Hank Bull

Hank Bull
Born 1949 (age 68–69)
Calgary, Alberta
Nationality Canadian
Awards Honorary doctorate, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Hank Bull (born 1949) is a Canadian multidisciplinary contemporary artist, curator, organizer and arts administrator.[1][2]

Life

Hank Bull was born in Calgary, Alberta.[2] He grew up in Toronto, where he studied at the New School of Art under Nobuo Kubota and Robert Markle.[3] In 1973, he moved to Vancouver.[3] Bull was married to, and was a frequent collaborator with, Canadian video artist Kate Craig.[4]

Career

Bull was an early member of Vancouver's Western Front Society.[5] He was influenced by correspondence art, fluxus and performance. In 1976, with Patrick Ready, he started a weekly radio program on CFRO-FM, Vancouver Cooperative Radio, that became a vehicle for experiments in sound and interactive media.[6] He has participated in artist directed experiments in telecommunications since 1979. He produced contemporary shadow theatre with Patrick Ready, Martin Bartlett and others, touring Canada and Europe. During the 1980s, he was active in developing the network of Canadian artist-run centres.[7]

In 1999, with Zheng Shengtian, Stephanie Holmquist and Milton Wong, Bull co-founded Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, a public art gallery focussing on Asian and Asian-diasporic perspectives.[8]

Exhibitions

Bull's work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1986), documenta (1987) and Ars Electronica (1989).[1][9] "Connexion," a career survey exhibition organized by Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, travelled to five public galleries across Canada.

Collections

Bull's work is included in a number of private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada,[10] the Museum of Modern Art New York,[11] and the Video Data Bank in Chicago.[12]

Publications

Connexion, 159 pages, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, 2015.

Awards

In 2014, Bull received an honorary doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hank Bull, First Responder at CACV AGM". Community Arts Council of Vancouver. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Artist/Maker Name "Bull, Hank"". Canadian Heritage Information Network. Government of Canada. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Hank Bull – Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org.
  4. ↑ Hawkins, Sandra M. "Delicate boundaries" (PDF). Canadian Medical Association Journal. Canadian medical Association. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "CCCA Artist Profile for Hank Bull". The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "El radioarte: Entre lo posible y lo imaginario". telos.fundaciontelefonica.com.
  7. 1 2 "Emily Carr confers 2014 Honorary Doctorate upon Hank Bull". Connect: Emily Carr University. Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "About Centre A". Centre A. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "The Galerie de l'UQAM celebrates an important figure of visual arts in Canada with the exhibition " Hank Bull: Connexion »". UQAM. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Collections: Hank Bull 1949 -". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "Eric Metcalfe, Hank Bull. Sax Island. 1984 – MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  12. ↑ "Hank Bull". Video Data Bank. Retrieved 28 May 2016.


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