@ Tom Burr, Deep Purple, 2000/2019, installation view, Queer Abstraction, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 2019. Photos courtesy of Des Moines Art Center. Photography by Rich Sanders. Tom Burr (b. 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an artist who lives and works in New York and Connecticut. He attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Burr’s work revisits the formal vocabulary of minimalism and post-minimalism, and explores themes of site specificity, queer subjectivities, and space. He has shown extensively throughout Europe and the Americas. Burr is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Burr’s work has been collected by major museums internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; MuMOK, Vienna, Austria; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Sammlung Grasslin, Germany; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria; Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; FRAC, Champagne Ardenne, France; FRAC, Nord-Pas de Calais, France; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; and Yale University Art Gallery. Torrington Project, a major monograph dedicated to the artist’s 2021-24 landmark installation-studio-exhibition space of the same name, was published by Primary Information in August 2025. THE BREUER HOUSE From The New York Times: “Deep in the woods of Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, down winding and rutted dirt roads, a summer home built in 1949 by the Modernist architect Marcel Breuer sits perched on stilts. Its cantilevered porch, where friends and family would spend much of their time, once had a clear view across three connected kettle ponds, but saplings that dotted the hillside today tower above the house, blocking sightlines. The four-bedroom structure…is considered the most significant Modernist house on the Cape and was one of the first completed examples of Breuer’s “Long House” design, a simple construction that could be assembled using local materials. It has been left unchanged for decades, a time capsule of architectural history hidden in the wilderness…” Read more about the Breuer House and the Cape Cod Modern Trust here.
