Chris Burden(1946-2015)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
![Chris Burdern guaranteed his place in art history in 1971 with a period of often dangerous and at times stomach-churning performances. After having himself shot, locked up in a locker for five days, electrocuted, and crucified on the back of a VW bug, Burden reinvented himself as the creator of truly mesmerizing installations and sculptures, from a suspended gigantic flywheel that seemingly spins on its own, to an assemblage of antique streetlights rewired for solar energy and illuminated outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzUxMmQ5N2UtYmE4YS00MjI2LTg3MTEtZWI4ZDY2NmM1MGJiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTkxNjUyNQ@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,0,500,281_.jpg)
Chris Burden was born on 11 April 1946 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Shoot (1971), Through the Night Softly (1973) and Big Wrench (1980). He was married to Nancy Rubins and Barbara. He died on 10 May 2015 in Topanga Canyon, California, USA.