12 Facts About Nancy Buchanan

Nancy Buchanan was born on August 30,1946 and is an American visual artist, known for her work in installation, performance, and video art.

Nancy Buchanan played a central role in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Nancy Buchanan's work has been exhibited widely and is collected by major museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou.

Nancy Buchanan's family moved to California when she was a child, and she was raised in Los Angeles, and briefly in Palo Alto.

Since the 1970s, Buchanan has made videos and performances that combine the personal and the political.

Nancy Buchanan was a producer of Close Radio along with Paul McCarthy and John Duncan.

Nancy Buchanan began using video as a natural extension of performance and installation in the late 1970s and has continued experimenting with new media throughout her career.

Nancy Buchanan's work explores the spaces between political essay, poetry, and performance.

Video's reproducibility and its capacity for broad distribution have enabled Nancy Buchanan to disseminate her message outiside the mainstream art establishment to a wider audience.

For many years, Nancy Buchanan led workshops with CalArts students at community centers and schools, making videos with middle- and high school students.

Nancy Buchanan has lectured widely, and taught workshops in Video Art in Pusan, Korea, in the summer of 2000.

In 1993, Nancy Buchanan began work on a more elaborate interactive project, Developing: The Idea of Home.