B. Wurtz

B. Wurtz was born in 1948 in Pasadena, California and lives and works in New York. Over the past four decades, Wurtz has been making intimate sculptural works from familiar, utilitarian objects; papier-mâché assemblages balance atop readymade polystyrene plinths, sculptures made using straws, plastic cups and bottle tops delicately attached by pieces of string, aluminium pan paintings and socks sewn to raw canvas exemplify the breadth of his repertoire. He embraces, subverts and reinvents objects which are so familiar that they are almost invisible in our day to day lives.

Solo exhibitions include B. Wurtz, The Pit, Palm Springs, CA, USA  (2024); You Know, This Is How He Is, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); Monday, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain (2021); B. Wurtz, Kate MacGarry, London (2019); Domestic Space, Metro Pictures, New York, USA (2018); This Has No Name, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (2018); B. Wurtz: Selected Works 1970-2015, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2015) and Four Collections, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA (2015). 

His work has been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, amongst others.