Artist Info
Jon Bird
Jon Bird (1945-)
Undergraduate training in Fine Art (Sculpture) at Central School of Art. 1964-1967
Post-graduate studies at Chelsea School of Art (MA Sculpture).
Studio practice discontinued (except drawing) for three decades:
research (Doctoral Studies, UCL 1974-78)
teaching, writing, publishing and curating.
1982- present: Middlesex University (formerly Polytechnic).
Since 1997, Professor of Art and Critical Theory, School of Art and Design.
1993-1999: Visiting Tutor, Royal College of Art, Visual Arts Administration/Curating.
1997-2001: Tutor in Theory, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht.
Since 1980: writing extensively on contemporary art and visual culture for journals, magazines, catalogues and books.
2006-2007: returned to studio practice.
Post-graduate on the Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School (Prizewinner), London.
Since then, work included in various group exhibitions and two, two-person exhibitions (2011, 2014), at the Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, New York.