Dara birnbaum biography

Since the mid-1970s, Dara Birnbaum (b.1946, New York) has painstakingly been investigating the multi-layered ways television and film are constantly being resculpted and redesigned, reflecting contemporary economic and socio-political conditions.

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Dara Birnbaum received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.F.A.

Dara Birnbaum was born in in New York, where she continues to live and work.

American mass culture has always been in the epicenter of Birnbaum’s visual lexicon. Her pioneering experimental video works focus on specific qualities that define the construction and deconstruction of the identity of American household through the prism of televised imagery and its ideological follies. Repetition, fragmentation, image manipulation and visual analysis are only but a few key-elements in Birnbaum’s practice.

Her video installations are often characterized by profound architectural elements echoing her primary studies in architecture. 

Spanning six decades, Birnbaum’s career is empowered by the in-depth evocation of the balances between public and pri