the story of modern and contemporary art in the Shanghai region of China.
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In 2015, a survey exhibition, "Hank Bull: Connexion" was organized by Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, curated by Joni Low and Pan Wendt.
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In 2017 and 2019, Hank Bull held solo exhibitions of recent work at Franc Gallery in Vancouver.
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Hank Bull's work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, documenta Ars Electronica and the Leipzig Medienbiennale.
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Hank Bull's work is included in a number of private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, le Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, the Burnaby Art Gallery and the Video Data Bank in Chicago.
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In 2014, Hank Bull received an honorary doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.